Well the Desert Dagger was never designed to be a throwing knife.
It was a dagger - mean, thin and slick enough to penetrate easily. I don't fault it for being thin and breaking easily. It will stab well but just don't throw it. Hope you learnt your lesson.
Yes, yes I did learn my lesson. Next time I find an old SOG knife, don't use it for anything.
A knife made for stabbing/penetrating should be able to be lightly thrown into soft wood more than once without snapping in half. I've thrown every fixed blade I own, some more than others. My Busses get thrown more than anything, but everything gets a throw or two. I've yet to have one break on the second throw until now. Sure throwing knives are hardened much softer than knives meant for cutting, but having thrown everything from kitchen knives, to axes, to battle mistresses, i've never had that happen before. I had the handle scales fly off an old frost bowie that I had since I was a kid, but the blade never broke. I threw one of those ozark trail 7 dollar folders from walmart over 100 times before the lock broke, the blade never broke.
I don't want to hear the argument that "it's not meant for throwing", any quality knife should be strong enough to handle impact in a soft target a couple times, steel shouldn't be hardened to glass fragility, especially a "stabbing/penetrating" knife.
Honestly, I wasn't posting to really complain about the knife, I couldn't care less about the knife, I was just curious what model it was so I could see what I paid for it years ago.
