I've been hunting axis deer for quite a while in southwest Texas, and I found it interesting that nobody (to my knowledge) seems to have a standard name for male and female axis.

Elk and moose are divided into bulls and cows, whitetails are bucks and does, and red stag are stags and hinds. One article I found argued that "bull" referred to animals that make a roaring noise, hence elk and moose falling into that category, and axis definitely have a sort of bellow that they are quite fond of, especially this time of the year.

Does anyone have any idea what male and female axis should be called?

Stag and doe

Always been a buck and doe as far as I've known....

Dinner.

Standard name? Easy. Me (and everyone I know) says "I shot a nice axis buck" or "I filled the freezer with an axis doe". Pretty sure in Texas there is practically no one that says anything different. I feel like this is an odd thread.

In 7 years this is your (trash account) first post? Setting the bar lowwww....

giddings_ag_06 said:

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Standard name? Easy. Me (and everyone I know) says "I shot a nice axis buck" or "I filled the freezer with an axis doe". Pretty sure in Texas there is practically no one that says anything different. I feel like this is an odd thread.

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I've always heard axis bull and axis doe.

I have always heard axis buck, axis doe

Buck and Doe. For sure

In "Exotics on The Range" , the definitive reference source publication by Elizabeth Mungall andd William Sheffield, With a forward by Dr. James Teer, published by Texas A&M University Press......Axis are only referred to as Buck and Does. Thus, Axis buck and Axis doe.

I have never heard anybody say "axis bull" in 30 years of hunting axis. Buck and Doe are always the terms used.

Per Wikipedia (for what that's worth), it is stag and doe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chital

Grew up hunting in brackettville, and always heard bull, so that is what will stick with me regardless.

I've sort of always thought of Elk being the dividing line. Generally antlered game species that are elk sized or larger are bull/cow, and smaller are buck/doe. Except for sheep/goat species, other horned game animals tend to follow the same general division. I think exotics and horned animals can differentiate, depending on the customs of their place of origin. But in the US, that seems to be a fairly standard reference point.

For example:
Moose, Elk, Caribou, Bison, Nilgai = Bull/Cow
Whitetail, Coues, Blacktail, Mule Deer, Pronghorn, Axis, Blackbuck, Fallow = Buck/Doe

Buck & doe

Its buck and doe. Who calls an axis a bull?

Me

Howdy Dammit said:

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Me

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For those keeping score at home:

Buck - 8
Stag - 2
Bull - 1
Dinner - 1

giddings_ag_06 said:

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Howdy Dammit said:

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Me

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For the stag folks.

Chital

Stag & Doe

Where did Axis come from anyway? No redneck wanted to call them Chital?

What's dumb is we're driving from Delhi to Agra on an elevated toll road.

I see a large herd of Chital and ask our host if they can eat Chital, since they can't eat cows, and the answer is No!

The people are starving and there's food on the hoof and they don't eat it. Does not compute.