Knife hunting

[rarefishfinder]

This is how you hunt wild boar

http://www.boardogs.com

 

[TorzJohnson]

Imagine knife hunting one of these ol' pigs (they were as big as Rhinos ):

 

[500jefferyDK]

Rat

Yes it is me in the pictures.

I was using a Cold steel trailmaster carbon V.
The kraton grip is excellent and gives you a safe grip even when covered in blood. The knife also holds an edge for a very long time.
The knife also have a good size and you can reach the hart from both behind the shoulders and from the front. You need a minimum 8" inch knife for the bigger boars and hogs but 9-10 " is better.

When I hunt with a knife I sometimes like to move around with it and cut multiple places.
I like to make many deadly wounds. This kind of training is good especially in a stressful situation like the night wild boar hunt.
I work with the animal and cut when I get a opening to a vital area.
I work with the movement of the animal and not against it. Follow the flow of the animal.

After killing the boars we have an Asado (BBQ) and all the people that was hunting that day have a outside party with great Argentina red vine and plenty of meat.

Cheers,

André

 

[maximus otter]

I see where you get the "500 Jeffery" part of your forum name!

maximus otter

 

[500jefferyDK]

This is my boar hunting set :grumpy:

I used my own homemade bullets made fron copper.
The Cup point solid is 600 grn and the square hollow point is 500 grn. :grumpy:

Cheers,

André

Always always use enough ... GUN :grumpy:

 

[Erasmus]

I was flipping through a historical book, showing hunting in Europe, through the ages.

You see a lot of illustrations of big game with several arrows sticking out of them, bayed by dogs, and hunters approaching with their hunting knives, to finish off the game.

Many of these medieval knives looked like short swords, with a Roman gladius-style loop sling the sheath hung from. Things looked a lot more "hands on", back in the day.

 

[megafriday]

The Crocodile Hunter just grabs their back legs, pulls them down, and jumps on top of them. No knife, no nothing...

 

[larry harley]

Here in Spain we have what we call 'remate' knives: the ones you use to "finish" or "dispatch" a wild boar or deer once he's been shot, caught and more or less inmovilized by the dogs. The name of this kind of hunting is 'montería'..
Here´s a handful of these knives.


i really like the one on the right
wide kills better than long
i wont be booking or guiding hunts this yr
kinda under the weather
but next yr dec 1st
anybody wants to go
call me
harley
luke sky possum
http://www.lonesomepineknives.com/huntpics.htm

 

[steellover]

Imagine knife hunting one of these ol' pigs (they were as big as Rhinos ):

Hey
Torz:

I thought I was the ONLY guy who dug Entelodonts around here.

Daeodon was a helluva pig, that's for sure. You know it was once almost certainly the dominant predator in North America, even though pigs prefer to scavange if they can, as they do not believe in spending a lot of effort for food they can get for free.

35 million years ago there were some cool pigs.

 

[Brian6244]

I have heard of similar guided pig hunts here in TX with trained dogs where the dogs basically do 99% of the work then you stroll up and finish off the pig with a large knife.

 

[Cougar Allen]

i really like the one on the right
wide kills better than long
i wont be booking or guiding hunts this yr
kinda under the weather
but next yr dec 1st
anybody wants to go
call me

I'm glad to hear you're planning to be back hunting pigs next year, Harley. In the meantime why don't you do some relaxing here at Bladeforums?

I understand you like a wide blade to open up a nice wide wound channel, but how much length do you need for a right-handed hunter to reach to the pig's heart?

 

[RedEdge77]

alright well since everyone seems to think the guy with the knife doesn't do anything but finish the pig off, i'm gonna prove you all wrong and stalk a hog down all by myself, then kill him

 

[Cougar Allen]

The peanut gallery has been pretty noisy in this thread, haven't they? I wasn't reading it until Larry Harley popped in for a visit....

The first difficulty is catching the pig -- they can generally run faster than you can. Harley uses dogs. Another member, Snickersnee, doesn't have dogs so he shoots the pig in the leg with an arrow. That slows him down enough so he can run him down and jump on his back and stab him.

Have a look at Harley's website; you'll learn a lot more there than from listening to the peanut gallery....

 

[larry harley]

I'm glad to hear you're planning to be back hunting pigs next year, Harley. In the meantime why don't you do some relaxing here at Bladeforums?

I understand you like a wide blade to open up a nice wide wound channel, but how much length do you need for a right-handed hunter to reach to the pig's heart?

i take my shot on sun night
so i,m out of the box a few days a week
my post have to be short
the pc screen messes w my eyes
wide is the way to go
at least 2 in.
9 to 10 inches was the perscribed perscription 200 yrs ago
it works well today
my hawg spears r 18 long x 4 wide
part of my sales pitch for my battle bowie it that u can walk 360 around a human andhit the heart from any angle no matter what bones r in the way
i try to make sharpened bone cleavers
u can take a dull screwdriver and bury it up to the hilt in a piece of meat
u want to be able to cleve, ribs, spine ,shank, (arm bones w a thrust)
and 2 edges kill not twice but 10 times better than 1
the few inches just in front of the guard r the most important as far as sharp goes
when the knife is juked orkranked up and down thes few inches top and bottom r what makes the hole bigger
i dont believe in the words TACTICAL knives
thers no such thing thats a nice word that came about at the begining of the rambo era to be politically correct
and as a result its had a sad influence on the state (designe)of camp and
killing knives
harley
2 edged possum

 

[steellover]

http://www.johnsibbick.com/window/andrew.asp

 

[Cougar Allen]

i take my shot on sun night
so i,m out of the box a few days a week
my post have to be short
the pc screen messes w my eyes

Your posts always were short -- nobody will know the difference.

 

[larry harley]

Your posts always were short -- nobody will know the difference.

harley

 

[suthincomfort]

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*).

plenty of big feral hogs here . i prefer a spear personally . it's been a while but many hunt russian boars with a bowie style blade n dogs . check out cuz n cuz ranch . later tom

 

[suthincomfort]

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*).

the dogs used for hunting are usually walker hounds not large by anyones estimation , from 40 to 70 pounds tops

 

[larry harley]

the dogs used for hunting are usually walker hounds not large by anyones estimation , from 40 to 70 pounds tops

when i hunt
i hunt over plott hounds and pitt bulls
i have taken hawgs w/out dogs by useing a BIG spear
http://www.lonesomepineknives.com/hunt.htm
i,m guideing again in dec. i,ll let u know how it turns out.
its been several yrs since we lost any huinters
but they did find there remains the next spring
harley