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Game Description
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Addax Antelope
The Addax
are large antelope with gray/brown coats that change to white in the
summer. They belong to a group of antelope with horse-like
characteristics. This group is unique in that the females have horns the
same size as the males'. They weigh 130 to 275 lbs. and stands three to
four feet tall at the shoulder.
Aoudad Sheep
The
Aoudad, or Barbary sheep, is a relatively large sheep characterized
by large, curved horns and long hair on the throat, chest, and upper
parts of the front legs. Their horns are honeycomb-shaped. They are
generally brownish-red or grayish-brown in color with patches of white
on the inner surface of the legs and the belly. Their weight ranges from
80 to 300 lbs. Their horns can get up to 34”+ in length. They stand 3 to
4 feet tall at the shoulder.
Axis Deer
The
Chital (or cheetal) Deer, also known as the Spotted
Deer or Axis Deer is a deer which commonly inhabits
wooded regions of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and most of India. Its
coat is reddish fawn, marked with white spots, and its underparts are
white. Its antlers, which it sheds annually
typically
have three points on each antler. A large buck can weigh 250 pounds with
antlers thirty inches or more in length.
Blackbuck Antelope
Blackbuck
(Antilope cervicapra) is a species of antelope found mainly in
India, but also in parts of Pakistan and Nepal. The horns of the
Blackbuck are ringed with 3 to 4 turns and can be as long as
17 to 22 inches on the straight
line measurement.
The Adult males can grow as tall as 32 inches and can weigh as much as
95 pounds. In the male, the upper body is black (dark brown), and the
belly and eye rings are white. The light-brown female is usually
hornless.
Black Hawaiian Ram
The Black
Hawaiian Ram is a feral sheep breed developed after the Portuguese
settled in Hawaiian in the 1700's. They are completely black, although
reddish brown tints occur, with whitish on its muzzle. A large ram can
weigh around 100 to 130 pounds. Their horns curl in the typical fashion
of up, out, down and out with 25 inch or more curls on record book rams.
Horns may be either black, brownish or a light color.
Catalina Goat
Catalina
Goats are always a white color. These goats average weight is 140
pounds. They have impressive horns that grow up and back from its head
in large twists.
Corsican Ram
The Corsican
Ram is most hunted exotic in the United States. This ram is basically a
Modern Breed of Sheep developed by crossing the Mouflon Ram, Barbados or
Roan Sheep. They are very similar in appearance to the Rocky Mountain
Bighorn Ram. They are reddish brown with an attractive black mane on the
bottom of their neck. A large ram can weight 125 pounds.
Eland Antelope
The Eland
is the world's largest antelope and is the animal most often depicted in
the early rock art of East Africa. Their
shoulder
height is 6 feet. They weight up to 2000 pounds. Both sexes have horns
about 2 feet long and slightly spiraled.
Elk
Deer
The
Elk, or Wapiti (Cervus canadensis), is the second
largest species of deer in the world, after the moose, which is,
confusingly, often also called elk in Europe. They have
dark brown
fur on the head and neck, and creamy gray fur on the back and flanks. A
full-grown stag stands up to 4.9 ft high at the shoulder, and weighs up
to 750 lb. The antlers are smooth and attain a great size, averaging
more than 4 ft each in length. The antlers are shed in March, begin to
grow again in late spring, and are fully grown by fall.
Fallow Deer
The Fallow Deer (Dama dama) is a ruminant mammal
belonging to the family Cervidae. They have a height of about three
feet, with adult males weighing between 130 to 170 pounds, and adult
females weighing between 60 to 100 pounds. They are solid white, dark
brown or red with white spots. They can have thick palmated antlers with
20 points or more.
Feral Pigs
Feral Pigs in
Texas are descended from introductions of European wild hogs for
sporting purposes, and from escaped domestic swine that have established
feral populations. They are brown to blackish brown color, with grizzled
guard hairs, a mane of hair (8-16 cm long) running dorsally from the
neck to the rump, a straight heavily tufted tail, and ears covered with
hair.
Ibex Goat
An
Ibex, also called Steinbock, is a type of wild mountain
goat with large recurved horns that are transversely ridged in front.
They are
light brown
with a black band around their shoulders. A record male will have horns
26 to 32 inches long. A large billy will weigh 150 pounds.
Mouflon Ram
The
Mouflon is a species of wild sheep and as such is one of the
Caprinae or “goat antelopes”. It is red-brown with a dark back-stripe,
light colored saddle patch and underparts. The males are horned and the
females are horned or polled.
A trophy ram
will broom off the ends of his horns below his eyes. A mature ram will
weigh about 90 pounds.
Oryx Antelope
An Oryx is one of three or four large antelope species of the
genus Oryx, typically having long
straight almost upright or swept back horns
up to 30
inches long, with the female’s slightly longer and thinner than those of
the male..
Standing nearly four feet at the shoulder and weighing 250 to 390 lbs.
Their coats are buff to brown in color with characteristic black
markings on their faces, sides, throats, chests, and backs.
Red Deer
Red Deer
(Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest species of deer in the
world. They are a large ungulate (hoofed animal).
A trophy
buck will have 30 inch antlers with 5 or 6 points per side. They are
reddish brown color with long hair. A large male will weigh 400 pounds.
Sika Deer
The Sika Deer (Cervus nippon) is a member of the deer
family Cervidae that inhabits much of East Asia. They are closely
related to Red Deer, Central Asian Red Deer and Wapiti.
They are small to medium sized
deer that, due to extensive hybridization in Texas, is highly variable
in size and coloration. In general, sikas are all "compact" in form;
appear "dainty-legged"; and have a short, trim, wedge-shaped head. Males
carry antlers that average 28-48 cm in length, although exceptional
racks may be up to 74 cm in length. Sika antlers have 3-4 points
branching from a main beam; there is no palmate growth as in the fallow
deer. Females have a pair of black bumps on the forehead, their
placement corresponding to that of the male’s antlers.
Texas Dall Sheep
The Texas Dall Sheep was derived from cross breading Corsican and
Mouflon sheep. This beautiful animal typically has a bright white coat
and weighs in at a hefty 130 pounds. Males are called rams and feature
rounded horns that make for a very attractive and exotic mount.
Their
horns usually curl up, out, down and out.© 2006 Briscoe Production Company
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