elkhunter Report post Posted 22 hours ago I headed out to camp after work on Friday, Pops hasn’t seen any javelina all morning. We hit up some glassing spots in the evening with no luck, just a bunch of coues bucks. Saturday morning I observed something I never seen before. I saw a cloud of dirt in the air and was wondering what the heck it was. After a minute I saw a herd of pigs working the ridge, it’s so dry they were kicking up dirt when digging for roots. We put in a stalk and pops had a small window to shoot at 45 yards with his contender. He didn’t realize it at the time but there’s a small rise between him and the javelina. He ended up shooting a nice rock at 20 yards, the herd spooked good after that. Saturday afternoon I started hiking some roadless canyons and checked out cuts while pops stayed near the road. He has a hernia right now and his doctor was against him walking long distances. I didn’t see anything at all until after sunset. After sunset I spotted a herd a mile out and watched them til dark, didn’t have time to make a stalk. Sunday morning, pops and I hiked about a mile in, we got on a ridge above where I saw javelina the evening before. About 8:20 I was getting worried that coyotes had spooked the herd because we haven’t seen em yet. I moved to different angles and found them getting up to feed. We made our stalk and one pig had us pinned at 55 yards so I harvested him with the muzzy. The herd was alert and once they settled down, pops put his down at 75 yards with his 223. We were able to get both pigs cleaned up, processed, break down camp and got home just in time to host the Super Bowl party. Here’s the cloud of dirt, the javelina were just on the other side of the ridge. 17 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HyNoon Report post Posted 22 hours ago Awesome work.. I know I can count on these posts every year. Great work gents 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdown Report post Posted 19 hours ago I noticed that on a couple of herds this year this year on Dec deer hunts and Jan pig hunt that pigs were really having to move a lot of dirt - I attributed it to the same thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trphyhntr Report post Posted 19 hours ago You’re the king 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stanley Report post Posted 17 hours ago Year after year! Good stuff! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
