Reeder Custom Guns - Javelina Will Charge!

I loved hunting them.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/56umXFHqNMk

I know they aren't huge, but they are intriguing to me for some reason. I do believe this slight obsession is from reading stories from some gun writers on hunting them.

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I shot one in 1986 that was the largest taken with a handgun in SCI. I donated the skull to their wildlife museum in Tucson.

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I took this one with a neat little .45 that Gary built for me.

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If you make arrangements they can provide special requests, sometimes. They had a Javelina! Blake hunted harder than me and took it with a .45 Super! The 200 gr. Nosler FMJ was flattened like you used a hammer and anvil. I wanted one, full body mount!

They have such a limited range. I pray they monitor them, territory degradation etc. That, and disease could do away with them in the US. Hunters are the only vested party to help.

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them in the snow. We are seeing a lot of them and amazingly I am seeing them in cold weather. They don't have any fur, just those bristles that can't be very warm.
Down south of here they are seeing them in packs of a dozen or more. In the spring they are really bad about tearing up the people's gardens.
The two that I shot in the snow were digging at the base of some cactus. I won't say they charged me but at the shot when the first one fell, he did his best to get up but wasn't able to. The second one started doing that Javelina grunt and squeal and stood maybe 15 feet from me and made all kind of noise, shaking his head like he was pissed off. He might have been getting ready to charge , I don't know but he was making a lot of noise so I shot him too.
A lot of people eat them. When I do shoot one I always give them to an older couple I know who makes sausage out of them.

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.22 Magnum ... .44 cap n ball blackpowder ... .45 Colt .. 454 Casull ... .41 Magnum .. probably some others. The .22 Long Rifle put the one I shot with it down real fast as did the .22 Magnum.

I always enjoyed getting up close and then trying to get closer. Several that I shot were about 10 feet away.

Using a Burnham Brothers Coyote Call I have called them right up to me. They don't aways come in when you call but they do often enough to make it interesting.

Javelina Will Charge!

One day I'd like to take a couple of them.

I lived in Javelina country for years and took a lot of them

It’s not quite the same but one time at HHC…

I have shot 3 of them thru the years. 2 of

I have shot them with .22 Long Rifle ..

That was a fun hunt

Jim, that museum closed in 2023.

I heard that they had moved.

That's funny!