Anyone here eat Javelina?

[Mayhem]

Yeah, I've seen a lot of cloven-hooved rats with tusks and a musk gland

Wive's tale.

Really? C'mon people!

J.P.

that root and squeal.

[Varmicon_qa]

they eat fine, i prefer to use them to make tamales!

Man that brings back memories! I havent had javelina tamales in years. The lady that use to do them for me now makes her tamales in an actual store and all her meat has to be USDA now The sows are great and the bores not so great. Just give it a try. If ya dont like it, maybe the dog will

[Varmicon_qa]

i think they are related to swine regardless of what anyone say. they both have the same characteristics.

Well they are are part of the same family as a pig:

A peccary (plural peccaries; also javelina and skunk pig; Portuguese javali and Spanish jabalí, sajino or pecarí) is a medium-sized mammal of the family Tayassuidae, or New World Pigs. Peccaries are members of the artiodactyl suborder Suina, as are the pig family (Suidae) and possibly the hippopotamus family (Hippopotamidae).

[jpbruni]

that root and squeal.

Apologies Shaft_Slinger, I meant to quote this one!

J.P.

Rodent! Thanks Russ!

[Richard M.]

I used to think they were nasty just going on what I heard about them. The last one I shot I had made into sausage and tamales, loved both and can't wait to shoot another.

[topher]

I've had javelina tamales made that were very good. Friend of mind made them. I would do it again, very tasty. Let my buddys try them and they could not believe they were javi's. Try it you might like it.

[Russ81]

1st of all Russ, contrary to popular belief; they are NOT rodents. They are their own species and a very fascinating critter. Actually their closest relative is a hippo! They are only found in TX, NZ, AZ and Mexico.

They are a BLAST to bowhunt and are one of the most fun to spot and stalk.
Properly field dressed, skinned and butchered, they are excellent to eat. I have cooked them many ways and have never had a bad meal. My favorite is to put a hind quarter in an XL Dutch Oven with sliced apples, peaches and grapes and a jug of apple cider, then slow cooked for about 6 hours.

It will make you slap Yo Mama's Mama!

As I say to you guys who think it is not as good as venison (and I LOVE venison; you just haven't had it done right yet!

J.P.

Well, when I took mammology at TAMUK (they ought to know a thing or two bout javelinas ) they are part of the rodent family. Just a different branch of it. Hippos are being looked at now due too fossil record as closer relation to whales.

Each they're own, if you love them great if not I understand. I don't since I relate them to some lean times I had working in Hebbronville. You couldn't pay me to eat another one.

And like all google searches here's another spin on the same story. Even funnier is how the scientific community treats scientific names. This one has it Tayassu tajacu (Linnaeus) but I'm pretty sure we were taught Tayassu tayassu. You remember AJ? I've slept since then

http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/tayataja.htm

Vivá la firma!!!!

[Farmdog]

I was on a ranch in Mex where the cowboys wife was an excellent cook considering what she had to work with..I would take her the groceries she ordered...then she would for the most part, cook for me when I was over there by myself which was a lot. I got tired of going to HEB all the time so I would just take beer and corn and grain. I would shoot a young female javalina and set a quail trap ot two. She would make a carne guisada with javalina meat and homemade flour tortilllas that anyone would eat. The next night I would eat quail..If you shoot the wrong javalina and dont take care of it, you will be burbing muskbag all day long...not reccomended

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

Unfortunately I have never been able to see one while hunting, much less kill one. Rest assured I would bet that smoked properly and wrapped in a tortilla with some BoBSalsa they would be edible....or guisada as Snoopy mentioned.

But I aslo see the other side...if I have a freezer full of deer and hog why jack with the stinky little thing whether it is a pig or rodent or cockroach.

[JDM]

Skin it and nail it to a cedar plank, Smoke for 12 hours, remove meat from plank, discard meat and eat the plank.

[JP8]

Skin it and nail it to a cedar plank, Smoke for 12 hours, remove meat from plank, discard meat and eat the plank.

Lol I've heard that somewhere before except they were talking about some type of fish...

[JDM]

Carp! Yes it was just a joke. Never have had it, it may be good.

[JP8]

Carp! Yes it was just a joke. Never have had it, it may be good.

Yeah I think over on Texas Fishing Forum..

[mattbreland]

I tried eating some and couldnt stand it. I wont kill anymore just because they are nasty. If someone has some that is good i would try it, but my experience is it not worth shooting.

[Lonebowyer]

Better than deer? No!