Pigsticking, boar-hunting, or hog-hunting is a form of hunting in which wild boars are pursued on horseback and killed with spears.
Pigsticking was a favorite recreation of Lord Baden-Powell, who wrote about it at length in his 1889 book Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting.
In Lessons from the Varsity of Life he says that "I never took the usual leave to the hills in hot weather because I could not tear myself away from the sport." To those who condemned it, he said "Try it before you judge.
The sahibs who ruled India took to pigsticking like ducks to water, and in no time at all, transformed it into a ‘sport’; meaning that they framed rules for competition.
As in tiger shooting, a pigsticking ‘kill’ was credited to the ‘spear’ meaning the rider, who had drawn first blood, meaning inflicted a wound.
In the language of the sport, an association of pigsticking enthusiasts became a Tent Club, and the manual that assiduously published the records of all the Tent Clubs in the country was The Hog Hunters’ Annual.
Unsurprisingly, the gravest concerns have been triggered by the news that the popular practice of "pigsticking", a key element of Hungarian national identity, which played an indirect role in the fall of Communism, would be prohibited.
Pigsticking begins after the early morning round of drinking, when the strongest men in the family drive the 2-300 kg porker from the pigsty out into the courtyard.
The regulations applicable to pigsticking also apply to the slaughter of chickens, hens, ducks and rabbits kept on household farms, which is a much more mundane affair than pigsticking.
He was dressed in an old shooting-jacket, breeches and boots; and as he ate his eyes turned frequently to a bundle of steel-headed bamboo spears leaning against the wall near him.
For he and his companion were going as the guests of the Maharajah of Mandha for a day's pigsticking, as hunting the wild boar is termed in India.
Pigsticking law awards the trophy to the rider whose spear first inflicts a wound on the boar.
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The term "pigsticking" is used in the East to refer to any game where you pick a 3-dimensional target off the ground with a lance as you ride past.
In order to avoid lauching the unwary rider into the air, the pigsticking lance is held is a specific manner that's easier shown than described.
The lance is held point down, with the palm up, the shaft of the lance resting the crook of the elbow, and the end of the lance passing to the outside of the arm, NOT under the armpit.
Some day I might die, and I should look exceedingly foolish in the other world if, on being asked how I had enjoyed tiger shooting when I was in India, I had to confess that in all the years I had been there I had never tasted this form of sport.
It is also the month for pigsticking and hitherto I had always indulged in this last form of sport.
So I determined to break away from my usual pigsticking, and to take a turn in the jungle.
The way of a man with a horse...chapter on pigsticking : Brooke, (G.); Todd (A.)
The way of a man with a horse...chapter on pigsticking
First edition, plates, the special binding of half green leather, g.t., marbled endpapers, the dw a little worn and dusty but intact, minor worm track(about one cm.) on front cover, London, Seeley Service, Lonsdale Library, 1929
Melliss (1991) Lion-hunting in Somali-land: Also an account of "pigsticking" the African wart-hog
Lion-hunting in Somali-land: Also an account of "pigsticking" the African wart-hog
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The maharajas taught the British polo and learned cricket from them.
They often provided lavish entertainments and took visiting royalty and the officers and officials of the raj on pigsticking, shooting and hunting expeditions.
K.S. Ranjitsinhji, the jam sahib of Nowanuggur, was one of the best and most famous cricket players in history.
