Hunting with a Tomahawk

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From the recent thread "hawk in the woods", one of our Canadian members had this to say about using his Norse hawk for hunting:

Magnussen said:
Throwing?.... As of today I have taken 3 squirrels, 1 racoon, 1 rabbit and a mourning dove with my hawk. If you have it in your hand while you walk, you will have plenty of opportunity to take game...
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This got me wondering, who else has taken game with your tomahawk? What kind of game did you take? Do you actually practice throwing for hunting (small targets, low to the ground, etc...), or just rely on your regular hawk throwing skills?

I'm very interested to hear some other stories from our members! Indulge me!
 
My friends and I used to go rat hunting when we were kids. We'd pull up tin out in the woods and old stumps whenever the population seemed to get a bit large. We used spears, knives, hawks, as long as it was bladed. No guns. Too dangerous in close and by the time the rat gets far enough away in the woods, he's gone.
We pulled up a large piece of tin one day and out comes an armadillo at full speed! I had my hawk in my left hand and backhanded it down on him blade first. I do not recommend this A.(because it is MESSY, the splatter when a tomahawk enters a blood filled creature with enough force to put the blade in up to the handle is prodigious) and B.(I grew out of killin' stuff for the hell of it a while back. AKA if it is no threat to me or I don't plan on eating it we can go our happy ways.
 
When was younger I used to get paid for killing muskrats that dug in pond banks back in Missouri. Normally used my Redbone or a .410 but every now and then I would use my hawk never kept track of how many I killed, though I do recall going swimming twice for my hawk.
 
I hit a mole with my CS Rifleman's Hawk last night. I didn't want to but it was tearing up the yard. It was a pretty quick kill though a little messy. I've been throwing alot but I believe I'll chalk this one up to luck.
 
i took more than a few fuzztails back in oregon over the years, and almost took an armadillo on my latest hog hunt... just a note it is well known that when u are hunting with ur hawk u throw in a sidearm fashion not the standard vertical throw for sticking in wood.... just some food for thought...
 
I can throw a tomahawk pretty well and have a number of medals from competitions for tomahawk throwing, but I never really considered hunting with one. However, in Thailand foreigners are not permitted to use firearms, so perhaps it would be worth giving it a try. First, though, I would have to have one shipped here, as I have not seen any in Thailand.
 
How about hunting with a Thai Krabi-krabong sword? I took some classes in that form from a former Thai national champion and it was pretty interesting.

I'm taking some hawks on a car camping trip in April so perhaps I'll get a chance to throw at a squirrel or two. The last one I grilled tasted better than rabbit. My question is: When hunting with a hawk, how do you avoid messing up a lot of the meat on small game animals? [And don't say "head shot" because I'll be very lucky just to hit one.:D]

DancesWithKnives
 
yupper... they taste good....

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Am I correct in assuming you throw it side-armed so the handle doesn't hit the ground before reaching the target?

I never did a whole lot of this with a hawk or hatchet; I always used knives. Killed a whole pile of smaller varmints with various folders and fixed blades, but most of these were by sneaking up and cutting rather than throwing. Most of those I got by throwing were at very close range; no rotation needed.
 
It sounds like a good rationale---like using a primitive throwing stick. Personally, I was going to try to get a squirrel while it is on a tree trunk---since I haven't practiced side-arm throwing.

DancesWithKnives
 
I think he posted the photo in response to my comment about squirrels tasting even better than rabbits.

DancesWithKnives
 
If you look at the relative size of the concave-sided canteen holder/mug behind the roasting squirrel, it suggests that the grill is a very small one. I've had some pretty large arctic ground squirrels and heard that some of the squirrels in the Southern US, sometimes referred to as "fox" squirrels, can be bunny size.

DancesWithKnives
 
DWK2 said:
If you look at the relative size of the concave-sided canteen holder/mug behind the roasting squirrel, it suggests that the grill is a very small one. I've had some pretty large arctic ground squirrels and heard that some of the squirrels in the Southern US, sometimes referred to as "fox" squirrels, can be bunny size.

DancesWithKnives
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I see the canteen holder now. Now it makes sense to me. Thanks for straightening an oldman out.........
 
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