Axis deer in the neighborhood

[BenAllgood]

I live in a suburban area Everything is cleared and subdivisions and strip malls are the rule here. I doubt there's more than a handful of whitetails within a couple of miles from here. But, this showed up today. I called wildlife and fisheries who had our department of ag and forestry call me. They sent a captive deer breeder to come try to dart and capture. He called and told me he was about an hour away. I watched it all day lay there, get up a couple of times, then lay back down. I told the people around the neighborhood to try not to get close to it and keep their dogs away. Well, 2 minutes before the guy pulls up, a guy comes walking out his back door with his phone snapping pictures. The deer jumps up and runs toward another corner. The captive deer guy gets his dart gun and we make a plan to push the deer by him. Well, the axis had other plans and slipped into a wood patch of not more than a couple of acres or so. We drive around to cut it off. I come from one direction pushing the woodlot, and he is waiting. I jump the deer and it heads toward him. I make my way towards him, and he said it slipped around him out of range of his dart gun. So, we still have an axis around. I should have just shot it with my 7 mag and been eating her backstraps this evening.

 

[yoderjac]

One year when I was younger, my wife wanted to go to Maui with some friends. I was able arrange a spot and stalk bow hunt for Axis deer. The guided hunt was only $200 and you could shoot a doe or ewe and they would process the deer for you. For a buck, you paid by the inch. Big $$. My sight got bumped in transit and I shot over the back of a doe. After fixing that, I had an opportunity at a very large buck at 20 yards. I had huge encouragement from the guide to shoot, but my light walled helped me avoid that temptation. They are very interesting deer. Yours probably escaped from captivity.

 

[1100LT20]

I live in a suburban area Everything is cleared and subdivisions and strip malls are the rule here. I doubt there's more than a handful of whitetails within a couple of miles from here. But, this showed up today. I called wildlife and fisheries who had our department of ag and forestry call me. They sent a captive deer breeder to come try to dart and capture. He called and told me he was about an hour away. I watched it all day lay there, get up a couple of times, then lay back down. I told the people around the neighborhood to try not to get close to it and keep their dogs away. Well, 2 minutes before the guy pulls up, a guy comes walking out his back door with his phone snapping pictures. The deer jumps up and runs toward another corner. The captive deer guy gets his dart gun and we make a plan to push the deer by him. Well, the axis had other plans and slipped into a wood patch of not more than a couple of acres or so. We drive around to cut it off. I come from one direction pushing the woodlot, and he is waiting. I jump the deer and it heads toward him. I make my way towards him, and he said it slipped around him out of range of his dart gun. So, we still have an axis around. I should have just shot it with my 7 mag and been eating her backstraps this evening.

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In Ascension parish?

 

[BenAllgood]

In Ascension parish?

Yep. Between Galvez and St. Amant.

 

[1100LT20]

That is wild!

 

[1100LT20]

Seems like I remember an exotic/feral pig pen on Summerfield Road years ago?

 

[BenAllgood]

Seems like I remember an exotic/feral pig pen on Summerfield Road years ago?

Sounds familiar. The guy that came out to dart it was from Loranger. He said he was just over this way taking all the animals from a pen a few miles away, but he said it was all whitetails in that one. He wasn't sure why LDAF didn't contact someone closer than an hour away.