Used to have "Lumberjack Days", don't know if they still do. They had an axe throw event. Would throw those things from like 50-75 ft back and just nail the bulls eye. Was really fun to watch, until a wild throw glanced off the round and came close to hitting a guy. Then, you were real careful where you stood.
Sarg
Used to be something like that here too. And Back home where I grew up. Tomahawks and throwing knives are rather useful for other stuff too, or so I'm told. My tommies are mostly for clearing brush and the like. I find them more useful than machetes, which I also have a nice collection of. My range and accuracy are limited, perhaps to about 30 feet. But I figure that is good enough to paraphrase the old .308 t-shirts that read "Go ahead and run, you'll just die tired."
However in the town I am in now, as a direct response to all the shooting hysteria, they passed an ordinance here that outlaws the use of "...any device or implement that launches, throws, or propels a projectile..." inside city limits. Which is funny because so far the cops have busted a ton of kids playing with Nerf Dart guns in their front yards, a dude with a Super Soaker type squirt gun, shut down numerous roofers using pneumatic nailers and busted folks using an archery practice range...in a city owned park....that built the range and maintains it...
While I hope to never have a run in with the law, I think it would be funny to get a day in court and force them to state that human hands are banned by this ordinance, since by the word of their law by throwing a dart, tomahawk or knife the hand that did it qualifies as a device or implement that moves projectiles. Gah. Maybe I am too much a smart ass for my own good...
But no matter how one looks at it, I will restate that as responsible gun owners, any one that realizes they have some issues and owns firearms should willingly give them up for safe keeping until such time the beast is chained up and one can go back to enjoying the finer, if somewhat loud, things in life
