Per this website javelina's are normally in the 20-24 inch range in height and weigh 35-60 lbs. The one we killed and ate (outside of Eagle Pass, Texas) was close to the larger end of the scale.
Posted on 12/08/2006 4:15:25 AM PST by radar101
I cannot imagine that you are talking about the javelinas as we have here...they are not anywhere near that big. They are not a foot tall. Sounds like you are talking about wild hogs. They can...and do..kill people. They are huge. Javelinas are tiny.
Imagine rooting around in your front yard one morning and finding humans building a house on your acreage.
Nothing a little cajun seasoning can't fix either way... ;-)
Maybe you're seeing a lot of juvenile javelinas, but I do know what a javelina is, and I do know the difference between them and a feral hog.
There's not much resemblance at all.
I saw both javelinas and wild hogs last Saturday evening and I had no trouble distinguishing them. The biggest javelina was actually much bigger than the little piggies I saw.
"Javelina are just nasty. You can eat the meat if you cut it thin as jerky and marinate it for a couple of days. But I don't know why you'd bother."
To remind them which of the two -- javelina or human -- are at the top of the food chain.
I'm not at all convinced that if a javelina killed you, it wouldn't eat you.
If Satan designed a pig, this would be it.
oh maaaaaaan..You ate it? I was raised in the country. And my mother in her later years lived in the hill country. To not appear rude, I once tasted wild hog...it was...er...gamey...to say the least. I have seen lots of javelinas. In fact, I see them where I live now. Though we live in the city of San Antonio, there are many green belts around here. Many areas here were farms and ranches at one time and they are sold in large plots...alot of wooded area. Our javelinas are not that big. Thank you for your post. I had no idea they got that big..two feet tall is amazing to me considering the size of the ones around here.
I could be wrong since all I know on the matter is hearsay... but I've heard it said that genetically Javalinas are most closely related to bears and that the resemblence to old world animals like pigs is a case of parallel evolution.
LOL
Well, the 7mm WinMag will do the job for sure - I gave up bow hunting when the trees started growing feathers.
Well, yeah I ate a little of it. In post 10 on this thread I mentioned it was a little gamey for me and I preferred to stick with plain ole Wilbur.
I lived in San Antonio from '86-'91. I loved that city! Out of all of the places I've lived in Texas, San Antonio was the best. I lived about midway between Jones-Maltsberger and 281 on Thousand Oaks. We occasionally would see deer but no javelina.
It's been several years since I've been back there and I wouldn't mind making a trip down there to show fiance what real mexican food is all about.
(Grumble, grumble, gripe, gripe...darned Okies around here put sugar in their hot sauce...blech!)
Sugar in hot sauce?? Get a rope! We live between the Medical Center and Boerne. Way Northwest. We would love to have you visit San Antonio.
My next hunt will be in early January when I try to get a Nilgai bull in South Texas. I'll need every bit of that gun to bring one down. I'm pretty sure they'd laugh at an arrow.
Yep, sugar in hot sauce! It's really sad when the best hot sauce around is to be found at Taco Bell in the next town over.
Fiance has never done the Hill Country, the RiverWalk, SeaWorld, etc. so I imagine we'd be doing the tourist thing which was always fun for me. Hmmm, I wonder how NIOSA has changed since I was last there. Might be a perfect time to see whether there are any hotel rooms available (yeah right! lotsa luck with that one!) providing of course, it hasn't completely turned into something to be avoided.
I had my first fajita at NIOSA in '82 I think it was. Heck, now I can't remember the name of the hotel and bar where Teddy and the Rough Riders hung out. We had a family reunion there during Fiesta and our rooms were on the second floor. We had ringside seats on the second floor balcony for the parade.
It was either the Gunter or the Menger Hotel. My husband's grandfather was a roughrider. He has found wonderful information about him at the archives in DC. (I just called husband and asked him. He said it is the Menger Hotel.)
And NIOSA is still a wonderful celebration.
The Menger, that's it!
I'm glad to hear NIOSA's still fun. When my son and I lived in Dallas the first time we used to go to the State Fair every year. Several years later when we were living there again we didn't go because it wasn't nearly as safe. When the nightly news is talking up the increased police presence and all of the new safety measures in effect, then in the next breath talking about the latest brawl, stabbing or shooting there, you kind of decide it might be in your best interest to stay home.
The Menger, that's it!
I'm glad to hear NIOSA's still fun. When my son and I lived in Dallas the first time we used to go to the State Fair every year. Several years later when we were living there again we didn't go because it wasn't nearly as safe. When the nightly news is talking up the increased police presence and all of the new safety measures in effect, then in the next breath talking about the latest brawl, stabbing or shooting there, you kind of decide it might be in your best interest to stay home.
Darn twitchy finger!
Oh no! One of my most treasured possessions is a small oil painting of blue bonnets my father bought my grandmother from the State Fair in 1936.
I am glad to tell you NIOSA is still fun and still safe to attend. Your fiance has a treat instore for him if he has never seen the Riverwalk or the hill country. Such treasures they are. And of course, the mexican food.
I'll have to let the folks at the Desert Museum know.
I think we should get some of these critters for Gitmo.
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