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cdhknives · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 03 Aug 2012 Posts: 297

I saw a lone nilgi running across a pasture about 300 yards out last weekend. That is the second sighting in 3 months out there. It was moving too fast and was on the wrong side of the fence, so no shot...it had been bedded down and got scared up by a hunter leaving the pasture driving to the camp. I thought it was a horse at first...with the size and loping galloping gait.

I know squat about hunting them except they are big, fast, and hard to put down cleanly. I've got the rifle for it, but what can I do to attract them? Will they come in to feeders? What terrain do they prefer?
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deputydawg · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:35 am Post subject:

I don't know anything about those critters except that they are good to eat and that I want to shoot one! Laughing

Good luck with them!

TexGator · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 22 May 2012 Posts: 429

I believe they are grazers and do not come into corn or feed. Very spooky critters but DD is right. Fantastic eating. My buddies that hunt in coastal S Texas just drive around safari style to hunt them. One of the harder exotics to hunt from what I hear. They are like Forrest Gump, when you see them they are running.

horse51 · Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:33 pm Post subject:

they have amazing sight and can see in color. where we have hunted them in the past was refuges so we either spot and stalk or just get lucky. they are very difficult to hunt. in 3 years aprox 4-5 3 day hunts. we got one. last weekend on a bow hunt I had one pop up behind me at 30 yards but I couldn't turn and draw on him so he just sat there barking at me.
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SaltyCuda · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:20 pm Post subject:

Go down to Port Mansfield, study them, they are thick down there. You can practically walk with in a hundred feet. I had my RV down there for a year, they walk around without a care.

Suggestion from someone who made the wrong choice, Don't shoot the big one. Pick a nice little one and you'll love it.

By the way, did I mention they will charge you like a pissed off Bull Elephant. Make sure you have an out.

cephus · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:08 pm Post subject: Nilgi

SaltyCuda, did you see those nilgi in the winter? I started fishing down there in 1998 from May through October and stayed on the back row of R$R RV Park. I have heard of an occasional Nilgi sighting, but none of our group ever saw a Nilgi except when driving to or from Port M. We did see hundreds and hundreds of deer, an occasional wild hog, coons Turkeys, and skunks in town, but for some reason no Nilgi.

DITTO on not shooting a big bull. They don't even make good hambuger!
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williedale69 · Joined: 10 Jan 2011 Posts: 9

Afriend of mine hunts them on his ranch near the kenedy ranch. rut for them is on and he hunts the crap piles. they go poo in same places on trails. huge piles of large pellets. he will find the trails and set stands or ambush there as to see the trail. bulls scent check piles for cows who are ready to breed.

SaltyCuda · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 2:34 pm Post subject:

See them all year round but more daring and obvious during hunting season due to pressure from the north. What I found interesting is I never saw a single Nil on the south side of the highway or town.

I kept my RV at "The Park" for a year and they would come in fairly close. It's the first RV park on the left as you are coming into town.

One morning I had a very large red haired hog standing outside my rig. Must have been over 300 lbs.

kweber · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:48 pm Post subject:

nilgai are on my short list...
but it could take awhile.... Laughing

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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Definitely on my bucket list! Heck I will even go in half with someone if they want to shoot a cow, I will let them shoot it and split the meat Smile

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wallhanger · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 1:57 pm Post subject:

It is a blast no matter what method you try. You'd be surprised at how little meat comes off of a cow. It is fantastic meat though and a great experience to hunt. We ended up riding around with a guide until we saw some and then the race was on. We blazed our way around the pasture until we slammed to a stop, jumped out, and tried most of the day to drop one. It was crazy chaos but I ended up shooting two on the run. My buddy never could drop one and daylight was fading.