Ok, hear me out.

Only thing I know people occasionally spear are feral hogs. Might have to travel south of Oregon for those.

I assume the spear idea is in a pursuit for more traditional and challenging method. Have you considered traditional archery? That's more than a whole can of worms though lol

If it wasnt trapped itd be awful hard but is doable especially on hogs.

Muay Thai roundhouse kick it into submission first. You know you wanna.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=409071&highlight=muay+boar

I've killed a hog with a knife. Run 'em with dogs and they corner 'em for ya. One person grabs 'em by the hind legs while the other cuts the throat. With dogs, hogs could easily be hunted with a spear. There are outfitters that run hog dogs.

A friend of my brothers went to Hawaii and killed hogs with a knife.

I'll not post the link here, but if you google "big game hunting with spears" you will find seveal you tube videos of hunters doing it. At least one with African natives hunting buffalo, elephant and hippo as well as smaller game. It's pretty graphic, taking multiple spears (dozens) and a slow death.

Most would not consider it ethical by todays standards to let an animal suffer like that when we have modern guns that will make a quick clean kill. But for tens of thousands of years hunters used spears because at the time it was the best tool for the job.

It isn't something I want to do, but I'll not judge someone who does.

Big rocks next season? Or will you just outpace the animal, tackle it in its stride, and break its neck?

Sorry for the rant-ish questions; I guess I'm just more of a quick, clean, ethical kill sort of guy.

I went on a duck hunt in Mexico. I winged a teal and it came down 10 yards from the dug-out canoe we were in. The guide produced a wrist rocket slingshot, inserted a marble and drilled that teal in the head. I was amazed. I've got a photo but it's pretty gory.

It's as ethical or unethical as you make it. Just like firearms. Just like bows. If you're prepared and have the proper tools, there's no reason it can't be done. A spear to the heart will kill as well as an arrow or bullet. And spears are certainly the most traditional of tools. Firearm hunting goes back 500 years. Spear hunting goes back at least 500,000 years.

But you might consider taking it in stages. A long spear from a stand over bait before trying some kind of thrown spear on deer, for example.

If you really want to spear something I'd go with the goose far less chance of permanent injury that way.
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I'm pretty sure it was on this forum, but a few weeks back there were all sorts of pics from a member in alaska who killed caribou with a spear. Pretty awesome if you ask me.

Ah...it's right here http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=679549

Bout 25 years ago I spotted a Mexican boy about 9-10 years old as I was driving by. In his left hand by the hind legs a limp cottontail, in the right hand cocked back, a rock, as he was taking aim at another. Remember thinking, " little league could use that boy".

At the plant I worked in for 21 years, there were often rabbit population explosions. I've taken rabbit with a rock, with a pair of channel locks, and even caught by hand and raised a baby one for slaughter. I'm no Crocodile Dundie, but I mean, at 10 feet, wasn't that hard. I was working graveyards every time.

One 4 graveyards nights I told this guy I'd buy him a coke for ever rabbit he killed for me. He got me a rabbit every night for 4 nights runnin'. I SAW him knock one over from 20 yards. That boy had an arm on him, was in the wrong profession.

Big rocks next season? Or will you just outpace the animal, tackle it in its stride, and break its neck?

Sorry for the rant-ish questions; I guess I'm just more of a quick, clean, ethical kill sort of guy.

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I'm just guessing, NOT a bow hunter?

My self-imposed rule is to shoot my first deer during archery season with my whiz-bang compound. following a successful hunt, i revert back to my 55 lb Bear Grizzly recurve for what is left of archery season. i practice all year with my recurve and am confident of a good shot out to 20 yards. i have not had success to date.

spear tactics are simply not practical for me, but i respect anyone who is willing to go the distance.

I am a longbow sniper(15yds). Also never got a kill with it. Only one doe got close enough and I shot over her back. I over comped.


I'd love to spear a hog. I like primative arms. What about an atlatl?

My self-imposed rule is to shoot my first deer during archery season with my whiz-bang compound. following a successful hunt, i revert back to my 55 lb Bear Grizzly recurve for what is left of archery season. i practice all year with my recurve and am confident of a good shot out to 20 yards. i have not had success to date.

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You shoot instinctive, I take it? I've hit a few gar that way, but have to be danger close to hit anything. LOL My old 45 lb Colt recurve I traded 4 8 track tapes for back in 73 finally broke a few years back, bought a new fancy PSE Kingfisher and put sights and a rest on it. That thing is accurate, but requires the arm strength of Hercules. I'm building back up to it. Meanwhile, buddy GAVE me a pristine Bear 50-55lb laminated wood Bear "Stag Hunter". I can't wait to get a string on it and start TRYING to hit something with it.

I've been shooting bows a long, long time, but I've never killed anything with one. That's my goal this year, to take a deer (or hog if one presents itself) with a bow during bow season. I'll be suing the pulleys and sights bow, though, for now. I gotta work up to even the PSE with sights. I ain't worth a toot without sights, but I like trying on cardboard targets.

i have kicked cotton tail rabbits before, they are not that hard to run-down on foot, kick and then grab and break the neck.

yes, instinctive. but it took me a while to quit aiming. i am also getting better and better at releasing quickly upon reaching full draw. that has helped tremendously. i also find that practicing year round with my recurve translates into some measure of proficiency with my compound.

i had a shot two years ago at a turkey in FL with my recurve but it was about 25 yards out and i passed on the shot. i still catch myself wondering if i could have made a body shot at that distance, but after 20, i seem to throw some pretty far off.

also i'll add that a recurve bow can do some pretty significant damage. i know a "guy" who put an arrow straight through his garage door and also through a wall. by accident of course, but it made that "guy" stop shooting inside when it was too hot outside.