Big Gig
Big Gig
Panacea X‘s motto: Superior performance through Superior design. The Big Gig is no acceptation to our design motto. Other companies have designed and offered sheet metal cutout gigs, and I can tell by looking at them that they will not perform in the real world the way, the way Panacea X Gigs do. The tines need to be long enough to pierce all the way through the game in order to get a good purchase on it. The points of our gig have a shallow angle to help the gig penetrate the animal easily. The barbs are relatively large making it difficult for the game to escape the gig. It may make getting the game off the gig more difficult, but in a survival situation retaining your game once speared is paramount. Our tines taper out so that as to create a “spring like pressure” to help hold the animal in place. Four points make making a lethal strike more likely; reducing stress and suffering for the animal.
Panacea X’s Big Gig is designed to be light weight and compact; easy to have a few in your Go-bag, and then distribute to your tribe to collect food.
Specifications:
The Big Gig is made from cutlery grade AEB-L stainless steel. Only the tips of the Big Gig are heat-treated, (hardened), so that the tines can be bent into place and then flat again many times without fatiguing the metal. If the targeted game is missed and the gig slams into a rock, the tips will bend and not break off.
Length: 11.0”
Width: 1.86”
Thickness: .125” (1/8”)
Width and length of haft area .950 (~1.0”) wide by 2.9” (~3.0”) long.
Weight 124g (4.4oz.)
Uses:
The Big Gig can be used to take all kinds of animals in a survival situation: fish, crayfish, crab, snakes, lizards, and fish in a hole, gophers, rats and mice in a hole! By attaching a strong cord to the eyelet in the Big Gig, this gig can be used as a harpoon to take lager fish and even small gators.
Please use this product responsibly.
Take only animals that you need to live on, and only with a valid permit.
Take only species in season.
Kill all speared animals immediately.
Abusing wildlife reflects poorly on all fisherman / hunters.
Sacred Hunt
Our ancient ancestors had a deep respect and a spiritual connection to all animals and plants and for the land.
Most of our ancestors, would say a prayer similar to this before the hunt. “As I hunt today please bless me that I will find the animals I need to feed me and my family/Tribe. Put only the animals in my path that have volunteered to give their lives to feed me”.
Personal note: I love all wildlife, I love to see animals in the outdoors; so it is important to me that my survival tools are used responsibly and with compassion. In my view, the wild animals that humans hunt are in many ways superior to humans. They are able to live outdoors in extreme environments day in and day out, and in every season, and be able to survive, put on weight and bare offspring; all the while living off the land in a truly sustainable way. Wild animals are miraculous! The odds of the animal you just killed making it to adulthood, (“big enough to eat”), is a virtual miracle. I would like to encourage all hunters to consider this, take only what you need and only when you need it. My prayer is that all Panacea X products be used with high respect and gratitude for all living things.
- Robert Weir Sen. Designer/ Engineer Panacea X LLC
- Directions:
- The Big Gig can be hafted to a bought or found wooden or synthetic shaft. If you after harvesting a strait sapling for your shaft, give thanks, then use the thick end to haft to. If you have a Panacea X machete (.125/1/8” thick), the saw back will cut a perfect width slot to fit your Big Gig into. If not some multi-tool saws will make a slot suitable for the gig.
- I like to carve down the end of the shaft I am using to almost a point before I slot it. This way the gig will travel in a straighter line and not be defected or be slowed as easily by the water.
- Whittle down the haft end on your shaft so that it is slightly less than 1.0” so that the cord you use to bind the gig in place will come into contact with the sides of the metal Mini Gig. This will keep the gig from being able to be knocked from side to side.
- Use strong braided natural or synthetic cord to secure the gig to the shaft.
- Wrap and secure your cord tightly to secure your Big Gig in place. I suggest that you wind some of the cord through the holes on the Big Gig to help ensure that it will not pull out from the shaft.
- A quick way to attach the gig to a shaft is to use a knife and split the shaft and slide the
Big Gig into the split. I like to cut a “step” or “stop” into the split so that the back square end of the gig rests up against this step, this will ensure the gig will not get pushed back and split the shaft more. Be sure to wrap your cord well past the split to keep the shaft from splitting more. Or make a separate wrap at the end of the split down about 1” past the split.
- After the Big Gig is attached to the shaft, take the two middle tines and bend them in opposite directions about ¾” to 1.0” from center. This action will make the gig more effective at holding and more lethal.
The Big Gig is made from cutlery grade AEB-L stainless steel. Only the tips of the Big Gig are heat-treated, (hardened), so that the tines can be bent into place and then flat again many times without fatiguing the metal. If the targeted game is missed and the gig slams into a rock, the tips will bend and not break off.