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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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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