Javelina

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Today was the first day of my javelina season and my last.

I started the morning finding some petroglyphs on some rocks sticking up in the desert, just a mound of them in the middle of nowhere. I made three stands for javelina and and didn't see a thing. Stand four was a winner.

I climbed over a ridge and set up overlooking a big flat bottom valley full of greasewood. I set up the caller about 50 yards out. I started running Young Javelina Distress and about 500 yards out five javelina started to cross the bottom of the valley. When they got downwind of the caller the big male made a hard left and started booking toward the caller. At about 125 yard i couldn't wait any longer and made poor shot (Javelina Fever, my first javelina) a clipped him behind the ear broadside and he dropped like a rock. Then got up and started to wander around like a drunk. I then put one where it belonged.

He was big for a javelina and was a struggle the get back to the truck. If I were 40 it would have been easy, a quarter mile up hill out of the valley. I'm going to be 80 this year and we went 30 yards and stopped untill I could catch my breath and my heart stopped thumping, I really need to get in shape. I ve called in javelina before and they weren't much bigger than a coyote, this guy felt like small whitetail.
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I pulled him up out of this valley.
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Fun day, I took him to the taxidermist for a shoulder mount. Can't wait for javelina tacos.

If he isn't too strong tasting a batch of green chili stew with javelina.

Specs. Howa Mini HB in 6.5 Grendel 90gr Speer TnT, Athlon Argos 2-12x42. Wildlife Tech Mighty Atom with Young Javelina Distress.
 

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That's great Erich! Good job. The kid's hunt is ongoing now too and I need to carve out some time to take her. We didn't find one last year, so I'm hoping for some better success this time out.
 
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I set up the caller about 50 yards out. I started running Young Javelina Distress and about 500 yards out five javelina started to cross the bottom of the valley.
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Congratulations on your first javelina, Erich. They do make excellent tacos or tamales!

South Texas brush country has an abundance of javelina. Never understood why they are all covered with fleas down here and seems like other locations are not infested???
Many of the ranches have spinner type supplemental feeders and driving down the road shaking a coffee can with some gravel in it is a very effective call.
 
This country is high desert (4500 ft) public land (BLM & State), little to no water and OTC tags, it is a tough hunt. I call coyotes all through here and see maybe a half dozen a year mostly in areas closed to OTC tags zones. I've only called in four in the past while coyote hunting, never holding a javelina tag. I'm pretty proud of this guy.,

Where I live the little critter.come into town and are a pest.

One year after an unsuccessful javelina hunt near Kingman AZ I nearly hit one on the highway on the way home and just for spite the local javelina herd wiped out my decorative cactus around the yard. They ended up trapping that herd.
 
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