Spear Hunting Museum

Gene Morris
The Spear Hunting Museum
20216 State Hwy 59
Summerdale, AL 36580
Phone: 251.989.7700

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Welcome to Hunting with Spears

The purpose of this web site is to inform you about spear hunting and to tell readers about my worldwide adventures with spears and with spear hunting.

My experience in hunting begins with shooting Red Ryder BB guns at 8 years of age through an armada of guns to the stage where I could hit most animals on the run with a rifle.

Then in 1968 I stopped hunting completely with guns and went to bows only. But I mixed spears in with my decades of bow hunting, which is evidenced by my first spear-killed deer in 1973.

After the big game bow tally hit 494½, I stopped hunting entirely with bows around 1995 and at the present, my big game spear tally temporarily rests on 592. So, without a doubt, planned or otherwise, I have become and am: THE GREATEST LIVING SPEAR HUNTER IN THE WORLD.

My endeavors in life have not solely been confined to hunting but include a Bachelors Degree in Business Management from Memphis State College and a Masters Degree from that great university in San Antonio-- Trinity University. Also, I am retired from the Air Force at the rank I held of full Colonel after 22 years of service. In addition, I have written and published two first-class books on spear hunting. The first, published in 2003, has 110 color photos, over 300 pages of non-stop action and exact details of spears and spear hunting. It covers 126 spear kills including a Cape Buffalo in Africa. It is entitled Hunting with Spears. The second book is over 300 pages with 196 color photos, and is entitled The Greatest Living Spear Hunter in the World. This latest book covers the whole 542 big game spear kills, but lacks many of the details and techniques about spear hunting that are in my first book. Both of these books are available via this web site.

I have also produced four DVDs about spear hunting. The first-- two hours long-- is entitled Spear Hunting All Over the World and covers 43 explicit spear kills. The second DVD is entitled Hunting Boars with Spears and is also 2 hours long, covering 34 spear kills. The third DVD covers hunting alligators with harpoons and is one hour in duration. The fourth DVD is 43 minutes long and just covers the Spear Hunting Museum. All the kill scenes are very explicit. All the above items-- as well as the number one spear used by the SPEAR CHUNKER-- are available for sale through this web site.

If you have any problems ordering through this web site, then call, write or fax the Spear Hunting Museum at

20216 State Hwy 59
Summerdale, AL 36580

Museum tel: 251-989-7700

"The Spear Chunker" died Nov. 28 at age 78

On Saturday, Nov. 28, Morris died doing what he loved, sitting in a tree stand on private property in Elberta, spear in hand. He was 78 years old.

Morris’s lifelong passion for hunting began at the age of 14 when he began hunting with a shotgun before graduating to bow and arrow. He speared his first deer on his 40th birthday in 1973 and recorded a total of 592 kills with a spear from that point forward, everything from large game animals such as bears and big cats such as cougars and a lion down to smaller animals such as sheep and goats.

In 1992, Morris moved with his wife Heather Jean to Baldwin County, building a home on 20 acres in the Josephine community.

Morris hunted the world over, including several safari trips to Africa and Argentina. Many of his excursions in the United States were in Florida where hunting with a spear has been allowed for many years. Many of his trophies were acquired using a spear he designed himself dubbed “Black Death” which was developed with a local master welder. The metal spear utilizes four blades, two 23-inch blades and two, 16-inch blades. Morris also developed a system for throwing two spears, bagging two animals at one time, a fete which he accomplished 43 times.

While Morris and his wife split after 10 years of marriage, they continued to share a passion for hunting with Heather Morris’s current tally standing at 55. With her Morris realized his dream of sharing his lifelong passion in 2006, creating the Spear Hunting Museum on Highway 59 in Summerdale.

“This museum has become my total life and obsession,” Morris wrote in his last will and testament, which was updated for the last time in April of 2010. “The museum contains all my spear hunting animal trophies, spears, artifacts and other spear hunting mementos that were acquired in my world-wide travels while spear hunting.”

The will stipulates that upon his death, Larry Wilson, who was named executor of Morris’s estate, establish The Spear Hunting Museum Trust Fund. The will also stipulates that all of Morris’s holdings be sold so that the museum can be operated in “perpetuity,” with Heather Morris as the museum’s curator.

The museum, which bears his likeness and title on the building, is now open most weekdays with plans to expand the museum’s hours in January, Heather Morris said. The will also stipulates Morris’s title be changed to “Gene Morris: The Greatest Spear Hunter In Recorded History.”

For more information about the museum, contact Heather Morris at 251-989-7700.

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