SlingerDave
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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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