Quote from: cokey on April 30, 2012, 10:17:37 AM
Anyone do or know of someone who hunt wild hog with just a knife?

There are folks that do it, but they use dogs as well. Do a YouTube search.

Quote from: Buckethead on April 30, 2012, 10:31:28 AM
No.

But I know a good orthopaedist if you feel like going for it.

I'd have the medavac ready as well, with a good trauma surgeon on standby.

Quote from: cokey on April 30, 2012, 10:17:37 AM
Anyone do or know of someone who hunt wild hog with just a knife?

I have been a part of my share of bad ideas.

No way would I be the one to say hold my beer and watch this

I'd do it with dogs and a spear.  Once that got easy, I'd consider dogs and a knife.  If a hog has 3 or 4 Dogos Argentinos hanging off it, one on each ear, sticking one with a knife or spear is greatly simplified - unless a dog looses its grip, in which case, your day just got a lot more interesting.

I'd really be nervous if I had a good pack of dogs, letting someone that I didn't know personally run with them with a spear.  If you haven't done much spear or big knife work, they are very dangerous, deadly pieces of equipment, they don't have a safety and keeping it in a safe direction requires constant attention, especially with dogs running around, especially in the violent, high stress excitement of a dog/hog/hunter fight.  Someone that looses their cool, is just as likely to stick a dog as the pig, resulting in any amount of bad feelings.

I've killed a fair amount of smallgame with spears - I think going after a hog would definitely get the blood pumping. 

There's a reason I called you a mad scientist

You say that like its a bad thing?

Coming from him it's a highest order compliment. 

I've been called worse by better people!

Quote from: Buckethead on April 30, 2012, 01:34:25 PM
Coming from him it's a highest order compliment. 

Indeed

Quote from: WarrenJ on April 30, 2012, 01:54:22 PM
I've been called worse by better people!

Surely

My older brother has a friend with a great story about wild hogs and a knife. Long ago my brother's buddy that owned a trucking company went to Hawaii (I'm guessing the big island... not sure now) with his wife. He had booked with a local guide to go on a hog hunt while they were there. He made sure his rifle was properly checked on the flight over (way pre-9-11) and was looking forward to the hog hunt.

His local guide picked him up early one morning at his hotel with several howling dogs in the back of his truck. Off they go and spend most of the morning going straight up hill (make that mountain!) on foot. I remember my brother's friend saying his guide was of Hawaiian decent and was a really big guy but could haul ass up the side of a hill or mountain.

Well the dogs finally catch scent of a pig and off they go. Guide and hunter trying to keep up. The hounds corner the boar and they are hanging off the hog in heavy brush in a life and death battle. My brother's friend cannot get a clear shot at the hog due to the dogfight. The guide waves him off saying he doesn't want one of his dogs shot by accident.

So the guide hands him a big ass straight blade knife and says he's going to join in the fray, jump on the back of the hog and stick his fingers up it's snout and pull it's head back... all the while the dogs are tearing the hog up! Oh, and by the way, the guide wanted him to cut the hog's throat with the knife while he had it's head pulled back!!!! WTF???

As the story goes it went down like the guide wanted but when the hunter cut the hog's throat blood went everywhere (duh??) and all hell broke loose. The dogs and hog went to the next nuclear level of craziness! Wasn't there but I do know my brother's friend and have heard him tell this story many times over the years. Crazy story but I do remember him saying his gun was never used after all that effort to get it there for a hunt and it took a beating that day in the brush.

Hard to believe but I know it's a true story. Just glad it was him and not me doing the pig sticking!!

I was about to suggest going to Hawaii for that sort of thing.  I had a connection (through my ex-wife) for a guy that hunted wild hog with dogs and (he claimed) a knife.  Lots of people down there do it, so I had no reason not to believe him.  He used to bring me some of the best sausage I've ever had!!!  Really miss that stuff.

that is one funny story.. i can only imagine the hod/dogs and your brother's friend and teh guide all getting the crap kicked out of them in the process with the blood going everywhere then.   

Quote from: DRKWNG on April 30, 2012, 03:30:22 PM
I was about to suggest going to Hawaii for that sort of thing.  I had a connection (through my ex-wife) for a guy that hunted wild hog with dogs and (he claimed) a knife.  Lots of people down there do it, so I had no reason not to believe him.  He used to bring me some of the best sausage I've ever had!!!  Really miss that stuff.

That's a big part of the story I don't know about. What happened to the dead hog. The guy lives here in the DFW TX area and the dead pig was in Hawaii. You damn sure don't get it processed and sent to Texas. It would cost a fortune! Regardless, hearing him tell the story is 100 times better than my vague recollection. As I said, crazy story but I know it's true. And yes, there is nothing better than good sausage!!!

Man, I really loves me some ham.

Quote from: fastwin on April 30, 2012, 04:24:10 PM
That's a big part of the story I don't know about. What happened to the dead hog. The guy lives here in the DFW TX area and the dead pig was in Hawaii. You damn sure don't get it processed and sent to Texas. It would cost a fortune! Regardless, hearing him tell the story is 100 times better than my vague recollection. As I said, crazy story but I know it's true. And yes, there is nothing better than good sausage BACON!!!

Just say'n...