Cold Steel 12-Inch Sure Flight Sport Throwing Knife, What Fun!

Tom reviews the Cold Steel 12-Inch Sure Flight Sport throwing knife.

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- A while back I reviewed some high end throwing knives. I suggested that they’d be a fun item to take on your next family camping trip when everyone is setting around camp and bored. But, about the time you were going to click on the buy button, I’m betting the thought flashed across your mind (assuming your kids are normal kids) that there’s a good chance that they may end up lost or stuck in top of a tree.

I remember once I took a couple of kids backpacking with me. I say kids, they were probably 18. I’d stuck a knife in the tree at camp. As we were packing up to leave one of them grabbed the knife and said watch this. He threw the knife at the tree, missed by two feet and it flew out into the river. I was glad it wasn’t one of my $475 Diamond Blade knives!

So, I think until you get serious about throwing you ought to just buy some economical throwing knives to practice with. I think like with anything, if you get some super joe-cheapo equipment then you’ll just get frustrated. So at least get some decent ones and not the $1.99 Pakistan knives.

Cold Steel 12-Inch Sure Flight Sport Throwing Knife

I met the Cold Steel crew at the SCI Convention in Vegas this year. I was there conducting a few seminars and the last afternoon I had some free time so I hit the floor and visited some booths, their’s being one of them.

Since I’ve been doodling around with throwing knives his caught my eyes. He has different levels but I settled on the 12” Sure Flight Sport knives. A lot of the ones I see advertised are some small dinky things. I think I like the 12-inch size. It weighs 8.2 oz. so you can throw it with some authority.

As soon as I got home I went in the back yard to test them out and remembered that there’s a dead tree back there which would work perfectly for a backstop. After practicing for a good while, it became painfully aware, if I ever plan on going to the Olympics, it won’t be in the knife throwing event.

Like I said above, after testing a few knives, I think that I favor these larger ones. They have some weight so they stick better. Some I see advertised are only 6-8 inches and pretty light weight.

So, will I ever clinch a throwing knife in my teeth and rappel out of a helicopter and cut the head off of some rabid terrorist? Probably not. What I plan on doing is throwing them in the truck when we head up to the mountains camping this summer and using them to pass time in camp with AmmoLand’s editors Fredy & Brian, after dinner.

The last I checked, there’s no TV, internet or cell phone reception where we camp so you have to use your imagination to have some fun. Kinda like it was years ago when kids entertained themselves. Novel concept.

There won’t always be a dead log handy that you can throw at. Or if there is it may be covered with brush so if your knife glances off you may never find it. So it’s best if you take your chain saw and slice a slab out of a log to use for a target. I’d suggest keeping one at home and then just cut a new one every camping trip instead of lugging around a bulky, heavy target, ha.

When the edge gets really dinged up or bent you don’t want to refurbish it and put a razor edge on it. Just use your grinder and lightly put an edge back on it. A rough edge.

So as we talked in the last knife throwing review there’s a couple of secrets to throwing a knife.
Throw it the same every time. By this I mean release it at the same position and with your arm at the exact same point of extension every time.
If the hilt hits first, you’ll have to either step forward or backup until it sticks. The whole secret is to throw from the correct distance so it hits on the point at the correct point in its revolution.

So instead of letting the kids set around whining that they’re bored on your next camping trip, set up a log and let the kids try their hand at throwing knives. And lastly, it’s going to get monotonous if you only have one knife and have to run retrieve it every throw so I grabbed two. But three or four would be better.

Cold Steel 12-Inch Sure Flight Sport Throwing Knife SPECS:

• Wt. 8.2 oz.
• Length 12 in.
• Thickness 9/64 in.
• Steel/Material 1055 Carbon

About Tom Claycomb

Tom Claycomb has been an avid hunter/fisherman throughout his life as well as an outdoors writer with outdoor columns in the magazine Hunt Alaska, Bass Pro Shops, Bowhunter.net and freelances for numerous magazines and newspapers. “To properly skin your animal you will need a sharp knife. I have an e-article on Amazon Kindle titled Knife Sharpening for $.99 if you’re having trouble”