How far can you throw?

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B.C

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Just wondering what is the furthest distance anyone has thrown and stuck a knife?

What sort of distances do you guys get?

For years i have only been throwing 1 turn throws and am now i am experimenting from further.


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B.C
 
It depends on the knife (weight and turns) It gets hard to throw the lighter ones all the time, hurts some too. But ive done a 15 foot throw with a modified table knife, and stuck it. The bigger the knife, the farther away you can get i believe.
 
Just for fun, I've thrown blades 100+ feet, and they even stick sometimes-- at that distance, the real challange is just hitting the target.
 
I've never succeded to trhow my knife an stuck at more than 15 meter.
but at this distance it 'is just for fun, am not accurate at all, and the rebound are very alleatory.
 
about 40 yards I stuck 3 hibbin cord wrapped 6 inch throwers in a nice line up in a deer heart on a deer target my cousins were sighing their bows on, they went in about 3 in (thhe length of the blade.
 
At longer distances, the aerodynamic properties of the knife become important. I've had knives start to rotate around the wrong "plane" when trying to throw at 50 feet or so.
 
My furthest ever was about 5 meters. However, I don't practice long-range throwing -- I work at throwing knives (screwdrivers, nails, spoons, forks, metal rulers, edged iron bars, spikes, etc, etc) accurately and, consistently, to a range of 1-2 meters. Wrist-throw, no turns.

The logic behind it is that in a knife fight, this gives me two advantages:
1) My opponent's knife will still be a safe 1-2 meters away from me when he suddenly gets my own knife through the stomach.
2) My own blade will be 1-2 meters away from him, thus lowering his vigilance.

Of course, if I come up against a good knife-thrower, I'm in deep trouble. On the other hand, how many muggers out there are professional knife throwers?
 
I haven't done much throwing in recent years, but I used to be able to stick a knife between 5 and 50 feet. Yes, at 50 feet it is hard to hit the target, but getting the knife to land tip first was not too difficult. The trick is to have a properly marked out knife throwing range. My target was in my garage. I had a nice cement driveway that I could mark with chalk. I would throw from the blade so my first mark was my half-turn mark. I determined that my full rotation was about 9 feet. I marked off multiples of 9 feet after my half-turn mark. With practice I could stick a knife from any one of my marks out to 50 feet (at which point I could not always get the knife to hit my target). I used a foot long Mauser bayonet blade (no handle) as my throwing knife.

I also marked my intermediate distances. About 3 feet in front of my regular marks I put 'S' marks (for short). If I used less stretch and a little more wrist in my throw I could get a little more rotation and stick knives at my 'S' marks. About 3 feet behind my regular marks I put 'L' marks (for long). If I stretched a bit and kept my wrist a little stiff I could get a little slower rotation and stick my blade from the 'L' marks. The key is to use a very standard stance, step, and arm action on your throw. You need to reduce variables and be able to reproduce your throw despite visual queues. I didn't recalculate or guestimate my throws. I just got on the regular mark and used my standard throw. Guessing distances is what makes casual long range throwing so unreliable. At one point I could do it out to about 20 feet, but that was long ago.
 
Ever hear of Skeeter Vaughn? He was part of a Native American spec-ops unit in WWII. Grew up hunting with knives, then joined the Army. Found himself on a special mission on the Sigfried Line, covertly assaulting a bunker complex.

It's nighttime, snow everywhere, and he and his men are stuck on a treeline, with an empty field separating them and a Nazi sentry keeping watch. They can't shoot him or they'd lose the stealth factor. Vaughn realizes theres only one thing he can do, and he only has one chance: Throw his bayoney style trowing knife and pray that it hits the sentry. He takes the chance and throws. The knife strikes the sentry and the base of the skull, killing him.

That was an 89 ft. throw, not as far as a couple of you have said you can trhow, but it was a throw that required not only skill...
...Not only skill but some balls.
 
hawkpatriot said:
Ever hear of Skeeter Vaughn? He was part of a Native American spec-ops unit in WWII. Grew up hunting with knives, then joined the Army. Found himself on a special mission on the Sigfried Line, covertly assaulting a bunker complex.

It's nighttime, snow everywhere, and he and his men are stuck on a treeline, with an empty field separating them and a Nazi sentry keeping watch. They can't shoot him or they'd lose the stealth factor. Vaughn realizes theres only one thing he can do, and he only has one chance: Throw his bayoney style trowing knife and pray that it hits the sentry. He takes the chance and throws. The knife strikes the sentry and the base of the skull, killing him.

That was an 89 ft. throw, not as far as a couple of you have said you can trhow, but it was a throw that required not only skill...
...Not only skill but some balls.
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I'm sure the people throwing -any- farther than that are lucky to hit a 10x10 target at 90 feet, much less a killing shot rather than just an appendage. Which would be an amazing shot by itself.
 
anybody can throw almost any knife from any distance and stick it eventually with luck. personally, i can consistently throw a tomahawk from 50 feet (sticking it 9 out of 10 times), and a knife (i don't throw knives as much) from about 30 ft., 2 or 2 1/2 spins. it depends on the knife, you will never be able to throw a hibben at these distances and you will quickly develop a sore arm. You need to get a bigger and better knife. there are distance records at this website,

http://www.commonlogic.com/knife/index.htm

This site is also an excellent throwing reference. I have experimented with moving targets in unmarked courses and i feel that (and from many things i have read) even for the most skilled thrower I would think it would be extremely hard to throw a knife consistently at moving targets outside a moderately close range. something i have experimented with that has brought me a lot of enjoyment is hoisting log rounds up into trees and having my brother swing them while i try to hit them (once he is out of range of course). I would also like to say that I am very far from the hi caliber of some of the guys out there that can throw. I just wanted to share my personal experience. Thanks.
 
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