As some of you know, I will be taking up Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) later this year (lots of stuff to order for it) in my continuing quest to totally ignore Clown World and its enfaggotised minions, so as to teleport myself and all of you, gentle readers, into a better world, a world where you can run down bandits for bounty when you take them in, dead or alive.
As I was lucky enough to be given my chosen CAS persona, Jonah Hex, I have been building a “bowie knife”, that probably weighs around 2kg, because, well, in the comics, if he throws it at some guy’s chest, he inevitably skews them dead. Now… I happen to have some knowledge of terminal type wounds, and well… maybe if you have said 2kg style bowie it might work, if the planets align, and so on. But anyway, if you want to see that you need to go to the YT channel (assuming the video loads, because once you take a 20mb video and edited it in iMovie it become 2Gb, so we’ll see).
AAANYYWAAY, the Bowie build is pretty time consuming, and as many of you know, patience is not exactly one of my virtues, so, when I found a fully rusted axe head… I promptly decided to cut a branch of olive tree from a fallen one that had been left in the field after the last storm, then shape it a bit, hammer the axe-head onto it. Which I did stupidly with the back of the machete instead of a hammer (because impatient) and so the machete blade snapped like it was made of glass, which either means it was going to fail anyway, or that I have mutant strength. After I hammered the axe-head on (with a hammer this time) Also hammered a piece of metal into the wood to cause an expansion of it so it stays firmly attached to the handle. I still need to tie some rope, or better yet, wet leather to the bottom of the shaft, so the wood holds together, but anyway, after I finished it, I decided to try throwing it and… well, who knew, I am a natural. Stuck in the tree first throw. I was going to be done but my son said to film it, so I gave him the phone and did it again.
Honestly never tried this before but it’s fairly easy to do.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
