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It's been done. www.javelinahunter.com Bill Quimby

"....so that is what Bill looks like. Bill.....thanks for sharing with us. Didn't know pigs had entered Arizona yet back then. " That's what I looked like nearly fourty years ago, back in my sideburned, pre-mustache, pre-potbelly days, thirty years before a truck fell on my arm and ended my bowhunting. If anyone can recognize me today from those photos I'd be surprised. It was when compound bows were novelties, and nobody wanted to carry those heavy things. They weren't "primitive" enough for us. Everyone shot Port Orford cedar arrows from our recurve bows. Nobody thought about putting sights on them, so we shot "instinctively." I was as surprised as the pigs I killed whenever I hit something. Oh yes, tjhunt. Javelinas already had entered Arizona. We had to be super careful when hunting them, though. There still was a T-rex or two hanging around. The stamped single-blade broadheads that we sharpened with files only made them meaner. Bill Quimby Thanks huntncoues for posting the pictures.

Tony Mandile and I went around and around on this a couple of years back on another forum, but I hold firm in my belief that there are few (if any) places in North America that have full-blooded European wild boars. I shot wild Eurasian boars in Spain and Mongolia, and they did not even closely resemble those being called "Russian boars" here. A brown feral hog I once shot in California was called a "Russian boar" by the guy who owned the place I hunted, but it came from a herd that had every color of pig imaginable, including a couple that were spotted. The many so-called "wild boars" I saw at two sites in New Zealand did not resemble a European wild boar, either, even though they were huge and ferocious-looking. It willl be interesting to see photos of the animals this outfitter is offering. Bill Quimby

Thanks, I appreciate it, but someone else already has them. Bill Quimby

Someone asked that I post some photos. Is there someone I can email several to post for me? I tried twice and failed. Bill Quimby

Hi Tony: Remember us discussing your hunt a couple years back on another forum? I applauded you for the thankless effort it takes to put such things on. For six or seven years I hosted friends from Wyoming's One Shot Antelope Hunt Club and set up quail and archery javelina hunts for everyone. Each January I'd pit-barbecue the javelinas the archers shot the previous year, and serve the pulled meat with tortillas, beans, coleslaw and sangria to 50-60 people, counting wives, helpers and friends. Everyone raved about the meat. The event was shut down when bowhunters were required to draw permits to hunt javelinas. I was ready. It was too much work, to say nothing about the risk of a lawsuit when you're the host of an event involving food, guns, and (no matter how much I tried to keep participants from taking beer and liquor into the field) alcohol. My opinion never changed: javelina meat is inedible unless barbecued. Others are welcome to their beliefs, but just don't ask me to eat it cooked any other way. It's a beautiful, white meat but it tastes like musk to me unless that objectionable taste is obliterated by mesquite smoke and a gallon of barbecue sauce. Still waiting for a recipe for javelina sausage. I know nothing about sausage making, so someone needs to lead me step by step. Bill Quimby

I can assure you I take good care of everything I kill. With javelinas, that includes keeping the hair and gland from ever touching the meat. The only way I have found I can eat it is when I've slathered it with barbecue sauce and cooked it for 24 hours in a pit. Every other way I've tried comes out tasting like I've bitten into a roofer's underarm on a hot day in August. Incidentally, I'd still like to know the receipe for making javelina sausage. Bill Quimby

I'm a dense ol' fart and need better instructions. Bill Quimby

Don't know for sure, but I may have taken 45-46, more or less, with rifles, bows, and muzzleloaders. I shot one every year but one or two from 1949 to about 1988 or 1989 when it became too much trouble to dig the pit for the barbecue and I couldn't find anyone to give them to. I relented maybe 7-8 times after that. I thought my javelina hunting was over but I recently found someone who wants the meat, so I applied for and drew a tag for a HAM hunt in February. Haven't decided which HAM tool to use. I may try a handgun. Pistols, spears and rocks (sounds like a song for Cher) are the only things I haven't used to hunt them. IMHO javelilnas are inedible unless cooked in a pit for 24 hours. I haven't tried them in sausage. Do you have a recipe? Bill Quimby

A word to the wise if you see a coati acting strangely: In the 1980s someone studied the packs in the Coronado National Memorial near Sierra Vista and learned that their numbers were controlled by outbreaks of rabies and that rabies is always present among them, the same as with bats, skunks, foxes and coyotes. Bill Quimby

"10? Holy crap I've only seen 2 my whole life! Thats amazing! Were you on a coati farm? " Ten in a coati pack isn't unusual. I used to bring in a lot of them back when I did some varmint calling. They were easy to call when I was in their range, and when they came in they seemed reluctant to leave unless I shot. Simply yelling and standing up didn't spook them too badly. I don't know if it's true but I assumed they were territorial and if I saw a pack in a place I could go back and find them again. They seemed to like spots with shale slopes in oak country. Bill Quimby

"I haven't heard anything like that. That would be insane." That's what we said in January 1969 when the Arizona Game and Fish Department proposed to make Arizona the first western state with a statewide, permit-only deer hunting system for riflemen, starting in 1970. Bill Quimby

I just got back from Dallas Safari Club show today (Sunday 13 January) and will be in Reno for the Weatherby Award banquet and the SCI show. It will be the 19th year I have moderated SCI's "Your First African Safari" seminar. If you are interested in hunting in Africa, drop in and say hello. It's on Thursday 24 January from 10 AM to noon in rooms A1-2 at the Reno/Tahoe Convention Center. We have 275-300 people show up every year, and should see more this year because of better publicity so you'll need to show up early to get a seat. Panelists include hunting writer Craig Boddington talking about African game and guns & ammo for Africa, Ludo Wurfbain (Safari Press) about books to read before going to Africa, booking agent Beverly Wunderlich, outfitter/PH Johan Calitz talking about what to expect from your PH and what he expects from you, and Carol Rutkowski of Coppersmith Inc. talking about shipping your trophies home. These people are THE experts in their fields. This year we'll also will have someone who will tell how South Africa's new gun law affects travel through Jo'burg or Cape Town with firearms and ammunition to anywhere in southern Africa. There's a question and answer period after each presentation. It's SCI's most popular and longest-running seminar. Bill Quimby

Dumb!

Jim Heffelfinger can best answer this. I suspect they're a lot like younger humans and move around a lot when searching for a good time, but stay pretty much in a small area the rest of the year if there is ample cover, food and water. Bill Quimby

Finding and walking to roadless clearings is a good strategy anywhere, but the areas in unit 1 where I spend most of my elk-watching time get a lot of traffic and the elk are used to seeing and hearing vehicles drive past them night and day. What they're not used to is hearing voices and the sounds of people setting up camp, slamming doors, etc. They move out even before they start smelling the campfires. Two years ago I was seeing a really big bull cross the road after sunset on a certain trail, then spend the night in a certain cienega. If I got there at first light, I'd watch that bull leave that cienega and cross the road at exactly the same spot it had entered it. The trail that bull used was at least six inches deep, which should have been a clue to anyone who calls himself a hunter that elk were using that path a lot, but come the day before the season a group of wanabees parked their camp trailer, two pickup trucks and an ATV and its trailer smack dab on top of it and used a chain saw to cut up a pile of dead wood. I would bet they also built a big fire and listened to a radio after dark, and then wondered why they couldn't find an elk anywhere near their camp that year. Bill

"I like to camp close to where I hunt. During an archery hunt, it has been nice sometimes to listen to the elk bugle at night and take off straight from camp." I've never understood why elk hunters want to camp in the middle of elk country. I drive around to watch elk 2-3 times a week from May to November, and every year I see camps in exactly the same spots where I had been seeing elk. Incidentally, there are no elk in units 1 and 27, or for that matter anywhere within 100 miles of my place in Greer. Bill Quimby

Tony: How did you get my picture? I'm glad my BB gun doesn't show in it. I don't know if pigeons are considered migratory birds, but if they are I could get in trouble for shooting over bait. Bill

"Wow, that is quite an impressive bunch of hunters there Bill! Got any pics of them out doing their thing? 90 yrs old and goes out fishing alone everyday! That's awesome! It gives me hope!" Yes, Amanda. There is life after 65. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. Just keep your health insurance premiums paid up. I went out with Whitey the other day. He caught the first and only fish before the wind came up and we had to go in. Most of my photos were lost in a fire we had at our home in Tucson two years ago. The fire didn't get them. It was the 600 gallons of water the firefighters pumped into the bedroom that ruined the albums they were in. Bill

"Ray told me a story bout how he suggested to the ranch owner down around Arivaca bout damning up a spot and making a lake which is now called Arivaca Lake. I could sit and listen to Ray all day long and by god giv'n a chance he'd tell ya stories all day long " I don't intend to warp this threat, but as a point of information, the lake mentioned here probably was actually built by the rancher. It was larger than the present Arivaca Lake, but it lasted only a few years before its dam gave way. The Game and Fish Department came in a few years later and built a new dam in a different place. The remains of the old dam can still be seen if you know where to look. In the 1960s/70s, Game and Fish went on a lake-building spree and built (with help of federal agencies) Arivaca, Pena Blanca, Rose Canyon, and Rucker Canyon lakes in southern Arizona, plus Lynx Lake near Prescott and several others around the state. It even had a separate branch for "devlopment." In the late 1970s, opposition to lake-building caused it to abandon plans for two more lakes it had on drawing boards -- Twin Peaks Lake near Arivaca and one in the Chiricahuas whose name I've forgotten. Sorry 'bout that, but I thought you youngsters might want to know. Bill Quimby

"Who's the oldest hunter you know?" heck, all my friends are over 65 and all are still hunting. Here are some of the better hunters among them, in alphabetical order. Don DeLuca Whitey DeVries Boris Baird Bill Berlat Bud Bristow Alex Jacome Bill Mattausch Dick Remaly Fritz Selby Mattausch arguably is the toughest of the bunch, but that's only because he's the youngest at age 65. Bristow's no slouch, either. Within a two-year period Bristow had a brain tumor removed and a quadruple heart bypass. In 2007, he hunted Arizona elk, deer, javelina, and Wyoming antelope and tagged three of the four -- with no help from anyone. He spends more days swatting quail and doves than anyone I know. The oldest in this group is Whitey DeVries. At age 90, he still goes out alone in his boat and fishes every day, weather permitting. Don't bet your farm that someone you know is a better turkey caller than Whitey or a better hunter of any type of game than Mattausch or Bristow. We have nearly five centuries of hunting experience combined, and if the truth were known we may have collectively taken more than 500 deer, 50-60 pronghorn antelope, 200 javelinas, and dozens of elk over the years. Eight of us have hunted at least once in Africa (most of us a lot more than that), and together we have collected just about everything that walks there except elephant and rhino. None of us is ready to quit hunting yet, not even Whitey. I intend to help get him an elk near my cabin this fall if he draws a tag. Bill Quimby Incidentally, Clay, the oldest javelinas don't have the longest tusks. Like us old farts, the oldest peccaries have worn their tusks down to mere bumps on their jaws.

That's a beautiful buck. Congratulations.

"Bill, this is all being arranged through an outfitter but it isn't a fully outfitted hunt. Not sure how other people do self-guided hunts, but ErnestoC tells me that if you are invited by the ranch owner to come hunt his registered ranch, then you don't have to hire an outfitter. Amanda" Thanks. I need to talk with my friends in Caborca. Did you experience any problems with gun permits and hunting licenses? Bill Quimby

Amanda: How are you able to do a self-guided hunt in Mexico? Most of the land down there is privately owned so I assume you have a landowner's permission, but it was my impression what I used to call the "Mexican Outfitters' Protection Act" prohibited aliens from taking game animals and birds without a licensed guide/outfitter. Has it been repealed? Bill Quimby

Congratulations, Amanda. And thank you for providing a place like this for us. Bill Quimby