Spear Hunting

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If you want real adventure and challenges in your life, take up spear hunting. Whether you're hunting deer, bear, or boar, hunting with spears can be a challenging sport.

Spears have been used for over 400,000 years. They have been used for protection from wild beast, to gather meat, to overcome other men and armies, for sport and for entertainment.

Spears are used as a weapon for a charging beast to impale itself on. The spear is held against the floor or earth with the head towards the beast. When the beast lunges at the spear man, the spear enters the body.
In battle or in hunting, spears are thrown at the target. This is done as the spearman moves forward. The throwing arm is pulled back and as the foot on the other side of the body hits the ground the spear is thrust forward, giving more speed and power to the throw. Spears for hunting can also be used for slashing or stabbing.

A wise hunter will know and practice all of these. No matter how prepared the hunter is, unexpected things happen and happen quickly. Sometimes only the automatic reflexes of the hunter keep him alive.

Spears are used to hunt small game, birds, rodents, coyotes, deer and wild boar in the United States. It takes a lot of skill to sneak up on a wild creature. Spear hunting is the ultimate test of the hunter's ability. If the hunter goes after wild boar, it is also a test of the hunter's courage. A small boar weights 80 pounds and has razor sharp teeth and dangerous hoofs. The boars are fast and have very thick, hard skin. The hunter goes into the boar's natural habitat to find the boar, carring only a knife and a four to six pound spear. The spear is about 65 inches long with a sharp and deadly 6 to 8 inch head.

Many boar hunters use dogs to track the boar down. The hunting dogs pick up the scent of the boar and track it through the woods. The hunter needs to keep up with the dogs. If the hunter arrives too late when the dogs find the boar, the boar may kill or injure the dogs and escape. Once the dogs have located the wild boar, the hunter will carefully approach the animal, waiting for his chance to strike and kill. A wounded boar is very dangerous. Any misstep and the hunter will become the hunted.