Hog Hunting - Close Combat!

Hog hunting with dogs and a knife?

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Hog hunting with shotgun+dogs, now, that's a good time!!!
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i agree. i done it here in La once and the three of us got five hogs (3 boar- biggest was bout 200lb)

i have hunted hogs with knives (less than) half a dozen times. used dogs and a Benchmade 141 Nimravus or a KA-BAR. in all, about ten hogs (i killed myself), 150- 400 lb. havent hunted for em in five or more years though.

let me tell ya, it is an adrenalin rush.
 
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Maybe I'm just a wuss, but I couldn't slice open a live animal like that. Too personal.
 
Let me suggest that hunting hogs with dogs and a knife can be the safest and most efficient way in heavy cover.

In the saw palmetto swamps of Florida visibility is often less than ten feet. That is not nearly enough time and space for me to reliably stop a charging hog with a firearm.

When working with dogs they do the work of stoping the hog. The hunter's only job is the actual kill. As the dogs have been nice enough to do the hard part, it seems unrasonable to deafen them with report and risk their safety with a badly aimed or overpenetrative shot. Making the kill with a knife is not particularly difficult once the dogs have it stopped.

Whether you think it is cool or not is a personal matter. But many people rely on this method to harvest meat that their family needs or to protect their crops.
 
Dogs run em untill they nearly have a stroke, then you jump in there and grab his back feet, pick them up off the ground,,,,, got him,,,
 
I haven't used a knife, but have used dogs and handguns, or no dogs and handguns or rifles in thick river bottoms.

I crawled up on my belly to within less than 10ft of a pack a couple years back, that were holed up in a cane break. Once I got up there I had to focus in on the biggest one with my binocs to see which way the hair was going so I knew which end to shoot. Touched off the first round and a 30' piece of property came alive. Must have been two dozen hogs in there. We ended up getting three of the bigger ones.

I prefer using handguns or what used to be my, Ruger Compact in .308. In the thick stuff we head into anything longer is just too much of a pain. I have found that most any of them succumb to my 41 magnum even out to ranges of 100yds but especially up close and personal. I have been hit and knocked sideways in tunnels similar to what was mentioned earlier, it will test you metal for sure. The bad part is not shooting the one coming down the tunnel towards you, it's the 8 - 15 or more that are laying up in the crap on either side of the tunnel when you fire that head for somewhere other than where they were when you shot.
 
As Art noted, this was something that I did several times around the turn of the century..... moved out west and sorta let it go, but I'd do it again in a minute if convenient enough to the schedule!


This was a small Florida sample.... Notice the bent up head of the spear. The spear was ruined (bent in two places) while dancing with the hog. Ended up walking down the spear and killing it with knife the old fashioned way (up under front leg into heart). I decided the spear was a dumb idea.
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In that case, I was testing out the spear concept. I had already taken a few with dogs & knife and enjoyed that much more... particularly in northern Texas.

As McGunner noted, you don't need a special knife. The first time I did it with a borrowed 6 or 7" blade from the guide. Then I had a larger one custom made for the task, but it proved to be longer than needed. To date, I've killed more hogs with the knife in the above picture than any other... it is a custom "Pincus Thing" double edged 3 & 3/4" Mad Dog that Kevin made for me in '98 or '99 after I trained with him in Georgia.

-RJP
 
Went on a hog hunt with dogs once upon a time and had a blast. Went on a first date with a girl (I know, I should have married her...5'10" blonde rodeo girl. Ok, I'll stop). Anyway, we turned the Catahoulas loose, they bayed the hog, sent in the Pit Bull catch dogs, and it was on like Donkey Kong :).

We did not knife the hogs, we hog tied them(where the term comes from :)) and pulled them out alive. This was in the Post-NAFTA days when people were buying live wild hogs and paying more per pound than cattle were going for at that time (one dealer paid 55 cents a pound for live hogs over 300 pounds). Once we got the hogs in the trailer, we spent the rest of the time looking for the dogs. We did as much dog hunting as we did hog hunting. Even with tracking collars on the dogs, trying to find dogs in the middle of the night on several hundred acres is a chore by itself. When the sun came up I was covered head to toe in mud and beat down exhausted. It is still the most fun you can have with your clothes on, especially when they are caked with mud and you have to go back to your date's house to take a shower ;).
 
Never have done it but I've hunted plenty with my Ruger Blackhawk .357 and have had times when I'm crawling through pig tunnels on my belly in thick briars.
 
Has anyone told these guys you can take em with rifles? This sounds crazy, these things are crazy.
 
It's fun, but the dogs required are high maintenance. I just went a few times with a guy a friend knew. It is something everyone should try IMHO, I mean, if you're up to it physically. It's a lot of work, especially if, as we were, you're tromping through rice fields at 1AM. I'm not a night person, either, which don't help. LOL
 
Didn't dip or chew, but could shoot a rifle almost as good as me and had a 13 point whitetail scoring 173 on the wall in her living room :).

The one that got away.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
 
Funny, the only thing I haven't hunted hogs with is shotgun and bow & arrow. Rifle, handgun, spear and knife... yes and I would definitely do it again with a blade!
 
Here's my take on this hunting hogs with a knife...I figure there are and always will be guys / gals that want to do it for the rush or whatever they get out of it....without these people there would be no "They Walk Amoung us" stories.
For me if I have not dropped a hog with my 30-06.....or my 45 ACP then my knife is just going to PI-- the hog off, and that just wouldn't be right for the hog. Besides like they say about old people ....don't get in a fight with us....we don't like fighting anymore....We will just shoot your A--!
 
If torturing an animal before you kill it with your "compensation" tool is what floats your boat ....knock your selves out, but please, if you should ever meet me in person, do not regale me with your masturbatory Tarzan stories of "gittin em wit a knife".:barf:

I kill more pigs in any given year than most of you will in your lifetimes, and see absolutely no reason to torture them for kicks before exterminating them.

That is what you are doing, don't try to kid yourselves.
 
Did it once... younger and dumber and all that. Wouldn't care to do it again -- particularly on a hog like this one (my most recent harvest). :D
 

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Hoji when the pig is trying to get the dogs that are baying it is that the torture part? Or is it the part where I put my knife in the arm pit for a direct stab to the heart? I strongly disagree that this is torture. Even if it were considered torture in some circles, they cause millions of dollars in damage to property and agriculture each year in Texas alone. Last year to the tune of $1,000,000 per week. These animals need to be removed by any means legal. Also all the anti hunting groups that exist today love to see these type of arguments among fellow hunters because we are doing their jobs for them. If somebody doesn't agree with a certian legal practice of taking an animal espcially a non game animal they really need to choose their words wisely. Words like torture are what is going to get all kinds of hunting practices abolished whether it be trapping archery or hunting with the aid of dogs.
 
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No and don't want to. Would prefer to rifle hunt hogs as I do not want to put the dogs at risk. I fully support hog hunting though--they're destructive pests. I just have no desire to hunt over dogs, or kill the hog with a knife.
 
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If torturing an animal before you kill it with your "compensation" tool is what floats your boat ....knock your selves out, but please, if you should ever meet me in person, do not regale me with your masturbatory Tarzan stories of "gittin em wit a knife".
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Excuse me, but who do you think you are saying that? I grow tired of the female psyche at work in saying that because I own a gun, I have a small penis...

That is a disgusting, below the belt, sexually charged remark and frankly, if someone said that to me in a work context I would sue them for sexual harassment, because it is. It is a form of intimidation.

If you don't like hog hunting with a knife (I don't, because it is like gangster rap, SOME good stuff, mostly not) then say so. But to make some kind of sexual judgment is far worse than disgusting.
 
I am endlessly amused by someone that thinks that shooting a pig from far away with a high powered rifle is more sporting than using dogs to hunt and kill one with a knife. This is particularly true of those that hunt by sitting in a stand and waiting for an animal (even more amusing if it is baited) to come wondering in front of them so the can rest their rifle and line up the cross hairs.

It is also not surprising that such a person cannot come up with a logical arguement to express that belief but rather results to childish type of "arguement" found above.
 
It is still torture. As I stated I kill hundreds of feral pigs in any given year. I find the use of dogs to be unusually cruel. The dogs chase the pig, corner it, and if using catch dogs, will grab the hog and hold it till some goober comes along and stabs it to death{ if you are good, it will be one poke behind the shoulder into the heart}

You are doing absolutely nothing to control the population, and making the pig live its last 10 minutes in terror. There is no place among ethical hunters for the "bloodsport" types.

For me it is about reducing the number of pigs in the most efficient manner available.

I stand by my statements.
 
For me it is about reducing the number of pigs in the most efficient manner available.
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Dogs, aerial shooting and trapping are the three most efficient ways to eradicate feral hogs. Check with the agencies that do it professionally don't take my word for it. Trapping in your eyes must even be more cruel than dogs they might have to wait several days in shear terror before being executed with a knife or a gun. So it's not about eradication to you it's about gentle kind genocide?

I also kill several hundred feral hog in an average year. I use guns and dogs but occasionally the only choice I have is a knife or spear depending on the situation. In some areas dogs are the only way to get it done effectively. The other thing I use my dogs for is blood trailing wounded hogs after they've been shot by a high powered rifle and wounded.
 
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