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Collared Peccary and Javalina are the same animal. We have them in AZ. They are neither as smart or as hard to hunt as pigs. Eye sight is poor and they don't seem to hear very well either. But they do have great sense of smell. Menace to dogs which they figure are coyotes and are proficient at killing. I have had one encounter on a friends Golden Retriever which turned out pretty nasty. Killed two with 12ga birdshot at very close range to get them off the dog. Dog was within minutes of bleeding out when we got her to the vet, but she survived thanks in part to being an overweight golden with lots of fat and hair around the neck. Javalina are not hard to kill, and a center fire .22 is enough. Typically run about 40 - 50 lbs around here.

We used to hunt peccary at night in the jungle in Belize when I worked down there. We needed them for food. We'd walk on trails until we heard or smelled them then turned out our lights and went quiet to hear where they were. They would just walk right by us for some reason and when we were surrounded on would come the lights and the show began with single bbl 16ga shotguns and one Winchester .22 auto and of course our machetes. Talk about fun! We also shot the larger ones that they called "Juaries", which didn't taste as good. The Peccaries were really good. We'd smoke them on a wood rack over a low smokey fire and just hack a piece off when hungry. The pigs were all a royal pain to clean as they were caked from stem to stern with bloated ticks. We piled the hides, put kero on them and burned them and the ground for 10ft around. We also kept parrots, McCaw, toucans, and a couple of turkey like birds, a small deer, pigeons, and a kind of partridge on the smoker whenever we found them. We all carried sling shots and rocks to harvest the small birds. Except for the river otter and one hawk, that was all some fine eating.

Where I hunt in West Texas the ferrel hogs are a huge problem. I kill every one I get a chance to. I have had dogs really torn up by those nasty things. I shock the heck out of my dogs when they fool with the hogs. I think it helps some, but they still want to mess with them. I'm thinking of getting one of those M16 rifles and start at the back of the pack and work my way forward, but I think even with that I wouldn't even make a dent in the population!! The nasty things seem to be everywhere, but worse in low lying areas and around water.

Buzz,
Just got back from my place in Colorado City. Short work trip-lots done after the fire. Two(2)less pigs in W TX. Didn't have a double this trip.
Bob Jurewicz

Bob: I am just North of you in Spur, TX (White River Lake). The fires worked our ranch over too. It has been dry, dry, dry there. We are very worried there won't be many quail this year. I'm sure the hogs are doing ok though.

Colorado City?

My wife's family was from Colorado City. I don't think any of her close family lives there anymore but we visited twice while we were out in the area, the last time in 2009, to see the homes where she spent time as a child and visit with her relatives in the cemetery on the East side of town. She still has a small interest in a family holding near Hermleigh.

We have a DRSS get together down at the 4K ranch near Brady, Texas in Jan of every years just after the Dallas Safari Club show!
The DRSS (Double Rifle Shooter's Society) hunts hogs with evry kind of double rifle from little 7mm to 577NE doubles. There are lots of hogs on that 96,000 acre low fence ranch, and we normally shoot around twenty big hogs between about 15 shooters in two days! Lots of fun, lots of pork, and lots of good practice with the double rifle that pays off when the big Cape Buffalo, or lion is on the minue in Africa!
Here is an example one morning's take!

More hogs with doubles

Gun is a Jon Haberta 450BPE. Been trying all week to take apig with it and finally got my chance today. 70 yds standing broadside. I hit it a little back but it only ran about 100 yards. I only wonder what this gun has seen in the 110 years before my current care?
Bob Jurewicz

Bob,

That looks like a very nice double, do you have a few close-ups (of the gun) that you could share with us?

Regards,

Buchseman