I want to get a spear for this years deer season. Is it better to have a design that passes through (I think so) or the kind with the stops on it. Any spear recommendations for this application would be appreciated.

You're going to have to get the spear through first.

I had two deer walk within 5 yards of the base of my tree this year during bow season. I think I could get a good opportunity to at least throw once or twice during the season. Hitting is another matter !

There is a video out there were a fellow spears bears,i dont remember his name but some one else will.i have thought about it before myself and i think the zulu use to throw a long-skinny-spear at lions and such.i thought about a spear that was heavy,Thick and would carry a long medium thickness blade sorta like the cold steel one,but i would want it to pass thru and make a hole all the way thru both sides.I would practice so i could throw the thing accurately at 10-15yrds and only try for that range of a throw-no long stuff!I think the spear should be long enough to stablize the flight pretty accurately sorta like a long arrow,try different size shafts untill you find one you like the best and spear shapes and sizes,i would want it to have some weight though so the momentum would get you the penetration with the razor sharp spear.Hunt with what works for you.I think a 10yrd.throw with a spear would be ideal!On the ground iin a thicket!Good Luck!Also hunt smaller game and targets before tackling big stuff.I heard hogs with a bow was fun,but figured a recurve or longbow was all the chance i would give them and i can be happy forever with just my stick and string bows!!Get abigun!

I have absolutely no spearhunting experience, but I did punch a deer in the nose one year and poked one in the side with my hand another time during the standard gun hunting season. Snuck up on a young deer with its nose in a muscadine patch and poked it in the butt with my 410, too. I kill deer at 5-15 yards distance on a regular basis during regular deer seasons. Full camo, absolute wind and scent management, and a reasonable ability to pick an ambush point are needed. I recommend you do a web search for primitive flint spearpoints. There is your pattern. Make out of steel, as tough as a modern bayonette, sharp as a modern broadhead. If I was doing it, I'd use a 5 1/2 foot long hickory shaft and tie the point on. Make sure the thing is heavy and will throw accurately at 15 yards and be ready to spend lots of time in the woods. Talk to a primitive archer as that closely relates. Remember, the indiand quickly gave up flint but kept their arrowhead patterns in steel. You will learn a lot as you wait. Good luck. ned

Might want to check your game laws first. Lotta places it ain't legal. I think it's silly, myself, since all a spear is is a giant arrow with broadhead, but policy is policy . . .

It´s illegal in lousiana i believe, I know its illegal in texas

Get an archery tag and tell them if asked you forgot your bow but not to worry you have one hell of an arrow.

And maybe put a few fletchings and a noch on the end of the spear ...

You can tell the gamewarden your bow got too heavy to carry so you just left it at home and your quiver just holds one arrow.


In lieu of hand-throwing the spear too - there's some sort of extended stick with a notch or cup on the end of it for the spear to rest in ... it extends your arm about 3 or 4 feet or so and gives you a lot more speed throwing the spears, but I don't remember what they're called ... for some reason atlatl is sticking in my mind, but I'm not sure if that's right.

With some practice, a light "springy" spear, and one of those spear-chunker sticks, you can get a lot of velocity and mass heading downrange with a lot of accuracy.

Atlatl is correct, also woomara and a whole range of other terms for spearthrower. You can get a tremendous amount of power with one but accuracy is the bugger. An atlatl and dart are easy to make but tough to use whereas a bow and arrow are easier to use but tough to make. No free lunch, here. Do a websearch for "atlatl". There is an entire club devoted to the subject and the hunting therewith. Mostly they seem to target pigs, though, because most places they're classified as vermin.

I think in Alabama, Feral Swine are considered domestic animals "belonging" to whomever's land they're on, and classified as domestic livestock, so you can shoot all you want with the landowner's permission - year round.

Take your bow along and tell the GameWarden that the arrows you ordered were so big you just decided to throw them.