.44 Spl vs West Texas Javelina (Graphic)

[Skillet]

Here's a couple of Javelina taken in Brewster County back in December while Mule Deer hunting.

The gun is a Cimmaron Arms Bisley, 5.5" barrel.

Load was a factory equivalent handload using hard-cast SWCs.

This is why we tote those sidearms in the bush!!!

HH!
Skillet

[rockbilly]

Great pair of stink pigs. I killed one last year, after gutting it out I remembered why I quit shooting them.

Where in Brewster County do you hunt?  I hunted Brewster Count for many years, both sides of Big Bend, and always enjoyed it.  It was rough for an old man and I stopped hunting the rough country after my by-pass, but still dream about it from time to time.  The Woodard Ranch South of Alpine use to have some good hunting, I also enjoyed hunting the Stillwell Ranch East of Big Bend.

[Skillet]

We hunt the H.O.H (Hells' other half), a boot-shaped ranch, about a 30 mi. drive from Sanderson.

When I was younger, I'd dressed-out and ate some S. Texas javelina. They weren't bad, as I recall, as long as you dressed 'em out and got 'em on ice quick.

Those w. Texas Javelina taste too strong for my liking. We just shoot a few to thin them out. Must be diet.

These were each right at 50 lbs each.

My buddy and I both took pretty nice mulies off the HOH this year, about 160#, liveweight.

Here's a picture I took on the way out:


Pretty country!

[rockbilly]

I have a place West of Abilene (near Buffalo Gap), a few years ago we begin to see a few javelina in this area, and this is where mine was killed.  I hadn't attempted to eat one in many years, but had thoughts of trying this one until I walked and got a smell.  I called a Mexican fellow that I know, he said he wanted it to make tamales.  Two weeks or so later I had a call from him and he brought me a half dozen tamales, they weren't bad but I swear I could still smell the ole stink pig.

Sanderson, Dryden is a good area, I have seen some good mulies that came out of that area.  My son and I have considered buying some property there, it is still fairly cheap by Texas standards.  Hind sight being 20/20, I wish I had jumped on it when it was $17. an acre back in the early sixties.