sierrastalker
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Thanks for the info! Definitely got my attention on the Molokai hunt. Not really looking to do a guided hunt, but i don’t mind the taste of doe meat at all!I am no expert- but this is my take.
The island is full of deer. The "private" side archery area gets hunted EVERYDAY of the year.. yes, EVERYDAY.. can you still find and kill a deer in this archery area- yes, but give yourself time to do it.
The private side rifle hunts. If you are a competent hunter there is no reason why you both cannot kill at minimum one deer (you can kill 3) during your one day rifle hunt.
Private side has no - tags - you pay to play with a HI hunting license
(all private side info was pre-covid. I am unsure on how they will proceed)
Never hunted the "state" side but you would need to draw tags for this hunt.
Logistics are another story. Can be done, but it will also be costly.
if you don't care about killing a buck- there are guides on Molokai that do doe only "meat" hunts on the cheap and is a far better option, IMO, if you just want to kill an axis.
Having done both- i will confirm that the axis on Molokai taste as good as the axis on Lanai. Best meat in all 50!
We may end up doing some kind of combo....I’m kind of leaning towards going out and busting a buck with the rifle first to guarantee we go home with some meat, and then do some bow hunting after. My brother is definitely more of a bow hunter than me, so I’m sure he’ll want to go fling some arrows. Sounds like private side would be a good way to start hunting axis since we’d be guaranteed a chance at least and not have to draw any tags. Thanks for the info!
Now it’s sounding like the hardest part is going to be figuring out to talk the wives into letting us go to Hawaii without them.