Author Topic: Hog/Wild Boar Hunting (Read 2541 times)

williaming · « **on:** March 05, 2012, 06:19:50 PM »

Hi,
So I am planning to go boar hunting but was wanting to know the fastest and most efficient way to kill a boar with a knife. I would like to know what size/ type of knife I should use. I plan to kill around a 150-200lb boar. I would like to hear any ideas on the how, or what to use, to accomplish this.

stubshaft · « **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2012, 06:55:43 PM »

I used to use an old marine K-Bar bayonet. I would go in behind the shoulder and try to hit the heart, in the case of a boar this would be coming in behind the shield. I didn't want a blade the is too long as it would go through on smaller hogs.

tobster · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2012, 05:35:26 AM »

I think I would find a knife that shoots a .44 caliber bullet at about 1800 fps.

swordfish · « **Reply #3 on:** March 06, 2012, 05:57:47 AM »

First get a sharp pointy knife, then put it in it's sheath and shoot the hog with your 45-70.

Google search does wonders. If you need to see how it's done, add youtube to the search.
Cold Steel Knives specializes in them but any quality, sharp, pointy, long blade works.

Land_Owner · « **Reply #4 on:** March 06, 2012, 12:36:21 PM »

Quote from: swordfish

First get a sharp pointy knife, then put it in it's sheath and shoot the hog with your...

Dang it Stewart. I was gonna say that!

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #5 on:** March 06, 2012, 12:54:07 PM »

If you are set on Poking a Boar I would suggest something with a little reach

www.coldsteel.com

hit the spears and for about $100 you can get a 6' boar spear that will give you a good size blade and be able to poke it a few times from 3 to 4' away.
There is also the bush man that is a blade but you can quickly stick a stick in it and make it a long poking knife.

Other than that any of the longer bladed outdoor type knives would work.
You know the ones you see new hunters wearing that are way too big for gutting anything but a Masadon.
I would also carry your regular 3 to 5 inch deer knife to do the gutting and other standard chores.

I saw a video of a guy that stabbed a pig and it just looked grusom, they held down the pig flipped him over and stabbed him in the chest and ran along the ribs to open up the chest the pig went nuts. You could see the heart beating and they finally poked a hole in it and blood went everywhere.
So far the two I have shot died pretty fast and cleanly (Ok the first one I blew his jaw off but he caught the second 338 bullet a few seconds later)

clum sum · « **Reply #6 on:** March 06, 2012, 01:10:15 PM »

You need a knife with a 3 " blade, that gives You about a 1" advantage. Then You can see who is the badest. Also make sure whom ever is with You know's where nearest E.R. is. Would Like to see a vidio.

kynardsj · « **Reply #7 on:** March 06, 2012, 01:13:53 PM »

I use my Remington Bullet skinning knife that my father gave me years ago. This is after the hog has been shot with a large caliber rifle and has ceased all movement.

gstewart44 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 06, 2012, 03:07:56 PM »

did it once with one of the Cold Steel spears.....won't do it again..... believe me if you do not get the blade into the heart immediately you will have a couple hundred pounds of pork squealing and writhing in a lot of pain..... I prefer my piggies to DRT after giving them a 180gr 30 caliber Qtip. It is clean and very quick. Lately the boars that we have been kiilling have been sporting very long and sharp tusks. I don't want to get that close until it is dead.

Tommyt · « **Reply #9 on:** March 06, 2012, 05:06:34 PM »

If you don't want to use a Gun use a Hammer thump um upside the head
then take your knife and get too work

I would use a gun

pspinc2003 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 06, 2012, 05:14:29 PM »

Real men strangle them with dental floss

RevJim · « **Reply #11 on:** March 07, 2012, 06:37:52 AM »

Most of the guys who own these high dollar Hog Dogs ( some go as high as $5,000) do not want them shot, ha. With the dogs all over them, it's very easy to wound or kill a dog, so they prefer to use a knife. I personally do not care for this kind of hunting, but I am older, stiffer and much fatter than I used to be, ha. I also do not care for all the commotion. When people used swords/knives/spears in war, they used them all the time, and were much more skilled. There is an "Art" to "sticking a pig", and my Dad did all the hog killing/butchering for my grandpa, who raised them. Dad used a kitchen knife with about an 8" blade, and one poke hit the heart. Lots of grunting/squealing,etc. Grandpa would walk out of sight while the killing was going on, as he always got attached to them, feeding.caring for them. However, his family came first. He helped with the butchering. Plus, I never, ever saw him eat a single pork chop off one of them! I guess I took after him to a degree. I just "love" to shoot them off of corn out in woods or off an old Tram road. I don't like running shots on them either, though I have done it, can do it...I just don't care for it. I want to "snipe" him,ha. But....to each his own. My friend/guide/Outfitter uses a Gerber MK II with about a 7" blade. He also packs a 4 5/8" Ruger Blackhawk .41 with hollowpoints, he wants it to stay in the hog, not overpenetrate. I suggest that if you do go for one with a knife, be sure you have at least a .357, or so because you could get in a wreck/jam with one in those thickets! Also, keep an eye on climbable trees! Have a ball man!

JeffG · « **Reply #12 on:** March 07, 2012, 03:04:21 PM »

I am assuming that you are plannig to hunt with experienced dog handlers with good catch dogs. Seek the advise of your dog people, see what they use. Try to watch a kill or two in person, not youtube. I woud recomend a good sharp dagger or bowie, no less than 7 inch blade.

S_J_KENNELS · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2012, 07:16:45 PM »

With a good well placed stick the hog will be DRT. I have seen many hogs shot with both a gun or a bow run, squell, and make all the noise folks say they hear when a hog is stuck. Honestly I have been sticking hogs for well over 17 yrs now on my own, and have never had one run from me after being stuck, and 98% of them fall over DRT as soon as they are stuck with not so much as a grunt. It is all in placement and how you do it. A good knife would have a min 8 -10" blade. I use an old bayonett. Push the knife all the way in right at and behind the elbow joint. Then wiggle and twist it all around while stuck in the hog. Pull down and out when pulling out and the hog should be dead before it hits the ground if done properly.

stubshaft · « **Reply #14 on:** March 09, 2012, 07:41:25 PM »

Quote from: S_J_KENNELS on March 09, 2012, 07:16:45 PM

With a good well placed stick the hog will be DRT. I have seen many hogs shot with both a gun or a bow run, squell, and make all the noise folks say they hear when a hog is stuck. Honestly I have been sticking hogs for well over 17 yrs now on my own, and have never had one run from me after being stuck, and 98% of them fall over DRT as soon as they are stuck with not so much as a grunt. It is all in placement and how you do it. A good knife would have a min 8 -10" blade. I use an old bayonett. Push the knife all the way in right at and behind the elbow joint. Then wiggle and twist it all around while stuck in the hog. Pull down and out when pulling out and the hog should be dead before it hits the ground if done properly.

Thank you, I was beginning to think I was the only one who killed hogs with a knife. There are so many horror stories about hogs being superhuman and the rest of the touristy garbage that some take as a hard fact. I've been doing it for 40 years, and haven't had a scratch. It does lead to some exciting times though.

RevJim · « **Reply #15 on:** March 10, 2012, 04:14:44 AM »

Yep, when my dad stuck them, it was lights out. All the squealing,etc, just came from handling the hog, getting him ready for the sticking,ha. I don't "rassle" with those swine anymore, I "finesse them", ha. I never even tried to stick a hog ( other than bowhunting, get it?) but I did manage to castrate exactly one little Poland China in FFA! I got 'sympathy pains" out of that one, wow!

bikerbeans · « **Reply #16 on:** March 24, 2012, 01:12:34 AM »

If you don't want to shoot the pig, I can just have my ex-wife (Ph.D pyschologist) come down and talk to the hog and it will quickly take its own life.

BB

ratdog · « **Reply #17 on:** April 19, 2012, 07:46:13 PM »

try staring them down for a few minutes then when it shuts its eyes stick um

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ihookem · « **Reply #18 on:** April 22, 2012, 02:27:21 PM »

Must be a southern thing. Never heard such talk.

Land_Owner · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2012, 11:11:38 AM »

ihookem...please pay close attention to bikerbeans, who is quoted for maximum clarity below:

Quote from: bikerbeans

If you don't want to shoot the pig, I can just have my ex-wife (Ph.D pyschologist) come down and talk to the hog and it will quickly take its own life.

BB

There are ways to kill a pig, and then there are Southern Ways to kill a pig.

Curtis · « **Reply #20 on:** April 24, 2012, 04:16:46 PM »

Reminds me of the guy and his wife that were so ugly he didn't need a gun, just "uglied" them to death. He tried taking the wife hunting once but she tore up too much meat.

Curtis

frgerald · « **Reply #21 on:** May 16, 2012, 11:48:05 AM »

Heck BB,
My ex's degree is in Journalism but she could still make him want to kill himself if he hung around very long!

Besides, didn't Charles Bronson make a series of movies about this topic? Think they were called "Death Wish."

Gerald

SwampThing762 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 05, 2012, 01:37:09 PM »

I have killed two with a knife.....one with USMC KaBar, the other with a SPEC-PLUS Marine Raider Bowie with wide 10 inch blade. The trick is coming up underneath the shield where the shield ends to puncture the heart and lungs. That wide 10-inch blade helps, as well.

ST762

HL · « **Reply #23 on:** June 07, 2012, 01:41:22 AM »

Never having seen you, you may try grinning them to death. Worked for Marcel Ledbetter with dove.

bikerbeans · « **Reply #24 on:** June 07, 2012, 10:12:37 AM »

Quote from: HL on June 07, 2012, 01:41:22 AM

Never having seen you, you may try grinning them to death. Worked for Marcel Ledbetter with dove.

Jerry Clower and "his" Ledbetter family, don't get no better than that.

BB