7th age Javi/hog 2010 planning post

[The Vanilla Gorilla]

Nonsense, Phil,  your wife will be welcomed as if she were family!

[Lefty]

Thanks Barry!  I hope you all start it out with a great hunt!!

[doug77]

Phil my daughter will be their with me the same week you are planning. see ya their

doug77

[Phillip Fields]

Sounds good! I'll give Curtis a call and get things rolling.

Good Hunting!

[bretto]

Had My dates wrong We're going the 21st through the 24th. Thursday til Sunday. Can't wait!!!!

[Joe Russell]

Has anybody hunted this ranch before? What is it like? I have never hunted for javes before so I'am looking for all the info I can get.
Has anybody hunted with curtis? any hunting storeis? I can't wait for january. thanks Joe

[Brent Hill]

This is the same ranch we hunted this past may.  Its 25 miles south of Odessa, Texas.  Its sandy, scrubby, flat, no trees except mesquite and cactus, a typical west texas ranch that is as big as the eye can see.  Its real big.  Its ugly to most, except to the bowhunter and the thousands of critters that call it home.  If you rent a car or drive in, 4x4 is very useful.  The place has an area for tent camping but Curtis also had a metal barn to sleep in and was putting in a cooke shack.  This is not 5 star living according to most but its perfect for what we do.  Camp was very friendly and everyone including Curtis amd Mark Horne made us feel right at home.  When we first got there, we started corning the roads and hunting off of the water holes in brush blinds.   However once you see that the pigs are hitting corn along a pot on the road, they should come back to that same spot the next night.  Set up a brush blind there 15 yards off the road.  Most of the pig hunting on our trip was in the evening so we scouted around and made new brush blinds for the coming hunt, shot lizards, bugs, (at) birds and stumped during the day, typical deer camp sillyness.  It was great. Curtis will go over all of his strategies.  You will learn alot from the Curtis and about hunting and whispering to pigs.  I've shot a decent number of them with my curve and I sure learned alot. Wish I was going out there with you but I'll be there a few weeks later in Feb.

[razorsharptokill]

Phillip she's a traditional bowhunter and an equal in my book. Bring her if she wants to come along.

[razorsharptokill]

Our dates are 25-29 JAn. Not 24-29.

Here is some of my Javi mojo. Trade points by Jeremy here on the gang. Oklahoma river cane shafts with Oklahoma turkey feathers from last fall.

Jeremy can certainly make strong and extremely sharp broadheads! The bevel and edge on these really sold me on the KME sharpener. I just gotta get one!
 
 
These will be flying out of my BBO longbow I built.
 

[Littlefeather]

Beautiful arrows!

Brent, Thanks for posting that info. It's always good to get things from a hunters perspective.

We generally hunt javelina by morning and day. We generally target hogs in the evenings and night. Javelina are generally lazy and sleep late in the mornings. If it's cold they'll lakely not wake up till 10-11:00am. They move in the daylight and like the heat if there is any(Winter). Hogs are generally nocturnal by nature but do move in the daylight. We see hogs all times of the day out in West Texas. I've shot them at 12 noon, 1 oclock, 3 oclock. They move good in the daylight if there is a cold front moving through. The hogs out in West Texas are of the armor variety. They also have huge tusks!!!! There is some serious European bloodline in these hogs. I've seen some boars that have armor from their front shoulder all the way to cover their hind quarter. Ask Dave Stinson about the armor on his first big boar out there. I've never seen hogs with a shield covering the entire length of the body. That's no exaggeration!!! Brents hog had good armor too! CK

[The Vanilla Gorilla]

Originally posted by Littlefeather:
Javelina are generally lazy and sleep late in the mornings.

Thats perfect! So do I!

Hey Curtis..(or anybody who can answer) Is there gonna be a grill, smoker or any kind of cooking equipment available for food prep, or do we need to bring stuff?

[Joe Russell]

Does anybody have some hunting stories from out there for javelinas or pics of kills, I'am so excited I don't know how I'am going to make it till january. thanks Joe

[razorsharptokill]

Do a search for 7th age or javilina. Maybe texas hogs. Texas sweat too. Some good info in there.

[Littlefeather]

Deposits received from

Chris Klossing-18-23

Brett and Andy Eisman 21-24

Joe Calovich 21-24

Doug Hansen and daughter 24-29

Shannon Jordon 25-29

Thanks guys! Can't wait for the fun to begin. CK

[BadKarma]

W00H00!!!!!!!

Deposit is on the way!!!!!  24-27. Curtis, please let me know when it gets there.

Got the new bow strung and playing with a, wait for it, ........whisker biscuit!!!!! Will get pics up soon. Got the Magnus's sharpened up and basically bouncing off the walls.


I think the clock is slow.  :(

[razorsharptokill]

Your magnus's are bouncing off the walls??? You must shooting inside! LOL!

[BadKarma]

Those would be the rubber Magnus's!  

Is it January yet?

[Phillip Fields]

I mailed off my deposit today. It will be me, my wife, and 2 friends for 24th - 25th.

Keep 'em sharp.
Phil

[razorsharptokill]

Look forward to this trip and meeting everyone.

[BadKarma]

Me too Jim, I swear I'm checking the calendar 3 times a day!!!!!!!!!!