Let Me Just Get This Straight: People Kill Wild Hogs With Knives?

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Is this true? Like, right here in the USA, where firearms are readily available, people will intentionally go out hunting a wild hog, with nothing more than a knife?

I see knives for sale, which are listed as hog/pig hunting knives. So I don't know if they are referring just to the butchering aspect of it, or if they mean that the knife is used to kill the animal. Please clarify.

Hogs can be big and mean, right? And they can have big teeth, right? And you have armor plates in your sleeves, right? And you have good health insurance, right?
 
Just get yourself a chain mail suit while you are at it.
 
Haha yeah, they use the knives to kill them. Don't know the specifics but I imagine that's something fun for the adrenaline junkies. I don't think I will ever try that in my lifetime
 
Haha yeah, they use the knives to kill them. Don't know the specifics but I imagine that's something fun for the adrenaline junkies. I don't think I will ever try that in my lifetime


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Back during the early days of the Bladeforums, we had a member called Snickersnee who use to regularly hunt boar with his Chris Reeves Project 1. Like anything else, it is all about technique. Most often you use trained dogs to catch and hold the game which is then dispatched with a knife.

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Just a different style of hunting. Most guys I've run into doing it were trapper types, but it's not a common thing either. Had to do it in France a couple times with some dog hunters for cochon, not my preferred method for dispatch, but it works. Not what I'm used to here in the states for sure. A lot of risk involved, but they're so delicious.
 
not2sharp said:
Back during the early days of the Bladeforums, we had a member called Snickersnee who use to regularly hunt boar with his Chris Reeves Project 1. Like anything else, it is all about technique. Most often you use trained dogs to catch and hold the game which is then dispatched with a knife.

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Most people use dogs like ypu said to corner and catch the boar and then dispatch with the knife. My buddy has done this in PA
 
Most of the native Florida boys I knew used bulldogs to catch and hold the pig and a bayonet to dispatch the critter . They reasoning was 1. trespassing with a firearm in Florida is a felony (or at least was in the 80's-early 90's) and 2. They could throw away a cheap bayonets and not be out much.

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A buddy of mine does this. I belive they use dogs too? I know they use some type of protection for the dogs but not themselves. Here where I am they are a evasive species or whatever you wanna call them like coyote her and you can take them year round no tag needed. They ain't bad here and DNR has been doing good at keeping them out of our state but they are around you just gotta know where to look. But I ain't taking 1 with a knife!
 
Here in Spain some guys use a knife to dispatch wounded boar or when they are being swarmed by dogs (realas), you have to be quick and lucky, as some boars decide that you legs are a great place to bite or slash.
Better to use a boarspear.
 
Sometimes you have to cook a dinner for 300 and you show up the farm expecting the pig to be hung for a week already, nope, so one has to work with what they have. The results are worth it any way you do it

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i have killed allot of pigs with a knife, most pigs your gonna find are under 200 pounds and a blade around 7 or 8 inches will work just fine, nothing can live with a hole in the heart..pigs over 300 pounds i would just shoot, yah we did it with dogs..also saw allot of dogs die over the years..an ar-15 can be just as effective of a means of keeping the population down with less work..trapping and a few boxes of 22lr works too...
 
I hunt hogs with my custom Lon Humphrey pig sticker.

Humphrey pig sticker here
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...om-pig-sticker?highlight=Humphrey+pig+sticker

Its...interesting.

Though it has to be said, that many piggies in the US are not the biggest around.

I also go hunting in Europe and some of the Russian Boar there are pretty big. Taking them on with a knife and dogs are a different matter. Not legal that many places in Europe anyways, so its a moot point. You can still dispatch a hog with a knife, if it has been shot and not killed outright of course.
 
B34NS said:
Sometimes you have to cook a dinner for 300 and you show up the farm expecting the pig to be hung for a week already, nope, so one has to work with what they have. The results are worth it any way you do it

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Mmmm..pork! I agree. Betting the skin and fat would melt in the mouth!
 
When I lived in Texas I would spot and stalk them with a bow but I would never attempt it with a knife even though from what I have seen most hogs taken with a knife are by guys using dogs which to me is boring.
 
I'm still waiting for video of knife hunting without any dogs. That would be fun to watch!
 
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