Javies in a hole.

[bob sarrels]

Did anyone see the post on trad gang with all the javies in the little cave with all the arras in em. That was really cool. Looked a little dangerous too.

[Devin]

I went and looked, but couldn't find it.

Maybe someone will link.

[huntinpool]

Glad it isn't just me that couldn't find it.

[stykshooter]

Here's the link not sure I'd be that close to a wounded javi. very cool pic.

http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=069993

[LostHawg]

Proud member of banned camp.

[RickBarbee]

Years ago I had some guys tellin me about a javalina hunt similar to this one.

The story I got from them was -

The javalina were in a cave, but not where they could be shot, and retrieved.

These guys tied a large treble hook on to a pole. They then would stick the pole into the cave, hook and drag the javalina out one at a time, and shoot them.

Yes it was a bow hunt.

[MountainMan]

I saw it...that was pretty wild..

[Ol Man]

Great... thanks Bob.

[Texas5o]

That was way cool. I can just imagine the flea population in that hole.

[splitfinger]

I hunted with Jeff Massie one year on the "King" and a guy shot a Javie which ran into a culvert. They built a fire at one end and "smoked" him out. When the Javie emerged, they put him down. One guy was look'in in the culvert when he heard snapp'in jaws on the run. Can't say that was a smart thing to do...And "No" it wasn't me that was looking into the culvert. That's my story and I'm stick'in to it.

[TradAg02]

My brother and I both shot our first javis on one of Massie’s King ranch hunts, from a culvert. I wouldn’t do it now/again, but we were both pretty young at the time.

At the time we didn’t know that Jeff kept a long pvc pole with a large hook on the end for retrieving them. I didn’t like crawling up in there to pull them out even though we were pretty sure they had expired.

The King ranch would probably frown on starting fires in their culverts so we would blow an air horn in one end to flush them out.

[M.E.B.]

Years ago I had a lease in Sanderson. Me and two buddies saw a javalina down in a large canyon. One guy stayed on top of the ridge and directed the other two of us to the javalina down below. The javalina scented us and ran straight up the canyon wall right to our spotter.

The spotter made what he said was a perfect lung shot. Unfortunately the javalina ran into a cave. It was barely large enough for the javalina to fit into but it evidently had been in there before as he had made a bee line for it. It was just about dark and a really bad storm was coming. We sealed the cave up with rocks to prevent coyotes from getting to my buddy's javalina over night.

When we got back to camp I rigged up a hook made from an old branding iron and radiator clamped it to about a 10' long pole. I also took my RAMBO knife and made a spear. My buddy asked what I was doing. I told him that we would use the hook to try and snag the dead javalina from the hole. The spear was in case the javalina was not dead and charged when we removed the rocks. My buddy laughed and said that he had made a perfect lung shot and that the javalina would be dead.

Daylight found us on top of the ridge. I removed the rocks and the "DEAD" javalina charged to the front of the hole. I screamed. The javalina screamed and ran back into the hole. "Perfect lung shot" I said.

I laid down on the ledge and ran the pole with the hook on it into the hole. The idea was to rattle the pole around in there causing the javalina to run out of the hole and my buddies would take a shot as it ran down the canyon.

The javalina was EXTREMELY upset. But would not come out. After a few minutes it felt like I had the javalina hooked around the leg with the branding iron. I did not have the strenght the pull the fellow out so the guy that shot the javalina laid down and started pulling the javalina out. I dropped down to the next ledge. He pulled the javalina out backwards and I stuck it with the spear in the back of the ribs angleing forward.

We pulled the dead javalina out. My buddies arrow had cut a hole right at the top of the hips right above the tail. The hook had miraculously fell into that hole and we had foul hooked the javalina like a fish.

"Perfect lung shot" I told my buddy.

[bob sarrels]

perfect lung shot heh

[Oneway]

Man oh Man!