You're so fit
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You're so fit
Got my Axis mount back last Friday.Attachment 15203Attachment 15204
Yeah, quite a bit. Axis are more aggressive, they're bigger (this one was about 215 pounds whereas a big white tail might be 150-175, and they're more high performance. They're grazers, like cows, so their meat tastes different than white tail that tend to eat more shrubbery which is where you get the gamey taste from. Axis meat is some of the best game meat on the planet. It's 99.8% fat free and extremely high quality meat.
Next time I shoot one, sure, but I'm running low on meat right now. I didn't get any jerky done with this one and all I really have left is some breakfast sausage, a couple packs of smoked sausage, round steaks, and a couple packs of hamburger. I haven't cooked any of the backstrap or tenderloin yet, but I'm not giving that away to anyone.
I'm going white tail hunting in a couple weeks, so once I get that meat back if you want some we'll figure something out. White tail meat isn't anything special though. Not like axis.
Elk is phenomenal...probably the only thing I like better than axis in terms of deer. I'm going white tail hunting again the weekend before Thanksgiving too, so if I don't get one on either of those trips I'll probably stop through Bastrop on the way back and see if I can plug an axis doe for some meat.
Oh, Davii, here's another huge difference between axis and white tail. White tail grow their antlers seasonally and axis don't. Axis grow their antlers based on when they're born. I shot that buck in June and it was hard...no velvet. All of the white tail bucks I saw that weekend were all small racks covered in velvet still.