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missionary5155

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Have you hand launches a spear at any 4 legged critters? I am looking for a spear point (Cold Steel ?) .. I made 2 and near took out a doe at 12 feet from above with #2. She saw it coming and lifted her body off to the side... Any info ?:)
 
yes cold steel makes 4 diferent types of spear I recomend the 4th. but can you even legaly hunt deer with a spear? not that I oppose hunting with a spear i would just like to know
 
I agree that it shouldn't be legal. People even argue against my chosen methods of taking game, traditional archery. It took a lot of time and a lot of people to show that it was a humane valid means of taking life. A spear im not so sure about, you'd have to be pretty damn good or someone who just doesn't care imho.

But if I was going to try it I'd either forge my own or buy one of cold steels. I wanted a couple to throw around in the backyard a year or so ago and really couldn't find anything either.
 
If you are looking for something sporting,try hunting bear with a Bowie knife. Google Wade Hampton. He killed lots of bear that way. Crazy Reb. The story goes he killed 80.
 
All of the spear hunting I have seen (videos) or heard about in the US is done by ambush from above. The hunter is above the prey and pounces on it driving the spear through vital organs. The proper result is as quick a death as archery if not better. The states that allow it regulate it just like all other types of hunting. This museum is very interesting: http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1210580150205770.xml&coll=2
 
One thing you may want to look into is the atlettle(sp?) or throwing stick. Many primative cultures (African, European, North American, et al.) used these to bring down larger game than they could possibly try without out.

Remember to practice, practice, practice before you attempt again. As you would with any weapon, research the best techniques and means of lethality with same.

Let us know how it goes!

Jim L.
 
missionary5155 said:
Have you hand launches a spear at any 4 legged critters? I am looking for a spear point (Cold Steel ?) .. I made 2 and near took out a doe at 12 feet from above with #2. She saw it coming and lifted her body off to the side... Any info ?:)
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One of mans oldest tools the spear......and it's still in use in parts of the world.

Here is an observation, animals Que on movement the slightest sign of which and there beating hoofs. It sounds like your throwing the spear at where the animal "is" try throwing it at where it "will" be instead.
Make use of the flora around you to mask your throwing movement.



Good luck!
 
i bought a Cold Steel spear last year for about $80. 7' long: 21" middle handle piece(aluminium ?), with a tapered metal "sleeve"(like how a rake head attaches to it's handle) attached to either end and then a 25" metal rod spot welded to the sleeve ends, and finally a flat spear point on one end and a round practice point on the other.
absolute piece of Shit !
on my first throw (gentle toss,on my lawn), the shaft bent at the weld and i realized it's so flimsy, it is for display purposes only. their on line listing says how this is an exact replica of the Zulu hunting spear. really ? welded junk steel and all ?.
i'm sure a Zulu hunter would have a good laugh over this one. you could make a more effective hunting tool out of a broom stick ! roland
 
My all-time favorite spear consisted of a large Bushman, old style rolled and not welded, blade on a Maple staff of about 6 feet. It was heavy enough to land with some traumatic blunt force, when thrown from 20 ft, and bury about 1/2 of the blade in a hardwood tree. The spear would stick and the shaft would wobble/swing back and forth but the blade was undamaged.

Never tried to deanimate anything or anyone but it is a gas to throw a big spear just as the frontier hatchets are. But easier to find when you miss your target than the hatchets.

I have extra Bushman blades, one large and one small, on the ready line since they were so cheap at one time. And, the yard is full of small maple trees just waiting to be made into spear shafts. Unfortunately, I hear that the current Bushman blades are brittle.

oregon
 
Breathtaking spear work in the video. Thank you for the link. I would like to see her launching at targets.

She probably doesn't even get approached to play thru on that course.

oregon
 
Historically the only method I know of hunting deer with spears was ,leading them down a V shaped stone fence that gradually got steeper ,(it could go on for miles and miles) at the end of the road the walls were so high the deer coudn't get out.This is a communal effort of a hunting party not solo .When I was 17 I tried hunting Ibex (a type of mountain goat ) with a spear, it was very funny
 
If you find yourself in Vegas you might consider visiting Atlatl Rock and the nearby desert museum.

The monolithic rock depicts spear hunting sheep/goats long ago. The lone hunter would wear a sheep skin, in order to approach his target, then spear it using the throwing leverage stick.

The museum employees have made their own Atlatls and sometimes practice with them out back. Demand a demo/duel.

Ask to see the conference room at the museum when there. The cognizanti surround themselves with some pretty cool examples of ancient SW artifacts not otherwise on display.

oregon
 
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