Grandsons Javalina hunt

[xbeeman412]

94185941849418394181Just got back from hunting in Webb county Tx with the Grandson. Had a real small (12 acres) place to hunt, but it came with a old house to sleep in. GS was to hunt the weekend of January 11 but found out he had to make a religious retreat that weekend so Wife and I went on down and hunted the whole week of the 13th untel He came on the 18th. Deer were on the camera every night but wouldn't show their face in the daylight. Javalina showed about every 3 or 4 days in the daytime. He got to shoot one Sunday the 19th. I was able to get one earlier in the week. Here94180 are a few pictures of the hunt.

[starmac]

I never got to hunt them. I have eaten them old time pit barbeque style and it was good.

[richhodg66]

I hunted them once and killed a pretty good one with my 6mm and jacketed bullets. They're neat little critters, kinda exotic if you're not from the desert southwest.

[JeffinNZ]

Perfect game for a .32-20 by the looks of it. Can I have a breeding pair please?

[richhodg66]

Perfect game for a .32-20 by the looks of it. Can I have a breeding pair please?

They're actually pretty tough. I used a pretty stiff load with a heavy deer hunting bullet which broke its back just forward of the hips and went through it lengthwise where the bullet should have exited in the middle of its chest (it didn't exit). Put it down right there obviously, but it had enough life left on it to spin around and snap at us a couple of times before it died.

[xbeeman412]

Both of the ones We killed were 120 yard shots and clean head shots with a 150gr 30-06, no loss of meat!! GS is a good shot.

[richhodg66]

I boiled out the skull of mine and still have it. I did have the head mounted, they're look pretty fierce with the teeth exposed.

[CastingFool]

I could have shot a couple when I went deer hunting in Texas back in 2008. When I asked the ranch owner about them, he said he didn't find them good to eat. He had shot a boar, and the meat was nasty. He tried a sow, same thing. So I decided not to shoot one. They are feisty little critters, watched push some deer away from the corn that had been spread out to attract the deer.

[starmac]

What they have been eating probably has a lot to do with it, as does how it is handled once it is down. The ones I ate were buried in a pit of coals with plenty of coals on top, then about a foot of dirt for 24 hours, and they were tasty. Jackrabbits are generally not eaten either, but I have had mexicans make chile with them that were good, or at least I thought it was good.