Hunting with your Hawk!!!

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Peter LaGana was notorious for bagging small game in Pennsylvania with his thrown Vietnam Tomahawk.....as well as caping the game with his Hawk as well....there will be some photos of this in the LaGana Virtual Museum.
He used a sidearm motion so the Hawk would "skim" the earth at high speed.

I have not hunted with a Hawk, but have with Throwing Knives in 1994....Boar. Tony Cascarella did it in the early 70's with knives, and Tom Rose of Florida has bagged Whitetail as well as Boar with his knives within the past two years. The late Skeeter Vaughan, one of the best Hawk throwers that ever lived, also bagged lots of small game and some Whitetail with a thrown Hawk.

Our Forumite-brother, Brian Jones, plans on pursuing some game with his ATC Hawk as well....

Hawk Hunting is certainly challenging and in most cases, requires more than one Hawk to throw. While there is no season for it, some game preserves allow it if informed in advance.

Anyone game
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for a contest? Pictures from a successful Hawk Hunt would earn a surprise from the ATC!!! If there are enough participants, I think a formal contest and prize would be in order. Game and hunting permission would have to be documented and obtained legally...please don't show us a pic of a ground hog you whacked in your backyard as a result of this post!
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Let's hear your thoughts....



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Andy Prisco,
Co-Founder, Manager
American Tomahawk Company
877-557-5200
http://www.americantomahawk.com
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Cool! The sidearm throw is like a rabbit-stick technique (throwing stick), which is thrown at game and stuns them. The great advantage of the hawk is that even if the blade misses, the weight of the head or handle, combined with the momentum of flight, will likely stun your target long enough for you to go in and finish the job, either with the hawk itself or a lnog knife that you have with you. Then again, the weight of the head may kill the game, too even if the balde itself misses!

I'm looking forward to givning it a whirl or few with the hawk and see what I come up with...<g>

Peace,

Brian.
 
Hey, Andy, whats wrong with hunting backyard gophers?? In my back yard the gophers have horns and weigh about 170#...we call em "gophdeer". Taste a lot like chicken
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Some of the older folks still call them deerphers though.

THUNK!

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Ron,
Bremerton, Washington
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We do not see notorious or infamous in this.
Famous would be a better choice of words.
The meaning is quite different.
Please pardon the English police action.
It just bugs us.
 
Notorious amongst sheeple is just fine, too!
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I am guessing that's what Andy meant...

Ghostsix/FNG/Warrior11 - good to see you back around here!

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to everyone...

~Brian.

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Brian Jones
Co-moderator
Wilderness & Survival Skills Forum

[This message has been edited by Brian Jones (edited 02-17-2001).]

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BTW Brian....I am sorry we did not connect on the phone today. I will be away most of the day Sunday...maybe we can talk Sunday night or Monday....call my toll free and let me know what works for you.

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Andy Prisco,
Co-Founder, Manager
American Tomahawk Company
877-557-5200
http://www.americantomahawk.com
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Thanks, we are not being real low profile.
We could do that.
That would not be fun.
Which brings the question; what is the point?
I guess we ruffled some feathers again.
We are not saying that we know the whole truth. We just call it as we see it.
Some don`t like candid.
We know that we are not always right either.
We don`t have a book in our hand when we post. Well, we did dig out FM 21-50 once.
We look at this like the USNI forums in Naval Proceedings. If an author makes a mistake; we still have people alive that were there. That will be gone soon for the WW11 guys.
If we can pass on a lesson; it is cheaper than learning it for yourself.
Why not save a few lives of people who go into harm`s way for a living?
We think that this one was pointing out a dealer`s error.
Dealers throw more weight than commoners.
We think that we have beaten Dr. Walt Welch`s record for being banned.
 
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