In the 1992 film "The Last of the Mohicans," Chingachgook fights with a weapon that resembles a large boomerang with a spike driven into it. What is this weapon, and does it have any historicity?

by TheJucheisLoose

The weapon can be seen several times throughout this sequence [WARNING MANY SPOILERS, THIS THE FILM'S CLIMAX!], most prominently at 0:29, 4:41, 4:45, and then 5:13-5:44.

LooksatAnimals

It's a 'gunstock club', a weapon which possibly derives its shape from european muskets, which were sometimes used as two-handed clubs when they weren't able to be loaded in time. Or possibly it just vaguely resembled a musket by sheer coincidence.

spartanburger91

As /u/looksatanimals said, it's a gunstock club. Let me address a common misconception about them. Some say that they were made from the stocks of damaged longrifles or from stocks which had been messed up during the process of carving from a blank. This is myth. A longrifle stock is too slender and made from too brittle wood to be used to make an axe or a war club. These were built from the ground up for their purpose.