Anyone have or used this??

[USAF_Vet]

I picked up one of the SOG tomahawks the other day. Nice little thing, but I think I prefer my Cold Steel norse hawk.

 

[wheelgunslinger]

I'm very sorry if I offended anyone especially those who served.

Don't worry about it, man. You were just asking a question. As a person unfamiliar with how things are done in the military, you would have 0 knowledge about the ins and outs of training and/or the social mores thereof. And, you aren't a clairvoyant.
If you don't ask, you'll never know.

 

[TimboKhan]

I don't mean to disrespect anyone here but isn't the object to make the bad guys dead and not just scared?

Let me answer this directly, even though it has been hinted at...

In my experience, the use of deadly force was rare. The use of physical force to back people up off gates, or vehicles, or to just keep them at a safe distance lest they get whacked in the head with an axe handle was far more common. In countries like Somalia, people aren't scared of guns, particularly when they are in the hands of nominal peacekeepers. It's an uneducated country, but that doesn't mean they are stupid. I suspect most Somalians knew pretty clearly what the boundary was before we started shooting, and they very rarely crossed that line.

I was in situations there that were pretty hair-raising, but that would have resulted in immediate criminal prosecution had I started shooting. There is something called the "rules of engagement", and you have to know what they are before you start shooting. Not only that, but at least in that deployment, they were fluid, meaning that they often changed daily. Follow them, you are golden (hopefully), ignore them, you are hosed. This doesn't mean that we could just go around cracking people in the skull willy-nilly, but it did mean that if we had a group forming at a gate that would not disperse, we could take steps to disperse that crowd without shooting people left and right.

 

[rondog]

I'm no veteran, not even a bar fighter. Fighting ain't my thing. I just like to collect and shoot guns. But I've seen photos of some of the modern tomahawks and the thought of one of those things being swung at me scares the living bejeezus out of me! My God, they look like they could inflict horrible injuries.

 

[JShirley]

Yep.

But most people probably don't consider the horrific damage a bullet at high velocity causes to tissue...