Another AZ javelina meets Gold Dot (picts)
02-23-2011, 05:02 PM
#11
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Lake Saint Louis MO
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Also how are you going to cook it? I usually smoke my hogs for 8 hours and season with garlic and butter and use liquid smoke and water in the evaporator bowl I use in the smoker along with lots of hickory wood chips.
02-23-2011, 08:00 PM
#12
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Arizona
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I hunted wild boar in Texas a few years back and the guide said if you shoot one they can come at you on a death charge, which he said was they will come and try to get a chunk out of you with their tusks before dying. With 300 lb plus hogs and me with my muzzy it sure got your heart going. Never shot javalina are they fast criters, they look lean and fast. It took nerves to go track that hog with a gun that you could not shoot, way to go and thanks for sharing.
02-23-2011, 08:06 PM
#13
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Arizona
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I usually make Nebraska curry javelina (from a venison recipe). Javi's typically have a rather strong musky smell/taste, and that recipe hides it the best. I've already made some from this Javi, and it was especially good. In fact, this pig had less of a smell/taste than any of my other ones. This was a boar and the other 3 were sows - I always assumed a boar would be worse, but not so with this one.
02-23-2011, 11:41 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
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It looks like that Triple T is inside Benson city limits? I've never been there. Will have to try it.
02-24-2011, 02:42 PM
#15
Boone & Crockett
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Location: Eastern PA
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don - good story. Too bad about your muzzy. But you know you could have removed the breech plug, added about 10 gr of powder and shot it out?
That is if you carried your tools with you. I normally carry what I need for disassembly in a little zip lock bag in my fanny pack. Spare flints/nipples, frizzens, flash holes, allen wrench, screwdriver, cleaning jag, patch worm, patches, and a couple other odds and ends. About the only thing that will end my hunt is a broken stock or lock. Which I hope never happens.
That is if you carried your tools with you. I normally carry what I need for disassembly in a little zip lock bag in my fanny pack. Spare flints/nipples, frizzens, flash holes, allen wrench, screwdriver, cleaning jag, patch worm, patches, and a couple other odds and ends. About the only thing that will end my hunt is a broken stock or lock. Which I hope never happens.
02-24-2011, 04:34 PM
#16
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Arizona
Posts: 202
don - good story. Too bad about your muzzy. But you know you could have removed the breech plug, added about 10 gr of powder and shot it out?
That is if you carried your tools with you. I normally carry what I need for disassembly in a little zip lock bag in my fanny pack. Spare flints/nipples, frizzens, flash holes, allen wrench, screwdriver, cleaning jag, patch worm, patches, and a couple other odds and ends. About the only thing that will end my hunt is a broken stock or lock. Which I hope never happens.
That is if you carried your tools with you. I normally carry what I need for disassembly in a little zip lock bag in my fanny pack. Spare flints/nipples, frizzens, flash holes, allen wrench, screwdriver, cleaning jag, patch worm, patches, and a couple other odds and ends. About the only thing that will end my hunt is a broken stock or lock. Which I hope never happens.
02-24-2011, 06:53 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Yucca Valley,Ca
Posts: 2,496
I usually make Nebraska curry javelina (from a venison recipe). Javi's typically have a rather strong musky smell/taste, and that recipe hides it the best. I've already made some from this Javi, and it was especially good. In fact, this pig had less of a smell/taste than any of my other ones. This was a boar and the other 3 were sows - I always assumed a boar would be worse, but not so with this one.
