I might be going to Texas for business in April 2014. I've had a hankering for stalking blackbuck for some years.

Does anyone have any recommendations for free-range exotics, especially blackbuck? I'll be in the San Antonio area.

Thank you in advance.

Contact Wade Derby. He'll take good care of you.

Crosshairs Consulting

Thanks!

I've dropped him a line.

Is it possible to do self-guided for exotics in Texas?

Thanks very much Cody. I will help him out with a place or two.

Wade is from CA. What does he know about TX!

I always knew you were a "lurker" Wade. Hope all is well with you.

Glad to see you are still your feisty self Wendell! Best to you.

There are essentially no freerange blackbucks. Blackbucks are not jumpers and can be held by ordinary low sheep/goat fences. The Texas Hill Country is mostly fenced with such netwire low fences, therefore if a blackbuck is in a pasture within such fence it is, by definition, not freerange. Just like livestock, blackbucks do escape fences through holes and water gaps and wander onto land on which they were not placed; however, they are rarely ever freeranging since, sooner or later, they are effectively contained by fence. That being said, there are a lot of places with blackbuck populations that, though confined, are amply sporting to hunt.

The ranches in the San Antonio area offering blackbuck hunting probably number in the hundreds. The quality of the hunt will undoubtedly vary, but if you'll look around and check references you'll find what you're seeking.

By the way, I think that blackbuck makes one of the most striking of trophies.

Thank you all for your replies. All of this is most valuable. I realize the fence issue with blackbucks in Texas, I'm not a died in the wool "no fences period" hunter. I'd just a real sporting hunt and not put and take/high-fence type of operation. I hear about about how attractive blackbuck are. I hunt a fair deal of Indian game here in Hawaii and I've wanted to stalk blackbuck and add to my axis deer and Asian partridge/francolin collection

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
There are essentially no freerange blackbucks. Blackbucks are not jumpers and can be held by ordinary low sheep/goat fences. The Texas Hill Country is mostly fenced with such netwire low fences, therefore if a blackbuck is in a pasture within such fence it is, by definition, not freerange. Just like livestock, blackbucks do escape fences through holes and water gaps and wander onto land on which they were not placed; however, they are rarely ever freeranging since, sooner or later, they are effectively contained by fence.

Are you reading my emails to Chasseur?

Thanks for bringing this up. All Blackbuck are somewhat fenced. There are boundaries all over the place that they can not cross.

Still, they are a challenging trophy under most situations, provided it isn't in a small pasture.

Make sure and get a reasonable priced hunt. Prices are all over the map. Do your homework and you can get a trophy BB for $1,500.