Ninja Star!

[ClovisOak]

Little surprised when I dug this Ninja throwing star up this morning. It had read as a quarter...
HH

 

[Critical Recovery]

Those were quite popular in the 80s. I never had one, but a lot of people then did.
I'm surprised more of us don't find them.
Probably tuned out as iron a lot.

 

[BaronH]

Super sweet! I had one of those when I was a kid, Im pretty sure I chucked it at everything until I lost it.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Yeah, the woods are probably full of those things if we would dig all the iron targets!

 

[ClovisOak]

I felt nostalgic finding it and also surprised that they are not found more often. Thanks for looking.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Good recovery. Imagine stepping on that barefooted!

HH!

 

[Subterranean]

Cool find, I hate to be a party pooper, but is is possible the star is a blade off of a small rototiller or cultivator? i threw many shiruken in the 70's, but most were aluminum or stainless steel. Happy hunting, Sub

 

[ClovisOak]

Cool find, I hate to be a party pooper, but is is possible the star is a blade off of a small rototiller or cultivator? i threw many shiruken in the 70's, but most were aluminum or stainless steel. Happy hunting, Sub

Good point Sub didn't consider rototiller blade, but after doing some more research feel strongly that it is a modern throwing star. I'm guessing this one is iron once overlaid with nickel or zinc that the covering has disintegrated away maybe? Read for the real deals over in Japan they often had holes because they were made from coins or other implements like nail removers that had holes and improved their stability. Found this:
Hira-shuriken are constructed from thin, flat plates of metal derived from a variety of sources including hishi-gane (coins), kugi-nuki (carpentry tools), spools, and senban (nail removers), and generally resemble popular conceptions of shuriken in movies and television.

They often have a hole in the center and possess a fairly thin blade sharpened only at the tip. The holes derive from their source in items that had holes – old coins, washers, and nail-removing tools. This proved convenient for the shuriken user, as well, as the weapons could be strung on a string or dowel in the belt for transport, and the hole also had aerodynamic and weighting effects that aided the flight of the blade after it was thrown.

 

[ClovisOak]

Good recovery. Imagine stepping on that barefooted!

HH!

I know, that would not be fun. More the reason to wear gloves, right! I read that the ninja's did just that bury them so that enemies would step on them. I know this is a modern version, but it led me to research their history which was pretty fascinating.

 

[Jarl]

Hey, cool! Had many throwing stars when I was a kid...well, when I was a ninja. I remember in those days, I used to buy them at gun shows with my dad, also from comic books. Yep, anyone remember that one page in certain comic books that sold weapons like tear gas pistols, machetes, stars, clubs, saps, brass knuckles etc?? I remember buying an 8-pointed star with a big square hole in the middle. Yep, my allowance and can money went to weapons. :P Yeah, I agree, you would think that you would find more of those detecting.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Cool.... there's one of those stuck in the wall somewhere in my shop downstairs I think, at least we played with it til it got lost so I'm guessing it's in the wall......