Throwing your survival knife?

goodeyesniper said:
There is no survival situation where throwing your knife would ever be a good idea. Hell, there's no COMBAT situation where throwing your knife will ever be a good idea. Throwing knives are purely for recreation or sport.

I dunno, a bear might be too busy laughing at you after you bounced a knife off it's shoulder (or more realistically, missed it by a mile) to actually attack you, so it might come in handy then....
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say that to this guy...
Tony Cascarella is the undisputed champ of hunting boars by throwing knives. With three perfectly thrown blades he felled a 275-pound (124.7 kg) boar. More than 30 years later, his record still stands. However, it didn't come by luck. Cascarella was a combat veteran (of the Korean War) and a trained marksman, not only with knives but also with bow and arrow, rifle and tomahawk [source: McEvoy].
 
bocephus21 said:
say that to this guy...
Tony Cascarella is the undisputed champ of hunting boars by throwing knives. With three perfectly thrown blades he felled a 275-pound (124.7 kg) boar. More than 30 years later, his record still stands. However, it didn't come by luck. Cascarella was a combat veteran (of the Korean War) and a trained marksman, not only with knives but also with bow and arrow, rifle and tomahawk [source: McEvoy].
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It's worth noting that just because you can do something successfully doesn't mean it's a good idea for you to do it. :D:D:D
 
Found the video:

[video=youtube;ut5KDoi3BEg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut5KDoi3BEg[/video]

Regardless of how stupid it is to throw a regular knife, Terry O'Quinn is still pretty cool. B-list celebrity man crush.
 
bocephus21 said:
I often throw my cold steel kudu....and it is still good as new...so IDK what yall are talkin bout knives will break when thrown...unless your knives are all made of plastic or cheapos they should not break!
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Cold steel even makes throwing knives. Throwing knives don't just look a certain way, they are heat treated so they are softer. This allows them to handle the stress of the harmonics that happen when the knife bounces off the target. The wave travels up and down the steel, which may get absorbed by the handle of your Kudu. A folding knife isn't made for throwing either, you may break the handle off or do major damage to the pivot point.

It's not really about cheapness, it's about hardness. The harder a material, the more likely it is to shatter, chip, crack, etc.. Softer steels don't really hold an edge too well, so most knives are somewhat hard.
 
Just so I understand: throwing is an offensive use of a knife? Not a defensive use?

Personally, in a survival situation I would throw my cell phone before I would throw my Busse.
 
To add something else not previously mentioned, knife wounds (from knives HELD or THROWN) don't cause death immediately as has been shown in 99% of all film depictions.

This is especially true with film portrayals of persons struck with thrown knives however-even the smallest of blades make their victims stiffen painfully and briefly before collapsing dead to the world.

Bo-gus! IF you were lucky enough to hit with the point WITH ENOUGH FORCE to penetrate, your opponent might:
1. Stop aggression and run
2. Laugh
3. Scream
4. Bleed out slowly
5. Pull the knife out and stick it up your azz because you learned interpersonal combat from TV and Internet forums

;)
 
David From NC said:
To add something else not previously mentioned, knife wounds (from knives HELD or THROWN) don't cause death immediately as has been shown in 99% of all film depictions.

This is especially true with film portrayals of persons struck with thrown knives however-even the smallest of blades make their victims stiffen painfully and briefly before collapsing dead to the world.



Bo-gus! IF you were lucky enough to hit with the point WITH ENOUGH FORCE to penetrate, your opponent might:
1. Stop aggression and run
2. Laugh
3. Scream
4. Bleed out slowly
5. Pull the knife out and stick it up your azz because you learned interpersonal combat from TV and Internet forums

;)
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The 1995 film presentation of Othello shows a pretty accurate instance of a guy getting stabbed upward under the ribcage. It takes him several minutes to die and he's spazzing the whole time while his nose and mouth are being held forcibly shut to keeping him from screaming his lungs out.

Good movie, too. Presents Shakespeare in a very non-theatrical way. Rough, raw, and lifelike. :)
 
I'm also thinking of Saving Private Ryan in the scene where Mellish is killed by the German while the useless Upham looks on.

Takes FOREVER...
 
Glock field knives make excellent throwers. I have been throwing mine for years and they have held up well. I find them more balanced than my condor and hibben throwers. You can buy them online with sheath for about $25.00.
 
If you have to do this, Cold steel Bushman, or True Flight are good bets. They are tough knives, will take a lot of abuse. But you will probably lose the knife first from throwing it.
 
Most of coldsteels normal fixed blades can be thrown with little practice. I already had a large gil hibben thrower set so I just converted one into a survial knife. I throw knives all the time now but i got good with them in the first 2 months
 
Throwing a knife is not always a good idea...that said..I throw knives....all kinds of knives, screwdrivers, tomahawks, spikes...even screws. Practice and durable blades are the key to REPEAT throwing. Throwing knives are made specifically for that function as a sport...and by sideshow performers (yes Virginia, they still exist). any blade can be thrown...once. Taking someone's life like that is a myth though as the force needed to penetrate deep enough is not there unless you wind up like and can throw a 1 pound knife at 90 mph like a baseball pitcher. You CAN distract (pain is a distraction) an opponent and maybe use another weapon or get to one or even get away but then, you have left behind your knife. It becomes a one time desperation move where you better have something as a backup ready to go.

The Hibben large throwing knives are pretty good and not too expensive and have the addition of being able to handle some utilitarian chores. Hibben has always been well known for his knife throwing.
 
I am incline to agree with the general consensus here and say that throwing my knife would be a waste. If I was in a danger situation where that could be my only defensive weapon I could do more damage holding it than throwing it and potentially breaking or worse, losing it. having a good nice in a survival situation its key and I'm not chancing losing such a valuable tool
 
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