Does anyone have a good advise for a good quality thrower, please let me know!

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I have thrown my Magnum for couple a days and I it rocks, to bad that my blade seems to bend a little at the point of impact. I guess the training board is to hard or my bladepoint is to thin.

Does anyone have experience with throwing the Buck Alpha Hunter, That knive is one of my favorites, but I don't want to throw it before checking if anyone has experience throwing with it.

If anyone has good advise for buying a good quality thrower, please let me know!



Thanx in advance.

Mano
 
You probably should not throw any buck knife. Most bucks are a 420HC, which is good stuff but pretty brittle. It tends to break before it bends. Even if it is ATS34 you don't want to throw it, it is not made for that purpose. Offhand I don't know what steel the Alpha uses. All cheap throwing steels will be soft, so be prepaired to hammer them back in place or grind them down. Never expect a throwing knife to hold an edge. The more you throw them, the more you tear them up, the more you have to touch them up. Cold steel has just reintroduced a Carbon V thrower in a 10, 12, and 14 inch configuration. I recently purchased 6 of the 14 inch for 13 USD each. Even though the black matte coating will wear quickly these knives are an excellent deal, at least in my opinion. It is relatively easy to recondition a soft steel to continue throwing with, but if you bugger up a 420HC or a 340-ATS blade you will only end up with a shorter, uglier blade unless you have the proper tools. Even then it will will be shorter and perhaps less functional.
Bottom line:
If you use cheap 420J throwers, be prepared to fix them.
If you use a Carbon V, 440C(mid 50's RC), or most of the "10" series carbon blades, 1095, 1051 ect. you will have minimal touchup and high durability. Just take care of them.
Hope this helps, good luck!
 
Thanx for your reply and good advice.
My Buck is to damn pretty to waste.
The discription of my Alpha Hunter: Buck USA 194 T ATS-34 BOS.
I will search for blades with alloy you described, hope I can find throwers here in Holland to practice with. Here back in Amsterdam the throwers are forbidden by law so one can't buy throwers in shops or stores, 2 bad.

Thanx again. :)

Mano.
 
Hey Mano,

If you are allowed to own military surplus bayonets these also make good throwers. Especially SKS spike bayonets. Your part of the globe has produced many of the best bayonets ever since the late 1890's.
If you can get some of them for less than 20 USD(for me it is from 10 to 30 USD) you can remove the handles and tape them up. Other wise you will eventually destroy the original handles. Sorry to hear that you do not have legal access to throwing knives. You can also take a big pair of scisorrs in half and use them, they work very well.
Take care & good luck!
 
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