William and Henry's Hog Hunt

Well, William and I have wanted to take a Hog with a spear for a while now.  As kids we used to make bamboo spears in our backyard, fishing spears, lances, throwing spears, and even a bamboo knife complete with a bamboo sheaf.  Our father bought us a Cold Steel Boar Spear when we were around the age of sixteen and ever since it has captivated and intrigued our imagination.  Maybe it had something to do with reading lord of the flies or watching  the movie 10,000 B.C but we always had our heart set on taking down a huge ferocious beast with the primitive spear, call it destiny if you will.  Living in Texas Wild Boar are considered to be pests  and so it means you can hunt them whenever you want, and you can take about as many as you want.  Farmers hate the animals due to the fact that they eat crops and scare away the children.  One day our father told us that we were going on our first ever hog hunt and to bring the spear.

A ranch in east Texas welcomed us to their land in order to hunt some of those pesky hogs that had been tearing up his crops.  William and I jumped at this once in a lifetime opportunity, they even said that we can hunt with spears if we’d like.  We decided against using hog hounds as we did not want to endanger the dogs while using spears.  We were going to hunt hog’s like a true man, with our natural given possessions and a spear.  It was going to be difficult but my brother and I were up for the challenge.

The morning of the hunt we set out to look for hog tracks, we woke up at the crack of morning when there was barely enough light to see past the tip of the spear.  We started to traverse across all the hog paths that the land owner had told us about the night before.  After hours of searching we did not see a single hog, not even a jack rabbit in this god forsaken land.  It wasn’t till around 2 or 3 o’ clock that were spotted our first hog track. It was a huge track in some mud by the river bank, leading upstream towards a big muddy river bank.  We followed the tracks for about 500 feet before started hearing the heavy grunting of a big alpha boar.  My brother and I kept up slowly towards the sound that we continued to hear, making sure to step silently through the thick brush.  Finally after passing through some thick vines we catch our first glimpse of this monster hog.  He must have weighed at least 100 pounds with huge tusks that looked incredibly fearsome.

My brother and I continued to stalk our prey, ever so slowly creeping through the thick brush to get as close as possible to this huge beast.  Finally we were as close as we were going to get to the hog.  My brother and I wait for the chance to strike, a few minutes goes by and the hog does not get any closer.  He continues to root around in the mud looking for food.  Suddenly my brother gets the bright idea that he is going to take out this huge beast by throwing the spear at him.  I silently detest and tell him you will never pierce the thick hogs armor.  Yet being the stupid younger brother that he is, he does not listen to reason and prepares to throw the spear at the boar.  I brace myself for I know that this probably will not end well.

Even though our cold steel spear isn’t a throwing spear, my brother suddenly stands up fully erect and with all his might hurls the spear at the monster hog.   Suddenly everything turns into slow motion; I see the huge beast stop foraging and suddenly look up.  He knows that danger is near and dodges the hurled spear with ease.  Suddenly he catches a glimpse of us and starts to charge at us full throttle.  My brother panics’ and starts to run away from the hog charging at us, like a little girl he starts to scream and wail for his life.  I begin to take full charge of the situation and rack my brain for logical solutions to this problem.  I take my cold steel spear and plant the butt firmly into the ground with the sharp point pointing towards the charging beast.  The hog doesn’t know what’s coming and rams his neck straight into the spear.  He falls over limply.
The beast has been slain.

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