trophymuley
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LAST EDITED ON Sep-15-17 AT 09:20PM (MST)[p]this tail begins on the first day of the year. January 1, 2017. My friends and I loaded up our gear and headed down to the state of Arizona. The annual Javelina hunt is always the best way to start the year. It usually offers a break from the bitter cold winter here in Utah. However this year would be different. We arrived in Arizona to a monsoon of rain. This hunt would prove to be one of the more difficult Javelina hunts in the books. Javelina do not like rain and wind. It causes them to hunker up in bushes which in turn makes for very difficult spotting.
Day one
The mud and weather were relentless. Every step carried the extra weight of 3 to 5 pounds of mud. With no Javelina in sight, we began moving from Ridge to Ridge in hopes of finding something. After hiking several miles our efforts began to turn into shed hunting for the day. I felt like I had won the lottery when I managed to pick up one side 2 o'clock that I had seen out there the previous year. He scored right near 200
By about 3 o'clock we still hadnt found a single Javelina but did manage to glass up a handful of Shed's across a giant Canyon. Half the group decided to call it a day and headed back to the truck. I wasn't going to leave the sheds to waste so across the canyon I went. I came up on The last set of Shed's I had glasses up and to my surprise there it was! A giant record book boar feeding at 15 yards that somehow just appeared out of thin air. I drew back and let an arrow fly. Javelina are some of the toughest animals I've hunted. That bore took three arrows to the vitals before he went down! That day was one of the most rewarding days of Javelina hunting I Had. That javelina was not my biggest to date when it comes to size but his head was abnormally huge and scored bigger than my largest Javelina.
Day two and three my friends managed to harvest their Javelina. It was not an easy hunt but it was well worth it
I had a few friends tag along that made this video to go with it
Day one
The mud and weather were relentless. Every step carried the extra weight of 3 to 5 pounds of mud. With no Javelina in sight, we began moving from Ridge to Ridge in hopes of finding something. After hiking several miles our efforts began to turn into shed hunting for the day. I felt like I had won the lottery when I managed to pick up one side 2 o'clock that I had seen out there the previous year. He scored right near 200
By about 3 o'clock we still hadnt found a single Javelina but did manage to glass up a handful of Shed's across a giant Canyon. Half the group decided to call it a day and headed back to the truck. I wasn't going to leave the sheds to waste so across the canyon I went. I came up on The last set of Shed's I had glasses up and to my surprise there it was! A giant record book boar feeding at 15 yards that somehow just appeared out of thin air. I drew back and let an arrow fly. Javelina are some of the toughest animals I've hunted. That bore took three arrows to the vitals before he went down! That day was one of the most rewarding days of Javelina hunting I Had. That javelina was not my biggest to date when it comes to size but his head was abnormally huge and scored bigger than my largest Javelina.
I had a few friends tag along that made this video to go with it