Enforcing Javelina bag limits...

[brokeno]

My brother got a ticket for killing one and throwing it in the gut pile. The game wardens been sneaking into the camp at all hours ever since.

[DRT]

Yep. Quit hunting with a guy because his brother would do stupid stuff and attract the wardens.

[RifleBowPistol]

I am pretty sure, some people shoot as many as they want. I have read posts recently where guys admit to killing four or five javelina on one trip and post it on the internet. I would bet, that down south, they kill as many as they want, as often as they want.

[RifleBowPistol]

Its self enforcement. Nobody wants more tan 2 of those stinky things. Heck. Most people don't even want 1

Depends on who you are, some people drink enough, that they think those things taste good BBQed. Then others have found they are great when made into tamales. I have found that is the only way to eat them. Then others just shoot them and let them lay, like they do with hogs.

A couple of places we used to hunt, 99% of the time, we would not shoot them, even though, they were all over the place. We did shoot a few, then had them made into tamales. They make great tamales.

[RifleBowPistol]

We had never seen them in the 20+ years we have been on our place...until we saw a couple on trail cameras before Thanksgiving. Then last week my son shot 1 of the 2 we had been seeing thinking it was a hog. When we went back to that stand that afternoon to swap out memory cards there were 4 at the feeder. They really do multiply lol.

We haven't figured out if they are passing thru or we have a problem. Either way, I'm going to try to stalk one with my bow this weekend. We really aren't that interested in having them around. I did drop off 4 on Sunday (frozen from previous youth hunts) to a lady to make us some tamales. I guess if they are good we may be more interested in having them around.

If she knows how to make good tamales, they will be good.

[SaltwaterSlick]

I don't drink and I and tell you stone cold sober that if done right they ARE damm good on the pit. Better than deer.


Folks that post crap like this, don't have a clue what they are talkin' about... just reflection on their own little world. There are lots of folks who genuine like javelina meat, and we don't have to drink to enjoy it... though I have buddies that enjoy a beer with some fine bbq javapig!

[kd350]

Heck I just want to shoot one. Always wanted to kill one with a bow, my dad says they are nasty, but I would think tamales would be good. Any tamale is good to me

[RifleBowPistol]

I don't drink and I and tell you stone cold sober that if done right they ARE damm good on the pit. Better than deer.


Folks that post crap like this, don't have a clue what they are talkin' about... just reflection on their own little world. There are lots of folks who genuine like javelina meat, and we don't have to drink to enjoy it... though I have buddies that enjoy a beer with some fine bbq javapig!

I am going to guess, you like liver and doves also?

As a kid, so I did not consume any amount of alcohol. One of the many weekends we took people hunting. One guy shot a javelina and decided he was going to cook it on the pit. All of the adults in camp that weekend were plastered at that point. They gutted, skinned a javelina someone shot, put it on the pit. The smell coming from the pit, had me gaging. I had to stay upwind, the smell was unbelievable. Then finally around midnight, they decided it was done. By that time I was starving, it was cold and I had not eaten since breakfast. There was no other food prepared, that night. So I tried to eat some of the javelina they cooked. It tasted just as bad as it smelt. If I had not seen them bring it back to camp and skin it in camp, that evening. I would swear they were cooking some critter that had been laying out in the brush dead for a week, is about how it smelt. About how it tasted.

That is the one time I have ever been around javelina being cooked. Since that time, I have not had much desire to shoot javelina, but I have shot a couple. Because we used to know a old Mexican woman who made great tamales. We could take her javelina and she would turn them into great tamales. Not sure how, but they were great.

That only lasted about four or five years. Then the old woman told my mother that she was done making tamales. Told my mother if she wanted to know how to make tamales, bring some javelina over to her house and she would teach my mother how to make tamales. So we shot some javelina, my mother took them over to the old woman's house. She spent two or three days over there making tamales. To this day, my mother will tell you the smell of those javelina boiling in the pot, was horrible. My mother has never made tamales since. Those tamales, they made came out great. My mother had trouble eating them, she said the smell kept coming back to her, every time we ate some.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Nope don’t do liver. I also don’t shoot boar havelinas either.

[Artos]

Really, comparing dove to liver??

Young javs are excellent but not worth the effort compared to hogs but they do eat...venison can be shoe leather or heaven. The absolutes with wild game are silly.

[Quackerbox]

Sooooo, you ate javelina cooked by a gaggle of drunks that turned out bad and swore off it for life other than tamales?

Got it.

Id be interested in getting the tamale lady by me to make some with it.

[cehorn]

If she knows how to make good tamales, they will be good.

Fingers crossed as we have never used this lady before and she just texted that it will probably be 30+ dozen tamales out of 4 javelinas and a pig. 30 dozen may be a lot to eat if they aren't that good....

[critter69]

I don't drink and I and tell you stone cold sober that if done right they ARE damm good on the pit. Better than deer.


Folks that post crap like this, don't have a clue what they are talkin' about... just reflection on their own little world. There are lots of folks who genuine like javelina meat, and we don't have to drink to enjoy it... though I have buddies that enjoy a beer with some fine bbq javapig!

So true, I believe a lot of why people, the ones that have actually tried them, and don’t like them Is because they are not taken care of properly in the field. Most are just afraid to try them, or go by what others say, rumors that have been around for ages. If they are taken care of in the field, they make for some fine eating. I wish I could have some of the ones you all shoot and leave, sent to me, I would make good use of them. But then again, they will surly be miss handled, and impossible to ship. I just hate to see them go to waste though. And I don’t drink either, so. If your not going to eat them, you really should not be killing them. No different then shooting deer and leaving them. Poaching in a way. And we all know how those to things are looked at, no different, really. Just because you don’t like them doesn’t mean you should shoot and leave them.

[critter69]

Fingers crossed as we have never used this lady before and she just texted that it will probably be 30+ dozen tamales out of 4 javelinas and a pig. 30 dozen may be a lot to eat if they aren't that good....

What does she charge ? Or what do most of you pay to have them made, just curious is all.

[txagyotebuster]

Only way you could really get caught is keeping heads for skull mounts and have more than 2 in pickup at one time or posting a bunch of them on internet. I will say i have never eaten them. They smell to bad for me to want to skin one