How many of you guys have ever hunted with a spear? Next weekend I'm going out hunting boar with a few guys. I was wondering what experiences any of you had with spear hunting. I have hunted with guns and bow and arrow before but never spears.

In the old days before the bloody gunpowder, it was considered to be among the most dangerous activities apart from war, so watch out. The French king Philip IV. lost his life hunting wild boar.

Maybe something like this? It is called Saufeder in German, specially designed for killing boar at short distance. But even this did not always keep the boar from winning...

Well, the technique in question involved chasing a boar down with hounds while mounted, so you could keep up, and once they start fighting everyone dismounts and forms a circle. The boar then rushes, and you plant and hold the spear, with the crossbar preventing the boar from closing. However, said boar might just try to do something fancy, like avoid the spear head, and you want long spears for this, so that could screw you up. Its very dangerous, but probably pretty fun. That said, I would consider having at least one gun as well, if things go south.

http://budk.com/Swords/Fantasy-Swords/Spears-and-Tridents

That is the link where we bought or spears from. I am getting the long shaft assegai, my little brother the cold steel boar spearand my dad the samburu. We want to try the different kinds out to see what works the best. I'm not sure whether we will be throwing them at all or just stabbing. Have to wait and find out.

I was googling spear hunting online and I came to this guy, who I found amazing. The greatest spear hunter alive. http://www.huntingwithspears.com/AboutGeneMorris/tabid/1418/Default.aspx
Check it out if you get a chance.

Like Rat Man I was spearhunting as a child, without being a real danger to animals.  Spearhunting would be among the most illegal things I could do now, nothing without gunpowder is legal for hunting in Norway(okey, some traps, sometimes, but still...).
Appearently the most used spear hunting method now among the Great White Hunters is sitting in a three and throw /drop the spear down on the animal.  What kind of sport is that.  
And then it is the dog and boar thing.  Can easily be done with a knife too, by real MEN .  
No, if I should go spear hunting I would prefer the Kalahari way, run after the pray intill it can run no longer, and throw the spear at it.
I hope this shows a tiny bit of sporty attitude

According to this Cold Steel video I watched (and it sounds logical too), spear throwing for hunting is usualy done from one, two or three spear lenghts distance(not considering mammoth hunting here).  The lenghty javelin throws from the olympic games is probably more of a war thing.

Not to forget, bear hunting.  The traditional way of hunting bears, stand on one knee, spear on ground, spear point toward bear, make  bear charge you, lift spear point in appropiate moment, leave the butt of the spear on ground, steadied by rear foot.

timann

Well my remark about the non sportiness of taking a gun was me being sarcastic. I seriously think this is a very foolish undertaking, especially in light of the remark about "taking different types of spears and see what works". You did consider that what doesn´t work can potentially kill or seriously maim you...? I for one hope that if you go through with this, you won´t be finding any boar.

Jwest, on paleoplanet "the greatest spear hunter on earth" is getting some negative feed back. seems a little full of himself, though i'll say he has some skill.

Necurs: the blade shop has a bad reputation, was going to get something until when i was reviewing the seller they never told you your object was on backorder until you bought it, and then they kept the money.


not to burst your bubble, but i thought i might disclose what i found on the web sometime before.