What gun for Javelina?

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I am going hunting for Javelina in October in a forested area. I am trying to decide if I want to use my 30-06 or my 12 gauge with slugs becuase I don't like hunting with a scope in the forest. Also please include what grain bullet you like best.

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Good Lord! Javelina are just little pig-type animals. Won't you blow up the meat with a 30-06 rifle? A 12ga is pretty big also. How about a moderate caliber at pistol velocities?
 
If you spot them first, it's easy to sneaky-snake walk up to within ten or fifteen yards. A .38 Special is plenty good. The eye is the best target, really...

We're talking a live weight that's rarely above 45 or 50 pounds. Since the best eating is from a young mature shoat, pick out the ones that are maybe an inch or two shorter at the shoulder. They'll weigh maybe 35 pounds or so, before field dressing.

Don't go gut-shooting some big old boar. Yuck. Stinky. Urp.
 
I've never shot one of the little farts, but I have them my property here in North Texas. When I was a teen, my Dad shot one in deep South Texas with his 222 Mag. and it did a fine job. I just never really had the desire to shoot one. Now, if they keep invading my feeders like they did last year, that may change. Like Art said, they're not very big. If I were to go out hunting for one, I'd feel perfectly comfortable with any .22 centerfire. Shoot one with a 12 ga. slug, and there may not be much left!
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I took one with the .357 4" Rossi M971 I was totin' once. I had a 7 mag on me, but seemed a bit much at 40 yards on a stink pig. :D

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I will probably just use my S&W Highway Patrolman .357 or my Glock and shoot until its down.
 
It will only take one from the .357. The Glock, well, that's debatable. :D You gotta hit it before it drops.

Oh, I forgot, I took that little beast with a 140 JHP round. That's what the gun liked and that's what I had a long for it. Really don't matter much. Any .357 load will work with a proper shot placement.
 
If you find a little baby when he's still sorta pinkish, they're easily raised and house-broken. They make good watch-pigs; quite territorial, as a census-lady discovered some years back. :)

Way long ago, a friend was raising one. All was well until it was teething and chewed on a lamp cord. Shocking.
 
You need a good Javelina gun, that should kill them,for sure,

I would use a 22 Mag,I know that would do nice, head shot,they dont go anywhere,
 
If you skin one right, there's a scent gland in the middle of the back, they're about like venison. They are excellent BBQ'ed whole or as mentioned above make fine tamales.
They are not hard to kill. A .38 spl SWC is plenty.
 
Yeah, I've heard that they taste nasty and need to be soaked in milk before eaten, is this true?
 
I've mostly just barbecued the hams. Slow, over oak/mesquite; about two hours, I guess. Heat level equivalent of maybe 275? The little hams are only maybe three or four pounds. No salt in the basting mix; turn often but with tongs, not a fork. Keep the juice in.

I've never needed any sort of marinade in order to do yummy with meat. :D
 
Wow, I've never heard of anyone eating javalinas that wasn't starving, this is interesting. Now feral pigs are another story........
 
Sadly, it's one of those pistols I never built.

Many years ago I saw a story in a gun rag about a handgun called the "Javelina." If memory serves, it was a pistol with a longer slide.

I was already working on reloading the 10mm Auto, and I had planned to send the then new Delta Elite out to Terry Tussey for a longer slide and a reliability package.

One project leads to another. The Elite stayed in its stock condition, my wife and I started looking at new houses and I took a trip to South Dakota--in a truck.

There are many firearms I wished that I had built. But I like 1911s, I like reloading the 10mm Auto, and I've never had a long slide. This would have been a great project.
 
The big boars are too tough for the pit. You shred 'em for tamales. I soaked 'em for 4 or 5 days on ice water until I could open the box and the funk wouldn't knock me down.:barf: That got the rank out of the meat at least enough for tamales. The meat is WAY too dry for the pit IMHO. Feral hog has some fat in it and is awesome smoked on the pit.

I've only taken one stink pig and that was because I'd never shot one and I sorta wanted the head mount. The taxidermist did a good job, can't even notice the .357" diameter hole that was in the thing's head. :D

The "Javelina" was an AMT hardballer (1911) chambered for 10mm. Friend of mine got one, put a hundred more bucks in it having the thing ported and polished, but it was still a jam-o-matic. My personal opinion, you see one of those things in a gun shop, run like it was the devil himself. :barf: I'd rather have a .357 revolver for hunting, anyway, far superior in accuracy AND power to a 1911. I have a 4" Taurus 66 now that will fill a 1" bull with 6 holes at 25 yards. My Blackhawks will do the same and my 6.5" .357 Blackhawk will shoot 4" at 100 yards off the bench with its open sights. I've never fired a 1911 that could match a good, accurate revolver. There are match grade 1911s, fire 20 rounds and lock up they're so tight. Nah, when it comes to outdoor work, leave the autos at home, or at least that's what I do.
 
If you find a little baby when he's still sorta pinkish, they're easily raised and house-broken. They make good watch-pigs; quite territorial, as a census-lady discovered some years back.

Way long ago, a friend was raising one. All was well until it was teething and chewed on a lamp cord. Shocking.
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If I owned an outdoors rag, I'd give Art Eatman an advice column. His tips and stories are the bestest.
 
Do you think the project would have been better when starting with a real-deal Colt 1911?
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Most definitely. The AMT had its problems. I had one in .45ACP. I got mine to work with ball ammo, but that's about it. Still, I prefer the accuracy of revolvers for hunting, or even better, Contenders. :D They'll feed anything, the best controlled expansion or flat nose SWCs, too. Ball is not appropriate for hunting.
 
The only Javelina (Peccary) hunting I've ever done was with a .357 when I was stationed in Arizona. Don't let anyone tell you those little "pig like" animals can't get mean. Injure one, let it squeal and see what happens. By the way they are not pigs or hogs.
 
They do taste more like pork than venison to ME. The back straps are like very dry pork chops. Hey, I have a dregree in wildlife and fisheries management, but if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, tastes like a duck.............ROFLMAO. No, they're not in the same genus as domestic/feral hogs, but I still will refer to 'em as stink pigs. IIRC, the latest argument is that they're not the same family, but in the same order. I don't keep up with it, though. The argument has gone back and forth over the years as to the relationship. Wanna know exactly what the latest is, just google it. The web is a marvelous thing.
 
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