Bruz
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He's called "one ball Billy" now.
Do your parents always let you stay up this late?
LMAO!
Do your parents always let you stay up this late?
LMAO!
Hunting with knives
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"then you could grab one of the legs and beat the deer to death WITH ITS OWN LEG!!!!! THAT would be WILD!" AND THEN THE ALIENS WOULD...
Step back from the keyboard and take a deep cleansing breath there son.
Regardless of the silly tone of this poster I've known 6 different folks that have killed whitetail deer or wild hogs with knives. In the 2 cases involving the deer they were each certain that the animals were dead from their shots. In the one case the hunter had the knife in hand when he drew the animals neck back to cut the arteries and the animal "came to life" as he cut it. Luckily it fell to the ground after bounding another 20 or 30 feet away. The other fellow wasn't nearly so lucky as the animal came up fighting as he grabbed an antler. He had to draw his sheath knife to cut the animal's throat while hanging on for dear (
sorry) life. In the case of the hog hunters, they were all hunting wild hogs with fixed blade knives ang dogs. One was Hawaii (really feral boar instead of Russians), one was out west (Oklahoma) and the others were back east. All rushed in on the animals with a 7+inch fixed blade while the dog(s) kept the animal busy and all of them got out without a scratch after plunging the blade in just behind the shoulder and opening a large wound to the chest cavity. I have turned down three opportunitie (?) to participate in such hunts and doubt that I want to face 4-6 inch ivory razors even if a pack of good dawgs keeps the wild Russian boar busy!
Brownie, Larry lives just up the road a couple of hours and trains folks to forge knives (if they got the time and money). C'mon down some time and I'll introduce you.
Step back from the keyboard and take a deep cleansing breath there son.
Regardless of the silly tone of this poster I've known 6 different folks that have killed whitetail deer or wild hogs with knives. In the 2 cases involving the deer they were each certain that the animals were dead from their shots. In the one case the hunter had the knife in hand when he drew the animals neck back to cut the arteries and the animal "came to life" as he cut it. Luckily it fell to the ground after bounding another 20 or 30 feet away. The other fellow wasn't nearly so lucky as the animal came up fighting as he grabbed an antler. He had to draw his sheath knife to cut the animal's throat while hanging on for dear (
sorry) life. In the case of the hog hunters, they were all hunting wild hogs with fixed blade knives ang dogs. One was Hawaii (really feral boar instead of Russians), one was out west (Oklahoma) and the others were back east. All rushed in on the animals with a 7+inch fixed blade while the dog(s) kept the animal busy and all of them got out without a scratch after plunging the blade in just behind the shoulder and opening a large wound to the chest cavity. I have turned down three opportunitie (?) to participate in such hunts and doubt that I want to face 4-6 inch ivory razors even if a pack of good dawgs keeps the wild Russian boar busy!Brownie, Larry lives just up the road a couple of hours and trains folks to forge knives (if they got the time and money). C'mon down some time and I'll introduce you.
oh all right I don't know if this follows the topic of this thread or not
but while I was in the Army the first time, my folks (and my younger brother who was in Highschool at the time) moved to their retirement property - a farmed out piece of sand and swamp in central Wisconsin. My dad (who was an Lutheran minister) was subsequently hired as a 'fill in' by a number of different churches in the area, so they had some additional income, but that's another story. Seems that there were (and still are) a lot of 'flatlanders' from Chicago and thereabouts who go up to Wisconsin for deer hunting. The week after deer season my dad stopped by one of the local hospitals to do the 'visitation pastor' thing and checked with their admissions folks for anyone from the various parishes he helped cover (this was rural Wisconsin - the whole county had maybe 19 thousand people in it). He go the list and also got to hear the following story which was *hot* news for that time and place:
It seems that the opening weekend of deer season the little local hospital had treated a rather well to do Chicago resident for a severe concussion. As related by the other folks he had been hunting with, said resident had shot at a buck and everyone had seen it fall. Without doing the "leg check", or even spotting where on the deer his bullet had hit, the shooter went up to the fallen buck, handed a flash camera to one of his comrades, and told him to take a picture while the shooter assumed a "great white hunter" pose behind the deer with one foot on the fallen deer's side. When the flash went off the hunting party discovered several things:
1. the deer wasn't wounded, it was now merely missing part of one antler.
2. if you are half straddling a downed deer and the deer jumps up, you may well end up astride a terrified deer.
3. That only lasts until the deer runs under the low hanging branch of a nearby oak tree.
4. Then your buddies get to take you to the hospital, and can forget about the rest of the day for hunting.
which leads me to the conclusion that taking on a deer with a knife is NOT on the list of things I intend to do anytime soon, if you know what I mean?
but while I was in the Army the first time, my folks (and my younger brother who was in Highschool at the time) moved to their retirement property - a farmed out piece of sand and swamp in central Wisconsin. My dad (who was an Lutheran minister) was subsequently hired as a 'fill in' by a number of different churches in the area, so they had some additional income, but that's another story. Seems that there were (and still are) a lot of 'flatlanders' from Chicago and thereabouts who go up to Wisconsin for deer hunting. The week after deer season my dad stopped by one of the local hospitals to do the 'visitation pastor' thing and checked with their admissions folks for anyone from the various parishes he helped cover (this was rural Wisconsin - the whole county had maybe 19 thousand people in it). He go the list and also got to hear the following story which was *hot* news for that time and place:
It seems that the opening weekend of deer season the little local hospital had treated a rather well to do Chicago resident for a severe concussion. As related by the other folks he had been hunting with, said resident had shot at a buck and everyone had seen it fall. Without doing the "leg check", or even spotting where on the deer his bullet had hit, the shooter went up to the fallen buck, handed a flash camera to one of his comrades, and told him to take a picture while the shooter assumed a "great white hunter" pose behind the deer with one foot on the fallen deer's side. When the flash went off the hunting party discovered several things:
1. the deer wasn't wounded, it was now merely missing part of one antler.
2. if you are half straddling a downed deer and the deer jumps up, you may well end up astride a terrified deer.
3. That only lasts until the deer runs under the low hanging branch of a nearby oak tree.
4. Then your buddies get to take you to the hospital, and can forget about the rest of the day for hunting.
which leads me to the conclusion that taking on a deer with a knife is NOT on the list of things I intend to do anytime soon, if you know what I mean?
brownie0486
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hso:
Thanks for the invite. The pleasure would be all mine I'm afraid. Have followed Larry products for almost 10 years.
He knows how to make knives that stand up to the tests of the real world to say the least. If I was 20 years younger I would try it.
Brownie
Thanks for the invite. The pleasure would be all mine I'm afraid. Have followed Larry products for almost 10 years.
He knows how to make knives that stand up to the tests of the real world to say the least. If I was 20 years younger I would try it.
Brownie
Mannlicher
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Seems like Neanderthal man figured out about 25000 years ago, that knife hunting was not safe, wise, or productive. I see we have come full circle.....................
Ol' Badger
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True Story, I guess
I read in a W V newspaper where a man kilt a Black Bear with an AXE!. His friend said he shot a Bear and couldnt find it, but had to go to work. The guy volunteered to go look for the Bear and found it. It was p.o.ed and attacked him. He had an axe and a knife with him. The long and the short of it is that he managed to kill the bear but walks with a limp.
I read in a W V newspaper where a man kilt a Black Bear with an AXE!. His friend said he shot a Bear and couldnt find it, but had to go to work. The guy volunteered to go look for the Bear and found it. It was p.o.ed and attacked him. He had an axe and a knife with him. The long and the short of it is that he managed to kill the bear but walks with a limp.
Harold Mayo
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Not quite the same thing, but don't gauchos in Argentina kill wild hogs with knives after wrestling them down? An acquaintance of mine described something of the sort that he had learned about after going down there to hunt birds.
Not exactly a do-or-die situation, but once when I was a teenager, I threw an axe at a rabbit about 15' away. The axe landed precisely on its handle, bounced and then hit the rabbit a glancing blow with the axe head blade. Rabbit keeled over. The friend who was with me was really impressed, especially as I had whispered, "Watch this!" before I threw it.
We would sometimes hunt armadillos simply by catching them by the tail. The trick is to figure out where they're headed, get out about 15-20' in front of them and stand still. They'll often walk right up to you.
Normally a spear would be the bladed hand-held weapon of choice for hunting, not a knife or sword. I do "wear" a knife while hunting, but not as a primary weapon.
We would sometimes hunt armadillos simply by catching them by the tail. The trick is to figure out where they're headed, get out about 15-20' in front of them and stand still. They'll often walk right up to you.
Normally a spear would be the bladed hand-held weapon of choice for hunting, not a knife or sword. I do "wear" a knife while hunting, but not as a primary weapon.
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