A spear? Why not take a machete and just whack them to pieces?
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.
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?
Why go through the effort of spearing a deer when they are so easy to trap?
pfl