to spear a pig?

I would think it would need to be fairly long but not real wide...just my thoughts. Penetration I would think, is going to be a big factor in the design if you're going to throw it and impale a hog with it. You bringing this up made me think of a story I read years ago about the Lee brothers, famous big game hound men from out West. It seems the Lee brothers decided that hunting our north American game wasn't quite exciting enough for them anymore,......SO they come up with the brilliant idea to go to South America and hunt jaguar with hounds. I reckon they killed a few, but while down there and getting their feet wet on this great adventure, ( I sometimes wonder what fun it would have been to do something this wild, just light out for South America for the heck of it, just to kill some jaguar), they ran across this old indian that used his dogs to hunt and kill jaguar. They went with him a few times I think and he used a spear to dispatch these cats. This spear had a crossbar on it not too far up the shaft, when asked why it was there, he allowed it was to keep the jaguar from running up the spear and killing you after you had speared it! Simple enough I reckon.....he had some cur dogs of who knows what kind that he used foir this. Apparently they witnessed him kill a large jaguar with his spear....his dogs would bay the cat and he would ease in and get the cat to charge him, whereupon he would impale his spear into the cat's chest up to the crossbar and hold on until it finally keeled out,....not an easy task he said,....you had to keep forward pressure on the spear of course, even if the cat backed up or came forward. They said that one large jaguar actually lifted the little guy's feet up off the ground after he speared it in the chest. I don't know about y'all, but a man that will goad a full-grown animal as large and unpleasant as a male jaguar into a charge in order to spear it is has some hard bark on him I say. They later found the poor guy and his dogs laying dead beside a big jaguar that had gotten off his spear and killed him, then died out as well.....all together in the jungle in a small clearing. Ooooops....sorry PBR....it wasn't my intention to hijack your thread.....this tale came to mind and I thought I would share it with all here. Good luck with the spear....keep us posted.