Posted on 08/23/2016 6:24:54 AM PDT by w1n1
Spear hunting sounds primitive but lately has come under fire from some who feel it is too brutal. Spear hunter Michel Blanchett has been spear hunting for 7 years. He claims this primitive way of hunting is the most ethical as it pits you against your game at close range with one throw to get your game. This type of hunting is for the elite hunter
This allows game to have a better chance against a hunter than it would against a long distance rifle shooter or even a modern archery armed hunter. What is your stance on spear hunting? See the action here.
(He claims this primitive way of hunting is the most ethical as it pits you against your game at close range with one throw to get your game.)
1) Why do they call the hunted animal “game”? It is terrible marketing for hunting!
2) He’s right that this type of hunting gives more of a chance to the animal, however...
3)...if you want to minimize the animal’s suffering, the quicker its death, the better.
We conservatives acquiesce to the reality that we need to eat meat to live. We should all be for limiting the suffering of the animals we kill though.
The more primitive, indeed, both the more risky AND brutal.
It’s true. Indeed lobbing shells or even bullets from long distances is less risky than running up hand-to-hand and using blades. Blades are much worse with wounds.
Same applies to hunting.
They either ban it or tax it.
Peter Capstick had a chapter on him in "Death in Silent Places". Siemel's own book, "Tigerero" might be available on the web.
Siemel hunted in the Matto Grosso area of Brazil. Never realized how huge Jaguars can be until I read Capstick's account.
I admire anyone who hunts dangerous game with a spear.
Not for me tho.
Nice fish. That is one healthy and fit spear hunter.
Didn’t Sasha Siemel ultimately lose one of these encounters?
Going mano a mano spear hunting against a Grizzly, would require that I wear my brown pants and best sneakers.
Nope.
Sasha Siemel lived until 1970. Died in Green Lane, PA at the age of ripe old age of 80. His last guide trip was in 1968.
There’s a museum started by him in Green Lane.
:: Why do libs want to try to ban everything they don’t like? ::
Because they are (1) the smartest people in the room and (2) so much more progressed than the rest of “us”.
Got my 16GA loaded and waiting on dove season!
I remember hearing about a guy who hunted wild boar with a (pocket?) knife. He would hang out in a tree over a game trail and drop down on the unsuspecting piggy.
Texas does allow primitive hunting (I believe a special season or license). I remember reading about it.
The weapon I was reading about was called an atl-atl,
and has been used for more than mere centuries.
How about trapping? Or maybe boomerang?
Hunting is a sport. It doesn’t mean the people doing it are out there to survive. The game that can be consumed is an extra opportunity and is part of the pride of the hunt. Anyone can go down to the grocery store or meat market and purchase the game for the table at cheaper prices than it would cost to hunt it. It’s a sport. Thee are no “ethics” in hunting. You track the game, you kill the game, you eat the game. Or if you are using a .22 to hunt water buffalo, the game hunts you and kills you. Pretty simple.
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Wild boar come in all sizes. Wonder which sized he chose?
certainly a different take
I actually know that....I was being sarcastic
Spears are so Neanderthal and Paleolithic. Give me an atlatl if I have to go primitive.
Who am I thinking of? I only know Sasha Siemel through Peter Capstick's book and I remember him discussing a jaguar spear hunter who was killed in one of these encounters (which is hardly surprising).
I wouldn't do it except in case of dire necessity but then I am lazy and dedicated to keeping all my precious bodily fluids inside my body.
Anybody else, more power to them.
Didn’t Capstick also tell of his attempt to take a cape buffalo with a spear. IIRC, Capstick got in a killing throw but the backup shooter had to drop the cape buffalo who apparently wasn’t quite ready to die just yet and thought he’d have a little talk with the guy who threw the spear into his ribcage.
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