Tactical Tomahawk novice... What's the point?

[lazy otter]

If you want 1 get 1 you'll either use it or won't and if you buy a nice 1 you can get most if not all or maybe more than what you paid, or you could get something like 2hawks, or blackjack or I'm sure there are great makers that I'm just not familiar with on this forum and choice 3 is cold steel, or the new wooden handled CRKT's not sure exactly what they are called but seem decent mod them if you want. My personal view is the hawk is (tactical buy nature) and is not a sloppy weapon as some call it. It is easy to swing and give someone a basic idea of how to use a hawk but it's by no means the tool of a savage. FYI ..woods handles throw better atleast for me.

 

[Cajun Kamikaze]

I did not address you any where in this thread nor did I say that you were finished. I just concurred with StormCrow. You can continue on as you see fit!
Enjoy

What's your point? I addressed you based on what you said, who you said it to has no relevance to my response.

 

[Cajun Kamikaze]

When I was a Scout/Sniper in the Marine Corps in the late 80's and early 90's, I toted a Cold Steel Vietnam Tomahawk. Not fancy or particularly nice, but there weren't as many choices back then and it fit the budget of an enlisted Jarhead.

It was quite handy, used it a lot. Mostly used it as an all-purpose tool.......honestly, I would have preferred a hammer poll to the spike. The spike did come in handy once in a while.......I used it a couple of times to punch holes in 55 gallon drums to make burn barrels.

In Mogadishu, we were dealing with a recalcitrant gent who didn't want to talk to us. M16's and Berettas pointed at him didn't faze him at all. He was tough and had seen it all before. I handed off my rifle and pulled out my tomahawk. You should have seen his eyes open wide when she came out of the sheath. He was most cooperative at that point......the threat was all it took.

I had a bit of training here and there in knife fighting, but I was by no means any kind of knifefighter. I had been using hammers, hatchets and axes all my life. I figured if it came down to it I had a better chance of doing damage with a tomahawk than I did with a knife.

I still have that tomahawk, hangs in the shop over my workbench.

AMISOM hasn't done much with the place. I bet that was an interesting visit. I bid a ton of work over the last 6 years to develop man camps at the Mogadishu airport in support of the UN and AMISOM but none ever came to life.