anh85234 Report post Posted January 8, 2014 Headed out late, Thursday the 2nd, to 20C with a buddy. He'd spent time here before and harvested javelina in the past. We spent the entire day hiking and glassing on Friday with no luck. Seemed like everyone else out there was coming up empty as well. Saturday morning rolled around and we got up to a spot we scouted the night before early, right as the sun was rising. We split up and went in opposite directions to cover a couple of different hill sides. We both had OK cell service so we figured we'd give each other a ring if we glassed anything up. I walked about 500 yards from the road we split ways at and stopped to take a minute to listen for anything in the area. Sure enough, about 3 minutes into the silence I heard a grunt from a javelina and then a couple of cries from a baby javelina. I called my buddy and began stalking in to get a closer look. As my buddy swung in, we got into a good position as to not give away our scent. We stalked in about 150 yards and spotted a herd of about 6 - 7 full grown javelinas circling a tree. We moved in quietly but a couple seemed to grab our scent and hit the hills running. I was able to get an arrow off at about 25 - 30 yards into a nice female as the rest of the herd split. This would be my first archery big game harvest. The tree mentioned previously was actually a den which held two tiny new born javelinas which we suspected the herd was trying to protect. We took a couple of pictures and left to make sure they didn't become predator bait. Enjoy the pictures. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trophyhnter Report post Posted January 8, 2014 Cool pics! I feel a little weird saying it but the baby javis look cute. Congrats on your javelina. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bonecollector Report post Posted January 8, 2014 Congrats on your first bow kill and cool pics of the piglets. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ElkyG Report post Posted January 8, 2014 Nice pics and Congrats on your pig Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
khmer6 Report post Posted January 8, 2014 Congrats and great pics Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kidso Report post Posted January 8, 2014 Nice job! Love the baby reds! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Couestracker Report post Posted January 8, 2014 How cool! Congrats on your fist archery javelina and those are awesome pictures. Thanks for sharing them with us. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoghntr Report post Posted January 8, 2014 Nice piggy and pics.. when they got to squealing im certain a fellow piggy returned for them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MULEPACKHUNTER Report post Posted January 8, 2014 that is some cool pics right there, never seen anything like that. awsome job Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstcoueswas80 Report post Posted January 8, 2014 I Haven't Seen Reds In A Long Time. Nicely Done. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
randyolson Report post Posted January 20, 2014 This little piggy went to market! Oh sorry, just kidding! Congrats on your success!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
