how well do your khukuris come back when you throw them?

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I have shown khukuris to some people and someone the other day said they'd imagine that the khukuris come back pretty well, I guess like a boomerang. I said that the native peoples don't throw them, ever, but this person insisted that they would throw quite well.

What about you? Ever throw 'em? :eek: Do you get this comment from people very often?
 
I don't know, but I ran into a bench in "Wellness" class today. We were playing frisbee football, and our team was way down, and the touchdown pass to me was high...I was really sprinting for it, looking up, and then, I heard the coach start yelling

Watch out for the fence-!

and I thought, fence? I have room, and it's just wire mesh anyway, and then,

THUMP. Oh, my, god. I hit just above my right knee, and slammed over the bench into the ground. Guess he was saying bench. My right knee is about 5x the size of my left.

Anyway, as we were warming up before playing this morning, I kept noticing how the wind kept causing the frisbees to circle. Almost like boomerangs...which are nothing like kukuris.

John. Ow.
 
An aquaintance I know says he has a friend (aint this startin' out like all good urban legends? :D ) who throws the India 10-15 dollar a piece khuks pretty regularly and swears they actually threw really well. Heh...only one I ever threw was straight into the trash pit... :D

(BTW, he also says they return wonderfully when he misses...actually that was never said, just sounded like urban legend end to match the urban legend beginning)
 
Yeah, it would truly suck to be maimed in Wellness. :)

In all seriousness, less than .5" lower- and my kneecap would be in pieces. It hurts, and I've taken more ibuprofen than I'm going to admit, but I was still very fortunate.
 
I guess I'm fortunate in that I got one of those 'magic' sheaths. Everytime I pull a khuk out of it, another one magically appears.

So I just throw and throw and throw without any worry about getting 'em back. Leaves the yard a mess, but what I do I care? :rolleyes: Course, I have to wear my full plate mail when lawnmowing day rolls around... ;) :D :barf:

~ B
 
Haven't ever been able to bring myself to throw a khuk but I can guarandamntee you that if it hits just right it IS going to come back to you and with a Vengance!!!!:eek: :rolleyes: Way back when I threw knives all the time I had many of them come back too me when they bounced off a springy target like a tree.
I've been very fortunate, lucky, or whatever you want to call it.
When I first started throwing the almost brand new hunting knife that I was given for Christmas bounced off the tree and came straight back, hit me right at the side of my mouth penetrating about an 1/8" deep! :eek: :rolleyes: :grumpy: Scared the fire outta me for a while and then I started throwing again being ready to jump out of the way if it came back at me, I got really good at that.;) :D
 
If you have a real asymetrical grind you might just be able to get it to come back like a boomerang :D :eek: :D
 
Heh. For a while, right after my (now ex)wife and I broke up, I was going out in the woods, and training with a weighted chain every day after work. In the circles I traveled in, the preferred target was a dead tree.

Well, we have this peculiar straight-in attack, where the chain is bunched up in your hands, and then you pop one end straight out at the "attacker".

You learn to dodge. :D Thought for a while, I was going to get a scar for every rank I got.
 
The trick is to wear a great big gauntlet on your "catching" hand:

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Hey...I had a .25acp bullet come back and hit me once. Danged thing bounced off of a tree trunk from about 10 yds. and hit me in the stomach. Stung some. Does that count???

Now you know why they bad mouth the .25acp as a defensive round... ;)

Jeff
 
I threw one of mine once and I got it back...though I had to walk a ways to pick it up
 
If anyone's planning on throwing khukuries around, feel free to throw them into my yard.

As bad of an idea as this sounds like, I may have to try it just so I can say that I did.
 
donutsrule said:
The trick is to wear a great big gauntlet on your "catching" hand:
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Hey, that's from 'Road Warrior', isn't?

BTW, every khuk that I've ever thrown has come back.
 
I can throw any of my khuks and have them come right back. All I have to do is lie out in the yard and throw 'em straight up in the air. The real trick is to roll far enough away before they come back down. :eek: :p

Bob
 
John?

Not to worry. Bone bruises heal fast. You should be fine in, say...18 months or so. :p

Have a friend who exploded his kneecap and can now forecast the weather. Have a daughter who is currently going stir-crazy with confinement from snapping both bones in her right leg below the knee. (Well, in fairness, the bones were snapped FOR her, but still.)

On throwing knives: I still haven't found a source which recommends throwing away a weapon, especially a knife. "Wait. Hold it. Stand there. No, to the left. OK, now...one step back. Whoa. fine. Stay there, I'm going to throw this at you." :rolleyes:


Be well and safe.
 
I once shot an arrow at a basketball. Let's just say I'm glad it missed my face.
I've never thrown a khukuri, I have a cheap cold steel thrower for that. I bet I could throw an AK Bowie and make it stick... wanna lend me one? :)
 
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