Author Topic: Throwing stuff... (Read 1520 times)

Victor3 · « **on:** April 17, 2011, 09:23:43 PM »

There's much written about field expedient bows, slings, etc for survival use.

I've always felt that being able to throw a hefty rock with velocity & accuracy is a good skill to have. Anybody else still working on their little league speedball?

Lost Farmboy · « **Reply #1 on:** April 18, 2011, 02:15:33 AM »

I could never throw rock very well. But I had a friend in high school that killed fish and chip monks with rocks. He would stun a fish with the rock and throw it on the shore, then go for another one. The fish weren’t biting but he got enough to feed us. It would be a good survival skill, just takes a lot of practice.

blind ear · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2011, 05:10:29 AM »

My sholders never would let me throw hard, probably because I never trained and got them in shape. They Got knocked out of place in HS and college football a lot. I was good with a sling shot but didn't hunt with it. I figured if pressed to throw much i would have to learn to use a sling. News reels show civilians fighting military and police with slings often. I gust can't chunk something hard enough and straight enough to be worth the pain. ear

Lost Farmboy · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2011, 10:05:16 AM »

You beat me to it blind ear. Came back to say I don't think I can train my damaged right arm to thow that well. I would have to train my left arm. A much more difficult task. That's why I have a sling shot in my GOOD pack.

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #4 on:** April 18, 2011, 10:08:31 AM »

Not too long ago I killed a rattle snake with a rock. Started out a trying to toss a small rock and get him off the road where me and the mutt were walking. A skipped rock altered the jaw of the snake and then it the next couple rocks were there to kill it. And went from pebbles to Baseball sized rocks.

blind ear · « **Reply #5 on:** April 18, 2011, 01:49:49 PM »

I made an atlatlatl (sp) and couldn't do anything with it because of sholder weakness. But, I can take a rice field shovel and cut a mock-si-kan in two with it up to about 20 yards. No speed, just weight and accuracy. ear

squirrellluck · « **Reply #6 on:** April 18, 2011, 04:20:18 PM »

I can chunk a rock good enough to knock over a rabbit. But my plan is to never allow myself to be in a situation to have to! Never bring a rock to a gun fight

Or a rat killing nether.

mechanic · « **Reply #7 on:** April 18, 2011, 05:12:41 PM »

I can't throw anymore since shoulder surgery, but I can smart bomb a snake. Thats when you take a very big rock and drop it on his head.............

Ben

GatCat · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2011, 09:31:01 PM »

I've often read of "primative" folks : Africans, Native Americans, Bushman, etc, using throwing sticks....maybe 2' long, or a bit more, sometimes weighted at one end with a knot, or a small rock. Spinning as it is thrown, it creates a larger "kill zone".
Mark

myronman3 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 19, 2011, 07:35:20 AM »

i have a book at home that deals with primitive weapons. from rocks, blowguns, slingshots, bolos, throwing sticks, bows, and more. interesting reading and good knowlege to have on hand.

Victor3 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 21, 2011, 11:04:13 PM »

Since I was a kid, walking along the beach and throwing/skipping rocks have gone together. It does take a lot of practice to become accurate. Ammo is even cheaper than bulk 22 lr though, and no gun required.

Another thing we used to do was cut a length of large diameter bamboo about 2' long that had a 'divider' in the middle. Drop a rock in, draw back over the shoulder and fling it forward. More accurate and higher velocity than hand throwing the same size rock.

blind ear · « **Reply #11 on:** April 22, 2011, 05:46:43 AM »

Myronman3; what is the title and isbn# of the book? thanks ear

myronman3 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2011, 12:58:45 PM »

the title is "a sporting chance" by daniel p. mannix

blind ear · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2011, 01:03:37 PM »

myronman3, thank you. ear

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #14 on:** May 03, 2011, 11:07:53 AM »

Quote from: mechanic on April 18, 2011, 05:12:41 PM

I can't throw anymore since shoulder surgery, but I can smart bomb a snake. Thats when you take a very big rock and drop it on his head.............

Ben

I don't want to get that close.
I found the 32 Rimfire rifle I had was perfect for rattle snakes.
90 grains at 900 FPS and as loud as a golf clap.

IOWA DON · « **Reply #15 on:** May 06, 2011, 05:24:30 PM »

My father told me how my grandfather frequently killed rabbits. While picking corn, by hand behind a wagon pulled by horses, he would see rabbits and and kill them by hitting them with an ear of corn. Anyway, my dad said that my grandfather had an awsome left hand. I got to see a demonstration when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. A "chicken hawk" flew into the yard and grabed one of our young chickens and started to fly away with it. My grandfather was there and grabed a rock or something and throw at it. I do not remember if he hit the hawk or just came really close but the hawk let go of the young chicken. It lived and I remember that its growth was stunted. My parents blamed that on the hawk piercing its talens into the young chickens body.

myronman3 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 07, 2011, 02:42:05 PM »

my brother has an arm like that. he is the last guy you want to throw a snowball at. we are always looking for someone who doesnt know and we try to goad them into throwing one at him....lol. i once saw him drop a mallard with a fishing egg sinker. he says it was a one in a million shot, but i have seen him make entirely too many one in a million shots just like that.

rzwieg · « **Reply #17 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:01:39 AM »

"The Art of Throwing Weapons" by James Madden is another good book.

The Hermit · « **Reply #18 on:** May 15, 2011, 02:56:03 PM »

When I was young, I was out courting one evening, having been invited to have the first meeting dinner with HER PARENTS, at their home. "THE DINNER" gulp!!
Well I put on my best clothes, got slicked up, watched my table manners, commented on the fabulous cooking and dessert. Every thing was going well untill we went to have coffee in the parlor. Her dad went to put a piece of wood in the chunk stove when a mouse ran out. Instinct took over, her mother let out a scream, my fiance hopped up on a chair, I grabbed off one of my shoes, threw it, nailed the mouse, killing it. "Good shot, son", her dad said, "you got the sonna of b.....", at which time her mother exploaded at hearing the words he used and I couldn't help it, I started laughing. We ened up getting married, so I don't know whether it was a good shot or not.

The Hermit

teamnelson · « **Reply #19 on:** May 25, 2011, 01:39:08 PM »

Hermit, sounds like a great shot to me! I pray my daughter is fortunate enough to marry a man that can kill a mouse with a shoe. Lots of the young men I've met (and in uniform mind you) would probably be up on the sofa while she'd be grabbing a shoe, and my wife would be saying "Honey, kill it!" They'd of course "let" me pick it up and dispose of the carcass.

Rabbit sticks, those are the 2 foot long things folks throw at small game. Also I have a masai club, hand carved ebony wood, that has a softball sized ball (smooth) on one end, and a blunt goad on the other. Its a first strike weapon; you chuck it and then follow quickly after it with a long knife to finish off whatever that skull cracker stunned.