Spear hunting africa

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[bluey]

done well mate.....
that spearhead is quite large isn't it .
willem who took that picture ?

...a defining split second moment in time [history?] in this spear hunters live and efforts after years of fruitless and foiled stalks, heat, sweat, ticks, thirst, body ace's, frustrations etc. [you name it!]...

I'm privileged and blessed to finally could have stalked this close with my spear with not much cover for help.
This one will go down for me as one of my best and finest ethical stalks and hunts in my life,and surpasses anything that I've done with my rifle,handgun or bow in more than 40 years of hunting!

Now I can finally sit back and think of the tale I'm going to tell my grandson around a future campfire with a photo as proof [and inspire?] him to maybe one day also took up the ethical spear hunting challenge...[?]
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, the razor sharp spear blade is still in it's protective sheath here...
the property owner who dropped me off that morning took this picture of me,
the other one's I managed to extract from a go-pro movie clip of my adventure....
here is another one

 

[bluey]

primitive hunting with spears , and photography with all the mod cons , I like your style , cobber............

 

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aah bluey, i got this go-pro recently to show my friends around the campfire that my hunting is not just old wife's tales and ramblings--here is the PROOF now that some old guy can have some solo antics out there ,AND enjoy the failures!!! [lol!]

 

[bluey]

l salute thee ......
you are living proof of one who hunts for the experience .

 

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My 'trophy' Warthog boar spear hunted a while ago the ethical solo walk-and-stalk way with a cold steel boar spear. Spear thrown at 7-8 m on the right side. Spear penetrated right through and the terrible but effective exit wound on the left side are shown here. I am blessed to have achieved one of my burning hunting dreams of many- many years, and as far as I can tell, not many ordinary hunters in the world have done this on foot without dogs etc.

 

[bluey]

way to go , young fella
ha ha ha , any gravel rash this time

 

[Wheels]

Good job Willhem.

Any more interesting videos of you hunting the hogs?

 

[BRICKBURN]

Absolutely awesome achievement.

Congratulations on a great trophy taken the hard way.

 

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l salute thee ......
you are living proof of one who hunts for the experience .

 

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My bladed hunting tools with .357 magnum back-up....

 

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'Survival' Spear-hunting require patience for one....
[as you expert trigger-pullers Blue ,Mike and others know...lol ]

If you want to solo still/ambush hunt wild animals out of a tree the 'primitive' way with just a cs boar spear in a 'survival' situation in a dry,hot and 'open' vegetation terrain, you must have patience, luck ,skills and some related knowledge...
[The sun is NOT your friend in this specific scenario ... bloody hot, thirsty and a shifting silhouette/shadow that were quit nicely concealed that morning thank you...eish! ]
Oh, and did I mentioned tons of patience and the unexpected/unthinking about ? lol
I was sitting dead still up in that tree during the dry winter [no leaves] hunting with only my cs boar spear for about 6 hours.
Some game [Impala, Water-buck, but no warthog!] came close investigating the bait , but the shifting shadow as time passes was the determining factor here.
As you all know animals are very good at picking up on something "unnatural." Smell [wind], noise or the sight of me up in that tree were not the problem....
Something as innocent and natural like the passing of time[ sun) , foiled this hunt.
You must learn to adapt to different seasons [venues] and vegetation etc situations outside of your known comfort zone, as the circumstances/terrain differ from place to place and are NOT always ideal like on tv...
It's actually quit logical thinking about it now afterwards , but at the time I thought that after such a long time in place, it would maybe 'blend in' and be regarded by the wild animals as just another shadow on the ground,as warthogs doesn't look up....
I was wrong!

 

[BRICKBURN]

Another lesson learned.

 

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