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Topic Archives => Memorable Hunts => Topic started by: AZStickman on January 16, 2005, 08:53:00 AM
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Well Javie hunt 2005 is over and I'd just like to thank each and every one of you guys for coming out and sharing an awesome week in the desert you are all, without exception, a class act and a joy to hunt with.... I feel truly honored to be able to call you all friends.
Team Javie 2005:( In no particular order)
Mike Westvang
Connie Westvang
Rusty Craine
Bobby Hunzinger
Mickey Lotz
George Nagel
Gil Gresham
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Good to see ya back Terry. Hope everyone else had a safe trip home also.
Got any pics to share?
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Looks like a fun bunch. Can't wait to hear all the tales. CK
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Tim... I only forgot one thing on this trip and it was my camera...... But the boys got a ton of Pics I'm sure they will be sharing..... Yep Curtis there should be some tales for sure.... Some a bit taller than others..... ;) Terry
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Glad ya'll had a great time... I only have afew pics from last years hunt and wished I would hve taken more... Like Timo said, Cant wiat to hear the stories.
James Young
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Pictures? stories? lets go! We only got reports from Joe while you were gone. I wanna see some dead critters! Please......... :D :wavey:
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Better put together a better team for 2006, cause this years team just couldn't cut it. Gave out after the first little scramble. We antagonized them endlessly, but they could never catch up.
See you losers next year. Oh, and why don't you bring some of the big blowhards who stay at home and talk trash each year. Put your money where your big mouth is fellows.
Still alive and kicking it up in AZ
Joe "going to outlive all of you" Javelina
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Can't wait to hear the stories (the true ones Joe Javelina) :bigsmyl:
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I have got 111 Megabytes of 2 minutes of very close very high quality video of a pair of javies. I will upload it to my web site soon if anyone has the thru put to down load it raw. I will try to reformat it tonight to a less cumbersome (and less quality be far) tonight.
I got to clean my web site up tp get enough space.
rusty
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Mickey must be close to being home as the weather has gone for the wore around here...snowing again....Mac~
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I'm free! and home again. Dang the desert if not HOT in the winter. I thought Mickey and George/Mark would freeze to death.
We have tales to tell and lots of pics. 'cept mine are with Connie who decided to stay another week and play with her sister in the mountains.
Mike
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http://stavestobows.homestead.com/javie05/javiewindows.wmv
I would like to thank so much the two hunters whp gave up shots so I could get this video. It is a wonderous thing that most every bowhunter I know loves and respects the animals they hunt. The hunters in our group wever as happy as I was for the great luck we had to take terrific video.
the best I could do was get it down to 28.3 meg in a .wmv file.
it took be 6 minutes to back load the video.
rusty
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btw that 6 min is DSL. it is gonna take a eno for dial up sorry.
rusty
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Rusty, :thumbsup:
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The video involved no special talent except being very lucky as to time and place, blessing Connie's heart for passing up a 10 yds shot, and thank ya Sony for making a video DVD camcorder that even I can use. Nothing to it :)
rusty - trashwood lucky- craine
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In the video you can see the scent gland that can flavor the meat uncomplimentary. Ya can see the callor their name comes from. Some of the old javie hands say ya'd like to hit mid-chest on the callor line. Ya can see the rooter teeth on one of the javies.
I wish i could have uploaded the full version. the detail is to much finer.
rusty
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i got hero video of the hero hunters. :)
rusty
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It's loading. 4 minutes and 50% complete :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl: ...Van
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That's awesome video. Way to go Rusty.
David
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Excellent video Rusty :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl: ....Van
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Terry...Thank you for the effort you put into scouting and organizing this event. :thumbsup:
To all of Team Javie, it was an absolute pleasure sharing camp and hunting with all of you. Thank you for the fun times and great memories!
Bobby
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Rusty, looks like your right about the dialup, although mine is slower than most. After 5 minutes 3% was loaded. Guess I'll have to go to work early tomorrow to check out that video.
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Rusty,
That was so cool. Although, it would of taken a better man than me to pass on a 10yd shot at Mr. J.J.. Thanks for sharing and great job,
Brad
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Good stuff Rusty. You guys have a great spot there even have hills for spot and stalk. Not flat like south TX brush county. Love to watch them critters mutter around, the way they stop like deer in mid stride to try to catch you moving. Could almost smell the stink glands from here. Can hardly wait the two weeks till I'll get to chase them about in Texas. Thanks for the video.
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Wow! That was neat! I kept expecting to see an arrow zip through one of them...
Can't wait to try my luck at them in March.
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Ahh a grand time indeed. Yea, Thanks to Terry for organizing the event. Some of my random observations from the hunt:
Arizona is a loooong way from Cinti, even by jumbo jet.
Airport security is wierd. They let all my electronics through without a hassle, but inspected my sleeping bag and a boot full of rocks, elk sinew and cow ribs twice.
The desert is a lot colder than I thought it would be and quite windy
Mike Westvang is a heck of a shot and a great camp cook but he packs way too much stuff ha ha. Connie is a trooper and tells some funny camp fire stories. Besides she's easy on the eyes even when she takes her hat off. I can see why Mike has kept her around for so long. Glad to have had the chance to share a hunting camp with "Mama Connie".
Terry Petko has a stride longer than a T- Rex's and lures you into colliding with cactuses by stepping over patches that you can't. His main problem is he can't walk in a direct line back to a vehicle. He believes east/west washes will take you back to a truck that lies due north of you. Wish Terry would have punctured the hide on one of those stink pigs..he deserves to if anyone does
Rusty Craine is a lot of fun to talk to one on one late into the night, and it was worth missing a hot shower for that conversation alone. He also still hunts at a great pace. Got to see and shoot his glass backed wood bellied bendy handled bow and it's a dandy. Nice work Rusty.
Didn't get to talk to Bobby much but from what I did he's a heck of a nice guy and shoots a smoking hot bow. Dayem that bow is fast. Now that we taught him how to properly shoot his selfbow he's going to give those javies fits. 8~)
George is a great friend and just too easy going. Wish there were more people in the world like George, it would be a better place. :thumbsup:
To Joe Javie..it's only a matter of time and you are so lucky the white haired one decided to take your pic rather than pierce your hide... ;)
It was fun fellas, Thank for letting me share the campfire and the experience.
Ferret
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Hey Rusty,
That video was really great! What kind of video camera records onto a DVD? That sounds about as fool-proof as what I need. Really cool video.
John
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Gees Mickey, you will have to help me organize mine..also the way too much stuff thing..If a man wants to cook you got to have the means for doing it...Mac~
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John - it is a Sony DCR-DVD201. it records directly to the mini DVD-R and DVD-RW. it is the Handycam series. small but good optics and lots of features. You can put the mini DVD right into your DVD player or you download the dvd into your PC program, edit the video, add sound, etc. Preetty good edting software comes with the camera. it has pickup for mic to hook up a radio transmitter, has a couple of video I/O's. uses the Sony InfoLITHIUM M battiers.
Good video cam for a ameture like me :)
rusty.
btw it has a night vision tyhpe thing "Night Shot Plus" prices is around $1K but worth it if ya really want the video under all conditions
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Thanks Rusty,
I've always been reluctant to move away from my still digital cameras into the camcorders because of the limited storage capacity of the small solid memory sticks (along with their high cost). I've looked up the camera you used and it looks like a good one.
John
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Here is Ferret's hero video. There is a story behind this here javie. I post Wingnuts explaination and video tonight or tomorrow.
http://stavestobows.homestead.com/javie05/javieheroml1.wmv
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here is the "true offical and un-augmented" story of the javie hunt
http://stavestobows.homestead.com/javie05/javieheroduet.wmv
kepp in mind Ferret only carries 2 (two) arrows :)
rusty
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or the Mike and Mickey show :)
rusty
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Rusty those are cool videos...
James Young
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Watching the last video had me laughing out loud again while sitting at the computer by myself. My family thinks I've lost it. :knothead:
Great video of what looks like was a great time!!
David
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Terry was knapping rocks while we were there. he hit a real good spawl that he used to skin the javie with. I got video of Terry skining the javie ABO style but I don't think I'll post it. A bit "organic" I think.
rusty
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Terry said the his baslat skinner was sharper than his steel knife....Ferret suggested that knapping was not the best way to sharpen a K-Bar
:)
rusty
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and I got video of Ferret taking me on a video tour of the cokking tent after he had cleaned and organized it......it was a thing of wonder
rusty
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George and I took a short excursion to an old abandon rock house that was pretty neat. George no longer thinks I am teasing when I talk about my ability to get lost or my inability to back a truck up. :)
We went across a dam that was pretty high. the end with the spill away had be washed out.....now we were 200 yds down a very norrow dam. 40 feet down one side to the wash, 20 feet down to real serious mud and water. :)
Maybe George won't ride with me next time
rusty
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Wingnut let someone organize the cook tent? I tried that and got accused of scrounging for scraps once... Rusty we need to see the tour of the cook tent..
James Young
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......although George is so easy going he just might have enjoyed it :)
rusty
ps that don't mean he do it again
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Rusty,
I guess we needed to tell George that your motto is: " getting lost is not an option.. its a requirement." :bigsmyl:
James Young
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A wonderful time was had by all. I would like to thank Terry and the others for including me on this years saga to thwart Joe and the evil Javi crew :D ...wern't a lot of blood shed (except from the cacti) and Mike's javi, but there were a lot of laughs and lies around the campfire to be sure. That Connie was a trooper to put up with the likes of us ('course, her puttin' up with Mike all these years ain't no picnic either). Bobbie and Gill, it was a pleasure to finally meet you two... About as laid back and nice a pair of folks as you'd ever met. Rusty and I had a great time bein' lost 3 or 4 times one afternoon, went on a slow hunt, almost backed his jeep off'n a dam (stopped by a tree) and I witnissed him hitting a cow turd at 150 paces with his bow. Thanks for the movies budd. Mike and Connie enlightened me as to the finer points of camp cooking...what an outfit they lugged out there to cook with. They take camp cooking to a whole new level, and nice folks....if Mike wern't a bowyer he'd make big bucks as a comedian, kept us laughing the whole time. Terry is someone I've corresponded with for a few years now, have a fine bow he made and it was a pleasure to finally meet him. He was the ultimate host and a real gentleman. "Thanks" Terry for putting on the trip...you are welcome at my fire anytime. Mickey of course, is a good, good friend, as fine a person as ever lived and a hunting partner of mine....but I sure wish he wouldn't insist on making his motel room bed in the mornin' tho....that maid was sure to figure we were a couple of pretty boys usin' only one bed :scared:
It was a hunting trip to be remembered.
George
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pretty boys?...PRETTY BOYS? ..what mirror you been looking in Nagel? ha ha (never thought about that though) :eek:
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:bigsmyl: Terry
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purty boyz ? :eek:
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purty boyz ?
:knothead:
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Dianne - I know ya don't have DSL so send me your address and I'll send ya a DVD of the Mike and Micky show, too funny. Micky and Mike kept me laughing the entire hunt.
rusty