Make a Hunting Spear for Small Game

Spear Hunting is one of the oldest and most entertaining forms of game-hunting. This article will show you how to make and wield a simple, inexpensive hunting spear.

Steps

  1. Get Your Materials: A saw or hatchet to collect the wood. A wood staff, about 1- 1 3/4 inches in diameter. A knife or set of carving tools to shape the staff. Some rock or pre-made spearheads for the business end (optional).
  2. What kind? Will it be a thrusting, stabbing, etc. spear, a throwing spear, or a fishing spear?
  3. The shaft: You should have your wood branch, sapling, pole, etc., cut to about your height. If it needs to be straightened, heat it in water and hold strait until it cools and dries. With your knife or hatchet, shave off the bark and carve the spear to about an inch thick. If you will not be using a spearhead, carve the shaft so that the sharpened end is thicker than the other, so that the end is top heavy and will keep strait when thrown. If you will be attaching a spearhead, carve a notch into the side of the front of the shaft so as the spearhead can rest on it and be tied on.
  4. The spear head: You can either carve a tip, or attach a spearhead. The way of making and attaching a spearhead varies greatly, and is beyond the ability to be instructed in this tutorial. You can make a spearhead out of laminated wood, carved bone, carved plastic, or jigsawed steel. If you want the spearhead to be extra tight and heat up the string used to tie it on. When it cools and evaporates, the string will compact and become tighter. If the spear is meant to be used to fish, make sure the spearhead is pronged.
  5. Use: When using a spear to impale, hold it with a grip like you would a sword, in the middle of the shaft, near your hip. To throw, throw like a dart, but with a javelin/baseball thrust motion. To spearfish, aim below the fish, as the water will bend the light, changing the fish's perceived location.

Tips

  • Always carry emergency gear with you in the case that something may go wrong.
  • Stay as quiet as possible when approaching small game.
  • Aim about an inch high above the animal.
  • Throw the spear like throwing a dart but with thrust.
  • When hunting, try to get within {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} of the animal (squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, beaver etc.)

Warnings

  • Never hunt ANYTHING without permission.

Things You'll Need

  • Hatchet or axe/saw
  • Tree branch
  • Knife
  • Multi-tool
  • any materials for the attachments(optional)
  • rock or any other material for spearhead(optional)

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