Using a Bowie Knive as a Throwing Knife
Friday, December 4, 2009
By Dylan Sabot
Your new bowie knife is an ideal tool for a wide variety of different things. These tools can be used to clean fish scales, to gut deer, to skin prey and to help around camp. They can help you cut wood, remove the bark from sticks and much, much more. However, if you think that a bowie knife would make a great throwing knife, you have another thing coming. Why shouldn't you use your bowie knife in this manner?
For a knife to have any hope of being accurate, it has to be correctly balanced. This ensures that the knife flies through the air properly. Bowie knives are not balanced for throwing. They're balanced for hand usage. Hold a bowie knife in one hand and a throwing knife in the other and you will feel the weight difference. Balance each in turn on your hand and you will immediately notice the different centers of gravity. This means that bowie knives are not a good choice for throwing.
What will happen should you decide to throw your knife anyway? Ideally, nothing will happen. You'll miss the target and give up immediately. However, that's not usually what happens. If you do hit the target, the knife might bounce back at you, because it hit butt first. You might sink the point into the target, only to find that the force of the throw was such that the haft of the knife continued on around and bent the blade or the tip of the knife.
Yet another reason that you shouldn't use bowie knives as throwing knives is the simple fact that you can achieve better results with knives designed specifically for that purpose. You'll find throwing knives are quite affordable and can be purchased in numerous places, both online and offline. Keep your bowie knife for the uses it was actually designed for and pickup a throwing knife or two for your target practice.
As you can see, using bowie knives as throwing weapons is not the ideal situation. You can damage yourself, your knife or someone else. In addition, you'll simply find that you can gain more enjoyment using a knife designed for throwing, rather than attempting to throw a bowie knife.
For a knife to have any hope of being accurate, it has to be correctly balanced. This ensures that the knife flies through the air properly. Bowie knives are not balanced for throwing. They're balanced for hand usage. Hold a bowie knife in one hand and a throwing knife in the other and you will feel the weight difference. Balance each in turn on your hand and you will immediately notice the different centers of gravity. This means that bowie knives are not a good choice for throwing.
What will happen should you decide to throw your knife anyway? Ideally, nothing will happen. You'll miss the target and give up immediately. However, that's not usually what happens. If you do hit the target, the knife might bounce back at you, because it hit butt first. You might sink the point into the target, only to find that the force of the throw was such that the haft of the knife continued on around and bent the blade or the tip of the knife.
Yet another reason that you shouldn't use bowie knives as throwing knives is the simple fact that you can achieve better results with knives designed specifically for that purpose. You'll find throwing knives are quite affordable and can be purchased in numerous places, both online and offline. Keep your bowie knife for the uses it was actually designed for and pickup a throwing knife or two for your target practice.
As you can see, using bowie knives as throwing weapons is not the ideal situation. You can damage yourself, your knife or someone else. In addition, you'll simply find that you can gain more enjoyment using a knife designed for throwing, rather than attempting to throw a bowie knife.
About the Author:
Dylan Sabot is the owner of an online bowie knives store featuring the western bowie knife. Additionally, Dylan is also the President of an online humidors store.
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