Hunting With Swords

June 2, 2011

Question: I was curious about the laws behind using a sword (or any blade in excess of, say, 20 inches in length) as a means of take, primarily as a secondary line of defense against another predator (or an extremely angry wild pig). I know it sounds odd, but curiosity abounds! (Mark S.)

Answer: Swords and knives are not a legal method of take for big game and are thus illegal, including when hunting an extremely angry wild pig. Legal methods of take for big game (such as wild pigs) are defined in the 2011-2012 California Mammal Hunting Regulations booklet under sections 353 and 354.

Lol Damn cant go Ninja on Pumba, ,

I know many guys with dogs do use a knife to kill a pig. Dogs have an ear and another has a leg and the guy with knife runs up n sticks the pig.

Dam't LARP'ers think they can do this for REAL

Machete is gonna be pissed!

Dam't LARP'ers think they can do this for REAL

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is a LARP'er?

Live Action Role Play

   "Geeks with foam swords" & stuff 

Could you use the sword for self-defense if the boar is coming at you?  Or are you supposed to just stand there and take it?

Live Action Role Play

   "Geeks with foam swords" & stuff 

Second question: can we use magic for hunting? 

Could you use the sword for self-defense if the boar is coming at you?  Or are you supposed to just stand there and take it?

Live Action Role Play

   "Geeks with foam swords" & stuff 

Second question: can we use magic for hunting? 

If you got it, use it!

Could you use the sword for self-defense if the boar is coming at you?  Or are you supposed to just stand there and take it?

Live Action Role Play

   "Geeks with foam swords" & stuff 

Second question: can we use magic for hunting? 

Yes, but only after you have caught the golden snitch

Magic spells?
"Cast em if you got em!"

That's how a real man would hunt.  Drop the technology and pick up a blade.  'Merica! 

That's how a real man would hunt.  Drop the technology and pick up a blade.  'Merica! 

I could've killed them all. I could've killed you. Don't push it. Let it go.

Let it go....

I know many guys with dogs do use a knife to kill a pig. Dogs have an ear and another has a leg and the guy with knife runs up n sticks the pig.

Now that is just plain Chicken @#$%, real men back in Texas (prior to their visit to the ER) will try to run up and slit the throat of the pig before the dogs get ahold of the pig.  Wait to the Pig is caught by the dogs, now where is the sprot in that???