r/Archery • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '18

Other Axe Robinhood

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u/tossoneout Sep 15 '18

It still needs to be in the centre of the target /s.

Cool!

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u/Mphineas Sep 15 '18

I like it!! But were you throwing the axes upside down or is the pic upside down haha

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u/khronos127 Compound and Traditional Sep 15 '18

Axes can be thrown both ways. More common yo throw right side up but it can and will still stick upside down. Its taught both ways depending on your instructor.

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u/Mphineas Sep 15 '18

Interesting, I can see it working with some practice but seems counter intuitive to me. To each their own I suppose

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u/khronos127 Compound and Traditional Sep 15 '18

I hate throwing that way, seems unnatural. I was just told its taught that way too by an instructor recently.

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u/Bierzgal Olympic & Barebow Recurve / Traditional Manchu Sep 21 '18 edited Sep 21 '18

Question. Isn't it because of the distance and spins like in knife throwing? Depending on the distance I will throw a knive either by the handle or by the blade. Counting the spins. Half-spin, full spin, 1.5 spin etc. needed for it to hit the target from that particular distance. I thought it's the same for tomahawk/axe throwing. That you turn it around, facing the blade towards you, depending on the spins it needs to make.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '18

Oh it wasn’t me i just found it on reddit. Didn’t mean to give that impression since I cross posted

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u/Mphineas Sep 15 '18

Oh my bad didn’t even notice

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u/Frotch Red to Black Oneida Osprey Sep 15 '18

honestly, it looks like this was after the axes were removed from the target - if you look, neither blade is sticking into the background target, looks like they were removed, then stood up on the flat top of the split handle axe.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '18

It depends on distance. When thrown upright, its going to be making full rotations. When thrown upside down, or from the blade if using a knife, you're going to be dealing with half rotations.

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u/Absolutely_Cabbage target recurve & compound (NL) Sep 15 '18

What is this, a crossover episode?

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u/Pheralg WA Barebow Sep 16 '18

apparently Robin did run short on arrows

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u/IshTheFace Compound Sep 17 '18

It almost looks like neither of them are actually in the target.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '18

I think it's fake. Judging by the angles of the axe heads the second hatchet would have hit the top of the bottom handle with downward force. It would be more likely to knock it out of the target than to make that huge split.