Need knife for trail clearing and boar protection.

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$164.99
Weight (All): 81.1 oz
Weight (Head): 33.1 oz.
Width: 9"
Head Height: 24 1/2"
Handle: 65" Ash Wood
Steel: 1055 Carbon
Overall: 89 1/2"
http://www.coldsteel.com/Product/89MEN/MAA_ENGLISH_BILL.aspx
 
Screwdriver said:
Seriously, has the internet taken over reality? Boar, and especially feral hogs will mess you up, kill or maim you before an unskilled person with a blade can stop them. You get between a mother and her young.....You are screwed. Humans are smart but squishy. And yes, boar spears were designed by people that do not have guns and were taught at a young age on how to use one, because it was survival...

If I was going into an area that there was a chance of encountering a wild boar or feral hog....I will bring a friend and a gun.....he can clear, and I will back him up with whatever gun is legal in that area. There is no freakin way I would even consider any type of blade as my main defense against them.
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i'll drink to that!
but Screwdriver there seems to be one major problem with your statement here...you're using logic based on common sense. smh.
this is bladeforums, only "knife logic" need apply here. common sense logic be damned!
 
The Logical One said:
Our ancestors (cavemen) probably had an average lifespan of 20 yrs old. And the ones who survive into adulthood are probably in much better shape and skilled in hunting than your average American couch potato who can't run a mile to save his life.
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Exactly what he said !
 
Buy two knives. Get a decent machete to clear and have a knife at the side in case you run in to trouble with a hog. The pig sticker I have is a cold steel GI tanto. Cheap, nice pointy blade that could easily make short work of a hog. I don't suggest going out and finding one just to kill like that but if its you or the hog I would rather have something like that.
 
dont know about the hog would not want to tackle one with a knife, but a kershaw camp 10 is excellent for the price.the steel is very good quality and you can get one on line for under $50 bucks.
 
I'd say get a couple of flashbangs and a cold steel baseball bat.

Hogs don't like flashbangs.
 
The OP is looking for a knife for TRAIL CLEARING that would also serve as boar protection, which is reasonable. Nowhere did he state that he was going to war against, or solely hunting, feral hogs or boar with a knife. Stop suggesting spears, because YOU don't clear trails with a spear, do you?

Some of us live where there are feral hogs, and running into them is a chance we take, no different than the chance we take of running into a black bear, large cat, alligators, snakes, spiders, ants.... you get the point. I spend plenty of time in the woods here in central Florida, tons of feral hogs, I've only stumbled onto one, and it promptly ran away. I spend plenty of time hunting them too, and they're not all that easy to sneak up on intentionally either, sans using a feeder. I've shot hundreds on my in-laws 1000 acre tomato farm, and they react like anything else when shot. Most drop dead within 10 yards, some run off and are found, some are never to be seen again, but that's hunting.

So, if you're scared to leave your house, that's your issue, but don't treat others like they're an idiot for doing so.

ETA: When I'm stomping around in the woods here I carry a M&P45 in a Hill People Kit bag and a Junglas, but I'm more weary of running into people than I am of any animal.
 
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Aaah, you have more chance winning the lottery while being struck by lightening than being attacked by a feral hog. Wild pigs inhabit most of the warm climate continents and islands but I defy anyone to be able to produce a story of an unprovoked attack. They aren't Cape Buffalo, elephant or Brown Bears, as bad as we wished they were.

A ranch I work on part time is overrun with hogs and I sometimes carry a .45 on the remote chance I can catch a glimpse of one and get a shot at it before it hits the brush.

I thinks of all my hiking on that ranch over the years I have shot at two hogs with my pistol and killed one. The rest have been stealth hunting and hunting over a feeder...way downwind.
 
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The bk9 would get my vote, its got enough of a point but its still going to be useful as an all around tool
 
Wild boars are aggressive creatures if they are cornered or shot/wounded. I prefer a gun myself.
 
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