DaisyCutter
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Last year I became sick of not getting drawn for deer & elk and decided to put in for javelina.
I went scouting pre-season and promptly found a group. I went scouting again and found them again. This was easy. Between the group members, at least one was always visible.
Then I went back with a tag and they'd vanished. I scoured and glassed, and they had disappeared.
I put in again this year, and scouted, unsuccessfully. The handgun season came and I hunted 4 days. No trace, no droppings, no sign. I did a combination of hiking, lotsa miles hiking, glassing sunny hillsides in the morning,glassing washes and valleys, etc, even [ack] road hunting.
The unit is 24A. I covered the whole southern half. I saw countless mule deer, even some coues deer.
AZGFD said 10-15 javelina groups in the area.
I put in full effort.
What gives? Did they have a tough year? The only explanation I have is that I did see what appeared to be a coyote den in the edge of the wash where I'd glassed javelina before, and I did hear a lot of coyote howls at dawn. Still, yotes and javelina have shared the desert for millennia. Did I grossly underestimate the javelina as quarry?
I went scouting pre-season and promptly found a group. I went scouting again and found them again. This was easy. Between the group members, at least one was always visible.
Then I went back with a tag and they'd vanished. I scoured and glassed, and they had disappeared.
I put in again this year, and scouted, unsuccessfully. The handgun season came and I hunted 4 days. No trace, no droppings, no sign. I did a combination of hiking, lotsa miles hiking, glassing sunny hillsides in the morning,glassing washes and valleys, etc, even [ack] road hunting.
The unit is 24A. I covered the whole southern half. I saw countless mule deer, even some coues deer.
AZGFD said 10-15 javelina groups in the area.
I put in full effort.
What gives? Did they have a tough year? The only explanation I have is that I did see what appeared to be a coyote den in the edge of the wash where I'd glassed javelina before, and I did hear a lot of coyote howls at dawn. Still, yotes and javelina have shared the desert for millennia. Did I grossly underestimate the javelina as quarry?
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