Those are actually hatchets, not axes. Just saying.
I have several high-quality hatchets/tomahawks, but I also have a set of Chinese M48 knock-offs that I use to practice throwing - the steel is crap but a 3-pack cost less than a real M48, so I don't care if they get torn up.
I started throwing with a couple of Hibben throwing hatchets many years ag, which aren't much of a weapon but they're good for learning technique when you're starting out.
Honestly, in any kind of defense situation where a hatchet/tomahawk is the best weapon I've got, throwing it would not be high on my list of likely attacks, but since you never know what life may throw at you - and because it's fun to learn new things - I figured it wouldn't hurt to learn to throw knives and hatchets. I always bring them camping, so we have something to do if we're sitting around camp.
I've thrown a hatchet, but I sucked at it. I never got the blade to hit the target and stick. It takes practice.
The last thing I'm going to depend on is an ax or hatchet. It takes skill to hit exactly what you're aiming at, and you only have one shot at doing so. And what if there is more than one assailant?
Pretty retarded.
I'd rather have semi-auto handgun with 13 rounds in the magazine. The assailant can try throwing his ax at me while I'm putting holes in his body.
Then again, it might be satisfying to hit an assailant just right with a hatchet.
u We have axe-throwing locations in my metro area as well. I've been to this one:
Blade & Timber KC Power & Light Downtown Kansas City Axe Throwing (bladeandtimber. com)
They serve alcohol in these places; what could possibly go wrong?
They teach kids as young as 10 to throw axes in the UK scouts. And yes at a medieval themed party I threw axes. Lot of messing about tbh
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Guns are gay... lol. Because guns are da debil! (Kathy Bates voice). Ukraine would beg to differ. An armed populace is a powerful populace. But yes I've thrown axes and while it very much appeals to my caveman side I still prefer firearms because I prefer being able to actually handle a potentially life threatening situation swiftly and definitively. As opposed to saying "Hold on! Don't stab me yet, let me run home and rummage through my shit and find my axe and I'll be right back!". How's the knife related violence rate in the UK again? Dropped off a bit in 2020 but is back on an upward trend.
Only once in anger. I had to throw my camping axe at a bull moose who had trampled one of our canoes and a box of provisions. If the moose had claimed the other, we may well have met our ends in the unforgiving hinterland.
With a single throw I struck it dead, right in the monstrous eye. It crashed to the river stones eight feet tall at the shoulder, like a creature of myth.
Instead that night we feasted, butchering and packing what we could, and gave the rest of the great beast back to the forest. The spirit of the land would understand that one great truth, survival.
Exploring the deep boreal forest, far from the cradle of civilization, is not an undertaking for the faint of heart. We left Toronto boys, but returned as men, hale and hearty.
u No, Americans are not THAT uncivilized! :) :) :) And we scrupously honor our right to bear arms!
Totally agree with you, guns are for idiots, this is my axe and it holds and shoots tiny axes and best part is that it can be concealed easily and it requires no skill to throw, it also has a mechanism that throws them for me at a high velocity, all I have to do is push a magic button on my bigger axe 🙂
u ever since I was around six years old... axes, machetes, knives, all kinds of blades and pointy objects
and a tomahawk from a relative, lol
At a cub scout camp with my sons several years ago, there was an axe-throwing competition between fathers and sons, throwing at a target. Sons won.
I have, both while camping and at a bar in Dallas. My team beat my friend's team! I was a fairly talented beginner!
Yes, but not in that context, about twenty years ago I did middle-ages historical re-enactments, then I threw the axes.
"The British won't let us train with weapons, so we train with stones"
We throw axes too! Full size axes too!
Right to bear arms was a middle finger to the British and keep our own government in check and small. The small hasn't worked out tho in last few decades.
Yeah I thrown axes before at some places where they have a axe throwing cages.
I still have a target in my yard.
These are the last two shields I won in the last two competitions.
There's an axe throwing place near me- it seems fun but with my bad rotator cuff, I haven't done it.
there was an axe throwing place that opened in my town. My kids went once and said it was fun. I wanted to try it and maybe set up a place in my backyard to practice.
Axe throwing has become very popular in the US.
No, but it's become popular apparently as there are several axe-throwing places that have opened nearby. One is a bar/axe-throwing place, which sounds like a bad idea.
Yeah here go my axe throw.
I haven't tried throwing axes but I'm very adept with throwing knives.
Never hehe but if u throw an axe at me i will die happily
No I haven't. But it looks like fun
No but I'm splitting woods for my wood stove with the axe
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