Spears?
01-22-2002, 01:09 PM
#12
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Winthrop NY USA
Posts: 161
RE: Spears?
I'd be worried about wounding and losing a lot of animals. What's next, sharp rock and loin cloth season? You can kill a deer with anything but not everything will kill a deer quickly and cleanly. When hunting was necessary for survival, people used every advantage at their disposal to bring the animal down quickly. I'm not saying that we all need to use high power rifles with laser sights, but I think there is probably a line in primitive hunting that we shouldn't cross. I can just see a PETA person taking a picture of some guy in a loincloth, straddling a deer's back and strangling it with a piece of vine. Maybe spear hunting isn't across the line, but I wonder.
01-22-2002, 01:27 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Oakland OR USA
Posts: 2,929
RE: Spears?
Years ago a fellow I know tried hunting elk here in Oregon with a spear .Was even on tv telling how he was going to do it .Well he got his chance some of his friends drove a herd of elk almost over him in a ambush they figured out .The funny part was He didn't throw his spear ,he hid behind a tree because he was so afraid they would run him over . He sure got kidded a lot but he took it prett well .
01-22-2002, 10:25 PM
#18
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Washington State
Posts: 382
RE: Spears?
Real men use knives...
Here is a true story: When my hunting buddy was younger and a lot less sober, he was on an elk hunt and managed to focus his eyes long enough to shoot a nice sized cow that was on a hillside above him. His partner at the time came down from above, reached the cow first, and gave her a kick to see if she was done for. Well she wasn`t. The elk, who had only been stunned by a grazing shot to the head, lurched to her feet and stampeded downhill directly at my friend who had left his rifle at the bottom of the hill. Tarzan-like, he leaped at the cow and wrapped his arms around her neck with the intent of drawing his knife and finishing her off for good. Nothing doing. She rubbed him off on the first good sized fir tree she came to leaving my buddy banged-up and much wiser for the effort.
The Mouse
Here is a true story: When my hunting buddy was younger and a lot less sober, he was on an elk hunt and managed to focus his eyes long enough to shoot a nice sized cow that was on a hillside above him. His partner at the time came down from above, reached the cow first, and gave her a kick to see if she was done for. Well she wasn`t. The elk, who had only been stunned by a grazing shot to the head, lurched to her feet and stampeded downhill directly at my friend who had left his rifle at the bottom of the hill. Tarzan-like, he leaped at the cow and wrapped his arms around her neck with the intent of drawing his knife and finishing her off for good. Nothing doing. She rubbed him off on the first good sized fir tree she came to leaving my buddy banged-up and much wiser for the effort.
The Mouse
