Pointy Sticks

[Ninurta]

Very Nice!
Silent but deadly weapons!

I am partial to knives myself.  Good with throwing knives, not so much with kitchen knives.  LOL

It's generally a matter of balance - if you find the balance, and gauge the distance, you can subconsciously calculate how many half-turns the knife makes before it gets to the target. 

I learned knife throwing with an old WWII Robeson "Shur-Edge" (Navy mark 1 in WWII, I think) that I found. Before I got it right, I had hit the butt-end too many times and sheared the pin that held the butt cap on, but I folded a sheet of thin rubber to take up the slack gap, put the butt cap back and pinned it on with an old finishing nail, and peened the nail over into a rivet... then hit the knife throwing again until I got it right.

Kitchen knives - movie scenes notwithstanding - are generally too light to make good throwers. You need something with a little bit of heft and mass to stick good and have a decent balance.

I have an Ek commando knife (made by Ka-Bar after K-Bar bought Ek out) and a USMC Utility knife (USN Mark III "Marine Corps Fighting Knife") that I used for throwing these days, because both of them are made out of really tough steel that will take a beating without breaking off a tip.

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