Jaydog goes hunting: Wild boar with a knife. (Pig down! and finally some pics)

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So I'm headed back to Hawaii in a couple weeks and was planning a hunt while I'm there. My first thought was to take advantage of the hard work Ardent put into his 'Hunting the Big Island' thread and do a self guided goat hunt but then I realized that my last Hawaii hunt with dogs and a knife was a ton of fun and needed to be done again. Lots of chances in life to shoot a goat, less to stab a pig. ;) Besides, this will help get me in the mood for the February helicopter hog hunt in Texas. Decision made!

I phoned up Mauna Loa Outfitters and not only do they remember me and have an opening but it looks like I will be able to go out with the same guides as last time. They were young, full of enthusiasm and we enjoyed a bellyfull of beer together after the hunt while cutting up the boar. Good times!

Now to sharpen my pig knife and do my stretches.... Only two weeks to get in shape. :p
 
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Can't wait to see the pics from your upcoming adventure....how 'bout a pic of the "pig knife" now just in case you are unable to post pics after the hunt.
Godspeed!
 
My brother did the same hunt you did a couple years ago. He thought it was a blast and he did get a pig with a knife. From the way he talked about I think he would have preferred catching pigs all day.

Good luck and have fun
 
Appreciate the kind words, you're going to the big island? I implore you to do your form 6 and apply for your Hawaii hunting license. You just can't go without taking along a rifle, and shotgun (it ain't right not to), my biggest regret is I didn't bring a shotgun! It's wingshooter's paradise and you can self guide on Mauna Kea. You'll have the time of your life and views 99% of tourists will never see, you owe it to yourself. :p
 
I have my Hawaiian hunting licence (dug out the old one to get the new one) but don't remember a "Form 6" and will check into that. With only two weeks left I had written off getting paperwork straight to take a gun but am open to ideas. :)
 
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Appreciate the kind words, you're going to the big island? I implore you to do your form 6 and apply for your Hawaii hunting license. You just can't go without taking along a rifle, and shotgun (it ain't right not to), my biggest regret is I didn't bring a shotgun! It's wingshooter's paradise and you can self guide on Mauna Kea. You'll have the time of your life and views 99% of tourists will never see, you owe it to yourself. :p
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Is there not some excellent turkey hunting there somewhere too? I recall reading it somewhere, I can't swing the Hawaii hunt so I live vicariously through hunting mags during the winter.
 
Form 6 mystery solved! Its the form my father told me to apply for many years ago during the 'great gopher purge of 2006' and I didn't listen to him. Now there is no time and therefore no birds will be hunted. :(

I'm staying in Kona and the guides have agreed to come around and pick me up in the morning. Nice guys! Now to tell them to leave the balony sandwiches at home this time..... Yuck! cp: The getting in shape part is real though. We hunted at ~4500 feet last time and the pig was far from light carrying out. I also trashed my back last week taking the sailboat out of the water so have been drugged up doing my exercises trying to get back in shape. Isn't hunting fun??!!

Credit where credit is due Ardent- you laid out a path to hunting in Hawaii a blind CGNer could follow. Its appreciated.
 
Excellent that you're going to get to go for "Round 2"! Have fun and be careful! We will, of course, be waiting with baited-breath for a report on the outcome. If that report were to contain a go-pro video it sure would help us vicarious-hog-stabbers to get a feel for it ...... just sayin'!
Dave
 
I've got a GoPro, but based on last trip there isn't a ton of time to be messing with electronics. The knife in my teeth and the camera on my head is quite the image though! Worth packing along and see what happens. :)
 
Just finished washing the blood from my clothes actually. ;)

Short version for the ADD crowd: we caught 6 pigs- 2 sows, 1 boar and three piglets. True to my meat hunter roots I killed the nice plump sow. :)

Details as my frustration with using a tablet to post dies down. I got photos and video too- good idea on the gopro, dreamwaters!
 
I'm not so sure I would be willing to hunt something that big and wild with a knife....good on you but I'll pass unless I have something in my hands that goes boom! :)
 
After a night of restless anticipation, the day started by meeting up at 0500h at a local gas station where I jumped in the guides truck and we got out of town before the 5 dogs in the trailered UTV decided to wake the locals. We dove out of town parked the truck in a dragonfruit field and headed straight up the mountain on the UTV in the dark. At about 5000ft elevation we put cut collars and GPS trackers on the dogs and let them free. The first pig was within minutes of letting the dogs free and was a young boar just over 100 lbs. That chase was long enough that I burned my lungs and was still coughing the next day after running uphill through the forest trying to keep up with the dogs. After I wrestled the boar onto his side and we got the dogs tied away they asked me if I wanted this one and I said no way, it was too fast and that I came there to hunt. :) Since he was an intact boar and they are feral, we castrated the pig there on the spot. Afterwards I wheelbarrowed him over to a ledge and tried to push him away so that he would run away from us and not spin around and rip me to shreds for the snip job! When I pushed too hard his nose caught the ground and he flipped head over heels and landed facing me. There was a bunch of scrambling and yelling to get out of the road of a PO'd pig but he took off and we got back to hunting. :)

General note: typing on a tablet is more stressful than wrestling pigs!
 
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