elkhunter

Will make a purchase today and be looking forward to getting it in July!

Bet you've been staring at your bank account really hard last week uptil you found out people were pranking, I smell future pranks regarding the big game draw from you in the future!

Man Craig, you really did draw some excellent tags last year!

I felt I wouldnt have enough time for archery javelina this year so I picked up a rifle tag instead. I didn't hunt opening day due to work/coaching and planned to hunt only sat and sunday. Friday night I went to bed pukin and had diarreah, first time i've ever had the flu. Didnt get any sleep that night but got my pukin body out hunting. Sat we located the first herd, they bedded down and we snuck into 50 yards (was using an open sight .308 rifle) and for no reason the pigs took off running, we werent moving and the wind was perfect, tough luck. Later on Sat we located another herd and they were in some crazy thick ocotillo, we lost them but kept moving in the direction of their digs/tracks. One pig jumped and ran bout 50 yards, we tried to locate the rest of the herd and once we spotted them it was too thick to shoot and pigs were moving too much, eventually ran away. Again, we were very quiet and the wind was perfect, no idea what pushed em. We think that archery season is super duper easy now, these pigs get very spooky by the time of the rifle hunt. If I still felt bad on Sunday, we were not going to hunt. But Sunday morning I woke up feeling great so pops and i headed out. We went out to the first spot, nothing. Went to locate the third herd we know about and sure enough there they were in the oaks. This time Dad brought his 300wsm that he won from the ADA banquet (paid $20 for a ticket and won a $1050 rifle!). Because of his sweet little rifle, there was no stalking needed and I shot right where I was, 200 yards and pig went down. Overall it was weird compared to the archery hunt. During the archery hunt the pig herds are 9-13 pigs large, during the rifle hunt they are in groups of 3's or 4's. I guess pressure does get to them. Ontop of that we saw about 15 hunters whereas we never see a soul during the archery hunt! This marks for my 11th pig! Here to a good year.

sounds like you got things up and running, congrats and best of luck

Binos are sold

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Does the tripod head come off? Is it possible to put a bogen manfrotto 701 head on it? Thanks

Sold pending funds*

knowing andy, his trail cams are in a range of 297 mile radius of tucson

Mail the shed to yourself from Mex to Arizona! That's a hog dude!

my bad, the binos has been sold...sorry bout that!

sold

looks like one of those bucks with 20+ main beams, awesome

"geez, I wonder how that got started" Oh I know I know

Looked like a good ole time, congrats to all involved

that's a hole congrats

Thats one of the fatter pigs i've seen this year- Everytime I drive down by sahritia or along highway 83, i know those flats are loaded with pigs, only seen em a time or two though! Congrats

I'd be happy to see a draw weight for each category of animals- I know for buff some people even take their bows up to 100lbs. One positive outcome is that now Jr hunters can actually go out and enjoy archery javelina with 30lb bow, which is plenty to harvest a pig as well as a coues deer at certain distance, all comes down to hunter's ethics

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Rock on!

always been checking your blog for updates and pics/videos, glad to see you guys on here.

Over the last 12 years, i've got to witness or harvest 33 javelinas! I swear some herds are getting very smart and during the nights of freezing temps they do not bed in the wash but instead high up on a hill side where the temp is much warmer. Javelina have a home core area where they spend 75 to 90% of their time and I've seen the core areas being the size of a football field up to a good half mile square. To increase your odds, always glass the sunny slopes first in the morning, watch the saddles, look for a combination of vegetation (you will more likely find javelina when there's 2 to 3 different type of food in the area). The pigs are also wise enough to often feed in the sun when the sun starts to set. A good size herd is very easy to glass up from a mile away so try to find areas where you can observe several washes, 3 or so sunny slopes, mixed vegetation and you should be near by. If the pressure begins to increase on the hunt, they are always on the next hill over (or so I always say, i'm usually right 30% of the time!) Overall the easiest way to find pigs is to get some elevation and glass towards the flats, if there's green grass in the flats they'll spend more time feeding there rather than up in the hills.

still up for sale

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