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Excellent success!! Love the youth hunters! Congratulations on getting your first archery javelina! I am sure it's just one of many to come. Amanda

Outstanding!! Spot and stalk archery deer is awesome! Thanks for sharing your story and pics. And good luck to your wife in her pursuits this month! Amanda

OE4A is definitely a good group!! They took a ton of kids hunting this year and had lots of success. If anyone wants to volunteer for a group like this, I highly recommend it. It's very rewarding and a ton of fun to help these kids. Amanda

Well I was fortunate enough to get some time to go hunt with friends down in the 36s. Eddy Corona (of Outdoor Experience 4 All) hosted a group of hunters down there in a very nice camp. Some of the folks were from AZ and some were from out of state. I went down there New Years Eve and we got to share some champagne around the campfire to celebrate the new year....a nice way to spend New Year's for sure! Opening morning I went out with Eddy to a spot he had seen some pigs a few days earlier. We glassed for an hour or two and then after not seeing any javelina, we decided to hike into the wind toward where he had last seen them. We weren't 10 mins from the truck when Eddy spots some javelina nearby us. We drop our packs and make a plan to stalk them. I get to about 40 yards from one pig but want to close it to 30. Eddy takes a shot at his pig and misses. But the pigs don't spook too bad and one works it way back toward Eddy. After another missed shot or two, the pigs bolt. I pursue but they go into some thick stuff that isn't glassable. So I go back to Eddy and help him find arrows. Then we are packing up to go after the javelina when I spot some more coming right back into the same spot. So we drop our packs again and get set-up and try and stalk again. As I am stalking into the pig I see, Eddy gets my attention to let me know three more are coming in behind me. I turn and range them. Wait for a pig to step out and take a 30 yard shot. I watched as my arrow harmlessly wizzes along the side of the javelina that managed to turn and run directly away from me before the arrow got to him. Wow, that's fast! Eddy and I search for my arrow and then all of sudden Eddy spots more pigs coming our way. So we go grab our bows and try to setup in the prickly pear patch that they seem to all be heading to. We wait awhile and no luck. So we start moving in a way where we can loop into them from downwind. That's when I spot three more pigs to the right of us headed our way. I get setup as does Eddy. My pig is coming straight toward me, but then turns a little and goes behind a mesquite. I come to full draw and take the shot when the pig steps out. As the javelina bolts full speed I can see blood a little too far back and whisper to Eddy that it is gut shot. Eddy gets a few more shots off at the pigs, but he seems to be shooting high all morning. (found out later his bow was off). After 30 mins or so we proceed to go track my javelina. Eddy had a better view of where it went, so we go there and start looking for sign. Eddy finds a little bit of blood, calls me over and we start tracking. I don't have a lot of experience tracking wounded animals since I don't archery hunt much, but thank goodness Eddy is a great tracker and he proceeds to find tiny bits of blood here and there. We are in grassland mixed with mesquites and we tracked the javelina for maybe 300 yards before finding it dead on its side in the open. Yipppeeee!!!! Thanks so much for your help Eddy!! Finding that javelina was a great moment and although it wasn't a perfect shot, it was good enough to kill him fairly quickly and I was happy to have my 40 lb boar. It was a very exciting morning with lots of action. And a pic with Eddy, the great Tracker! And Eddy's brother Vince and his daughter came out to help track as well. She did a great job and is a really neat kid! She was all interested in what the javelina smelled like and what the internal organs were and what it was eating and all that. So over the next few days I go out and hunt deer/javelina with everyone. One morning we glass up a group of pigs and actually see the big "pig pile" of them sleeping under a mesquite. Here are some pics of the pig pile. I don't remember ever glassing up a pile of them like that before, it was a neat sight. There were a couple of Coues bedded near the javelina too. Only a few javelina got up before 9 am. About 6 people set off to stalk those javelina, but the wind changed and the herd bolted. For the next couple hours they chased them around while I stayed back as spotter. At one point the pigs crossed the canyon and came right up to me, like 5 yards away. Nothing I could do since I had already tagged out. But I radioed the hunters and they started to pursue them there. Some close encounters, but no shots fired. The last morning we are there, I went out with Chris Denham (Western Hunter Magazine) and his son Mark. We went out to a spot that holds Coues and Javelina. Chris spots some Coues but no bucks, and I spot a lone javelina out in the flats. We make a plan to go stalk the javelina, which now appears to be a group of two. Mark and Chris take off after them as I stay up on the hill to spot for them. The pigs don't move far and Chris and Mark get right into them. After some tense waiting, Mark finally gets some shots off and nails one of the pigs and I watch it run out into the open and fall over kicking for its last time. Nice job Mark!! here is his boar hanging in a tree. It was a very dark, nice-looking javelina. It was a great hunt and I want to say Thanks to Eddy for organizing the camp and inviting me down there. What a fun group of people! What beautiful country down there. Here is a pic of Baboquivari peak lit up by the morning sun. A nice pic of a coues doe Eddy spotted in the ocotillos.

Good idea, maybe someone will want them. Amanda

Just made a bunch of yummy chorizo from my javelina. It's excellent!! Wish I could go kill another one! I suggest you go out and get one Stan! At the very least you will have a great time in some gorgeous country. Amanda

Good luck to all who apply and thanks Catclaw for posting this opportunity. I hope it helps someone here who is out of work. You never know.... Amanda

Happy Belated Bdays!! Somehow I missed this post earlier. Sorry about your backpack!! Amanda

Calendars are in!! If you want one, go to this page to order: http://coueswhitetail.com/bookstore/2010_calendar.htm Awesome job Doug!! He is splitting the profits from the calendar with CouesWhitetail.com to help us raise some money, so if you want/need a gorgeous calendar, order one today! Amanda

Hopefully you are out chasing the gray ghost and will post some pics of a monster while wearing your CW.com shirt! Happy Birthday my friend! Amanda

Happy Birthday Ryan!! Amanda

Awesome! Nice to have the whole group out there with her! Amanda

Lions eat loads of javelina. Just saw some lion scat the other day full of javelina hair. Found some once with a baby javelina hoof in it too. Thanks for the pics! Amanda

Thanks John for that informative article. I was just going to email you to suggest you post it here Amanda

Congratulations!! Nice that you got to watch him working trails too. Amanda

Neat pics! Do you have photoshop elements program? If not, you might want to get it. You can use it to sharpen up digiscoped pics. Those would sharpen nicely I think. Amanda

Wow, awesome collection! Amanda

For those wondering, the event is Jan 30 at the same place in Scottsdale. Amanda

Great stories!! Thanks for posting! Amanda

I would like to see a CW.com table there again. It's possible I won't be there due to a hunt in Mexico, but it's not for sure yet. So I may or may not be there, but still I will be glad to organize a CW.com table. So if you are wanting to go, please speak up. If we get 10, I will go ahead and buy a table and send you all the tix. Amanda

I have stalked pigs a lot of times and it's not particularly exciting to me, but it was a lot of fun. I couldn't believe how we kept having pigs coming into the same spot. Everytime we thought we needed to leave we would spot more pigs coming back. At first we thought it was the same javelina over and over, but now I think it was just more of the herd coming in. A few days later some other hunters went in there and found lots more javelina in that herd than we saw at any one time. Amanda

Is it just me or does Lance make our jaws drop everytime he makes a post??? Amanda

I saw some sheep in a new area the other day but didn't have a cam with me. I agree it's fun to bump into them unexpectedly! Amanda

Congratulations on your mulie! Amanda

hehehe, ok, my bad. I killed it one day into 2010. I will go change the title of the thread!! Thanks! Amanda