[kreator]

I'm wondering what kind of revolver you guys would reccommend for Javelina. I'm considering .357 or .44 unless you have better suggestions. What kind of barrel length should I be looking at? Thanks in advance :D

[Art Eatman]

.38 Special on up. Aim for around the eye. There's not much neck, and back of the neck you're into eating-meat. .357's plenty good enough, with whatever barrel length you can hit accurately with. After all, pigelinas aren't but around 35-40 pounds...

Art

[St. Gunner]

A big one here goes 60lbs or so, the .357 is perfect, the barrel length isn't to important as long as you can shoot it well. I've killed a few just for SAG with a 4" barreled Taurus in .357. They are not to hard to kill, despite what some armchair hunters will tell you that never had one in their sights. I killed one that was in a Culvert chewing on a dog one night with a maglight, I don't recomend getting that close, but it was one of my better dogs and that sucker was chewing him full of holes. I've killed a bunch with a .22lr. I guess a .44 would be fine if you already have one or want one, but the .357 is fine.

158gr Hydra shoks seem to work well.

[hps1]

A big one here goes 60lbs or so,

Is that before or after the fleas leave?;) :D

The last one I shot in S. Texas was transporting at least 14# of fleas and those little buggers start to abandon ship real quick as the pig cooled down. :uhoh:

Regards,
hps

[H&Hhunter]

Kreator,

Ditto on the other guys statements, any center fire pistol you shoot well will do the trick. I've got a pal who loves to shoot them with his black powder .44 pistol. They ain't much more than medium sized dog and they don't take much killing.

[saddlebum]

Art, are these the only rodents you eat or are there others? if they taste like they smell count me out. saddlebum

[St. Gunner]

:D

With the fleas of course. Actually the biggest I ever killed weighed 55lbs guts and all, but a guy I work with killed two under an abandoned house a few years ago, they had been eating corn, one weighed 62 and the 63. I guess average is probably around 30lbs or so. I try not to shoot them, I refuse to eat any but the little ones anyway. I have been known to shoot them because they are running deer off the feeders, but I always wait until two are lined up, and get my limit over with in one shot, nasty damn things. :barf:

I'm with saddlebum on what they smell like, I had about 100head going to one feeder last season, you could smell em almost a 1/2 mile away if the wind was right.:barf: It would have been so much fun to have some claymores and set em off when they came in to feed. :D

It amazes me that guys come down here and pay $500 to shoot one of those things, when I used to carry a paintball gun to the blind to run em off when they came in as I was bowhunting. Oh well to each his own.

Someone should tell Blain that buckshot does work on Javelinas, before the poor guy gets himself stomped in a hole by some ugly critter.

:D

[hps1]

Know what you mean about javelina running deer off. Had a friend that took his son's radio controlled "dune buggy" to the blind and would buzz the things every time they came out in the sendero.

Never did figure out why an adult buck would let a javelina run them off, unless it is the smell. :)

Regards,
hps

[coldshot03/04]

357 mag.

[SunBear]

Those little buggers run in packs. I'm thinking 15 rounds of 9mm jhp might be advisable. Happy trails.

[Art Eatman]

saddlebum, I've found that if you shoot them in the eye, and are halfway careful in gutting them, you don't even get blood on your hands. Greasy, yeah. They're a PITA to skin after they cool, though.

I barbecue the hams. The little old backstraps are superb! Not much meat on the shoulders, of course. The meat has a rather delicate flavor. Definitely a treat.

A couple of years back I took Matt Guest off over in Long Draw, being lazy and doing some sittin'-huntin' at sundown in hopes of a volunteer mule deer. Between sundown and dark I had some 15 or 20 pigs come past where I was sitting.

One sow came up toward me from downwind. She stood there and wrinkled her nose and breathed and breathed and breathed and wrinkled...Dangest nose gyrations I've seen this side of an itchy elephant! She and her baby wandered off, and here came another one! Same deal, same gyrations. Hard not to bust out laughing, with that sort of comedy show going on.

Went back the next evening; Matt collected one with his Glock .40 S&W.

Art

[clem]

Dan Wesson 6" barrel, .357 mag.

[saddlebum]

art , thanks for the info i woulda never dreamed they'd be good eatin.guess i've never been that hungry. saddlebum

[Art Eatman]

In my barbecuing, I start with a high heat for maybe ten minutes, turning and basting to seal the outside. Use tongs, not a fork. Then, spread the coals so you get about a 275-300 degrees heat. Turn and baste every ten or fifteen minutes. Takes maybeso an hour and a half to two hours for well done but quite juicy.

:), Art

[Lennyjoe]

Took one year before last with a Taurus Tracker .357 shooting 158 Gr JSP at 40 yds. Hit it once, he wobbled and took 2 steps before hitting the dirt.