AWS
Custom Accessory Maker & Retired PM Staff
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 mount 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 minutes 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.View attachment 26421
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.
I started the morning finding some petroglyphs on some rocks sticking up in the desert, just a mount 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 minutes 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.View attachment 26421
I pulled him up out of this valley.
View attachment 26423
Fun day, I took him to the taxidermist for a shoulder mount. Can't wait for javelina tacos.
