"While that is a nice looking spear in the pic, its NOT a proper boar spear from what I can see.
A proper boar spear has a cross bar, and its there for a good reason!!
We have literally, thousands of years experience taking wild boar with spears, and many people have been killed or crippled by speared boars, because they used a spear without a crossbar. Same goes for bears. A blade long enough to reach the vitals and a crossbar to keep the rather upset beast from coming up the spear shaft and getting you before it dies, is a better tool than one without.
Can you do it without a crossbar? sure. Can you do it with a .38? sure. But there are better tools for the job."
If you are referencing to my photo, the little piece of stag is pretty solidly attached and, by the way, this is a handmade German Saufeder that had been used in hunting wild boar.
I also have a shorter boar spear for brush work, just six feet long that has a bigger stag bar solidly tied to it and is blood soilt.