Where did all the Axe throwing bars come from?

[Royalfan5 2383]

It’s like all the damned Frozen Yogurt place a few years back. I get that the axes and the plywood lanes aren’t terribly expensive, but you can’t be selling as much booze as a normal bar, and insurance has to be outrageous on a place like that. Getting return business has to a challenge too, unless there is some sort of untapped demand for league Axe action that I’m unaware of. 

[52-80 19379]

Canada

[Lhorn 5080]

I didn’t know such things existed. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

They survive on company team building outings. You can only go to Top Golf so many times before a Debbie in accounting files a complaint. 

[tbone_ 14411]

I went to one recently. Not my idea. More fun than I expected. Doubt I’ll ever go back.

 

[TexArcher 38816]

I'm looking forward to never giving this a try.

[Deej 77671]

 

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[NotActuallyALonghorn 4998]

I'd like to think I have something to do with it. Although I didn't know this was a thing.

[michaelpshayes 417]

yeah fuck no after watching that thing bounce back 

[TwiceHorn 31987]

Having a concrete floor under the target and seems like real bad idea jeans.  Not only ricochets, but edge maintenance.

[Fuck Tim Beck 3892]

Let me axe you a question. Any hot chick ever show you their axe wound at these places? 

[tx 3 putt 78470]

Fucking hipsters 

[Tailgate 3054]

 

 

[atomheartbevo 90548]

Next we need bars where you slash things with swords.  

 

[RPM 26560]

Sounds like a bunch of tossers.

[Bevo 13825]

And wait till people start trying to throw it facing backwards and doing cartwheels and shit. Drinking and dangerous objects are a terrible mix.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13707]

14 hours ago, tbone_ said:

I went to one recently. Not my idea. More fun than I expected. Doubt I’ll ever go back.

 

Haven’t been but know a few people that have tried it.  No one seems overly excited to try it again. 

[Moby Ric 2058]

This is the new bowling.  Where fat dudes can drink beer and feel like athletes.

[Bookman 4754]

I went a few weeks ago and it was a lot of fun. May go back.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

My company had a happy hour at the one here in Austin last week but I was on vacation and missed it.  Not sure if there were any casualties.  

[Deej 77671]

So, they serve alcohol and let you throw axes? Any gun ranges using this business model, yet?

[jimmyjazz 46976]

1 hour ago, Moby Ric said:

This is the new bowling.  Where fat dudes can drink beer and feel like athletes.

Hey, watch your mouth.

[tbone_ 14411]

So, they serve alcohol and let you throw axes? Any gun ranges using this business model, yet?

My place was byob. Still, I was surprised they’d let us drink.

[RDCanecutter 26853]

I get nervous enough around drunks with darts.

[Nivek 17330]

I get nervous enough around drunks with darts.

ESPN had the championship on a few months back. It was literally awesome.

[mulletpelini 5220]

credit where credit is due.  situational awareness was much higher in the broad than the girl that caught the axe.

[tbone_ 14411]

Also, apparently I wasn’t the first one to make hatchet wound jokes at this place. Didn’t slow me down though.

[AUS-97HORN 11991]

13 hours ago, Nivek said:

ESPN had the championship on a few months back. It was literally awesome.

hell, for the last 3 months,  BBC has the  dart league every Thursday night, its a delayed play from 6 hours earlier,.

[midtown 3350]

Hipster douches and the women who love them

[Brisketexan 106627]

Man, you had to axe that question, didn't you?

[Js1 86943]

On 5/26/2019 at 10:13 PM, Tailgate said:

 

 

She was asking for this.  Where the fuck was she throwing it, at the ground? 

Every time I see it done, you need to do it with 2 hands to get enough power to embed it into the target wood.  Pussy all one handed throws ain't going to do it - Aroldis Chapman they are not. 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Love it. Should fucking have more frat games ala ‘Revenge of the Nerds’

 

But you know, without the rape

[Nueces River Rat 5742]

Meh... I'll just use my hand axe,  a fence post and save the money for beer.

[Updawg 2378]

hell, for the last 3 months,  BBC has the  dart league every Thursday night, its a delayed play from 6 hours earlier,.

That's good to watch

[RDCanecutter 26853]

1 hour ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Meh... I'll just use my hand axe,  a fence post and save the money for beer.

That's a good sign you're an axaholic.

[Chooky 13337]

The sport is really taking off.  There's even a body spray.

[davidg 4057]

One would think with the 2012 Shaggy  tomahawk buying spree that everyone would have a throwing range in their backyard.    If you don't have one,  find yourself a tree company that's taking down some pine trees.  24" OD, 6" thick pine cookies make great throwing targets.

 

[Anastasis 23699]

I don't think this is a particularly new trend. I was going to bars 20 years ago in search of hatchet wound. 

[luke duke 6445]

24" OD, 6" thick pine cookies make great throwing targets.

 

 

I’m sure that you’ve heard this before, but that isn’t 6”.

[Sbbruin 22082]

57 minutes ago, luke duke said:

 

I’m sure that you’ve heard this before, but that isn’t 6”.

I round up.

[Sbbruin 22082]

Also, I remember going to Wrigley 5 years ago or so and going to a bar in Wrigleyville called "Sluggers".  My buddy comes back from what I thought was the pisser and says, "you won't believe what they have upstairs!"  I said "Strippers?"  He said, "Better."  I said "Better than strippers?  No way!"  So we go upstairs and they have 3 or 4 batting cages with mechanical pitching machines throwing heat.  In a bar.  With lots of drunks.  I was in heaven, but also flummoxed, as we would more likely have midget tossing than this in CA for liability reasons.  Amazing.

[ztejas 44114]

On 5/27/2019 at 2:21 AM, Bevo said:

Drinking and dangerous objects are a terrible mix.

That's what I try and tell people every time they want to go out drinking with a group of girls. 

[Steamboat1874 4284]

19 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

Also, I remember going to Wrigley 5 years ago or so and going to a bar in Wrigleyville called "Sluggers".  My buddy comes back from what I thought was the pisser and says, "you won't believe what they have upstairs!"  I said "Strippers?"  He said, "Better."  I said "Better than strippers?  No way!"  So we go upstairs and they have 3 or 4 batting cages with mechanical pitching machines throwing heat.  In a bar.  With lots of drunks.  I was in heaven, but also flummoxed, as we would more likely have midget tossing than this in CA for liability reasons.  Amazing.

This is now open at Dell Diamond.

 

[HornsOverIthaca 2339]

I want to throw metal bars at a large axe.

[Quagmire 2147]

Why don’t they just get to the point , make a bar where you just go in and fuck chicks after a beer

['stache 22117]

Why don’t they just get to the point , make a bar where you just go in and fuck chicks after a beer

I thought Vegas had this already.

[jimmyjazz 46976]

Went to High 5 with some friends tonight.  The axe-throwing seemed pretty stupid.  One guy broke his axe, though, which pissed off the "tutor", so that was cool.

[Buzzrock 15115]

She was asking for this.  Where the fuck was she throwing it, at the ground? 
Every time I see it done, you need to do it with 2 hands to get enough power to embed it into the target wood.  Pussy all one handed throws ain't going to do it - Aroldis Chapman they are not. 

Depends on the axe I guess. I’ve stuck many a tomahawk throw into a wood target one-handed. Never tried it two-handed.

[DallasHorn26 587]

I'm getting this ad in tapa today.

[The Royal We 3090]

They opened one of these in Nacogdoches and I never see anyone in there when we drive by it. 

We did a corporate event at one in Denver and it was a big hit with everyone that attended.  It was much safer/better setup than the pictures in this thread.  They used 10-12" thick tree stumps nailed to the wall for targets and had thick wood shavings on the ground to prevent the axes from bouncing off the floor.  You could only throw over the head/shoulder and if you tried anything different you were immediately kicked out of the building.

I don't see how they will have any kind of staying power though.