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- Just 20 minutes’ drive from downtown Madrid, Maura and other ancestral landowners are reviving the ancient hunting ritual of “pigsticking” -- hunting wild boar on horseback with spears, rather than with guns. Hunters stalk the animal and chase it down, which sometimes takes all day, and then stab it to death with 9-foot, long-bladed spears.
www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2013-mar-31-la-fg-spain-pigsticking-20130401-story.html
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Apr 3, 2013 · An ancient hunting ritual is making a comeback in modern Spain: the practice of hunting wild boar on horseback with spears — and no guns. The sport dates to Roman times, and was recently...
May 8, 2013 · But in their shadow, a handful of ancestral landowners are reviving the ancient hunting ritual of pigsticking, which is hunting wild boar on horseback with spears.
Apr 1, 2013 · “Pigsticking,” or hunting pigs with long spears and lances on horseback, has been part of European hunting tradition for thousands of years. However, with the advent of firearms, the sport steadily...
Apr 3, 2013 · Hunting wild boar while riding horses and using only spears is a practice that dates back at least 2,000 years — and now it's making a comeback in Spain.
Jul 12, 2012 · A member of the Pigsticking International Club spears a wild boar. DOMINGO GARCÍA (CLUB INTERNACIONAL DE LANCEO) Hunting wild boars on horseback with a spear - an ancient tradition that was...
Apr 5, 2013 · And many of you were upset by our story this week about pigsticking in Spain. That's the name given to the ancient sport of hunting wild boar, which is making a comeback there.
