I hunted Sika on Chinoteague NWR in VA. Basically that is the bottom part of Assateague Island. I hunted right up to the MD/VA line. Fun hunt. You will work for them but it is worth doing at least once.
Sika's are interesting to hunt. Basically they like it wet. If you aren't getting wet and muddy you're in the wrong place. They also don't like whitetails so if you're seeing whitetails then you're in the wrong place. I know in a lot of places they use tree stands overlooking swamps and sloughs. Where I hunted them there weren't any trees big enough to support a stand so I went into the muck. I used a 12 ga with buckshot since the shots were close and fast and rooted them out of the reed beds.
These things aren't very big. I didn't get any bulls (Sika are technically a small elk so the bull/cow thing is correct), all I got was females which was good since I was after meat. The average weight for a dressed out adult cow on Chincoteague was about 50 lbs so the ones I got were average.
Last edited by flags; 10-30-2014 at 05:16 AM.