Spear Hunting

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My grandfather was a captain in the 11th KEO Lancers of the British Indian Army stationed in Rawalpindi(now Pakistan), having transfered from the 4th Australian Light Horse in 1917.
The cavalry actually used their lances in battle, but there were many stories of my grandfather & his mates sticking wild pigs with their lances on horseback.
 
You should check out a fellow named Sasha Siemel. He was an "adventurer" shall we say, who's claim to fame was stalking and killing Jaguars with a spear. I remember reading about him in Outdoor Life or some such magazine when I was a kid. Also later on in Peter Capsticks book, "Death in the Silent Places."

If I remember correctly, he would stalk the Jaguar until he could bring the cat to bay, then provoke a charge, taking the cat on the point of the spear during the final few feet of the charge. He had a hilt on the spear to keep the cat from clawing it way down the shaft.

http://tmuss.tripod.com/shotfrompast/sas2.htm
 
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When I was at the Wilderness Hunting Lodge in TN a few years back there was a guy hunting Hogs with a spear. He got his hog and a good story to go with it so a few others got interested. One of them was a freind in our group that thought it would be a the coolist way for him to take his hog so the guy let him use his spear. We followed him around with a video camera but this was not as easy as it sounded in the guys story. As some of you may know this place has a fence around it so the guy decided to hang around it in hopes of a hog being funneled to him, even then the guy never got his hog with a spear but did with a bow like the rest of us. I never thought much of hunting anywhere close to the fence myself but he got desperate with the spear.
 
Yeah, to get that close it'd take some good tracking or a very thorough knowledge of the land you're hunting on. Fortitude and brass balls the size of cantalopes to stand there with a spear while a hog charges you. Course you could always panic and freeze and as long as no one noticed the yellow stream running down your leg they'd still think you were the baddest mo'fo' on the block. Haha.

Cold steel also has some boar spears with a 2 or 3 foot shaft which would be good for dispatching a pig surrounded by dogs. Better than a pocket knife I'd think. Strap it to your back or something for the thick country.
 
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Spear hunting is interesting, though.
It's different, but I still want to take big game with my Atlatl. The problem is, none of the states around me will allow it as a legal weapon.
 
Just myself I willl stick to a firearm. I dont have enough time to be a good bow hunter. That would take alot of practice, and just cant image someone being serious about it, but who knows maybe there is. But practice alot if you are. I wonder what the rules say?
 
I throw an atlatl on occasion, but am nowhere near good enough to hunt with it. I think there is only one state (Alabama ?) where it is legal to hunt with one, of course private landowners may have the flexibility other places as well.

They are a ton of fun. My mom's husband makes them and makes shafts out of thrift store graphite golf clubs, or a few aluminum arrow shafts put together.

We have a big dirt mound that we call "The Mammoth" and have enough equipment that everyone who wants can join the mammoth hunt. it is cool, because it is more about the mechanics than strength, so the kids can be on equal footing with the adults.
 
The Late Peter Capstick (American who worked in Africa as a PH) tried it once, according to what he tells in his book "Death in the Tall Grass" it's not a good idea, especially if your quarry is Cape Buffalo...

then there is also the all important principle of doing ALL YOU CAN to ensure a swift death to the animal, and I doubt that many (any?) of us are proffficient enough for that. Myself, I'll stick to hunting with my rifle.

Brgds,

Danny
 
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that gentleman one the link i mentioned above has several water buffalo, lions. jaguars etc. and the damage done to whitetails with it is AMAZING. damn near rips them in half (literally) I am sure it entails alot of skill and practice, however; it seems to be more than enough for most game.

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As in all things you have to match the bullet (or spear, haha) with the intended victim. And maybe work at it a little longer to get proficient. Not every weapon is plug-n-play with sights or scopes. Some take a bit more work to achieve success. Know that satisfaction you get from making a clean kill? Imagine how sweet that success would be after the bitterness of attempting over and over again.

Where would anyone be if we "tried it once, didn't work too well" and quit?
 
OK, checked the link to "The Worlds Greatest Spear Hunter" and looked at some of the photos.

Can anyone tell me where it would be legal to hunt elk with a spear in the US, other than on a private "reserve"? And that was not 40 years ago, that was 2008.

Just that right there got me wondering how many of these were true fair-chase hunts.
 
The Late Peter Capstick (American who worked in Africa as a PH) tried it once, according to what he tells in his book "Death in the Tall Grass" it's not a good idea, especially if your quarry is Cape Buffalo...
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I thought I rembered reading in one of his books that he had tried (and did it if, I remember correctly) it with a Cape Buffalo. It was something he said he'd never try again, drunk or sober.
 
I reccomend trying it on black bear.

Take a picture, and you'l never have to pay for a drink again, plus I really doubt the magnum boys will snicker at your 30-30.
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I know an old Athabascan elder living in one of the Yukon River villages that speared a grizzly bear on the Koyukuk coming out of its den back in the day.
The spear was an Athabascan bear spear with a copper spearhead and birch shaft. He basically made the charging bear impale itself on the spear as it came out of the den and the momentum helped him flip it over his head.

He recounts the story in the book about his life "Shadows on the Koyukuk".
 
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