Hog Spear

Bush Monkey Knives Spearhead: 3/16" 1095 steel, 14" oal, 2" wide, 10" working edge. I will have the spearhead to threaded 5' shaft connection finished in a week or so. The spearhead will be detachable and I will include a 6" shaft/handle with every spearhead so the user can use the spear as a knife.

A 3" wide O1 tool steel version is presently in the works.


Masai Warrior, Kenya

Is that you holding the spear?

LOL - no
This guy can probably do more with a spear than most guys try to do with the most sophisticated gear out there.

How heavy will it be?

That'll work

Good question. The aluminum shaft will keep the weight down but the machined steel spearhead to shaft connection is overbuilt and not lightweightnot lightweight. This is a thrusting spear so in some regards, weight translates into inertia and the energy of that inertia results in greater penetration.

thanks for asking,

Jeff

Would be the talk of the hunting party showing up with one of these

DAM

Now sit in a tree and wait on a hog. When it gets under you drop on its back jabbing it with the spear. Least that's what Rambo did.

That ain't no lie. Especially if it's your first day on the lease.

lol - some good comments here

I will let you guys know how it works...

East tried to make his own once...tell him to show the video

I had some guys over at Knifedogs forum ask me about "testing". My reply follows:

Testing:

I can report that the blade will bend along the 3/16" measurement axis long before the 1" round bar fails and that the shaft, the hog or a human arm/grip will fail before the blade or connector fails along the wide axis of the blade. I can tell you these things because I have rigged "things" in this manner many times before in different applications. Most of the "testing" of the spearhead to shaft connection has been done before by me and thousands of other people who have been around tools, machinery and the laws of physics.

When I get the connector made, I will clamp it to a large fixed object and all ow "Tony" (below) to, hang on it, do a few pull ups on the shaft, stand on it, jump on it and then hand it to a hog hunter to kill a few hogs with. The final version of the connector might be fabricated out of aluminum.

ps Light is not always better. Keeping a fair amount of mass in a thrusting weapon translates into inertia and more inertia means more penetration:-)



"Tony", Director of Research, Development and Testing for Bush Monkey Knives

I met a dude with a huge home made spear and that is how he supposedly hunted hogs. He would put bait under a tree, sit up on a platform in the tree and jump down ontop of it and spear it??

Killing hogs with a knife is not uncommon. A thrusting spear is nothing more than a knife with some standoff.

Is that a chiansaw bar???

Wow

Redchevy,

It looks exactly like a chainsaw bar - even the hole spacing is very similar. But, no, it is not a chainsaw bar. I am sure you could make a spear from a chainsaw bar though. Thie one is 1095 high carbon steel and I have one in the works that is O1 tool steel.

Jeff

ps On second thought, there is no reason a Hog can't be killed with a chainsaw.

Wow!

Wowser!

Looking forward to the finished product.

Tony has interesting wardrobe tastes, even for a monkey.

wow

That is all kinds of cool!

Lol I'd love to see that!

Spear update:

I machined the spear to shaft connection which will be bolted to the spearhead and welded to a 1.25 OD/1" ID 4 ft aluminum shaft. The OAL will be just over 5 ft. I re-engineered the shaft connection and decided to weld vs thread the connection because the weld is stronger than a material removing threaded connection. Pics to follow.

Jeff

I'll invite you to go hog hunting; I want to see you toss that thing.

I've make and sold a lot of pig knives for those with more stones than me. I don't want to get tht close to a pig, most of the pigs I that I get that close to are already grave yard dead..

Again, good job Jeff.

I will make the spearhead/shaft connection to shaft weld tomorrow.






Got hog?

Have you used it yet?

Take backup

This one is going to a hog hunting forum member. I have some tweaks in mind for the next one.

That looks good, I'd like to throw one of them dudes to test it. what is the overall length/weight?

Doc,

Thanks for taking a look and commenting. It is a thrusting spear, balance point is ~20" aft of the point, OAL is 62".

Jeff

Would this be considered lunging spear rather than a throwing spear?

YES - Thrusting/lunging/plunging/stabbing/pushing/poke/shove/jam...Semantics...the spear never leaves your grip. Thanks for looking.

Jeff

Sorry for the dumb question, your picture and explanation to DOC hadn't shown up on the thread on my screen yet.

That is pretty wicked.

Not dumb at all. Thanks again for looking and asking a valid question whose answer was cyber delayed.

Jeff