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I have always been fascinated by primitive weapons. There seems to be three basic types of primitive weapons. Those that use blunt trauma and those that use cutting and those that use elements of both. A war-club uses blunt trauma, and its advantage is that it can be effective on a subject using armor. It is however, slower to swing and use that a lighter weapon. A cutting weapon is very fast to wield, but is not very effective against armor. The tomahawk is a hybrid in that it has a cutting edge, enough weight to enable some blunt trauma effect (stunning if the head is struck), but light enough to enable speed of use. In short, the tomahawk was very effective in early America, invented by the Native Americans and adapted by White frontiersman who observed its effectiveness in close-quarters combat. Nevertheless, unless in a hand-to-hand target-rich environment (of the Indian attack scenario), it would seem to me to not be as effective as a modern handgun.
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