Tomahawks: Penetration & Extraction on Pumpkins, and BONUS story: creepy crawly nightmare fuel!

Happy Hawktober from Wingard Wearables!
Everyone is thinking about Halloween decorations and pumpkin spiced lattes, but here at Wingard Wearables we are only thinking about tomahawks . . . and pumpkins!
Join your favorite Tomahawk Merchant (me), to see tomahawk choppy goodness, excessive pumpkin spanking, and hear a scary story that will keep you up at night.
Backripper Tomahawks and Empress Tomahawks are available at the link below:
www.wingardwearables.com/shop-1
Be sure to subscribe to our mailing list to get first notice on when the first batch of Stingray Tomahawks are available!
Also, regarding the creepy story, don’t watch the videos that come up when you search for “spider worm parasite”-you have been warned.
And if you are too curious, read the article “The Worm, the Spider, and the Coffee Cup”:
www.abc.net.au...
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[@tpower919]

This is one of the most interesting videos on KZbin. To hear the history while seeing the craftsmanship and application is a real treat. I've never thought much about the tomahawk as a weapon, & certainly never considered it as a weapon for self defense in today's world. I think I will be watching more content on this channel. Hmm, on this hip, concealed loaded Glock, and on this hip, concealed tomahawk. Has a nice ring to it.

[@wingardwearables]

Thank you for the comment-we hope to continue with more interesting content in the near future. A number of our customers do carry their tomahawks as a backup to their pistol. If you hadn’t watched it, check out our video “Blades in the Age of the Gun” 👍

[@user-hz5rk5vy1t]

I've been doing combat sports since I was 6 and self defense as an adult, now I'm 50. There's a reason U.S. special forces carry a Bowie knife and a tomahawk along with their side arms. When you run silent or out of ammo, the long range of a tomahawk is a huge plus and it works well in medium to close range combat especially when paired to a medium tang knife. If SHTF and there's no electricity, this pair will be my fighting weapons. I've trained a year with a Katana sword (samurai) and I bet my life that native American Indians would've beat samurais. I hope I never find out, but I've prepared.

[@lefunnyN1]

im glad i live in a cold place where there are no alien parasites and no large spiders

[@wingardwearables]

Always good to look on the bright side

[@bladetheatrics]

Just got my Empress and I'm loving it excellent craftsmanship lightning fast. Watching a lot of your videos again for technique and tips and they're even better now that ai have it! Anyone who is on the fence about his products just buy it, you won't be disappointed. Waiting for sone Slim Quills to come in

[@wingardwearables]

Love to hear that! This comment made my day!

[@DABA2024]

I watch these videos just to hear that I am special :)

[@wingardwearables]

Glad that you are 1 of the 12!

[@N2Mtns2]

I’m one of the twelve twice over. I’ve also heard of these parasites before - 🤢🤮 Eww. 👩🏻‍🦰and that’s why I need an Empress on this farm. Save the Critters. lol. Now I’ve got the willies . Dear Santa. HELP. LOLOL. 👍🏼👋🏼

[@foxcombatives]

Great to see a vid from you again. Thanks for the demos. “Hawktober” definitely a thing.

[@wingardwearables]

Thanks for the comment! September was a very energy draining month, and we just couldn’t get to video making. Now we hope to be back at it with more consistency!

[@michaelsanchez8457]

Did you ever see the "unblockable throat cut" video by Mastro system? It's interesting, for those of us who are knife people. I think part of it is just moving the arm quick, with minimal telegraphing/setup.

[@wingardwearables]

I had not. Thanks for sharing this info. I found a video where he was demonstrating this using a training blade on a person, and it looked like a circular arm motion, where he could quickly cycle through the blow. Would probably result in a drawing cut effect which is good for slashing through skin/tissues. Although our tomahawks weigh similarly to knives and can move crazy fast, I think that circular dragging motion wouldn’t help with blade extraction and wouldn’t do much to propagate the size of the wound. The trailing “edges” of most tomahawk chopping blades are not sharp and cannot cut-all cutting is done with the projected chopping edge. The Empress is the exception, since the edge goes all the way to the handle. I have done some testing that shows chopping and “dragging” will open up the size of the wound with the Empress.

[@jimmyrustler8983]

Love the Stingray, that spike is mean looking! Also, on your topic of creepy bug stories, look up the Emerald jewel wasp, otherwise known as "Natures Xenomorphs". 😬

[@wingardwearables]

The Stingray spike is pretty handy, thank you! That wasp’s life cycle is pretty weird. At least they keep the parasite-laden roaches buried in a burrow instead of crawling around.

[@jimmyrustler8983]

@@wingardwearables I particularly like it when I see someone try to use a trashcan, only for them to be accosted by the gang of wasps living inside it, trashed on sugar. 🤣

[@1st508thAirborne]

Great video Zac. That new Stingray is really interesting and cool. Looking forward to owning all 3 of them in the future. Your pumpkin slapping skills are impressive 👍😁

[@wingardwearables]

Thank you! Slapping is an underrated skill. I will be in touch soon-your Empress and DickPick carry systems will be made shortly!

[@1st508thAirborne]

@@wingardwearables Awesome! 🤜⚡🤛

[@N2Mtns2]

@@wingardwearables blame him. Lol, you’re going to be getting skilled viewers. I inherited My DaddyChief’s Tomahawk & it’s …amazing !! Great Channel - thanks Chadde. 💪🏼🇺🇸☕️🐺⚔️

[@N2Mtns2]

PS: gross story but true. Who screamed the loudest that night lol the Wife or you. You’re funny 🇺🇸🐺💪🏼

[@wingardwearables]

@@N2Mtns2 Nature is full of screams. This Fall we laid sticky traps throughout the house to catch unwanted visitors. Wolf spiders commonly get stuck. The other day I noticed one of the parasitic worms had escaped from a stuck wolf spider that had died in the sticky trap. The worm died because it couldn’t get immediately into water. It was over 2” long. Very gross.

[@christianmcbride9905]

Great stuff Zac, I've seen your interviews on the Knife Junkie and I really dig what yer doing. I really want one of your Tomahawks and a Dickpick, you re doing things no one else is and I love it. I can't wait to see what you do next sir.

[@wingardwearables]

Thank you very much, appreciate this comment. We are currently very low on tomahawks (down to 1) but over the next month we hope to have batches of all models completed. And we plan to make DickPicks for forever. This comment made my day!

[@jameswyatt2739]

I can only imagine your wife and that story. I know what my wife and son would do. Neither like spiders. In saying that I have 8 tarantulas. I’ve seen the videos you described. Just as an aside. Keep the spiders in your house. They eat all the other things you don’t want in your house. Wolf spiders are more afraid of you than you are of them. They will do 100 mph to get away. Loved the video. I’m trying to decide which of your tomahawks I want first. Santa and I will be talking. Have a good Thanksgiving.

[@wingardwearables]

I always thought tarantulas were cool-but I know that wouldn’t go well with the wife 😂

[@jameswyatt2739]

@@wingardwearables As I said to my wife half of the house is mine. The nice thing is tarantulas make no noise. Inexpensive to feed. The cash out being buying enclosures as they grow. You would be amazed at what you already have in the house that you can use. Buying sub straight (base material) and mealworms. The tarantula too.

[@redclayscholar620]

Thanks for the spider-worm nightmares. 😅

[@wingardwearables]

You’re welcome

[@r.t.972]

Learned a lot! Really like how much thought you put into the designs. I wanted the Empress first but now that Stingray is looking pretty awesome Lol.

[@wingardwearables]

Thank you! I hope to have Stingrays back in stock in mid August to mid September timeframe

[@Erik1970Viking]

Zac, good to see you back ! And good to see you outdoors ... very entertaining demonstration again, thanks. Cheers, Erik

[@wingardwearables]

Thanks! I appreciate that

[@steveo1094]

I didn't know what I like more you hacking pumpkin and Bob or story very interesting

[@wingardwearables]

Glad you like any of it! It’s pretty obvious we are sticking to the “film it all in one take.” I wish these pumpkins had been a touch softer. Poor Bob has been highly abused so I spared him real blows.

[@themadscientest]

I tend to favor relocation efforts with predatory bugs, if they are lost and inside the house putting them near one of the exterior lights is a good idea. Natural first line defense against pests.

[@wingardwearables]

I agree with you. Also we don’t bother the house spiders that chill in their webs. But when my wife finds a wolf spider in the bed sheets and screams KILL IT, well, a husband has to keep his wife happy.

[@landonsmith432]

Loving these videos. I just got a Winkler Sayoc spike tomahawk and I’m really anxious to find ideas for good practice. This is great!! Thanks

[@wingardwearables]

Thank you! Those Winklers are sweet! I don’t own one but got to hold a Winkler RnD-those are 2-3 times heavier than our tomahawks but definitely fine tools, just very different, have a great weekend!

[@adamallen2667]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Please consider doing an episode on the recommended care and maintenance of your products. Esp. The back ripper. I wonder how it does when exposed to sweat. It’s so funny... you have no idea how often your products play within my passive mind, daydreams, etc... And I’m sure I’m not the only one. It must be a characteristic of the blood.

[@wingardwearables]

That’s a great idea! Maintenance topic could cover the carry systems too. I probably need to figure out how to orient our ipad for a table top, “bird’s eye view” for that one.

[@knives2my497]

Good stuff, thank you Zach. I have to watch the worm video now. 🤮

[@wingardwearables]

I lost my appetite for noodle-style pasta dishes for a while after the incident

[@knives2my497]

@@wingardwearables I'm sure, that was gross!

[@vyr01]

put the nails in at an angle, so that the tendency to roll will be biased towards the stump (or whatever you have it nailed into)

[@wingardwearables]

Great idea! I will do that next time. We were pretty hasty on video set up this time around (and it shows).

[@paulrouleau1972]

My kind of pumpkin carving! 🎃 The Stingray is looking good! I don't like spiders or parasitic worms and the two combined is horrifying! 👀

[@wingardwearables]

Thank you! The Stingray throws well too! Someone needs to make a horror movie featuring parasitic worm-ridden spiders. That would be an instant hit.

[@thatguy0597]

I can’t wait for a stingray

[@wingardwearables]

It’s coming SOON

[@angelocarantino4803]

Great video! Saw one of your comments and figured id check out your channel 😀 quick question. You said that you dont wanna pull down you wanna pull out. Would choking up on the ax to get better leverage for extraction help?

[@wingardwearables]

Great comment-I think choking up on the handle is worth looking at with some designs (not ours). There was a video out there of the Cold Steel trench axe, which is VERY bearded, getting struck on a hanging pig, and it got so stuck into flesh-and-bone that the user had to “lever” it out-when it yanked loose the tomahawk came back at him quickly with momentum and he required a second hand to protect himself from being stabbed with the spike. I think choking up to pull out would be a much safer approach for tomahawks with really bearded blades, just as a safety measure. Still, it’s slow and I think some folks would be uncomfortable with the idea of loosening one’s grip to reestablish it on a different location of the handle, in context of combatives. They just sunk an axe blade into a hostile flesh-and-bone target that may still be struggling against them.

[@ericferguson9989]

I saw a video of a dying giant squid near a public beach that latched onto a surf board. These huge worms lashed out of its body, trying to grab onto people near by. I gues they were looking for a new host. Disgusting.

[@wingardwearables]

That is a video I do not wish to see. Another bad video I remember seeing-a hunter gutting a black bear. It was full of squirming worms. 🤢

[@redfletching]

If the beard itself is sharpened, would it not cut itself out when the tomahawk is levered out?

[@wingardwearables]

If the trailing edges are sharpened-either on the bottom or the top-it tends to “bite” into target material and get hung up on fabric, flesh, and bone. It’s cutting out from a static position-surrounded by target material. Not a quick process. There are some good videos online of folks (ex: Ed Calderon) extracting tomahawks from pig carcasses-the tomahawks had sharpened beards. Required a lot of levering and forceful yanking to extract-so forceful that the off hand had to come up to block the momentum of the tomahawk as it suddenly broke loose from target material.

[@bodyno3158]

Oh shit oh fuck I know what you are talking about... Hair worms, once you encounter one you can't unsee the scene forever. Don't worry though they are not comparable with vertebrates, a man who drank water with hair worm larvae can feel some stomach discomfort, but the larvae can't hatch. Also they can enter the body via anus or urinary tract, but that's very, very rare, and cause no serious problem, too.

[@wingardwearables]

I had a tummy ache all day yesterday. This comment is going to give me nightmares.

[@bodyno3158]

@@wingardwearables Now that's what "cursed with knowledge" feels like.

[@lelandosaka8906]

Ugh. I looked up the parasites. Another reason to keep the backripper on the nightstand...

[@wingardwearables]

This comment made my day

[@seancookElcooksta]

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