Large knife for pig hunting!

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I know this sounds kind of crazy but my friend suggested the next time we go pig hunting...we make the kill with a knife!

It sounds like it could be an adventure!

Any one do this before? What knife would you recommend?
 
I'm not into hunting much... Your going to need adleast a 5" fixed blade (serrations would make an easier kill) I reccomened you cut the unluckly hog clean across the throut.
 
And if you can't afford one of Larry Harley's amazing handmade pieces you can still get a production version. Paragon made a very nice version of the Battle Bowie in AUS8A and A.G. Russell still has some for sale. Just don't buy the last one...I'm saving up for one myself. :)

--Bob Q
 
Larry Harley says that it's the width of the blade that provides the killing power, not length alone. You cant beat real life experience in something like this. Right Larry?
 
After growing up in the river bottom, being "treed"
numerous times, seeing what a hog can do with their
teeth,{crush hickory nuts like it was popcorn, and
ripping a dogs insides out; I would suggest an extra
sharp blade with a 20 foot handle..

tc
 
All 3 of the folks that I know that have done this have used large knives with a length in excess of 6 inches with broad blades. The knife is plunged into the chest and shoved down the ribs to open a large wound collapsing the lungs and (hopefully) hitting the heart.

Cutting the throat of a pumped-up mad hog will get you torn up.

Pay Larry for your first hunt and have him take you. You can "freelance" your second one.
 
An acquaintance of mine uses several well-trained dogs and a quality samuri sword for huntng/killing wild or feral pigs. I wouldn't use much less.
 
Muela of Spain at one time made some boar-killing knives.
They looked like very broad daggers, like a Smatchet, perhaps 3" or wider.
Not knowing one way or the other, I assumed that one would use these to stab the boar in the neck and that the very broad blades would cut to either side.
Following this argument, the Lonesome Pine Battle Bowie looks like it uses its width to cut.
If the hunter inserted the point above the artery, as he pushed the blade in, the unsharpened spine would push the sharpened edge down into the artery.
What an impressive-looking knife!
I also had the impression that the dogs would immobilize the boar for the killing.
Has anyone here done this?
 
I've hunted wild hogs quite a bit. We used dogs to locate and "bay" the hogs. They might immobilize a pig, but very seldom a grown hog.
That boar ain't gona be still for you. They are very fast, strong, and get awful mean when fighting with dogs. We have sometimes caught
a hog to feed out by using a short rope and tying him up with the aid of dogs.
But, a two hundred pound hog is fast as a snake with his head, so stay to the back of him, and be ready to climb something quick.
Good luck.
 
I saw a website somewhere where an outfitter was offering knife-hunts for pigs, down south.

His webpage had lots of pictures of successful hunters, which showed the knives they used, and the pigs they got. Just about every guy had killed his pig with a 3" folding lockback, nondescript pocket knife. I was astonished. I would have thought a larger knife mandatory!

Where did I see that?

Walking up on a pig with a fairly small knife? Wow. Dunno how they all managed it and stay in one piece.
 
Just go with a blade of 7 inches. The guys who did it with 3" blades must have done this for a long time. Make sure it's nice and pointy.

Come to think of it, even a Ka-Bar can do the job. Depends on what you want to carry I guess.
 
Very interesting thread. I think "hso" offers excellent advice. If you haven't already done so check out Larry Harley's website.

If I had just won the Super Bowl and was asked on TV about what I was going to do next, I'd say, "I'm going to call Larry Harley! (and book a boar hunting expedition)."
 
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