Going on a Hog Hunt...with a knife

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Tom,

Don't listen to 'em. If you taper the tang and move the balance forward you've got to put a fitted guard in place to move the balance back towards the finger and make the blade lively again. Another way to get away with it is to use real 1/4" stock and taper the guard and taper the blade so that the balance comes out at the index finger. Of course then you're waisting steel and time and belts and... to get the esthetics of a tapered tang.

'Card,

How much control of the river did we ever have in class 3-5 water regardless of the swoopy boat and the carbon fiber paddle and brain bucket?;)
 
Tom you check on my AirConditioned shooting station yet ? Something about 100 yards out from the nearest hog is fine. ;)
 
That is a remarkable knife. Good luck on your hunt and I hope your knife works out great for you.

I have a couple of friends here in Missouri that have done the pig hunting with dogs. On the trip they went on, one pig was stabbed, the other was tied up and hauled out live on the back of a four wheeler. I understand it was quite a ride.

I delivered a rather large Jack Russell earlier this year to another acquaintance in Texas who hunts pigs with dogs. They stab them too, I guess the brush is so thick where they hunt that shooting pig and missing dog is an iffy proposition at best. Last I heard the Russell was hanging in there quite well. This group armors their dogs with Kevlar, I guess it helps the dogs last a little longer if the pig gets in the right place and the dog is in the wrong place.

I wish I had heard about this sort of thing before I got to be 55 and with horribly terribly bad knees, it sounds like a near ultimate adrenaline rush.
 
I've been following this whole event with great enthusiasm, planning for what I will use when/if I win the raffle. Besides, another excuse to spend money on knives is always welcome. Being the personality type that I am, I of course elected for complete overkill. I sent this Ted Frizzell/MMHW custom bowie to John Gonzalez ( http://www.dervishknives.com/ ) for larger and more agressively contoured custom slabs and a sharpened top clip. John's first knives offered under the Dervish name were blades from MMHW with his own slabs and finishes, so I thought he was the perfect man for the job.

1/4" thick 5160 (like all of Ted's big blades), 12" primary grind, 7" clip, 19.5" overall. It is bigger than most would recommend, but you know the saying:

"Go big, or go home!"

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Rick
 
Gonz grinds a mean blade no doubt , I never get tired of seeing his knives or his awesome leather sheaths he does. That is a sweet blade you got there.
 
i've been on two of these hunts. not as the sticker but as an observer, first guy's hand slid down the blade , killed the hog but need 34 stiches to close his hand. so pick a knife with a good hand guard.

second guy stuck the pig and then made a hasty retreat with knife flailing in the air. cut the dog handler on the back as he went by. know when and when not to have the knife out.
 
Dan,
I still say ya need a bigger knife..:neener:


My hog knife is being designed right now....by me!;)

11-12" blade from 5/15 or 3/8 A-2 ( I got short arms and want more reach!)

2-2 1/4" stock

15-17 degree taper at the end

Sharpened swedge 2-2.5 inchs back from tip

MIGHT do serrations at the end just for giggles

Cocobolo AND Black canvas micarta handles (Interchangeable)

Scales screwed on and can be taken off to attach knife to poll for use as a spear

Am I missing anything?
 
Man I wish I was going!

First time I "rode along" on a dog and dagger hunt, I was 15, fun times in New Zealand.

Here is a great site with some pics and video of some Dog & Dagger hunts...

http://monteriaboarhunts.co.nz/index.htm

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Larry Harley's back up on his feet and has asked me to go on a knife hunt this fall. We'll see :scrutiny:
 
Neat picture

I don't see any tusks though.

I wonder if the area of "New Zealand" only has Pigs without tusks. Those dogs need a collar that will protect their neck if they encounter "tusks".

My thought anyway.

HQ;)
 
And I thought hunting with a 1911 was risky

I thought hunting a boar with my WWI Colt 1911 was risky! Not only is this downright insane, it's downright thrilling! Looks fun, challenging, and risky too. I would not want to hunt one with a knife. That is just looks too risky, but, with a spear sounds...now that sounds challenging, and to boot, moderately safer. New Zeeland, huh? Hmm.

Cold Steel makes a spear for just this purpose. A couple of years back, a gentleman was doing such a hunt at Renegade Ranch (northern Michigan) and used a spear. The guide said that when he stuck the boar, it spun and snapped the handle, taking the spear with it. Sure it did die sometime later, but more important, it left the man defenseless. Had it spun on him, instead of fleeing, he would have been in trouble. I finally located the Cold Steel spears:

http://www.coldsteel.com/spears-high-performance-spears.html

Doc2005
 
Like I say, this is the Wimpy White-Guy version :)

Filipino acquaintances of my wife's family overin Hawaii do it the harder way - with just one or two dogs to find the pig. The only problem they have is walking around quietly. The *clang* *clang* *clang* of ten pounds of solid brass testicles can get noisy.

Years back I was looking something else up and came across an article in the British Medical Journal about injuries caused by pigs in Melanesia. "Most exsanguinated on the spot. Those who got to hospital had wounds that were long, wide, deep, jagged and septic and required irrigation and delayed closure." The problem was worst with British or Aussie hunters on vacation. They'd go out with a shotgun to hunt, I dunno, Poland-Chinas. When they surprised 300kg of bristly, mean, cunning wild boar they tended to get their femoral arteries ripped out. The locals take several dogs and at least two spears. The dogs are trained to bite the boar on the scrotum.

Richard the First or Third had a bestiary which declared "The Pigge is the fellest of all beastes and will soonest slay a manne." He was probably onto something.
 
cool pics - thanks!

The heart is low and the best place to enter is behind the front leg. Here's an anatomy pic:

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Most guys I've seen do it succesfully had 7-9 inches of blade (for the larger hogs) and went in quickly, wiggled up-n-down a bunch, and came right out.
 
Good pictures

cameron.personal:
Thanks for the pics and the information. The dogs look familar, are you breeding those? The one looks like a "Dogo Argentino".

Or do you buy from someone who is doing it especially for the pig hunts? This group is collar-less also.

Pendentive:
Thanks for the anatomy pic.

HQ:)
 
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