[Cybert]

Maybe it's the Rambo in me. I'd like to take out my food face-to-face. No throwing the knife, and no guns. Just a quick stab. No lead in the meat, right? This dumb?

[Chawbaccer]

Check the regulations, some of the southern states have a knife and spear hunting season.

[trickyasafox]

grab some dogs and you just put together a hog hunt :)

[22-rimfire]

Cybert, what state do you live in? You in High School? On your first day here on THR, you have started a number of threads. I won't comment... the eunuch, knife, abortion. Proabably have missed some. Tell us about yourself. Ah... the anonymity of the internet.

There are people that hunt feral hogs with a knife. Usually done with dogs though and then you move in close. Not for me. Those hogs are tough and ugly, and they can hurt you.

You ever hunted?

[Cybert]

Yeah, I came in with a bang. Anyway, thanks for the tips. More of a fantasy than anything else. No, I haven't hunted at all. I've fired my share of guns at targets, but nothing sentient. I am a eunuch, and am well past High School. The rest, I will leave in the locker known as "internet anonymity".

[hso]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=215829

Extensive thread on knife hog hunting over in NonFirearms.

['Card]

Since this is already a dumb thread, I'll go ahead and make it a little dumber with a story that's true - but nobody ever believes it.

When I was a teenager I was out one day bird hunting with a friend and my High School math teacher's husband. This guy was a 'Nam-era SF vet, and pretty hardcore.

So we were walking through this field and it was my turn for the next shot. We flushed a bird, and just as I raised my shotgun and fired, a big doe just exploded out of a line of bushes to our left (presumably startled by the close-proximity noise of the shot) and practically ran right on top of this SF vet.

Now me and my friend are so startled we don't know whether to s*** or go blind (as the expression goes) but this SF guy drops his gun, whips out this big pig-sticker of a knife and jumped on that doe. Seriously. By the time I have any idea what's happening, off they go down through the field. He's trying to run beside her, holding on for dear life with his left arm around that doe, and with his right arm he's just plunging that knife into her neck over and over again. The doe was jumping and running and every time she'd pop up into the air this guy's feet would come off the ground and flail around all over the place. If I hadn't been so dumbfounded it probably would have been hilarious.

They must have covered something like a hundred yards like that, but finally the doe flopped over and they ended up a big, bloody, furry heap on the ground. Wasn't anything for us to do at that point but field dress it and carry it out to the truck. In addition to being just a little bit nuts (as is probably obvious by this point) the SF guy was painfully honest, and he insisted on taking the deer to the game warden since it wasn't deer season at the time, and killing does was illegal back then anyway.

I'll never forget that conversation. At first the warden clearly thought we were pulling his leg, but we eventually convinced him when he saw what a mess the doe's neck was. He refused to write the guy a ticket because he said he thought all the regulations specified shooting a deer out of season, and none of them covered killing one with a knife. Then he looked at the SF guy and said "What in the hell possessed you to kill a deer with a knife anyway?" and the guy said "Hell, I didn't want to kill it. The damned thing just startled me." The game warden took a long, slow look at the doe in the bed of the truck and said "Remind me not to startle you." :cool:


...and that's one of only two deer I've ever personally known about that were killed with a knife. The other one I don't usually tell unless I'm drunk, because people usually call me an outright liar when I tell that one. :D

[atek3]

funniest post ever

[robctwo]

My dad tells about a guy back in the 40's in Oregon who was a trail maintenance worker for the forest service. Dad was working on watch towers. This guy was a throw back mountain man complete with stinking buck skins. He hunted with a machete. Stood by a tree next to deer trails and hit them in the neck behind their ears. Dressed them out and smoked/dried them on sticks. No running involved.

[BIGJACK]

I have and still do on occasion participate in hunting hogs with a knife here in Alabama. It is done as follows.j

The dogs bay(hog stops to fight) the hog! :) Some of the dogs will catch and hold him!

Method 1. The hunter steps in, stradles the hog and stabs him in the heart from the side, backs out and lets him die, sometimes takes several minutes/:o

Method 2. The first hunter grabs the hogs back legs and picks his back end off the ground. :uhoh:
A second hunter approaches the hog from the side, reaches over his back, takes hold of his front leg and pulls him over on his side. When the hog hits the ground the second hunter puts his left knee on the hogs neck up close to the head and picks the bottom front foot off the ground.:scrutiny:
The first hunter puts his left knee and weight on the hogs flank and holds the bottom back foot off the ground. :)
The other hunters get the dogs off the hog and at this point the hog is either tied up by one of the other hunters or "stuck" by the first hunter with a long bladed knife in the throat between the front legs and into the heart and the two hunters hold him until he expires. :eek:

10 TO 1 SAYS IF YOU WERE THERE YOU WOULD NOT BE HUNTER FIRST OR SECOND.

[BigFatKen]

In Alabama, you can spear hunt. A popular sport for a while was running down deer out west by hunters who could run endless 5 minute miles. That will wear down a deer in less than a Maration. Check out your local sports medicine doctors for those guys now for knee and other injuries.

[carnaby]

Dude, didn't you just post on another thread about how you won't hunt because there is no tactical reason to?

[Just_a_dude_with_a_gun]

jeez, cybert, enough already.

[BIGJACK]

Big fat ken, Man I don't know where you got this info about a deer being run down by a man?????:confused: Here in Alabama and the rest of the south we have hunted deer with dogs for a long time and I have owned maybe a hundred or more deer hounds and I have seen them run the same deer for over 6 hours many times. I grant you in an open pasture if they can see him, they are fresh and can run him by sight they can run him down, other wise unless the deer is hurt or un healthy they are very unlikely to catch him and I seriously doubt that any man could.:)

[crunker]

You'd better be damned good with a blade and stealth to willingly want to hunt with it. I'd prefer a spear.

[MCgunner]

Hunting with knife and dogs for feral hogs is big sport around here. The hog is usually stabbed in the throat and the carotid cut. A filet knife works great for this. Don't need no Rambo knife or Bowie or Arkansas tooth pick or nothin'. Those that own dogs also are good with a suture kit and use one a lot on their dogs and sometimes need it on themselves. I've been out with a few of these idiots, always insisted on a handgun. They don't like that much, worried about the dogs, but I have a bit of a local reputation for being able to hit what I shoot at and I ain't' goin on no danged bore hunt without my .45 colt for back up!

I haven't done this in a long time, not really a night owl. I am a morning person and prefer to get up early and watch the sun rise and shoot my quarry from a distance. I ain't no Rambo or no cave man. :p I'm also too old to start hand to hand combat with big boars, or is it too wise? :rolleyes:

There was a guy working at the local feed store here that had a big scar across his belly from this activity.

[SoCalShooter]

I call it neither bravery nor stupidity...but I always take a tomahawk, k bar and when boar hunting my boar spear...I still carry guns but uh...that backup is always nice.

[mp510]

Cybert, Didn't you just get through telling us that you did not hunt, because you are afraid for your safety? NOw, you want to get 'up close and personal' with a wild animal? I suggest you learn up on what's going on around you. As you said, you're looking to avoid any potential for injury/ death...

[BIGJACK]

Yep,sometimes it happens. My hunting buddy fell while trying to excape a hog that had got loose from the dogs and he cut him from the back of his knee up to his belt line-165 stiches. Also had several puncture wounds between his knees and on his ankles from when he turned over on his back and was fighting him off with his feet. The hog backed off and he was able to get the shot gun from the 4 wheeler and kill him. He stayed in the hospital 3 days watching for infection.

[ScottsGT]

About three years, maybe 4, back, there was a story in the AP Press about an elderly gentleman that was takine a leasurly sunday afternoon walk in the woods and came upon a big buck in the middle of the rut. The buck got agressive with the old timer, and all he had was a folding pocketknife. Old guy won, buck lost.
One tough old man.

[bclark1]

when deer walk directly under my tree stand, i've always wondered about jumping down on them. maybe use a bungee safety harness? i'm not exactly a fencing champ, though, and my knives are just sharp enough to field dress, probably not up to tactical spec.

[Joe Demko]

when deer walk directly under my tree stand, i've always wondered about jumping down on them.

I knew a guy down in Laredo TX who did that. He jumped out of one of those big tripod-type stands that folks use in places where the trees are sparse. He was a big, fat, chubby kind of guy and the deer was one of the scrawny little specimens typical of that arid region. He stabbed it a couple times, but I never thought it was necessary. I think the impact of his 300+ pounds of tortilla-fed manliness killed the poor thing. Folks called him "Tarzan" for a long time afterward.

[swampdog]

when deer walk directly under my tree stand, i've always wondered about jumping down on them.

I think the impact of his 300+ pounds of tortilla-fed manliness killed the poor thing.


It can go the other way, too. I had a kid that worked for me that talked about it constantly. When he got the chance, the deer heard him and moved. Result? Compound fracture. Lucky he didn't break his cell phone, fall on his knife, or get kicked in the head. Ouch!

I'd like to try the hog/dogs/knife thing, although I'd certainly want to carry a sidearm.

[Rembrandt]

Killed an Antelope with a 4" knife and my bare hands......(In my Paul Harvey voice) "Now the rest of the story".....

Took my 12 year old to Wyoming for an Antelope hunt, we watch as he shoots a nice buck and it drops. Everyone is in a hurry to see the animal, I kneel down and lift it's head by grasping one of the horns....(Holy resurection!!) the shot grazed it's back and mearly stunned it. Not being one to let go of this fine buck, I hang on as it jumps to it's feet and begins running in circles. With one hand hanging on to the Antelope and the other reaching for my knife. Managed to wrestle it to the ground and cut it's throat. Covered with blood from head to toe.....and the Antelope is hanging on the wall looking down as we speak.

(Second one from the left)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/Wildlife/Antelope.jpg

Firearms are much more effective than knives.....

[ScottsGT]

I knew a guy down in Laredo TX who did that. He jumped out of one of those big tripod-type stands that folks use in places where the trees are sparse. He was a big, fat, chubby kind of guy and the deer was one of the scrawny little specimens typical of that arid region. He stabbed it a couple times, but I never thought it was necessary. I think the impact of his 300+ pounds of tortilla-fed manliness killed the poor thing. Folks called him "Tarzan" for a long time afterward.


I guess the real queston here is, did he first say to his hunting buddy, " Hey, watch this!"

[bclark1]

lol, the chicks dig it!
some great stories in here - 'card, i'd be happy to hear the other one without questioning its validity for a second!