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aloha blade bradas,whats would be your favorite hog knife,for you hog hunters you know what im talking about but not a hog hunta picture dis,you need a blade to do it all.1 to 5 miles in country clearing trail sometimes all day from baffalo grass to hale koa (1"-or bigger sapling).must get in close to dispatch your pig while da dogs hold -um.one trust an couple pumps with your blade then use it to cut bone and quarter your hog. you need one tough blade. so whats your FAVORITE HOG KILLA. ALOHA
 
Hog Hunting? Hog hunting around these parts means getting wasted and hunting down frumpie plus-sized women at the bars for an easy lay.


On topic, It seems like you would want a nice Ontario Machete for what you described....
 
I used the following: Cold Steel trailmaster which has a slippery handle. The handle also imparts lots of shock. The blade needs to have the top edge sharpened.

The Cold Steel Laredo is fine, but i started to wear gloves when I used this knife.

The Helles Belle is excellent but does not do anything except killing the boar. It's tip seems to me to be fragile. I would use the Laredo before the Helles Belle due to the point.


I had a custom made boar knife made in Argentina to my specs. The blade was 11.5 inches made with a steel a little thicker than a 1/4 inch. Bowie style with a very long tough point. Simple large cross guards. Note when I stab or slash a 6x6 the trailmaster imparts lots of shock to my hand. The Argentine knife imparts NO shock.

I do not recommend a blade less than 10 inches and should be double edged. My Argentine friends kill lots of hogs and and their knives are double edged with no guards. It looks like a kitchen carving knife.

In south Texas it is difficult to give the meat away. In Argentina it is butchered by the guides.

I have concerns about my hand slipping in all the blood. So I always wear gloves.

If i had to cut brush to get to the boar I use a local machete before I dull my knife.
 
waz up in hawaii we do alot of hog huntin i also had costom knives as well as production knives from busse,cold steel,kabar,lonesome pine(awsome),to mineral mountian.but my best blade besides my stolen lonesome pine is a $20 blade 12" knife made in the phillipines use it for the past 7 years its 1 bad ass blade
 
I have used a 7 inch Ka-bar USMC combat knife to finish off a few hogs down here in Florida; the average size of the hogs were around 120 to 160 pounds. I f you expect to hunt larger hogs then go with a longer blade like the Cold Steel Trailmaster.
 
The browning looks very good. Like to see specs.
The knife may need a top edge. But it looks ideal.

Went hunting in texas and someone had a k-bar. The guide suggested a larger knife. Man insisted that he wanted to use his knife.

Rather large boar and the dogs had him good, but they were being tossed in the air a lot. A very good ride. The man kept on stabbing and whether it was the length of the blade or the placement he was just pissing off the hog. The guide finally killed the boar with a 11+ inch knife. Everybody was just afraid that the dogs would get hurt by the hunters not doing their job. The dogs do almost all the work. They find the boars, bay the boar, catch the boar by the face. All they ask is that the hunter do his job as fast as possible. The k-bar was not fair to the dogs.

We talked about the k-bar that night. We felt that the short knife was not getting to the heart which is in front of the chest like a bear. Note, I worry sometimes with a small hog with a long knife.I am afraid to go thru the chest wall and nick a dog. It's never happened but I still worry.

For some who have not hunted boars before. You kill the boar that the dogs catch. They make the choice not the hunters. Might get a small, large and oh my god in the same day. However to me the most dangerous to dogs and men are the quick and medium size 180 to 210 pound size. I believe the dogs and the men dismiss this size and therefore under estimate the danger.

I truly love boar hunting.

timber Man
 
I LOVE BOAR HUNTING TOOOOOO...it sounds like its the placement not the knife..as a kid i used a k-bar,my father used a k-bar and other knives big and small..it sounds like it was a guided hunt which means Maybe a inexperience knife hunter(not all the time)..i stick'em in the front ribs a little low in the front leg pit..an pump that blade..i even hunted with a sog (6"blade)and the K-bar is 7" blade
 
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