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Hey guys has anyone hunted aoudad with Bar B Diamond Outfitters? I am looking at hunting with them and they seem quite reasonable. Any information would be appreciated. | ||
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Oddsix, that's a good question, since I just booked a hunt with them myself. I always thoroughly investigate any outfitter that I am considering booking with, and all of the reports that I got on Brandt were very positive. There are lots of Aoudad outfits out there, but there are a few that are asking RIDICULOOUS prices. A few more that are misrepresenting their hunts, and many more who are selling hunts on undersized parcels, so it pays to research first. Good luck in your quest. | |||
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I checked out quite a few other places but he seemed to be really helpful and you are right about the ridiculous pricing. But I think he's the guy that I will hunt with. Let me know how your hunt goes and good luck! | |||
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Make sure you do a free range hunt in the mountains. $2,500-$4,500 is a fair price. here are a few good places: http://www.longfellowranch.com/aoudad http://www.magnumguideservice.com/AoudadHunting.aspx "Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan "Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians." Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness. | |||
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Austin Hunter thanks for the info. Both places seem great. | |||
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The Big Bend Area and around Palo Duro Canyon are the best areas and have the biggest herds. However, there are some big ones taken in the Hill Country every so often as well. I know of several taken that were over 37" that were free range in the Johnson City and Kingsland areas. But West Texas is your best bet for big herds and a 100% success rate if you can shoot and climb. I got a 32" one in Edwards country in 2007 - free range. "Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan "Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians." Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness. | |||
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I wouldn't even consider an aoudad hunt in the TX Hill Country. Smaller ranches and higher fences do not do justice to a spot and stalk aoudad hunt. The Trans Pecos, Palo Duro area, and the caprock area SE of Lubbock are tops for sure. This one came from the latter area I mentioned.....  | |||
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Nice trophy! ~Ann   | |||
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I guess the area is near Marfa Texas if that means anything I think it is in West Texas. | |||
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Gracedog thankyou for the good word! We're cant wait to kick things off this year and as a service to my customers I started to film a few of our hunts so you know exactly what to expect. We have yet to film one at the ranch in marfa but one of our customers did. I've always been a die hard Big Bend Aoudad hunter but recently we aquired access to a ranch in North Valverde County which is still very rugged country just less overall elevation and more juniper but we feed protien year round there and are tucked back in the hills at least 10 miles from a public road in any direction and the big aoudad are thick as can be in there! Anyhow after taking a break from the marfa ranch for a year were getting back out there in September and I'll keep you all posted on how we do!!! Bar B Diamond Outfitters Specializing in Free Range Aoudad Sheep hunts. Also offering all Texas native game and many exotics. | |||
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I would, and did. Especially as I had only to pay an annual lease/tresspass fee.     Taken at Audad Point, Kelly Ranch, north of Vanderpool Texas. Took +/- 14 month from the first time I saw this guy until I finally connected. Best GWB | |||
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Lots of folks don't realize that there arefree ranging Aoudads in the Hill Country along with a lot of other exotics. Palo Duro Canyon is Northeast of Lubbock/southeast of Amarillo. have never had a chance or real desire to hunt the things, but from all reports and comments, the better hunts are going to be in the Trans-Pecos/big Bend area. JMO. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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.... and the meat mixed with pork makes for some outstanding Jalapeno/cheese summer sausage. GWB | |||
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I shot a 33" free ranging Audaod in the Hill Country near utopia. I dont consider the part we were in was really hilly either. More like cliffs of shale. I do look forward to seeing that amazing West texas as I'll be out there twice int the next two years. One for night predator hunting(think Bobcat)/Javalina Combo) and then for a Desert Mule deer/Free Range Buffalo Hunt. Good Luck  W | |||
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Well for God's sakes GW...send me some of that sausage Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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I killed this 33" ram in March of 12 with outback outfitters in the glass mtns.  jeff haugland | |||
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Texas Hill Country Free Range - nuf said  "Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan "Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians." Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness. | |||
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Nice Rams guys! Bar B Diamond Outfitters Specializing in Free Range Aoudad Sheep hunts. Also offering all Texas native game and many exotics. | |||
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Got to work 'em over pretty good in 95' Friend of mine's family had country outside of Marfa and one cold Febuary we loaded up and "Went to Texas"! Stayed a week killed 1/2 Doz. he killed another 4 and we can home. Best was 31",picked up another 31" out of a pile of bones. What a blast to hunt!! And country??? WoW! Poke,prick,stick,gouge,tear,claw,puncture,etc and that was the lawn at the ranch! | |||
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Austin, you lugged around a Remington Sendero in that country? I need to introduce you to Lex Webernick! :-) | |||
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I'm very well aware that there are free range aoudad in the TX Hill Country, but aoudad are a spot and stalk hunter's dream, and are meant to be hunted this way IMO. All nice rams here for sure, I just couldn't see myself sitting in a stand waiting around for one. | |||
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JG, don't mean to start a pissin' contest. What I was responding to was your statement which was pretty absolute, that you would not consider an Audad hunt in the hill country. True, the hill country and the Trans Pecos are not the same, but hunting is hunting and for those of us who have trespass leases where we pay for an annual lease, and don't employ guides or pay for a hunt, hunting Audad is an added bonus, and as everybody's gotta be somewhere,the area between Kerrville, Rocksprings, Brackettville and D'Hanis ain't to shabby a country to poke around in. A fellow can do lots worse of a mornin' than climbing to the top of a hill before daybreak, having a cool drink of water and a sit glassin' the area. Lots of targets of opportunity if a fellow is mind to sit an watch, including audad. Not everything in that area is shot out of/ off of a box blind and feeder. In addition to Audad, hill country hunts, can expose a hunter to numerous spot & stalk/target of opportunity instances. I do enjoy blind hunting, I also employ leafy wear camo, and hunt off tripods next to game trails. None of the following were taken sitting in a blind, but were either targets of opportunity or spot and stalk in the course of "being there".           Best GWB | |||
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That is an amazing ram. Congrats on a fine animal. Ron
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As a coda to my previous post. In fact it's probably easier huntin' audad in the Trans-pecos area. Wide open and can see for miles. The Kelly ranch where I shot several audad,was 3,000 low fenced acres that was in the middle of a 40 mile radius of low fenced/no fenced hill country terrain. For the most part it was so thick with juniper that 50 yds would be a long shot, with much of the area impenetrable other than game trails. I was at that ranch at least once a month for 4 years, and a half dozen times during each deer season. It took me 14 months to connect on the ram I shot from the first time I saw him, and it weren't for lack of effort. The first time I saw him I was sitting in my blind at the intersection of two power line right-of-ways. I was at the top of a rise and could see to the southeast about 10 power poles or about 2500 yds, as the poles were 254 yds apart according to my rangefinder. The group of about 20 or so Audad were walking along the power line right of way about six poles away. I spied them first, then took a look through my binocs. This ol' boy stood out due to his color and size. I watched them come my way for about two more poles, when they split off to my left. This was probably around September of that year as I recall. When I rode around the ranch going too and fro, I would see audad in the cliffs and crevices across from where I would be riding. Usually a half mile away or better. It wasn't till August of the next year before I would see this same audad again. He was in a group that crossed the right of way that ran to the back fence of Lost Maples State natural area, which bordered the Kelly Ranch. I might could have got a shot, but he was too good to lose in the thick cedar. Besides, I was there by myself and none of my buds were there, so, no braggin' rights and I chose to hold my trigger. I wasn't till late November or early December of that year that I got an opportunity to take this ol boy. I was sitting in a blind at Audad point, an area where the audad would congregate. I saw him cresting the point coming up out of the valley. He didn't get a third chance. Best GWB | |||
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Boy those juinipers make it tough luckily were blessed with some reall steep terrain and rockslides ect that give us alot of open hillsides but we have a few areas that are so thick with juniper i dont even bother with them because you cant glass into them and shots are near immpossible not to mention if you try and get in there with them ours will bust you before you ever get to see them. Geedubya, if you get up high and find some fresh dust baths and heavy trails in the steep country you can hunt those a with some success otherwise that protien works great for bring them out in the open and can help pattern some movement and in all reality if you have 1 good protien feeder you keep filled they'll find it and stick around the ranch pretty well. Bar B Diamond Outfitters Specializing in Free Range Aoudad Sheep hunts. Also offering all Texas native game and many exotics. | |||
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