Lennyjoe
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Have fun Andrew. Let us know if you scored. The wife is hollering about the javalina head in the freezer as well as the hams. I might pull a ham this weekend and make some tamales.
How to clean a Javalina?????????
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MCgunner
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Get the pimple off its back pretty quick. Soak the thing in icewater for 4 or 5 days and change the water out daily. When you can open the lid on the cooler and the smell don't knock you over, you can butcher. Heck, the meat is good, like pork, just gotta get that musk out. There's NO fat in it, so cooking methods like crock pots that won't toughen the meat are recommended. Makes good jerky, too, and tamale meat. the back straps are just like totally lean pork chops. Biologists/taxonomist/mammologists still debate the family these little things are in, but I say if it looks like pork, tastes like pork, it probably is pork. The Biologists seem not to think so, though.
As far as hunting 'em, only place I've hunted is out in the west Texas Desert. They're common around here, coastal bend of Texas, just south of where I'm at, but I've not had the opportunity to hunt 'em in brush. Note the prickley pear cactus around where you're hunting. You'll probably notice a lot of little javelina size bites out of the pads and pears. They LOVE prickley pear and feed on it. Out in west Texas, I spot and stalked 'em. They run in the brushy draws. You can find a good draw with cover and set up on the edge of it with shooting sticks. Or, you can walk the ridges and spot 'em, see which way they're moving, and try to get in position for an ambush. I've seen 'em in the open desert, climbing cliffs, they're not real partticular about staying hidden like deer. But, best spots are the brushy draws never-the-less. That's where I killed this one.
Oh, another thing, shoot directly for the shoulder, not behind it. All the vitals are behind the shoulder, much like a pig. They don't have much for lungs and the diaphram starts just under the shoulder. That's proabably why they can't run too far without fatiguing. There's not that much meat to worry about on the shoulder, so just break it, no problem.
The Biologists seem not to think so, though.As far as hunting 'em, only place I've hunted is out in the west Texas Desert. They're common around here, coastal bend of Texas, just south of where I'm at, but I've not had the opportunity to hunt 'em in brush. Note the prickley pear cactus around where you're hunting. You'll probably notice a lot of little javelina size bites out of the pads and pears. They LOVE prickley pear and feed on it. Out in west Texas, I spot and stalked 'em. They run in the brushy draws. You can find a good draw with cover and set up on the edge of it with shooting sticks. Or, you can walk the ridges and spot 'em, see which way they're moving, and try to get in position for an ambush. I've seen 'em in the open desert, climbing cliffs, they're not real partticular about staying hidden like deer. But, best spots are the brushy draws never-the-less. That's where I killed this one.
Oh, another thing, shoot directly for the shoulder, not behind it. All the vitals are behind the shoulder, much like a pig. They don't have much for lungs and the diaphram starts just under the shoulder. That's proabably why they can't run too far without fatiguing. There's not that much meat to worry about on the shoulder, so just break it, no problem.
lawson
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i filled my javelina tag this weekend
sumpnz
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No joy on my end. I just got back a couple hours ago. I'd have stayed longer but need the vacation time for other things later this year (like my second child's birth).
Anyway, congrats to lawson.
Anyway, congrats to lawson.
lawson
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thanks sumpnz, sorry you didn't have any luck, what area were you hunting?
i scouted a good spot before sunrise. lots of hot signs; fresh droppings, rootings, upturned cacti, etc. the next day i hiked there before sunrise, laid on my shooting mat, and at 7:30 am i had my piggie.
i scouted a good spot before sunrise. lots of hot signs; fresh droppings, rootings, upturned cacti, etc. the next day i hiked there before sunrise, laid on my shooting mat, and at 7:30 am i had my piggie.
Lennyjoe
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Congrats Lawson. Sounds like a good time.
Andrew, there's always next year.
Andrew, there's always next year.
lawson
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hunt was the north shore of Roosevelt Lake. rocky desert with very thick brush. i did some scouting to make sure the spots i had found them at in previous weeks still had hot signs. got to the top of a ridge overlooking their nesting area before sunrise, made my kill at 7:30 am at about 75 yards. used a Contender rifle in 7x30 Waters with a Redfield Tracker scope. a clean kill through the eye, there was no pain.
46 lbs field dressed.
46 lbs field dressed.
Lennyjoe
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Couple of buddies I hunt with got their porkers North of Benson.
Now thats how its done
Lawson- Sounds like the ideal hunt. It took us a little longer than it did you, and we had a little luck. 46 lbs is good size. How are you going to cook the meat. I tried a recipe that was pretty good.
2-4 lbs of meat
16 oz of apricot preserves
1 bottle BBQ sauce
1/2 purple onion diced
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Throw it all in a crock pot and let it cook for 8 hours. YUMMY!!
LennyJoe- The pig in that first photo looks HUGE. I bet that one could feed the family for a couple of days. Hopefully next year it will be yours.
Lawson- Sounds like the ideal hunt. It took us a little longer than it did you, and we had a little luck. 46 lbs is good size. How are you going to cook the meat. I tried a recipe that was pretty good.
2-4 lbs of meat
16 oz of apricot preserves
1 bottle BBQ sauce
1/2 purple onion diced
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Throw it all in a crock pot and let it cook for 8 hours. YUMMY!!
LennyJoe- The pig in that first photo looks HUGE. I bet that one could feed the family for a couple of days. Hopefully next year it will be yours.
Carl N. Brown
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Judging from the hair, I would suggest an herbal shampoo and
a strong conditioner.
lawson
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we still had two days of the hunt left and everyone had filled their tags, so we marinated the hams off mine, put them in a dutch oven, and buried the oven in a pit of coals. a cowboy slow-cooker, i guess. it was a shame tagging out on the first day of the hunt, we were forced to spend the next two days fishing. of all the rotten luck....
Lennyjoe
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Both of them buggers went to the shop to be made into Chorizo.
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