Boar hunting with a spear???

Mykl Clark

Mykl Clark

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A friend of mine is wanting to try this and I'm looking for tips, locations, and just how feasible his plan is.

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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
 
It's feasible all right. The guy who runs Cold Steel has a few pics of boar(s) he's taken. Personally, I think it runs a little on the crazy side, but hey, I do a thing or two classified there too.

I don't really know how to practice for it, and my vote would be to take friends with other spears, I sure wouldn't want backup with a firearm, if I get in a tussle with a big pig, I don't know I trust the combination of aim, random movements, and bullet trajectories to miss me.

Have fun, and let the pig spit itself.


Stryver
 
If your doing it as sport....sounds CRUEL!!!!
If your doing to survive....fine.
I dont know how your gona be as acurate as a arrow or a bullet.

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Jay
Life is like a box of chocolates,never know what your gona git!
 
I'm sorry, but the idea of hunting for fun being cruel gets me a little upset. You are on a forum where people, including me, are often discussing the use of edged weapons as a tool to take apart people, and you are going to get squeamish about boar hunting?

I have never used a spear on a hog, but I have taken one with a knife. A 7" Blackjack copy of a Randall, to be specific. It killed very rapidly and efficiently. Was it cruel?

It was an absolute rush.
 
I've at times thought about this subject myself. It certainly should shut up any anti-hunter who ridicules hunters for not giving the game a "fair chance", but then again it probably wouldn't. I found Tom Brown's account of killing his first deer by jumping on it from a tree and stabbing it with a spear quite interesting.
 
My Uncle Ray used to hunt boar with a spear, he used to go out west, Wyoming i think. There are lots of places with big pigs in the US.

I recall an article on this in a past issue of the Cold Steel catalog. Maybe check out www.coldsteel.com or email Lynn Thompson.

There are lots of ways to kill a boar with a spear. Dont throw it. My Uncle once told me about pointing it at them when they charge, with the butt of the spear embedded in the ground, the Boar impales itself on the spear. Thus the long spearheads with set-back crossguards.

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GLP-1,
If you can do it fast and efectivly,I have no problem with that.Im a one shot counts kinda guy.I want my ONE shot to drop WHATEVER im hunting.Ive never tried hunting a boar with a spear...but if its as fast as you say,I would have to say I`d try it someday.
I just dont like the idea of any animal having to suffer from a wound that wasn`t inflicted correctly.


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Jay
Life is like a box of chocolates,never know what your gona git!
 
Best done with dogs - lots of little ones. Once the boar is fed up running it will stand. This is your chance to go in with your pig stick spear. That is if you have kept up with the pack. Leave it too long and you will have a pile of dead dogs. (The dogs love it.) Go in too early and the boar will go for you. Get it right and you have a dead pig. Get it wrong and you have an angry pig that will want to open you up to the bone.

Safer to do from a polo poney, if you don't break your neck falling off it.

Never done it myself, but those I know who have are not too keen to do it again, and never on a real tusker of a male.

I like a good double rifle.
 
Stihl, I am sorry if my response seemed intemperate.

I have a good friend who has a boar spear that has a 4" wide, 16" long blade. I have never used it, but I am sure that kind of hole through the lungs will settle a hogs account as fast as a rifle. BTW, I have had big hogs take good hits from powerful rifles, and cover a lot of ground before they finally piled up. Tough beasts, and faster than you would think.
 
Hi,

I hope for your friend that he will drop that boar in the first second although I doubt it.
I used to go hunting wild boars with my father when I was a young boy 9 to 14 years of age. My father had a custom 7*57 and used those nasty German tig or tug softpoints.
He always bought them in boxes running 10 cartridges to the box and this usually gave him 7 dead boars/deer the other 3 were for sighting shots.
I have witnessed several full grown boars run a full hundreth yards before dropping stone death after being hit with those nasty opening softpoints. I wouldn't have wanted to be standing 25 yeards from one after he had been hit because those mean nasty curling teeth would have ripped me open.
Upon skinning and cleaning we found that the lungs had a big fist size hole and the hard had been blown apart still it went like a steam engine for such a distance.

Years later a good hunting buddy from my father got his belly torn open and died when he went to look for a dead boar. He killed the first one but the bullit went through and hit a second one who really got mad at him. He found the first one and when he poked him with the rifle he got attacked by the second one.

No spear for me if I have a gun, I would prefer sitting up in a tree as these tanks on 4 feet have not yet mastered climbing them.

Good luck,

Bagheera

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About fifteen years ago, I recall reading an article in a knife magazine titled "Huntin' Hawgs the Hard Way" which described the methods used by a particularly hardy bunch of boar hunters. They used knives and dogs. Apparently the idea was for the dogs to harry the hog while the hunter waded in and stuck the pig with his pig-sticker. The article recommended at least an eight inch blade and warned that the loss of one dog per hunt was normal.

I have never hunted boar, but I do understand that they are the most dangerous game in north america, and I have encountered them while backpacking. These encounters usually ended with a very undignified retreat on my part.

From what I understand of traditional european boar hunting, dogs and spears were the norm. Looking at antique bear and boar spears, they always seem to have toggles. I suppose these helped the spearman to keep the quarry at a safe distance until the game was less "game".

So, I'm sure it's feasible, and would probably be very exciting. But, I would make sure my spear had cross-bolts and I would NOT do it alone. I would probably also back myself up with a heavy-caliber sidearm.

As for location; I doubt there is a state in the union without at least some feral swine population, but you'd probably raise some eyebrows hunting with a spear in Connecticut. I'd start checking out the southern states where boar hunting was a bigger part of their heritage. Find the states that have seasons for boar and then check out methods. You could also explore nuisance permits in states where non-resident licenses are too pricey. Nuisance animal removal seems to be less supervised than taking of regulated game.
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Good luck!

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Be Worthy
 
Get A hunting magazine and look in the classified adds. There are a couple of places in Tellico Pains,TN that offer Knife hunting. There is also some that offer spear hunting. I cannot remeber the names. Also you might contact Larry Harley custom knife maker.a blade will bleed out a hog faster than a bullet. Just do not plan on eating the meat unless you like to eat something real gamey. Normalluy I do not condone the takeing of animals without consuming the meat. The Russian Boar in East Tn is one of the few exceptions. They were not native to this country and have and continue to damage millions of acres of habitat for other wildlife.

Cheers,

ts

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Guns are for show. Knifes are for Pros.
 
My step-father was in Persia during WW2. He told me fresh meat was tough to come by so they used to hunt wild boars. He said they liked thickets and had tunnels trampled through the brush from years of living in the area, and that they would hunt them by stalking through the tunnels. He said it was pretty exciting even with a rifle.
 
I must argue with the boar being the most dangerous game in north america. There are two animals that I would say beat it out.
The first is the grizzly. Ponder hunting a griz with a spear, and then tell me which is most dangerous.

The second I do not believe you can legally hunt. The Polar Bear. I believe the smallest rifle on record as ever taking one was a .303, and the guy should have been dead. It was a native seal hunting, who was attacked by a bear, and just happened to shoot up into it's brain, and take out the brain stem on the way up.

And they tell me the doors at the North Slope oil development have exterior cages on them. You open the door, step outside, look around for bears, and then open the cage and wander onward.

Stryver
 
Yeah, about the biggest (read that only) tip I gave him so far was to take a couple of people with him and to have at least one of them with a large firearm or a bow if he is really against using a gun. Otherwise he may just go on leave one day and not come back the next.

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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
 
Well, if you're still planning to try spear a boar. My only advice is to make sure you are around a lot of high trees, just in case you miss. Also,practice..practice..practice..
 
Mykl,

You may want to check here Spear Hunting
I think I will ask Audra on the general board if she ever made that guy his spear.
I also have the idiotic desire to hunt black bear with a spear. When I am dumb enough to try it, I'll be sure to put in my will that I want my wife to let you guys know what happens.
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MacHete- I was going to tell you that the people in Alaska might have a bone to pick with you about your statement, but Stryver beat me to it.
Stryver, I don't think it was Lynn Thompson who spear hunted the boars. It was some of his customers. The pictures and I think even their names are in last years
Special Projects catalog. You probably could talk to the actual guys if you did some detective work Mykl.

Let us know if this guy decides to do it.

Jim
 
Hunter, you raise a very good piont I have last years special projects runnig around here somewhere...now where did it go....what a mess.
 
Mykl,

Your friend may want to try here also. Hog Hunting Forum He will need to scroll down to the Hog Hunting forum. There are plenty of knowledgeable hog hunters there. For anyone else who hunts, there are great people and forums for every type of hunting over there.

Jim

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Clarification:

I would never argue that a boar is more dangerous than a grizzly. I used the word "game" because I was not aware that there were regular sesons for hunting grizzlies anywhere. I thought we were still protecting the poor, helpless beasts from those mean old hunters.
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