I Want To Hunt With My Bowie Knife….?

The best way to get caught by a feral hog (especially one that is 85-90% Russian, and weighs around 500-750 lbs), is to let them see you armed with nothing but a Bowie Knife. He’ll run you down on his longer legs (they have a dash speed of over 30 miles per hour), and hit you with over 2 foot-tons of force, knock you to the ground and begin to eat you while you watch him begin to eat you. And then…
Oh, sorry! You meant how YOU can catch a wild pig!
Do all as described as above, touch the boar, and shout as loud as you can; “I CAUGHT YOU!”
Then he will eat you…
Uh, and don’t bring a sword, as I understand that they hurt a LOT worse than a Bowie Knife when the boar shoves it straight up your…
Well, you get the picture.
P.S. Bravery is that thing real poeple do when they save another’s life without regarding their own safety. Fear is that thing which tells you that you are about to do something really stupid. Terror is what tells you that you already have done something really stupid, and that you are about to die a very painful death. Idiocy is that thing which got you there in the first place. Other than clinical insanity, there is no such thing as fearlessness.

Nope, not a sword, a big knife will do. generally you do it with a pack of dogs who essentially corner and pin down the razorback. Then you come up on it while it is distracted by the dogs and either cut it’s throat or stab it through the lungs and heart.
I am not speaking from experience, rather from research. If you want to talk to someone who speaks from experience talk to Larry Harley of Lonesome Pine Knives. I’ve included the website below. He provides guided “Hawg Hunts” in Tennesse using a knives. In fact, if you go on his hunt, he’ll make you the knife you kill the pig with.
Thinkingblade

I see that this question is getting the typical response again. Fearless I have been on many feral hog hunts in Texas, Georgia, and Florida where we ran the hogs with a pack of dogs. Once we have one cornered it is the knife mans job to close in and stick the hog.
For safety, I always wear heavy leather chaps, I always go with a minimum group of three, we all carry a heavy duty knife and we ALL carry a handgun. As the knife man closes one will have the hog in his pistol sights, and the third will be working the dogs to keep the hogs head away from the knife man. You have to close in at a 45 degree angle, stick the hog behind the rib, push down to the heart and lung as you thrust and then twist the blade as you pull it out.
Get a large side of pork ribs from the store and a heavy beef brisket, tie the two together and support it against a tree. Take your knife and thrust it in. If your knife and your strenght can go all the way through then you have an idea of what it takes to stab a 150 pound hog.
Yes we try not to go through the ribs but you never know when one of these demon spawn will decide to lunge.
I’ve been knocked down a couple of times and thats where a good set of dogs comes in handy, they’ll make an attack on the hog. Only problem is normally one or two will get cut. I’ve lost a couple of good dogs to hogs, and I have to be able to sew them up in the field or be ready to put one out of its misery if needed. Bottom line there is no way in He77 that I will knife hunt feral hogs without dogs and extra hunters. It’s too dangerous period. I’m an adrenaline junkie, I consider myself adventurous and couragous; but I ain’t freakin stupid!
Over the past three years I’ve also started to carry a spear on these hunts, as I get a few more years on me it’s getting harder to jump. It’s the same style of hunting the spear just gives me about 5 feet of room.
As for just “catching a wild pig in the wild” use a trap and when the hog is caught you can dispatch it by your self with a firearm.

Little story for you: I went hog hunting many years ago with a buddy and two dogs. The dogs did a great job of running a group of five or six hogs into a wash about 5 foot deep, in our direction. We were on the edge of the wash, I got a nice clean shot with a .30-30 on a big boy about 30 yards away. He was in the lead, and it dropped him immediately. Instead of running terrified, the other hogs proceeded to turn and and attack the dying/dead one I shot. They tore hunks out of the thing and only stopped when we shot two more and the dogs were on them again.
So, if you are ok with trying to surprise a 200+ lb wild animal thats smart, has an excellent sense of smell, and is built rather like a small tank, and has little fear, good luck. Tell Darwin we said “Hi!”

Take it from a guy who raised domesticated boars. You don’t want to go hand to hand with a wild one. I have seen those tusks driven though 3/4 inch plywood without effort. I have seen them dissembowel a brother with one stroke of their head.
The only thing I have chased down and stabbed to death with a knife was a 4 pt buck and he was wounded. Maybe a spear of a bow would serve you better.

First you find out where the wild pigs are roaming and feeding. You then put some corn out in an open field. Soon the pigs will come to eat the free corn. You keep putting out this free corn everyday. More wild pigs will come. After the pigs get used to your free corn get em one day off guard.

you can do it, buts its dangerous, wild pig will tear u up if you make a mistake.
if u are, look for footprints, fresh pupe… just pay attention to the enviroment and how the pig interact with it.
Killing a pig up close and personal?…. hopefully, ur goin for a small one. Good luck

Go ahead and report back with pictures when the 1000lb boar charges you.
Can you handle this one?

Sometimes they’re easier to catch than they are to let go of.
Ohhh… BTW… there’s a very fine line between bravery and being dumber than a bag of hammers… maybe you should think about that.

Yeah just run it down, jump on its back, and cut its dang throat.

hahahah those things are deadly! they got old yeller!…. better take a really big knife

You are a GOD if you do that.

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