Paul, Rob (my dad) and I took off for a weekend of Javelina hunting outside of Prescott in section 17a/b. While we may not have killed anything we did learn some great things about hunting them and had a good time in the snow.

My story: Took off early on Friday and set up camp for the weekend. My dad wasn't going to get off work till after 4pm so I wanted to make sure I wasn't setting up in the dark. After a quick run up and back, I grabbed the last of the camp supplies and guns, picked up my dad and made my way back up to camp. Paul took off from the west side a little before us and had his camp all set up by the time we got in.
As we stood around the fire talking about the plan for the weekend and where to look for the pigs it started to rain. We called it a night and crawled into bed. About midnight or so the rain picked up and continued through out the night.
Sat morning came early and the rain didn't stop. We headed over to the AZ game and fish area and checked in with the guys heading up the weekend. The ranger pulled us into his tent and set out some maps that mike would have been proud of. As we talked out the area we got hooked up with three guys that were up there to help new hunters like ourselves. We followed them out and they were kind enough to show us what to look for and looked for tracks with us.
No luck.
After we went back to camp my dad and I headed into town to get a hot lunch. About this time it started to snow... LOTS AND LOTS of snow.... My truck did fine and I even helped a guy out that slid off the road which turned into a big ordeal. Story for another time.
We made it back to camp to find out that our tent had almost collapsed. Paul saved us and cleared the snow away. Thanks again Paul!!! We also found out that the Game and Fish guys loaded up and headed home... Wimps.
We stuck it out another night to see if there would be a break in the weather and a chance to kill a pig. No such luck. Sunday it kept on snowing and we packed up and headed home.

All in all we had a great time camping and shooting the breeze with Paul. Hope to do it again.

Pics soon...

Camp in the snow. Notice the HG Moab flag...


My dad getting the fire going and drying his boots


the road out of town leading to camp in the snow storm




Paul getting out of his tent

packing up in the morn... more snow

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fatbob309 wrote:

Awesome! 8) 8) 8)

KILLER! Thanks for posting man. You in the snow with a rifle is my new wallpaper!

Ya them pigs are lunkard down in them warm holes during the snows but glad you had a good time....looks like yer using a 30-30 winchester i got one of them thats pre-64 great saddle gun....

Ya them pigs are lunkard down in them warm holes during the snows but glad you had a good time....looks like yer using a 30-30 winchester i got one of them thats pre-64 great saddle gun....

Yep its a Winchester 30-30 from 47. I love this gun.

Bob, thanks for going along!
Bummer there were no javelina's to be claimed, but as you stated a lot was learned!
I only grabbed a few pictures, I'm a wimp when it comes to cold & didn't breakout the camera as much as I should of :(
Bob's camp

Bob's camp after 30min of snow fall (the snow flakes? were about 2-3" in diameter)

Back track, Bob & his Dad went to Prescott, and asked if I wanted to go too, I opted out to hang out & pick Game & fish on unit stuff & some other Do's & Dont's
So after that I decided to goahead & head to Prescott a hot lunch & the chance to buy some rain gear sounded good!
I made it to the 7mile mark on 89N and there was a truck & horse trailer sideways & in the ditch blocking the road, So I headed back to camp. Only to find 2 collapsed tents

This is about 1.5hr later from the 1st picture
My set up...


So yeah rather than leave Bob's tent all flat for him to see I went ahead & cleared as much as I could so it wouldnt compromise the tent.
It was an experience; I can now check camping in the snow off my list (no it was never on the list!)
And a few other pictures.

Bob's early years

Tis true