Got a wild question? boar hunt with a Temp

[moonwilson]

How in the heck do you get close enough to stab a boar to death without getting tusked from a-hole to elbow?

Easy! You dress all in black and climb a tree along a path with your special spiked-toe boots. Then you wait for a boar to pass beneath you and you throw a flash/smoke bomb in front of him. You leap from the tree with a fearsome battle cry and throw a couple of ninja-stars at the beast in mid-air to make him angry so he charges you the second you land. Then you slice him in two with your Dark-Ops fixed blade as he rushes you, so one half of the boar lands on your left side, the other half on your right. Gecko 45 told me all about it.

Sounds like fun!

Seriously though, I do have to admit that this does seem like an uber-manly way to hunt. I'm sure that the dogs would come in handy. I wouldn't want my dog going up against a boar, though, I'd be too afraid I'd end up scooping up his guts (my dog's, not the boar's) I'd have to borrow someone else's dogs for the afternoon.

 

[ashtxsniper]

a sog tigershark or bk9hh makes a great hog sticking knife but a lot of my friends I hunt with use traditional usmc ka-bars.

 

[JD Spydo]

After reading all these posts I would have to conclude that the best and most efficient way to take down a wild hog would be with one of the better spears on the market. Crap!!! if you were to get gored with one of those tusks that could be a life threatening injury.

Now I do like the idea of making a super spear out of a fixed blade Temperance model. And you could make the handle/shaft out of that "Chinese Wax Wood" that Cold Steel sells as staffs. I have never seen a wood that holds up to horrid abuse like that Chinese Wax wood does.

What ever you guys do be very careful. I have heard some nightmare stories about wild hogs. Now those Javelinas might not be so bad because I have never seen one of them get as big as the ones in the southeast USA get.

On second thought maybe the Spyderco Kumo might be a better pick to make a spear out of. But the FB Temperance does have the muscle for it.

 

[eastr77]

I agree the kumo would make a great spear head. If i go hog hunting again i beleive i'll try a knife it's 450$ to hunt one need to make sure to try the way to give the best memory of the hunt mite try to make it so i can take a smaller hog say about 200lbs to 150lbs instead of one of the monsters like have killed with a gun.

 

[Tom Krein]

I really believe that a spear would be cumbersome and unweildy! I promise if something happens the difference in the length of a knife and the length of a spear is not going to make a difference! You have to rely on the dogs!!

Tom

 

[Hammer27]

i would use something like an old bayonet, it would be long enough and if ya stick it and the hog runs and gets away ya dont lose an expensive knife, i'd do this until i'd killed a few and got it down anyway before i used an expensive knife.

i dont think a spyderco temp would be long enough, in this case longer is better imho.

maybe something like a busse bowie ...............

Sounds like a good idea. Maybe a SOG tigershark or something from "Dork ops" would be good

 

[misque]

I recently read where Greg Lightfoot used an OOB Timberline Zambezi to dispatch a wild hog. There were pictures but I can't remember where I read it. DUH!!