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RW,

The way that video starts it looks like you're going to brain a fuggin' indian with your hawk!




Travis

If you don't know someone who can show you how, this booklet will get you started right.

http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/347/2/BOOK-KTT

Practice up and come play a game of "handles" with me.

Also (and this is just what we have found) the 20-24" handles seem to be a lot easier to get the hang of. The 19" and shorter seem to give people more trouble.




Travis

K-Dub,

If I am down your way I think we should get drunk and throw 'hawks.

But I have to visit Bluedreaux first. He's my hero.



Travis

I've slit a few beavers with my tomahawk.

Bluedreaux is my hero too! Hey! He texted me last night. Pretty funny stuff!!!

I'll get started on a new hawk board!!!! We'll see how this shoulder arthritis plays out!

Creepy.



Dave

Did he happen to ask about me?




Dave

Those were the dazes!!!! Wifey was pregnant in this pic with our baby. She turned 30 in May!

I said funny stuff!

Australians using the tomahawk to defeat the British.

Historical stuff, lifted free off of the 'net...

Hessian Officer Von Ewald describing the Stockbridge Indians in the Rev War, the Stockbridges were an agrgegation of Christianized tribal remnants from Massachussetts, who fought on our side....

Their costume was a shirt of coarse linen down to the knees, long trousers also of linen down to the feet, on which they wore shoes of deerskin, and the head was covered with a hat made of bast. Through the nose and in the ears they wore rings, and on their heads only the hair of the crown remained standing in a circle the size of a dollar-piece, the remainder being shaved off bare.

Their weapons were a rifle or musket, a quiver with some twenty arrows, and a short battle-axe, which they know how to throw very skillfully.

...and a Roger's Rangers guy twenty years earlier, if a movie showed Indians throwing 'hawks with cords attached to retrieve them they'd be hooted down nowadays, doesn't fit the pop image.....

"The expertness of the Indians in throwing the tomahawk is well known. At the distance of ten yards they will fix the sharp edge of it in an object nearly to a certainty. I have been told, however, that they are not fond of letting it out of their hands in action, and that they never attempt to throw it but when they are on the point of overtaking a fly foe, and are certain of recovering it. Some of them will fasten a string of the length of a few feet to the handle of the tomahawk, and will launch it forth, and draw it back again into their hand with great dexterity; they will also parry the thrust or cuts of sword the tomahawk very dexterously."

_The Narrative of Thomas Brown_ (1757) Brown was a member of Rogers Rangers and captured by Indians:


..and in the hands of White folks....

"We traversed the country backward and forward, carefully watching the Indian warpaths until we arrived at one of the forts or stations ... , where we remained a day or two to get washing and mending done and a recruit of provisions, and at every station would spend an hour or two in the exercise of the tomahawk and rifle, not only for our own improvement in the use of these weapons of warfare but also to alarm the savages if they should be lurking in the neighborhood."

The Revolution Remembered
Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence

Birdwatcher

One night they had us all gather in the BIG mess tent as the were going to show us out takes that had been shot over then past several weeks. We were all settings pm onward the screen. I bet there were 500 of us in tent. Unknown to us, Gibson snuck in side door and set down with us to watch. The last take we saw was the tomahawk throw scene. Dead silence in the tent!!!My little ahole bud from Louisiana says out loud " I'm sure glad that sumbitch is on our side!!!!" The tent exploded including Gibson!!!!

We don't mess around when it comes to throwing hawks or knives.

No surprise that the European colonists reverted back to the small ax under the inspiration of the American Indian. The Merovingian Franks were no slouch at throwing an ax in battle as I'm sure a few Romans found out.

Is that how it all shook out?

Did the Indians here make their own iron or steel?

I would have thought that it was the other way around...

KW,

Were you in the movie The Patriot?

Other than his being a foreigner, I really liked that Dragoon Officer.




Travis

RW,

I believe mtcurman and his brother have competed in those events. They are pretty good with them.



Travis