We’re near Wilcox, Arizona this week hunting the Mule Deer. I successfully harvested a beautiful buck yesterday but we knew there’d be a good chance we’d run into a Javelina at some point so I picked up a permit to harvest one of these too!

Kinda looks like a hog right? Though some people think javelina are a type of wild pig, they are actually members of the peccary family, a group of hoofed mammals originating from South America. Javelina are common in much of central and southern Arizona, including the outskirts of the Phoenix area, most of Tucson, and occasionally as far north as Flagstaff.