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The shrike is a songbird. It also impales its prey on thorns and barbed wire and leaves it hanging there for later. Biologists call it the butcherbird. RMJ Tactical and Ryan Johnson named a tomahawk after it.
Nothing that comes off that shop floor in Chattanooga gets named by accident.
The RMJ Tactical | Shrike — S7 Edition earns it. Three inches of distal-taper spike on one end, a 2¾” forward edge on the other, ⅜” thick through the body. 24.7 ounces at 55–57 HRC, wrapped in Tungsten Cerakote, Grade 5 titanium hardware, molded Kydex on low-ride straps.
Then the part nobody sees coming: the handle is insulated and tested to 2,000 volts. This is a tool built to open a car door, a window, or a wall — and keep working if something live is waiting behind it. The butt cap unscrews. There’s a compartment in the handle.
A songbird’s name on a breaching tool. Go read what the bird actually does. The name isn’t ironic.
