Texas aoudad after the flood

My uncle has guided aoudad for decades out of Marfa. We shot a 34” one a couple years back and I asked him about eating it and he said battery acid wouldn’t tenderize it enough lol. So we caped it out and left the rest. The last one I shot I gave to my buddy for dog food.
 
Ewes are delicious. I mix the ground with some pork.

The backstraps were fine as well. Never eaten an old ram.
 
Well. This has been enlightening and slightly cringey . Thanks everyone for educating me.

We all better hope the OPs story of opportunity shooting a big ram, hiking 240 yards through some mud, cutting its head off, and then celebrating it never sees the light of day.

Understand I have no experience with Texas or Aoudads so speaking from ignorance.
 
We all better hope the OPs story never sees the light of day.

speaking from ignorance.
Along with feral hogs, aoudad can be hunted from helicopters. Generally suck to eat. Are an introduced non-native species. Have a significant negative ecological impact. Compete with desert bighorns and mule deer.

If this story had been about a coyote or a hog would've you had this reaction?
 
To be clear. I am not having a reaction. I’m trying to help provide perspective. I’m fully in support of controlling non-natives that negatively impact habitat and unbalance ecosystems.

Objectively, cutting a head off for horn size and leaving the body is not good for public sentiment.


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To be clear. I am not having a reaction. I’m trying to help provide perspective. I’m fully in support of controlling non-natives that negatively impact habitat and unbalance ecosystems.

Objectively, cutting a head off for horn size and leaving the body is not good for public sentiment.


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Does public sentiment really matter? Anti hunters are never going to disappear, why bother trying to appease them.
 
It's not only anti hunters that find the practice unpalatable and that's what his comment was highlighting.

This. I won’t eat a coyote at all, and rarely eat a ground hog (my dog eats the ones I shoot), but otherwise I don’t shoot things I don’t eat. The idea of shooting an ungulate and leaving it to rot doesn’t sit right with me.

You do you.


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I have not seen a $300 dollar Aoudad hunt in decades. I'd be all in for that. The ranches we hunt start at $5000. Crazy money.
 
He’ll, most Texans don’t eat the elk they kill either

The couple ewe I shot were delicious. Mixed in beef fat and ground everything. Very hard to tell it wasn’t Costco beef. I will say that I prioritize field dressing and meat care though.

Old rams are a bit different though.
 
Stop trying to sound smart. Almost nobody eats them. Nobody is going to Texas to shoot small edible rams, perhaps New Mexico but that is such a small portion of aoudad taken that my answer of “not really” still stands 100%.
Success rates in New Mexico are pretty low 20-30% for most units. The OTC hunt is kind of neat opportunity, but I have worn quite a bit of boot leather and not taken one that way.

Might be mandatory to use them, but no one really jumps to the front of the line to eat them.

Mine came from Fort Stockton area. We didn't eat it.
 
Luckily if you want to come hunt Aoudad in Texas you can enjoy your hunt without anyone bringing up the politics/ethics of it. That’s only on the internet. I usually eat them or give them away but I won’t judge other ppl that don’t, make comments, or even bring it up. They’re an invasive species.
 
Along with feral hogs, aoudad can be hunted from helicopters. Generally suck to eat. Are an introduced non-native species. Have a significant negative ecological impact. Compete with desert bighorns and mule deer.

If this story had been about a coyote or a hog would've you had this reaction?
How about a brown bear or a grizzly bear? Nobody eats that either and I’ve never seen any is on rokslide complaining about it.
 
Luckily if you want to come hunt Aoudad in Texas you can enjoy your hunt without anyone bringing up the politics/ethics of it. That’s only on the internet. I usually eat them or give them away but I won’t judge other ppl that don’t, make comments, or even bring it up. They’re an invasive species.
Yeah no political or ethical crap on a hunt around here!
The kids and ewes are good spiced up and slow cooked and I have zero issues eating them, rams maybe a backstrap or two ground up and made into tamales
Or chili, cowboy gulach with beans and corn , rotel tomatoes
But buried and cooked is best
Unfortunately it has rained all week and the pit is still full of water
You pinche morality kings should shut your pie hole about wasting meat
Most of yall probably don’t even know how to clean, cook, store your animals you kill,
pinche internet heroes
 
This. I won’t eat a coyote at all, and rarely eat a ground hog (my dog eats the ones I shoot), but otherwise I don’t shoot things I don’t eat. The idea of shooting an ungulate and leaving it to rot doesn’t sit right with me.

You do you.


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In my experience the “only shoot things I eat” crowd usually doesn't shoot much of anything themselves anyways.
 
Well. This has been enlightening and slightly cringey . Thanks everyone for educating me.

We all better hope the OPs story of opportunity shooting a big ram, hiking 240 yards through some mud, cutting its head off, and then celebrating it never sees the light of day.

Understand I have no experience with Texas or Aoudads so speaking from ignorance.
It was about 200+ yards across the canyon, couple hundred straight down the canyon then up the canyon, then repeat back to the road , I wouldn’t exactly call it a easy mud walk

Frank is puro macho chingon for making that trek,
 
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