I am looking forward to a handgun Javalina hunt here in Southern Arizona this year. Never been, but just in case I get one, I suppose I should know how to clean it. I know they have a stinky gland on their back that has to be dealt with, but I am looking for any other advice that may be of help to me. I plan on using a 6 inch Ruger Security Six 357 mag, that is quite accurate. Any photos, gun recommendations, how to scout, calling, etc. would be really appreciated. I am especially interested in photos if anyone has any. Thanks!!
How to clean a Javalina?????????
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Smoke
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Slit the stomach cavity length wise. Scrape out all the icky stuff. Dig a hole not less than 3 ft deep. Pour in the icky stuff. Then throw the carcass in on top of it. Cover with dirt. Return in 6.5 years, and unearth.
You know have a clean Javelina.
Smoke
You know have a clean Javelina.
Smoke
Lennyjoe
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Take the tenderloins and both hams. Throw the rest in a shallow grave. 
If you want to keep the head then take it home and bury it. Come back in 3 months and the bugs will have it cleaned for you. Soak it in bleach water to turn it white.
I shot 2 this year and only kept the parts listed above. The hams are good for making tamale's.
If you want to keep the head then take it home and bury it. Come back in 3 months and the bugs will have it cleaned for you. Soak it in bleach water to turn it white.
I shot 2 this year and only kept the parts listed above. The hams are good for making tamale's.
As far as cleaning it's pretty much the same as any other game animal. Gut it just like you would a deer. You don't need to be too concerned with the gland on the back as it will come off when you skin it out. You just want to make sure it doesn't come in contact with the meat. Here is a web site with a wealth of info about javelina. LINK.
22-rimfire
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Smoke +1; that is also my idea of cleaning a javalena. Fun to shoot though as a varmint or pest.
AzDryHeat
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Javelina - Area 37A Arizona
Hammy-
Like you, This will be my first javelina hunt also...I have heard that the smell from cleaning one, will make all but the most experienced hunters throw-up.
Good Luck!!
All-
Any javelina hunting info for 37A would be really appreciated. Thanks!
Hammy-
Like you, This will be my first javelina hunt also...I have heard that the smell from cleaning one, will make all but the most experienced hunters throw-up.
Good Luck!!All-
Any javelina hunting info for 37A would be really appreciated. Thanks!
Lennyjoe
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Didn't make me puke.
sumpnz
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DryHeat - I'll be hunting just south of you in 36C. When I was elk hunting my buddy took a raking shot on a yearling bull (we had antlerless tags, so his was still legal). Bullet went through the gut before hitting the liver and lungs. He said it smelled really bad while gutting, but I didn't notice it too much. Hopefully that means the javvy won't bother me too much.
Javelina smell a LOT worse than a gutshot deer. Trust me.
First time I shot one was in S. TX, and my fiancee was with me. She'd never been hunting. It was in the upper 80s or low 90s that day, and these two javelina were rank. I thought I'd never get her to hunt with me again! (phew)
My advice: wait til it's cold.
First time I shot one was in S. TX, and my fiancee was with me. She'd never been hunting. It was in the upper 80s or low 90s that day, and these two javelina were rank. I thought I'd never get her to hunt with me again! (phew)
My advice: wait til it's cold.
20cows
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I shot one with the intention of taking the meat, but as I approached it with a knife, I changed my mind. It smelled bad enough with a bullet hole in it that I wasn't about to open it up with the knife!
Lennyjoe
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Art Eatman
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If you're smart enough to use the eye as the target, you can field dress a pigelina without even getting your hands bloody. A bit greasy, yeah. And of course you know that the proper pig to shoot is one of those that's about two inches shorter at the shoulder than the largest in the bunch, right?
There's not a lot of meat on the shoulders. The hams and the "itty-bitty" backstraps are yum-yum good, if you know how to cook them.
I always found a slow barbecuing was best. I'd cook the straps along side for nibblies during the main cooking.
Start with high heat; baste and turn every three or four minutes, maybe three times. Use tongs, not a fork. No salt in the basting mix. Then, spread the coals to about a 300-degree oven. Turn and baste every fifteen minutes.
Takes a little over an hour. Yum! There is a sorta delicate flavor to the meat. Really good.
Art
There's not a lot of meat on the shoulders. The hams and the "itty-bitty" backstraps are yum-yum good, if you know how to cook them.
I always found a slow barbecuing was best. I'd cook the straps along side for nibblies during the main cooking.
Start with high heat; baste and turn every three or four minutes, maybe three times. Use tongs, not a fork. No salt in the basting mix. Then, spread the coals to about a 300-degree oven. Turn and baste every fifteen minutes.
Takes a little over an hour. Yum! There is a sorta delicate flavor to the meat. Really good.
Art
Is it really that bad??
Most of the posts don't seem all that favorable towards these little critters. I want to go out and at least try it once. I know the initial smell is quite strong, but is the meat really all that bad. I had planned on making sausage or something of that sort (this is all assuming I actually have success). Any recipe recommendations?
Most of the posts don't seem all that favorable towards these little critters. I want to go out and at least try it once. I know the initial smell is quite strong, but is the meat really all that bad. I had planned on making sausage or something of that sort (this is all assuming I actually have success). Any recipe recommendations?
Art Eatman
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Hey, oldhammy1, whadIsay? I've cooked up a half-dozen or so javalulu through the years...
Art
I've cooked up a half-dozen or so javalulu through the years...Art
one-shot-one
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to clean a Javalina
1. make sure its dead.
2. hold your nose.
3. toss into bed of pickup
4. drive into town take 1st road to the left then the 2nd right to the little house with the white pickett fence, go up knock on the door and ask for Abbel.
5. tell Abbel that you have a Javalina and ask nicely if he will take care of it for you.
6. go back to camp, tomarrow morning Abbel and Marria will show up with Javalina tomalies.
7. enjoy.
at least thats how we use to do it!
1. make sure its dead.
2. hold your nose.
3. toss into bed of pickup
4. drive into town take 1st road to the left then the 2nd right to the little house with the white pickett fence, go up knock on the door and ask for Abbel.
5. tell Abbel that you have a Javalina and ask nicely if he will take care of it for you.
6. go back to camp, tomarrow morning Abbel and Marria will show up with Javalina tomalies.
7. enjoy.
at least thats how we use to do it!
Lennyjoe
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Art Eatman
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Pigelinas are almost too much fun to mess around with to wanna shoot one. I was sitting on a nice comfy rock in Long Draw one evening, hoping a deer wouldn't show up. A bunch of piggies wandered out from the brush behind me, beginning their evening feeding. Maybe twenty or so.
I had an old sow and piglet wander toward me from downwind. She came up to maybe ten feet or so, trying to figure out what was the strange smell. It was the dangdest nose wrinkling and heavy breathing you can imagine! This went on for over two minutes. She finally decided I was just a weird-smelling rock, I guess, 'cause she wandered off. Then here came another sow and piggie; same deal.
Ya know, when you're trying to make no noise, and be still, but you're about to wet your pants laughing, it's hard to get serious about shooting something.
They wandered off; I wandered off to the truck and home to hamburgers...
, Art
I had an old sow and piglet wander toward me from downwind. She came up to maybe ten feet or so, trying to figure out what was the strange smell. It was the dangdest nose wrinkling and heavy breathing you can imagine! This went on for over two minutes. She finally decided I was just a weird-smelling rock, I guess, 'cause she wandered off. Then here came another sow and piggie; same deal.
Ya know, when you're trying to make no noise, and be still, but you're about to wet your pants laughing, it's hard to get serious about shooting something.
They wandered off; I wandered off to the truck and home to hamburgers...
, ArtWeenies
All right all you weenies that posted to this thread about how awful the javelinas are-- Last weekend we were able to bag two of them here in sunny Southern Arizona. I have to be honest, there was very little, if not no outward smell. The typical smell if innards and guts was present, but all of these tales of these little creatures being the most vile, repulsive, stinky, gut turning, nasty, puke inducing, and non tasty animals are simply "hogwash". We hung them by the head from a tree, skinned them from the neck down, cut off all of the yummy parts, and we were out of there. For all those who posted advice on this thread, thanks again. I will definitely be putting in again next year.
Hammy
All right all you weenies that posted to this thread about how awful the javelinas are-- Last weekend we were able to bag two of them here in sunny Southern Arizona. I have to be honest, there was very little, if not no outward smell. The typical smell if innards and guts was present, but all of these tales of these little creatures being the most vile, repulsive, stinky, gut turning, nasty, puke inducing, and non tasty animals are simply "hogwash". We hung them by the head from a tree, skinned them from the neck down, cut off all of the yummy parts, and we were out of there. For all those who posted advice on this thread, thanks again. I will definitely be putting in again next year.
Hammy
pauli
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and nailed up a sign below the still dangling bodies saying "let this be a lesson to you!"
lawson
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i'm going this weekend. agreed they don't smell as bad as people say, as long as you shoot them properly.
i'm trying a javelina call for the first time ever. i've heard that they come out to the aid of a distressed pig, but we'll see if it actually works.
i'm trying a javelina call for the first time ever. i've heard that they come out to the aid of a distressed pig, but we'll see if it actually works.
call
We had the J-13 calls with us last weekend. I found that it did not bring them in towards us, but it did confuse them. They were running away from us, and I was pursuing as fast as I could while blowing on the call. They stopped and kindove circled around the base of a cactus and looked back at me, and thats when I had my shot. At least where we were at, they didn't come to us, but I have to say that it helped in a big way.
Hammy
We had the J-13 calls with us last weekend. I found that it did not bring them in towards us, but it did confuse them. They were running away from us, and I was pursuing as fast as I could while blowing on the call. They stopped and kindove circled around the base of a cactus and looked back at me, and thats when I had my shot. At least where we were at, they didn't come to us, but I have to say that it helped in a big way.
Hammy
lawson
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good to hear, Hammy. i have a Primos call, testing it out was enough to get all my neighbors to step outside to see what the hell the noise was. i'll be sure to report back after this weekend
sumpnz
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I'm heading to 36C this weekend. Unfortunatly I'll just have Friday evening-Sunday morning to actually hunt, but I'll be with a friend that's hunted javy in that same area for 20+ years, so he knows all the honey holes.
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