Thread: Throwing Knives

I don't know if it would be considered a sport or a hobby or a passtime. Whatever it gets called, throwing knives at targets is therapeutic. The knives themselves are typically inexpensive to the point they may be considered disposable:

With very little practice one can develope their skill enough to find the activity itself is quite rewarding:

I throw into the end of large logs. When the knife sticks it is surprisingly gratifying. It is challenging, fun and a little violent. Even Basil enjoys when I do it:

Does anyone else enjoy knife throwing?

Is that another gratuitous shot of Basil or is he the target?

I have never been into throwing knives but they look quite nice!

Funny though as I have always liked the idea of throwing a knife in general

My dad has a nice little throwing knife almost exactly like the one in the middle of your top picture (with the fewest holes in the handle). He taught me how to throw it when I was 10 or 12. I remember it was a lot of fun, and I've been meaning to pick one up again one of these days.

Got any favorite websites for ordering decent, inexpensive throwing knives?

I'd be interested in hearing about where to get some decent, cheap ones too. Seems like it would be a fun way to blow off some steam and pass the time, and I've got room in the basement or the attic to set it up safely.

I have always been interested in throwing knives.
Sadly, I've never been able to get started and buy some, since throwing knives are deemed illegal weapons here, along with throwing stars

Sometimes I am surprised that they let you have razors

Originally Posted by Bruno

I have always been interested in throwing knives.
Sadly, I've never been able to get started and buy some, since throwing knives are deemed illegal weapons here, along with throwing stars

Now that you mention it, I seem to remember hearing something about throwing stars being illegal in The States, or at least NY state, or maybe just this particular town where the incident happened. A teacher confiscated a throwing star from a student, felt obligated to report to the main office, the legality issue came up, and the student was escorted from the building in handcuffs by the police.

EDIT: ran a quick search looking for cheap throwing knives (I don't care enough to search the legal issue) and found http://www.selfdefenseproducts.com/n...wers/index.php

Tim,
I guess you must have been posting the same time as me. I just now saw your tomahawk. Yeah man they are fun. I have a collection of sharp stuff that I throw. Among the things are a full size double bitt axe, a tomahawk, a few stars, some dart sort of things and all the assorted knives. When I bring it all out, it is one of my personal games where I throw everything one piece at a time in random order and try to get them all to stick. When one piece falls I start over and keep trying until the target holds them all.

Brad

I've got a couple of throwing knives. I used to have more, but...those things tend to get lost sometimes.

It's really fun to land a perfect throw, you're right.

I managed to get the big slice of sycamore up into position as a target:

It is about three feet across and weighs (I'd guess) about two hundred pounds. The center of the target is about four feet above the ground. It is as good a target for knives as you can get.
Here are my biggest and smallest knives:

The big ones are 13 inches and the little ones are 5 inches. They all work well but I had to teach myself different techniques for the different sizes:

These were thrown from twelve feet (small) and fifteen feet (large)