V10 – Pg14
The boar circles round to make mincemeat of our red haired heroine! Will Jordana be able to take down the huge beast down with just a spear? Dun-dun-dah!
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Dan
Edited/Co-Written by
Gary Cohen
Bow and arrow are only useful in boar hunts if you can stay away far enough. Better go with a spear or have a buddy with one around.
And I’m not even talking for throwing here. But hold it before you when the boar comes a charging. Not for anyone, obviously. But it’s probably safer than trying to run.
Yeah, from the little I know it’s pretty much the same method as using a pike against mounted cavalry.
Pretty much exactly like that. And that takes a lot of nerve.
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Boar spears were specially designed. They have a crosspiece a few feet from the head to stop the boar forcing the impaled spear through its body so that it can gore and trample you! Boars apparently have a hard time telling when they are dead…. The “safe” way to hunt boar before modern firearms was to have a lot of guys with spears surround the boar and prod it to death, which is where the term “pigsticking” comes from.