Throwing spear

The throwing spear is a weapon .
==Characteristics==
A thrown melee weapon consisting of a six-foot-long wooden handle with a cloth grip and a sharp piece of jagged metal serving as the spearhead. When sheathed, the player character places it at the hip instead of on the back, and when unsheathed and thrown, uses an overhand throwing technique. It deals the second-highest amount of damage per strike of all thrown melee weapons (below the protonic inversal throwing axe ), albeit at the second-slowest attack speed (above the throwing knife spear ). It deals the highest critical hit damage of all thrown melee weapons, albeit at the second-highest AP cost (below the throwing knife spear), but does weigh the least along with the throwing knife and tomahawk .
==Variants==
* Throwing knife spear - a rare variant.
* Waking Cloud's throwing spear - a unique non-playable weapon used by Waking Cloud.
===Comparison===
==Locations==
* Shop merchants sometimes have it in stock.
* Members of Caesar's Legion commonly carry them.
* Sometimes sold by Mick & Ralph's.
* Salt-Upon-Wounds, the main antagonist of the add-on, may use them at long distances.
* Used by the Dead Horses, such as at the Dead Horses camp to fish.
* Ten throwing spears are added to the Courier's inventory with the Courier's Stashs Tribal Pack.
==Notes==
* Throwing spears, knives and hatchets are more effective when poisoned.
* Throwing hatchets, spears and knives cannot be picked up and re-used once thrown.
* Throwing spears are capable of decapitating an enemy.
* Throwing spears can be used to repair pool cues, which in turn can be used with the Jury Rigging perk to cheaply repair many other melee weapons.
* Throwing spears can take off limbs and pin them to walls in a similar fashion to the railway rifle from Fallout 3.
* The weapon appears slightly larger when viewed in third person.
* This weapon can be used for the Gun Runners' Arsenal challenges Armed For Bear and Even a God-King Can Bleed.
* The throwing spear has very high item health relative to most other thrown melee weapons, and as such would degrade very slowly, even though you can only attack once per instance, and it becomes irretrievable once thrown.
==Bugs==
* Occasionally the spears will not stack in your inventory correctly, making it appear as though you have a small number even if you know you have more. The number will appear correctly when equipped, but when you more than your last visible one as it appears in your inventory, it will appear in your inventory as only one until the one is dropped. 
* The spears may also not stack in your weapons trunk or other container correctly either, showing the number of spears as one, and then changing to the actual number of spears owned when the player takes one out of the container it was stored in, very much like the glitch that can occur in the player's personal inventory. 
* Occasionally, a poisoned throwing spear is lootable off of a White Legs corpse. This spear cannot be stored and once dropped, cannot be picked back up.
==Sounds==
	
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