a bowie for a hog hunt

Lon Humphrey

Lon Humphrey

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Hey all I know I’ve been going nuts with the Brute De forge hunters but here is one for all you bowie guys ill be sure and get some good pics of this when I’m done with it

Its actually going to be a user a guy from Denmark is going to hunt wild bore with it. This one is a time critical job he’s going to be here in about 3 weeks


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Great looking knife! [If I were to hunt hogs with it (or any knife) I would want a 10' handle.]

Gary
 
Gary Mulkey said:
Great looking knife! [If I were to hunt hogs with it (or any knife) I would want a 10' handle.]

Gary
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hmmmmm wouldn't that be a spear ? ... although i would have to agree with you i wouldn't want to take on a wild boar with a knife ....well yeah i probably would but im kinda crazy like that
 
Hey Lon-

Your work would be a lot faster and easier if you secured your bench and put some set screws in your blade sanding set-up (to support the distally tapered blade). You're expending a whole ton of energy to move that bench back and forth and the blade up and down that could/should be going into your blade.

The extreme angle of the set-up is going to be putting all of the work/stress into your delts, if you angled it a lot less it would help distribute the stress and work into your back and core.

Just trying to help out :)
 
NickWheeler said:
Hey Lon-

Your work would be a lot faster and easier if you secured your bench and put some set screws in your blade sanding set-up (to support the distally tapered blade). You're expending a whole ton of energy to move that bench back and forth and the blade up and down that could/should be going into your blade.

The extreme angle of the set-up is going to be putting all of the work/stress into your delts, if you angled it a lot less it would help distribute the stress and work into your back and core.

Just trying to help out :)
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yeah i know when i watched the vid i SAW how much things were moving around..i guess when im working like that you could set off a bomb next to me and i doubt if i would notice..... i did try to sand at a more level plane and i just couldnt get the leverage to move any steel and if i put much more into my core i would be shaped like a pear LOL
thanks Nick the bench is "on the list"
 
ok so its crunch time for this beast, A Mild Steel guard, i decided to do a guard with some "BALLS" because when you hunt hogs with a knife you better have a pair

i recently got a copy of "The Bowie Knife" and there was a knife in there from a english make with a guard similar to this one

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Love your work, but your work methods make me nervous.

Maybe a little guarding between your hand and that wicked blade?

Larry
Tinkerer
 
denmark must have little piggies
if they're anything like E.European boar, you would need a LOT bigger knife (and balls)
 
robino said:
denmark must have little piggies
if they're anything like E.European boar, you would need a LOT bigger knife (and balls)
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hmmmmm its 12 and 7/8 from the point to the guard, i think anything longer and it would be a sword? and hes coming to the states to hunt hog
 
tinkerer said:
Love your work, but your work methods make me nervous.

Maybe a little guarding between your hand and that wicked blade?

Larry
Tinkerer
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Larry its not sharp that's the LAST thing i do to the blade ive been bit too many times


the guards done waiting on the glue to harden up

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Ahhhhhhhhhhh, ok then.
I didn't read the part where he was coming here to hunt a hog, then it's more than adequate
 
Your knife looks good to me. :thumbup:

Shucks you should see the way some of local boys hunt in Kona. I had a couple friends who would come up to my farm and hunt for the tournaments. We had lots of avocados and bananas the hogs loved along with about 30 acres woods scattered with occasional macadamia nut and mango trees. There was a mac nut farm along our north border where the hogs loved to feast and a ranch to our west and south. Some of the boars they brought down dressed out well over 300 pounds!

Anyway, the first time my friends invited me to join them they blew my mind. Mind you I usually shot the rascals with my 30-30. I was walking the guys to show them an area where there was lots of sign. On the way there their pack of motley looking dogs flushed a big boar out of some 10'-12' tall cane grass. He came out in the open headed right at us. I pulled up my 30-30 while the local fellas dove behind trees (to make sure I didn't get plug them.) That boar practically did a somersault in mid-air as it spun around and headed right back into the grass and dogs. I ran around a 4x4 power-line easement road to try and head it off. He never got to the other side. The dogs pinned it. I had to fight the jungle of tall grasses to find my way into the foray. I mean you couldn't see a dang thing even 10 feet from the mayhem. By the time I had kicked and stomped over enough of the cane grass to see, I couldn't believe my eyes. There was one fella pulling on a hind leg with the other kneeling and shoving down with one of his hands on it's shoulder and dogs making running lounges at its head. The racket was deafening. The big fella straight arming it down with all his weight reached with his "free" hand into his back pocket and pulled out an average sized pocket knife. He opened it with his teeth and proceeded to cut the behemoth's throat. Gawd the racket was nearly unbearable.

This is a culture of guys that go out and trap the wee ones, castrate them and let them back loose to hunt again another year.

[video=youtube;PFeiQ4n5NqA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFeiQ4n5NqA[/video]

[video=youtube;CPG-OF4bbAA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPG-OF4bbAA[/video]

I don't think your blade would have any trouble piercing a boar's heart. Whether the hunter and dogs can manage it is, of course, another question entirely.

If they come across Hogzilla at over 1,000 pounds that might be another story though! :eek:

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yeah ive read some stories on the hogzilla's its amazing that a hog can get that big in the wild...and i encountered a wild hog when i was bow hunting for whitetail years ago it was worse than getting treed by a dog but in the end the broad heads did the trick thanks for the vids Phil
 
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