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You might want to check out the Cold Steel sjambok as a snake-killer, too. It's long but a lot lighter and you can pack it in easier than a spear.

I never walk through snake country or any thick brush without a hiking staff, which can be practically as effective as a cutting tool in warding off snakes. A 6' lathi from Cold Steel would work fine. I used to cut a staff in the woods. The SAK saw and a little trimming afterward with the knife blade only took a few minutes.

Also from CS, the Bushman. Not only is the handle hollow to pop it onto a shaft (and they sell their spear shafts separately, too, if you like) but the Bushman handle also has a hole in it for a nail to hold it on the shaft.
 
Hello Rob,
Get your War Spear down off the wall, and get out into your back yard, after those Texas wild boars. Your missing a lot of fun!!.

Russ Chastain, the guide for Hunting, at the About.Com web-site, took one of my, #29 Zulu War Spears, on a hog hunt, last weekend in FL. He got 2 hogs, one with a new Sig pistol, and the other with a knife. He let another hunter in their party, Jim, use the spear on his hog, and it worked great.
As Jim said in his E-mail to me today. "I stepped to the side and the hog got by me, and we continued to forge our way through the tangle until we were on top of a snarling, snorting pissed off 85 lb. boar with 2" tusks. We heard a yelp and saw that he had just cut Goldie beneath her Kevlar vest, but Trigger wasn't wearing one, and was hanging on to the side of the boars head". Kenny said, "We gotta kill that hog", and grabbed him by the hind legs and drug him backwards enough that I could get to him. "I pointed your spear at his heart and lunged, I guess my adrenaline was pumping, and your spear had a great edge on it, because I had a complete pass through, with no resistance. The boar lost all his fught right then. I had cut all the arteries going to the heart, and effectively just shut the engine room down." He went on to say that , the spear was sturdily built and made for close in action, and would have done the job on any size boar.

You can read all about their gun, knife & spear hunt at,
http://hunting.about.com/library/weekly/aahogs3_8_03a.htm
Best Regards,
Jay Maines
Sunrise River Custom Knives
www.sunrisecustomknives.com
 
There are some staffs designed to accept the Chris Reeve one-piece knives. See: Thread Unfortunately, the blade is not concealed, as in the Crawford model (which, if you decide you want a high quality model, is your best move). In these, the blade sticks out the top of the staff, and you keep the sheath on, which probably wouldn't work in any place you can't carry a gun.
 
If you need a spear out in the woods, cut a tree and make one. Don't put your knife in a place where it can get lost or damaged.
 
Sjamboks take some beating :) We keep a 4 foot sjambok hanging on the kitchen door all year round.Nothing short of a firearm is better than a sjambok at dispatching unwelcome snakes.The thin end bends along the ground which a rigid stick doesnt.They are light and in this country about $2.when we walk on the farm then the sjambok goes with .I must add that during the summer the cobras and puff adders[our version of a rattler just lazier and fatter] are more active and then the sjambok is backed up with a 38 with shotshells that work well.Most of the time the sjambok is just used to shoo the things out of the garden.I prefer that they leave alive but if they get nasty then the sjambok is the way to go.
Cheers
Mike
 
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