Javelina have been on my bucket list for many years. After multiple failed attempts over the course of several years, I was finally able to cross Javelina off my hunting bucket list!!

I was invited on a doe/cull deer hunt on a ranch in South Texas (between Tilden and Freer) a couple weeks ago and got the opportunity to take these two Javi's only seconds apart on a cold morning. I couldn’t be happier....and to top it off, one of them was an absolute monster of a boar with truly impressive teeth! I am having him euro-mounted to go on my desk.

Congrats!

Some big teeth on that boar!

Nice Teeth! It will make an impressive skull mount!

Congratulations.

Nice. Quality photos, too.

Congrats Wade.
The Javelina was my first big game animal
( they're considered big game in Arizona) taken with a firearm in 1974.
It was also the first big game animal I killed with archery gear in 1979.
To this day I have a special place in my heart for the little stinkers.
Its skull is easily one of the most commented about trophies in my collection.

Congrats...that is awesome!!!

Good job, I turned down a chance to shoot one on a deer management hunt a few years back. The landowner said I could shoot but had to get it mounted, turned it down as the time money was kind of tight. Haven't seen another since.

Nice! Wanting to do that someday as well, now you've stoked the fire.

Me as well as pigs are my IT

Shot my only javelina with my bow is Arizona years back. Was one of my favorite hunts. Pigs are a lot of fun!
Congrats on yours, that’s really neat!

Excellent photos. Please remember to post a photo of the skull when done.

Long teeth usually means a younger animal. The older a javelina is the greater the odds of it having broken its tusks in a lifetime of rooting. I've shot several whose tusks were only polished round nubs. When trying to judge the oldest "hog" in a herd, look at the callouses on their knees. The older the animal, the more pronounced those callouses will be.

Bill Quimby

WOW those are the biggest teeth I’ve seen

Maybe he ate only soft foods.
Bill ( or others) what else is on the menu besides cactus for them?

They are pretty omnivorous, not all that different from feral hogs.

Congrats!

Never hunted them, but have shot a few when out after other game.
Stinky little devils, especially when you discover the cooler ice has melted and you are 40 miles of dirt road from pavement and much further from any ice.

Ate Javelina once at a friends ranch in the valley - different, but good eating because my buddy's mom knew how to cook them.

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How cool is that. Great looking pigs! One day ....

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
They are pretty omnivorous, not all that different from feral hogs.

Randall,
Have you seen any over in Young County lately?

I haveb not personally seen any in Young county in about 6 years or so, but 3 years maybe 4 back, my boss got pictures of 3 animals about 5 mi9les southwest of where Lora and I live.

I do not think any of Robert's hunters killed any on his lease properties north of Olney in Archer county this past season, but in 2016-2017, two were killed on those properties.

4 or 5 years back, Lora and I were headed to Ft. Worth from Olney and a few miles east of Jermyn and back west of the intersection west of Jacksboro where 114 goes west toward Olney, Lora and I found a javelina that had been ran over.

I still occasionally see tracks on some of the properties where I maintain the feeders in both Archer and Young counties, but they seem to be disappearing from this area.

Wish they weren't because they are neat/fun animals to hunt, but the expansion/increase in feral hog numbers thru out the state is probably going to reduce their range and numbers.