Licence should not be a problem - they weren't expanding missiles! And providing it's all kept in Home Office approved storage caves...
Regards
Robert

I would have been surprised if they managed to get a licence for a spear in the first place.

Had Ruark been alive then, he would probably have written a book entitled, USE ENOUGH SPEAR!

I wonder if they were using hard cast flints with large, blunt tips!

-Bob F.

This explains why so many Englishmen ended up hunting elephants in Africa. They had a head start on all other nationalities.

Were these controled flints or push flints? That is the real question! If the hunter was knocked on his bum would the spear fall out of his hand?

Did they use small or large caliber flint spears? That is a crucial question, you know, since we need to track down whether these were proto-Samuel Bakers or pre-Karamojo Bells.