Went to Crane, Texas last week for a javi/hog hunt with Curtis Keller of 7th Age Bowhunting. Eight of us went...myself, two of my brothers, my father, one cousin and two buddies. We had a good time and everyone saw game. The area was very dry this year and most of the guys saw game around water tanks. The hunt started at noon on Friday and we were all excited when we saw my brother's truck backed up to the skinning gambrel that evening. He was the only one who saw game that night. He was sitting in a blind near a water hole and corral when 2 javis came up and watered and were feeding around the corral out of range. He watched them for an hour when a big mulie buck walked up and started nosing the corn at 8 yards in front of his blind. The biggest javi looked up, saw the buck and came running over and chased it off, presenting my brother with a perfect broadside at 13 yrds. He shoots a Black Widow and made a perfect shot and watched the animal expire at 50 yrds. The next evening he was in the same blind and had 2 javis walk straight at him. He didn't see them till they were 15 yrds out and he had to sit his book down, pick up the bow and turn to make a shot as they were getting past him. He made another good shot and had his 2nd animal down.
Several of the other guys got shots. One guy had 3 different shots but clipped a limb on one and hit his bow limb on something on another and just missed once...all inside of 15 yrds. I was able to get in front of 2 feeding and waited for them to pass at 10 yrds but got caught drawing and spooked them without a shot. Dad was the only one to see feral hogs and shot right over one's back. Several of the other guys had shots and close calls but just could not connect. I had a close call with some blue quail and remembered that I need to shoot off my knees and not off a chair in the blind as my top limb whacked the top of the blind. I was glad it was a shot at a quail and not on a bigger animal.
We had a great time together and Curtis tried to get everyone on game. Everyone took turns cooking and we had axis deer stew one night, Curtis cooked javi stew one night, some of the guys brought deer backstraps and I cooked pancakes with bacon and sausage for my meal. I am including a pic of the group minus 2 guys that left early before we got it and I'll get a pic of the brother's javi up as soon as he sends me one.
Topic: Javi Hunt Report (Read 183 times)
