Breaching?

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I keep hearing about tomahawks being used as breaching tools, but when I look for details, I get nothing usable. I either get some mall ninja beating the tar out of a junked car, or I find prying tools (Firefighters halligan, Stanley Fubar, etc) being used.

How does a tomahawk get used for breaching?
 
By hacking at doors at the hinge and latch/lock areas. The heavier ones are more effective.
 
Have used both an RMJ forge eagle talon and a GG&G hawk to breach a solid door.......two or three hits to a knob or bolt lock adn it works....

now a ram is quicker.....

on windows a hawk is great.....

some entry teams will shiv/shim a closed door and clear the room during back clear....

a hawk can be used for this to great effect.....since if you have to kick a door you do not know if the door is baracaded and you get injured...or if you fly right through and get injured...so you use sledge hammers and hawks/axes/crowbars....

they are also great for vehicle breaching....windows do not stand a chance...

now fubars are also great and cheaper alternatives...but hawks have 10X's the CDI factor...
 
amflud said:
By hacking at doors at the hinge and latch/lock areas. The heavier ones are more effective.
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thats

I carry one for breeching, the obvious hacking open of any wooden, prying hinges ( a solid full tank is preferable) , it works grate for breaking windows and raking the broken glass. You can hawk true some types of cinderblock walls, and if the need arises you have the best edged man stopper in your hands for close quarters combat. And I have used the spike on my hawk to flatten more the a few tires.

I work for the Mexican government doing anti drug trafficking operations and dignitary protection all over Mexico. The hawk I carry is a Winkler Hawk by Winkler Knives, its not a hawk made for breeching specifically but it does this job amazingly.


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I've talked to guys returning from Iraq, and they love the RMJ hawks over there. They say they'd use the spike end to ram the spike behind a hinge of into the locking mechanism and just rip the piece out.

They'd also stop cars by ramming the spike though a tire, and either smash the window, or use the spike to rip the locking mechanism out of the door and drag the driver out -- or both.

From what they say, the Iraqis were scared spitless of guys carrying hawks.
 
All we ever used were rams and a special mossberg 500 with a modified barrel and brass lock cutter rounds(thats for prison cell doors that have had the key hole jammed).Now keep in mind most of the doors are specialty doors made by folger adams doors and no hawk or axe is gonna breach one, in fact pretty much no ram will either.You pretty much have to have a porta-power to bust the door frame..Ive installed them myself.Just a pair of folger adams hinges for a crash gate are $200, a large folger adams key "blank" were about $100 five years ago.
 
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Cpl Punishment said:
Pretty sure they were talking regular house doors.
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Ive no doubt, Im just bad to ramble on :p ...............
Id say just about any decent hawk will knock the lock out of a door with little to no damage. A regular house door aint hard to get thru. We trained with regular house doors in a frame and pretty much any person on the team regarless of size could knock the bolt plate out of the facing with their boot.Now thats an unbarricaded door of course.
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Hawks are a wonderfully useful tool..
 
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Kentucky said:
Ive no doubt, Im just bad to ramble on :p ...............
Id say just about any decent hawk will knock the lock out of a door with little to no damage. A regular house door aint hard to get thru. We trained with regular house doors in a frame and pretty much any person on the team regarless of size could knock the bolt plate out of the facing with their boot.Now thats an unbarricaded door of course.
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Hawks are a wonderfully useful tool..
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if you are using your boots to kick in a door...that is a very unsafe thing to do on an entry....you can not shoot or move out of the way when the kick lands....use a tool and get out of the way within a shorter time frame....

:D

and stay safe....
 
What kind of breaching are you talking about? An axe or hawk would work well if I know there is no armed bad-guy on the other side of the door, otherwords I need to defeat that door faster if I am making that much noise.
 
oguruma said:
What kind of breaching are you talking about? An axe or hawk would work well if I know there is no armed bad-guy on the other side of the door, otherwords I need to defeat that door faster if I am making that much noise.
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thats why I said ram and sledge if you could.....but for windows = hawks are great...
 
1955 fireman's breaching hatchet modeled after old sailing days boarding hatchet

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i got this for 45 dollars off of someone who didn't know better
 
when they say breaching hatchet it came from wooden ship days - boarding hatchet
 
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I recently decided to by myself a Winkler Knives Combat Axe, I’ve come to depend on my axe a lot, I’ve realized that the sayoc is limited when it comes to breaching activities (it’s one hell of fighter dough). Daniel Winkler makes great stuff, the more use you put in to his hawks the more of an antiqued look they get, they seem to get better whit age.

I will post a review when I get it.
 
Edwood7 said:
I recently decided to by myself a Winkler Knives Combat Axe Daniel Winkler makes great stuff, the more use you put in to his hawks the more of an antiqued look they get, they seem to get better whit age.

I will post a review when I get it.
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I am saving my money for one of those - they are beautiful
 
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