Message #114715

[walkerchaser85]

In my years of hunting javalina here in south texas I have to say they have very poor eye sight but they have a good nose. As far as hunting them with dogs my dad and his buddys hunted them as boys in the late 60s and early 70s. He alllways told me a 40 pound javalina can out fight a 200 boar hog. He told me that they would youse a hound that was not catchy but would just find them, the javalina would actually chase their dog right back to the truck and all you have to do is wait with a loaded 12 gauge.He said if you hunt with to many dogs they would fight it and get cut bad, I try to stear clear of them but I have seen my best dogs cut up pretty good and for some reason javalina bites get nasty! It is aginst the law to run game animals with dogs in texas so I just bow hunt them for sport, they are still fun to hunt just stink to high heaven!