Throwing Iron

by Sarge , Central Misery, Saturday, June 21, 2014, 21:56 (3813 days ago)

With my Nordic blood and the wife’s Apache/Comanche roots, it was inevitable we’d have tomahawks or belt axes around the place.We watched a couple of seasons of the History Channel's Vikings and that sealed the deal. I gathered up three 'hawks off tables at the local outdoor junk sale, along with an old ‘Cera Hunter II’ Chinese Bowie that I originally purchased as a rough knife for the pickup toolbox. I took the scales off the bowie and replaced them with a length of rubber hose.

I don’t have 50 bucks in all of them.

Two of the ‘hawks are cheap throwers, but the third is a good Frontier style ‘hawk with some serious steel in it. It will get razor sharp with a little work and the sparks really flew when I beveled its edge on a belt sander. It has an obvious hammer forged axe with a ‘G’ stamped in the head. My wife wanted ‘her own axe’ and I gave her this one.

I threw knives as a kid and I've watched various videos of rendezvous contests, where they toss the knife or hawk just hard enough to stick it in the end of a log. I figure these are weapons not lawn darts, so I throw hard enough to bust ribs and bury the iron. I don’t claim any expertise at this but at 7 yards I am pretty certain of accomplishing that.

This is all great fun.