His hand would've made contact as well, if not for the ashen sparrow that crashed into it and made his fingertips barely touch the man. Simultaneously he holstered his revolver and kicked AJ's flintlock backwards into the burning earth. He then used his free hand to half-sword his burning katana, wincing at the heat of the ceramic blade, and manipulating it so that it used the hooking part of the tomahawk as an axis. He then drove his left hand forward, pushing the upper part of the katana into Old Hickory and across his collarbone. The heated metal would indeed cut deep, but the wound would also be soaked in napalm, allowing for the fires from the sword to stay quite adherent to the sides of AJ's wound.