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RedEdge77

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I saw a thread about this awhile back on some website. Just wanted to hear what you people have to say about knife hunting
 
What exactly would you hunt? Outside of firearms, folks use rocks/slings, spears and bows/crossbows, which can give an element of safety, being a distance from a potentially dangerous animal. You won't get that with only a knife unless you throw it, and the odds of making an instant kill are probably ridiculously high. Only a domesticated animal would let you get close enough to use a knife without running away. It's an interesting question as I'm sure there's someone who's probably done it. I just don't see it as being practical.
 
Stormdrane said:
Only a domesticated animal would let you get close enough to use a knife without running away.
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dont give people ideas :)

there is a member named the possum who hunts varmints with a large bowie, but usually it is just his backup to a .45. message him, or check out his website (its linked from his profile i think), he has some accounts of experiences in there.
i dont think it would be very feasible to hunt anything larger with a knife. even if you successfully stalked it you would be unable to close the final distance, and if by some miracle you actually reached it you would be unlikely to kill it 'instantly'. its one thing to discuss instant kill strike zones but another entirely to put them into practice on a moving live creature. so if you wounded it youd be left with an animal that was absolutely juiced full of adrenaline and extremely aggravated, lol. ever see that video of the guy being mauled by a stag (his wife filmed it from safety). anyways, you get the picture.
 
It's something that only crazy white people do. It's my understanding that you get a pack of dogs chasing some critter (usually a wild pig) and when they have the animal cornered and distracted (also worked up to an absolute frenzy), you jump on it and stab it to death. A guy just recently posted some pictures of a boar he had killed with a knife. It looked like he only used two dogs and the hunt was done in Argentina and the knife was a Cold Steel Trailmaster. I have heard of black bear being hunted this way but don't know if it is true or not. As far as I'm concerned it ranks just a little above noodling for catfish on the crazy scale.
 
RedEdge77 said:
I saw a thread about this awhile back on some website. Just wanted to hear what you people have to say about knife hunting
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If you have some good "ketch (catch) dogs" (a small 50-80 pound dog that will grab and hold onto whatever it is that you want them to and not let go until told to) and the dogs get a decent (smaller) hog pinned on the ground you could dispatch it with a knife cut to the throat. However if the dogs' release their grip on the hog and you didn't jump quickly out of the way you could be in for a world of stitches.

Other than tying a knife to a branch and using it as a spear this is about the only way I know of to hunt with one.

Of course if you have a slow moving animal like a fat possum, woodchuck or armadillo you could probably give it a whack.

Interesting question.
 
Greetings, RedEdge.
I don't mind discussing this subject, but I don't know you.
What are your thoughts on this issue? Since you left your question very basic, I don't know if you're just genuinely curious, or if you're a PETA member looking for a fight. ;)
 
I read about a place in Hawaii that is overrun with wild boar ( a non-native species I believe). There is a guide that leads knife hunting trips for wild boar. Given the tusks boar have, I call it a fair fight. I enjoy hunting but that would not be my cup of tea.
 
...Hunting wild game with a knife???...And some people thought I was nutz for hunting deer & bear with a handgun (.44 mag. Ruger Redhawk and/or .50AE Desert Eagle).:D.
 
kl101 said:
I read about a place in Hawaii that is overrun with wild boar ( a non-native species I believe). There is a guide that leads knife hunting trips for wild boar. Given the tusks boar have, I call it a fair fight. I enjoy hunting but that would not be my cup of tea.
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thats nuts. ive emptied both barrels of a 12 guage loaded with sabot slugs into a boar's head from close range and it still kept coming (luckily i had a friend back me up). the boar was already wounded with a rifle round through the lungs, so it was on its way down.
hunting them with knives is absolutely crazy. this one was over 190 kilos gutted, and it was far from what wed consider 'large'. theres enough weight behind those wicked tusks to toss you around like a ragdoll. not to mention theyre one of the most dangerous and frenzied animals when wounded. i would pay to watch some jackass try to take one down with a knife :)

maybe they were killing little baby semi-domesticated piggies in hawaii, but i guarantee if a large boar charged you and you had nothing but a knife youd soil your pants.
 
Blackhearted said:
.....maybe they were killing little baby semi-domesticated piggies in hawaii, but i guarantee if a large boar charged you and you had nothing but a knife youd soil your pants.
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Have you checked out Greg Lightfoot's website?
 
Blackhearted said:
dont give people ideas :)

there is a member named the possum who hunts varmints with a large bowie, but usually it is just his backup to a .45. message him, or check out his website (its linked from his profile i think), he has some accounts of experiences in there.
i dont think it would be very feasible to hunt anything larger with a knife. even if you successfully stalked it you would be unable to close the final distance, and if by some miracle you actually reached it you would be unlikely to kill it 'instantly'. its one thing to discuss instant kill strike zones but another entirely to put them into practice on a moving live creature. so if you wounded it youd be left with an animal that was absolutely juiced full of adrenaline and extremely aggravated, lol. ever see that video of the guy being mauled by a stag (his wife filmed it from safety). anyways, you get the picture.
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that idiot had covered himself in buck scent.(if it is the one I am thinking of-he had a bow) So he was really asking for it. Pig hunting with dogs isnt anything near as dangerous as one might think. The knife is used only to stab the heart, once they are pinned. I am sure it is exciting, however.
 
i am sure having two 160lb mastiffs as a 'buffer' between you and the boar makes a world of difference :) i was referring to the silly notion of just hunting them with a knife.

every time we hunted wild boar we always made sure that we were either in or close to some position of safety or had a backup shooter for every hunter. i am sure in north america there is a difference, since wild boar around here are semi-domesticated and raised on farms/reserves for hunting/meat.

i still stand by my statement that i would pay well to see a lone man try to take down a full-grown (>250kg) wild boar with a knife anyday, would make some great entertainment. (its about as likely as killing four hostile armed robbers in a bank by throwing balisongs at them, *snicker*).
 
Here's a story from earlier this month in the SF Chronicle about pig hunting with machetes in Hawaii:

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If you search a bit on the internet you can find guided knife hunts for wild hogs (using dogs) - mostly happens in the southeast US I think.
 
Here in Portugal we have some "crazy" folks that hunt wild boars with knives....It works like this, they dress up with proctective clothes (that material-dont know the word in english- used for gloves for people that work with knives, like in slaughter houses). But this is not all, they only aproach after the BIG dogs had imobilize the BIG PIG. I still wouldn´t do it, i´ve seen a big boar going crazy and it´s really scaring.



Jose:)
 
Julian Elliot said:
Here's a story from earlier this month in the SF Chronicle about pig hunting with machetes in Hawaii:
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are you sure these are wild boar? 'wild pig' or 'feral pig' isnt necessarily the same thing, heh.
wild boar (by far not the largest ive seen):
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man+knife vs boar, my money would be on the boar. of course using dogs to pin them is different, its pretty much the same as trapping them in a net and then spearing them :)

in medieval times they would hunt boar with boar spears and had several men and packs of hunting dogs. these people didnt have a rifle cabinet full of high-powered rifles at home as their primary option, and they were raised to hunt them like this for sport since they were kids. yet even so, they were still often gored/trampled to death by the boar. so if there was such a danger to trained experienced hunters using long spears and dogs, what do you think the odds are of average joe suburbanite killing one with his Buck 119? *snicker*
 
I was just wondering because my sisters husband lived over in hawaii for a few years and we were talking about hunting and he used to hunt hogs with a knife over there
 
Blackhearted said:
are you sure these are wild boar? 'wild pig' or 'feral pig' isnt necessarily the same thing, heh.
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Yeah, we're talking about black, long-tusked, never-been-in-a-pen pigs. In Hawaii, I believe pigs were introduced by the original Polynesian settlers. The pigs typically weren't penned, they were just let loose to find their own food and the adventurous ones decided to stay in the forest and reproduce - becoming hairy, tusky and wily over generations. It doesn't take very many generations for escaped domesticated pigs to start to look pretty wild.
 
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