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Team VTAC with Kyle Lamb

Episode 57 Forging steel into Tomahawks in Ohio with Rich McDonald/Mike Hawkins/John LaBella from LongknivesandLeather.com

Team VTAC with Kyle Lamb

Kyle Lamb

Shootinginstruction, Sports, Kylelamb, Vtac, Vikingtactics, History, Wilderness

51K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Blacksmithing in Ohio with Rich McDonald (LongKnivesandLeather.com), Mike Hawkins(Bone implant designer), and John LaBella(All around great friend and awesome dude). Rich McDonald teaches my son Lukas and me to forge tomahawk heads as well as how to fit a handle, heat treat, it was an excellent class. I get to sit down with three dudes who love the old world arts of forging and rifle building. This was a lot of fun. God Bless America!!

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You're going to do you know the mmm you're going to do you Oh, All right, folks, folks, to do.

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All right,

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and

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All right, folks,

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welcome to the Team V-Tac podcast.

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It's really good to have all of you back again.

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We've been getting some really good reviews on our, on the podcast,

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so keep doing that, give us five-star reviews,

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and then tell us what you think and if you want to

0:44.2

send us an email you can send that to Lamb L. A. M. B at Viking Tactics and this

0:50.9

weekend has been kind of a dream come true for me because I get to spend it with John LaBelle.

0:57.0

That's why I would say that's a dream come true, right John?

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It's a dream come true.

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So I guess not to not to belabor the point but we forged

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Tomahawks this weekend so my son and I got invited by John to come up here and forge some

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tomahawks and then that's when everybody else got involved. So Rich,

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Rich McDonald, what's your background? Oh well I my

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background in work started out as being a farrier. I was a horseshoeer. When I

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graduated from high school I went to a horseshoeing school down in Mississippi when I was 18.

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And I did that for, well let's see, probably close to 20 years. But I started to get out of it. My back had been bothering me and I was always interested in history and muzzle loaders. I'd been shooting muzzle loaders since I was like 12 years old. I'd put together some kits and

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you know hunting with them and I got into building a custom muzzle loader when I was,

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I don't know, 19 or 20 or so so but over the years I would try my hand at forger and a knife or something

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