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Perhaps this rapid growth of interest in knife throwing is because the sport is fundamentally still a back yard recreational activity, with only a small amount of throwing room needed. The fairly recent availability of inexpensive, well balanced, and virtually unbreakable throwing-knives has also helped.

Less obvious reasons-but important ones-are the desire of growing numbers of sportsmen to use the throwing-knife as a hunting weapon, which necessitates considerable back-yard practice, and the interest generated by many returning servicemen, who took up the sport with deadly seriousness while overseas.

Vast numbers of throwing-knives were airmailed to servicemen stationed in Viet N am from dealers in the United States, and these special weapons served a double purpose. They relieved the boredom of camp life by providing recreation and also helped many a G.I. in a desperate, close-quarter combat situation.

As a modern sport, knife throwing has many advantages. All a sportsman needs is a good knife-or set of knives-designed for the purpose, whether made to throw by the handle or balanced to throw by the blade. Both techniques will be fully described in the following pages. A suitable target is cheap and easy to construct, and only a small portion of the back yard is needed for the throwing range.