Javelina Hide?

[Nuthatch]

I'm planning to head out to AZ next month for some javelina. I'm trying to figure out if there is anything creative and fun that I can do with the hide. Assuming we got one or two, I'd likely send it off to be tanned, hair on or off, by a tannery. Has anybody made use of a javie hide? Anything particularly worthwhile for a small project?

 

[andy52]

you might be able to make some leggings. They're not really all that large and I'm not sure two would be enough.

 

[DiMarco_Mercantile]

I personally haven’t dealt with javelina hide before, but if it’s big enough id sure love to make a bag from some.

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

A football.

 

[TDM]

I’ve shot quite a few of them in west Texas years ago. Never tried to do anything with the skin. But yes, leggings, bags, or maybe even a football are doable.

 

[andy52]

I've done a lot of leather work in my time but making a football was never high on my list of things to make....

 

[PathfinderNC]

A football.

American or European?

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

American or European?

Yes.

 

[BillinOregon]

I'll ask over on my leverguns forum and report.

 

[user 48679]

I personally haven’t dealt with javelina hide before, but if it’s big enough id sure love to make a bag from some.

Then you'd have a genuine "pig in a poke".........

( a "poke" is Appalachian for "bag" )

 

[Resolve]

A football.

Good afternoon,

Yeah, funny you brought up footballs. Many times when I was hunting quail in the desert I could hear or smell javelina coming. I’d stand real still, and the herd would walk right past me about 10 to 15 feet away. The little youngsters looked like little footballs.

Be safe and have fun!

R

 

[BillinOregon]

Two responders over on my lever guns forum said the tanned leather makes for outstandingly tough and supple gloves.

 

[Red Owl]

I'm contact a taxidermist and ask them. You could just tack out the hide and turn it into rawhide. The skulls are pretty cool, I wonder if the whole thing (Skull) could be put into a Plexiglas block or some such presentation.

 

[Bullit]

You could make a nice stock wrap with cartridge loops. Or how about a hat? Possibles bag?

 

[Capnball]

I'm planning to head out to AZ next month for some javelina. I'm trying to figure out if there is anything creative and fun that I can do with the hide. Assuming we got one or two, I'd likely send it off to be tanned, hair on or off, by a tannery. Has anybody made use of a javie hide? Anything particularly worthwhile for a small project?

Big knife sheath, possibles bag (half tanned, half hair on)
I guess it depends on the thickness of the hide. Good luck on the hunt. First time I ever saw one of those on was on a highway between Sedona and Jerome on a Harley doing like 65 and I saw one of those guys cutting across the desert at an angle moving away from me and that little guy was leaving a rooster tail of dust behind him. Just amazing to see an animal moving that fast.

 

[Flintandsteel]

Definitely tan them, them devils STINK.

And FYI, there not pigs.

 

[TDM]

Yes, they do stink!