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High Plains Outdoors: Despite Aroma, Javelina Is ‘Good Eats’

Luke Clayton
Luke recently downed this javelina with his Darton Maverick 2 compound bow.

In this week’s show, Luke talks about a hunt for javelina that he enjoyed this past week at one of his favorite places, Ranger Creek Ranch, near Seymour in in northern Texas. 

During the hunt, Luke used his Darton Maverick 2 compound bow to take a good "eater" that weighed about 35 pounds.

For those who are not accustomed to eating javelina, Luke says pay no mind to the scent gland on the critter's back. Just remove it during the skinning process. Many folks are 'turned off" to eating javelina because of this scent but it has absolutely no effect on the taste of the meat. Luke made a big pot of smoked javelina chili and his guests cleaned out the pot and many were planning a hunt of their own!
To learn more about hunting opportunities for javelina and wild hogs, contact Ranell Scott via the web site.

Outdoors writer, radio host and book author Luke Clayton has been addicted to everything outdoors related since his childhood when he grew up hunting and fishing in rural northeast Texas. Luke pens a weekly newspaper column that appears in over thirty newspapers.