Flying Knife

[leezarts]

Folks Hi, New here to the forum.

I've been looking at the Flying knives offered at the flying knife at their web site. I'm curious if anyone has had any experience with these or other models of throwing knife. they look interesting and relatively easy to reproduce if you use are somewhat handy.

As I said I'm new here and have been fascinated in throwing since I was 13. I'm now 45 have a large collection of different styles of blades and a half decent portion of throwers. Living where I do I don't have the realestate to throw often and usually use my garage.

Anyway I saw the flying knife and thought it was intriguing and hope someone here has tried one to give me a bit of direction on it.

Thanks
Steve

 

[Windwhistler]

These are interesting to watch. Apparently long throws with a mimimum of skill or practice are possible. Very cool videos of them online with experienced throwers showing them off. The design is interesting. And yes, I could probably duplicate one if I wanted to do it. Here is my problem with them for my own use. I regard throwing as fun and exercise as well as a target sport like shooting that takes skill and concentration with some historical connections. I find it relaxing and it drains stress. When I throw, I often have six or nine knives at hand at a time because walking back and forth recovering them is time consuming and breaks my concentration.

The flying knife is pretty expensive. I certainly can't imagine buying several of them. While it takes technique, it is pretty much throwing an adapted lawn dart and looks more like a dart than a knife to me. If you only have one, it ceases to have any function in offense, defense or hunting mode and in our culture as a throw-able hand dart has little historical reference. So I would find it a fun thing to do but question whether or not it is truly knife throwing as we know it. Finally, if I have to walk 40 ft to recover and throw again, I know it would be like shooting my bow but owning only one arrow. This would turn a fun activity into a chore I think. And finally, if I only have one I would instantly paint it hot pink or yellow. I find myself out with a metal detector much too often recovering knives already and a long throw with one of these could leave you hunting the woods for days.

 

[leezarts]

I do understand your point and do not argue. I was merely stating that it was an interesting design, very different technique and possibly reproducible. I would not suggest this as a replacement to regular throwing knives and the cost is prohibitive to owning a lot I just was thinking it would be interesting to own a copy and cool to try my hand at.

I wouldn't hesitate to take on the world of throwers stating this was the way forward for throwing knives especially on my first post. If I ruffled any vanes I apologize but I didn't see this knife as a dart until the point was brought up.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Windwhistler]

No offense taken at all. I find them interesting also and would never hesitate to play with one if it was handy. But I have weighed owning one and have decided against it for the reasons stated. If you should try one out I would love to hear about your throwing and whether or not you find it worthwhile.

 

[Windwhistler]

I was digging around the other day and found a Cobray folding throwing star that has four 6" or so blades. I had never tried it at all and basically had bought it when in their store 30 yearts ago buying a sweater. So I took it out and threw it. It works pretty well, sinks deep and takes no skill beyond being able to throw a rock. I know these are probably no longer available but if you could find one it would be more useful I think than the flying knife, still call for little skill or practice and possibly last longer.

 

[leezarts]

Thanks for the update but I'm up north of the border so Stars are not permissible up this far. I'll have a look at them but like I said we're limited to what we can have up here. I'll look around to see if I can come up with something on the right side of the authorities. I think the Flying Knife may be one of my best options as we are allowed throwing knives just not anything that looks like a shuriken etc.

thanks though I appreciate the suggestion though. too bad I can't follow up on that.

 

[Windwhistler]

Oh,

Sorry about that. I had no idea you were up there. There are so few throwers spread over such a large area. I recommend that you look into no-spin throwing. It is fairly easy, fun, and with the right knife can be cheap. Compared to what I would have spent on ammunition, shooting at today's prices, throwing is practically a give-away. I'd happily make some recommendations (and share some lessons I've learned) if you want to message me or something off the forum. I live in a rural area of Georgia and have plenty of opportunity to practice even from horseback. I'll be headed to do some surveying in the morning and will take my knives for all the dead tree stumps that rear their angry heads as I cut along the way.