"I’m not going to lie, I initially thought throwing a tomahawk was the dumbest thing on the planet, but I’m very grateful that good sense took a break and the urge to chuck a hunk of metal at stumps took over. What was initially meant to be a day of practicing drawstroke and reloads with the pistol quickly turned into tomahawk fever and not a shot was fired. A surprisingly fantastic day!..."
"And just so everyone knows, after three hours on-and-off of trial and error, tragedy and triumph, we did finally make it stick." (via Instapundit)
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OK, you throw it, presumably because all your projectile weapons are gone.
Now what?
No reference to tomahawks is complete without the classic Carson clip: link
Who needs a knife in a nuke fight?
The enemy cannot push a button if you disable its hand.
Because the blade is so much heavier than the handle?
The handle flings around apparently unpredictably? Like wobbly? It flings like a boomerang? The handle whips and wobbles? I think no matter how it hit you, it'd hurt.
They are not made to be thrown. You need to close ranks and then smash someone's head in.
I think the buckskinners are the ones who started throwing them. As weekend mountain men/wannabe Indians they probably haven't had to consider closing their ranks on an enemy.
They are not made to be thrown.
Proper tomahawks were very much made to be thrown. Since they were in use in tandem with long rifles which were very much single-shot non-melee weapons, an encounter might consist of "run into enemy, you're too close to bring your rifle to bear, but too far to grapple - fling tomahawk at him, hit or don't hit, but while he's recovering from having been hit with a long stick with an axehead on one end, close and gut him with a long-knife or bash his head in with a warclub". It made sense in dense woodland, where most encounters were along deer paths and line-of-sight was a dozen yards if you were lucky.
"Do you feel lucky, punk? Well then throw the tomahawk." -- Sitting Dirty Harry
Some day, I'll learn to spell.
People will compete at just about anything.
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