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Re: Any body hunt Javelina
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2014, 12:48:21 PM »
Areas to look at seem to depend if you want numbers or size.  Since most of my Javalina hunting was during competition we concentrated on big pigs.  That put us hunting around Bonita.  My favorite spot was uncomfortably close the Fort Grant penitentiary.  After a few years I got to know guards and didn't get harassed too bad.  Further up the valley west of there was dynamite and not as prickly ;)  Pen guards prefer you hunt there too :chuckle:

For numbers I found the best areas to be north of Globe near the San Carlos boundary.  Not sure with the Phoenix/Scottsdale population explosion whether my favorite stomping ground is much good now.  But, I use to walk under the spillway at Horseshoe Dam and work down stream and a few ridges back.  Back in the mid 80's there were some huge pig numbers there. Not uncommon to see 25 or more in one group.  That was before the parking passes and bicycle trails, when Scottsdale and Carefree were separated by miles of prime hunting ground and not one big golf course.
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Re: Any body hunt Javelina
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2014, 12:54:53 PM »
I've been within 10 yards of them more times than I can remember. As there have said, the hard part is finding them. Stalk is easy. I haven't caught the bug yet and never put in for a tag.

 


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