Posted on 10/05/2016 10:51:33 AM PDT by w1n1
This is one of the most primitive whitetail deer spear hunting experience that you will encounter. Not many hunter will hunt whitetail with a spear because it requires stealthiness. That stealthiness comes in the form of patiences and self-discipline, the rewards far outweighs the grind.
In the video Pursuit hunter, Tim Wells, explains his purpose to experience caveman hunting situations. He demonstrates clearly why the spear is not a very popular weapon of choice to hunt with these days. The accuracy is slim and requires a lot of human-created force to take down animals of a decent size. See the video here.
A spear? Why not take a machete and just whack them to pieces?
Real men wrestle them to the ground and tear their throats out with our teeth.
You could page Ted Nugent, but he’s probably spearing whitetail while running through the woods wearing a loin cloth.
Seriously, I wouldn’t put it past him. He’s from Michigan after all, where the weak are killed and eaten.
Hunting with a spear was usually a group activity with the animal cornered in a circle of them by squat guys in skins, scared into running off cliffs on to sharp stakes at the bottom of a pit, or used against an aggressive animal like wild boar from horseback. One guy on foot against any animal the size of a deer would be extremely dangerous. Live action steroid fueled cartoon characters like Rambo might jump off tree limbs to impale a boar with a spear, but the rest of us ought to stick with firearms or bows.
Awesome. Due to the chance of the deer moving before the spear arrived on point, I think I’d have a buddy with a firearm as a back-up so the animal didn’t suffer, but it would be a very cool hunt.
Lots of spear hunting was done with dogs.
The human-dog predator team is very hard to beat.
Probably reason #1 why they all went extinct, and someone invented firearms. Heh.
Warning! Don't even think of spearing Bambi, my wife's pet white tail fawn.
Had someone suggested this to me 45 years.....I might have considered it.
I can barely walk to post behind the barn with my scoped Marlin, anymore.
I was gonna let a fat little doe pass, last year, until I noticed it was gut shot by my terrible-shot, hunting partner who I heard shoot 20 minutes before.
Spear? Where’s the trigger?
Re wrestling to the ground and tearing with teeth - This may have been done, and regularly too.
Humans have certain physical advantages vs most prey animals - we have far greater endurance than most all of them, greater ability to shed excess heat, etc. The Olympic sport that may be closest to what humans were designed to do is possibly the marathon race.
One speculation is that the original human animal-level hunting technique on the African plains was simply to chase an animal to exhaustion.
Why go through the effort of spearing a deer when they are so easy to trap?
The deer or the hunters?
Depends on where you find yourself.
pfl
Yes - it would provide additional force and speed. There is some thought it also adds to accuracy due to less direct contact with the shaft during delivery.
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