Is there a free range blackbuck hunt in the US

You can find Blackbuck outside the wire around Texas....it seems many exotics have now established themselves around certain areas out there. Axis are very common...but you can find Blackbuck with a little luck. Check with Mulie-Mike on this forum.

there are some..In Texas what has happened is some of the exotics escape and go wild and over time have bred up on the large Texas ranches..I know Audad, Mufflon, and others have established themselves in the area or Marfa, Alpine Ft Davis and surrounding areas to one degree or another..Blackbuck and Nilgai have in So. Texas in the Golden Triangle of So. Texas..If one does his own homework he can find some real bargains in Texas these days..Try Junction and Sonora Chamber of Commerce for Blackbuck.

My exotic ranch buddy says "yes, but the success rate is only 60% ". That is opposed to 100% on high fenced ranches.

I will send you a PM so you can email Joe and get the facts directly.

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Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a free range blackbuck hunt in Texas.

Blackbucks can be contained by low fence (if it is net wire for sheep and goats). And most all of the area in which blackbucks are found in Texas is fenced with net wire. Therefore, blackbucks are typically about as captive as domestic sheep or goats.

While there are certainly some ranches that are not sheep-fenced where blackbucks do occur, they are relatively few and are ultimately proscribed by neighbors' net wire fences, making the blackbucks on them limited in range to crossing through strand wire fences until they reach a net wire fence.

Bottom line: It would be stretching the term "free range" to say that there is any truly free range hunting for blackbucks in Texas.

Geedubya, does that count as a double date?

Blackbuck usually can not jump a low fence unless heavily pressured they will go through fences with holes or underneath it if barbwire or not net wire.

So if you hunt anywhere with cattle they are not truly free ranging.

We do hunt a few larger low fence areas where they come and go off of other properties and it is a challenging hunt. We also have free range mouflon (alomost pure) on those ranches that jump the fences with ease. Makes for a good combo hunt.

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Free ranging is a misused term IMO, some of those Texas ranches are 30,000 to 100,000 acres and if that's not free ranging what is, those animals wil go under any fence and those ranches have a lot of holes under the wire tha Antelope, deer, coyotes use to go from one pasture to another and from ranch to ranch, and over the years some exotics have established a foot hold over large areas of the state. The audad and some others have a pretty fair distribution that started in the Alpine and Marathon, Tex. area of Texas, and other areas in the state, most of which escaped the high fences and multiplied throughout the region..I ranched that area and was born and raised in that area, back then only Mule deer and a few Coues deer existed, Also a few Whitetail in the Ft. Davis area but white tail started about Sanderson and East...