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Throwing the Tomahawk
Feb 18^th, 2017 at 4:24pm

We can't let Timpa have all the fun throwing sharp weapons can we. Grin

This a new series of youtube videos I'll be doing all about the skills and tools available to the First Nations tribes in the Ohio river valley. One video I'd like to do soon is finger-weaving; think a 90 strand flat braided sash with beads woven into it!!! Shocked

Oh and don't worry, the medieval crossbow will soon be posted in all its glory. Wink

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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Throwing the Tomahawk Reply #2 - Feb 19^th, 2017 at 3:53am Awesome! Really good video can't wait for more
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SlingerDave Junior Member Offline Stop!!! Let me hide behind this tree first. Posts: 93 San Antonio, Tx Gender:	Re: Throwing the Tomahawk Reply #3 - Feb 19^th, 2017 at 9:05am Thanks guys.
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Mark-Harrop Funditor Offline cracker of zombieskulls Posts: 553 worldwide Gender:	Re: Throwing the Tomahawk Reply #4 - Mar 4^th, 2017 at 5:47am Rule #1, never throw your tomahawk away. Close with and kill the enemy! It is an excellent offensive weapon against a sword, bayonet, spear etc
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Re: Throwing the Tomahawk
Reply #5 - Mar 4^th, 2017 at 9:32am

It would most certainly be the last thing on my mind to throw away a perfectly good weapon. But a fight is based on circumstances and sometimes rules must be broken. A good example is Robert Roger's disclaimer at the end of his famous 28 rules of ranging.

"Such in general are the rules to be observed in the Ranging service; there are, however, a thousand occurrences and circumstances which may happen, that will make it necessary, in some measure, to depart from them, and to put other arts and stratagems in practice; and which cases every man's reason and judgment must be his guide..."

The Native Americans were pretty good at throwing a tomahawk if they had to. “Which they throw with great certainty for a considerable distance and seldom miss.”
Memoirs of John Johnson concerning tomahawk throwing.

"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" Hessian captain Johann Von Ewald's description of the Stockbridge Mohicans.

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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2811 Gender:	Re: Throwing the Tomahawk Reply #6 - Mar 4^th, 2017 at 7:33pm https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v-smpzGwzJs ist zwar kein tomahawk , aber vergleichbar.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: Throwing the Tomahawk Reply #7 - Mar 4^th, 2017 at 7:58pm I've also been a fan of the American Indians since I was young. I had a book when I was probably 10-11 showing a Yuma Indian holding a couple rabbits in one hand and his throwing stick in the other. These guys were the real deal. I would've loved to learn primitive weaponry from one of them.
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Re: Throwing the Tomahawk
Reply #8 - Mar 4^th, 2017 at 8:11pm

Morphy, so would a lot of people. A lot of those skills were lost when the NA's got moved onto reservations.

Some of the skills, like using the throwing stick to hunt rabbits is still practiced by the Choctaws in Mississippi. They are rather large family outings. However, you have to be a close friend or related to be asked to go on one.

And it's usually the younger ones, up to mid teens, lots of running, yelling and laughing. After mid teens, they discover the opposite sex and it doesn't seem to happen again until late 30's or so. Still lots of running,yelling and laughing but lots of gasping and wheezing, too.

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Re: Throwing the Tomahawk
Reply #9 - Mar 10^th, 2017 at 1:32pm

allow me to say that throwing a hatchet, while I'm not that good, is a lot of fun!

Certainly more fun than throwing darts, although I can drink in a pub playing darts, while imbibing while throwing an axe or hatchet would be a recipe for disaster and disfiguring injuries... Roll Eyes

Of course the ancient Franks also had snazzy throwing axes too...

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SlingerDave Junior Member Offline Stop!!! Let me hide behind this tree first. Posts: 93 San Antonio, Tx Gender:	Re: Throwing the Tomahawk Reply #10 - Mar 10^th, 2017 at 1:56pm It would be a most interesting world if people carried belt axes and tomahawks around everywhere... I would like to think I would fit in. The fransica is neat little throwing axe for sure.
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Re: Throwing the Tomahawk
Reply #11 - Mar 10^th, 2017 at 3:07pm

Bill Skinner wrote on Mar 4^th, 2017 at 8:11pm:

Morphy, so would a lot of people. A lot of those skills were lost when the NA's got moved onto reservations.

Some of the skills, like using the throwing stick to hunt rabbits is still practiced by the Choctaws in Mississippi. They are rather large family outings. However, you have to be a close friend or related to be asked to go on one.

And it's usually the younger ones, up to mid teens, lots of running, yelling and laughing. After mid teens, they discover the opposite sex and it doesn't seem to happen again until late 30's or so. Still lots of running,yelling and laughing but lots of gasping and wheezing, too.

I wasnt aware the Choctaws still practiced with the throwing stick. If I remember correctly the Cherokees still do traditional archery competitions. Now if only there were a group that still practiced slinging to the degree that they used to. I wonder how good these ancient slingers were? There are alot of accounts of slinging that seem to far exceed anything we are seeing today. I would love to be able to witness that kind of accuracy in person.

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SlingerDave Junior Member Offline Stop!!! Let me hide behind this tree first. Posts: 93 San Antonio, Tx Gender:	Re: Throwing the Tomahawk Reply #12 - Mar 10^th, 2017 at 4:52pm The cornstalk shoots are still very popular with the the Oklahoma Cherokee. Speaking of rabbit hunting and tomahawks... have any of you seen this video before?
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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3410	Re: Throwing the Tomahawk Reply #13 - Apr 27^th, 2017 at 12:23am Mr Morningstar has a post somewhere about his adventures with a tomahawk.
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