The knife handle is coyote jawbone. The club for seal hunting is petrified walrus penis bone.
Human parts aren’t generally used for crafts, but they make fine temporary display stands for arms.
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Waste not
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Spindrift knife from Skallywag Tactical
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Opmod knife
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Pistol bayonet revived
Pistol bayonets date back to at least the 17th century and as recently as WW1. Useful or silly, they make great gag gift and definitely turn heads at the range.
And, of course, the zombie edition.
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Holsters for unusual combinations of lights and sidearms
Quick, who makes mass-produced holsters for Bersa BP9CC and Viridian C5L combination? The sheet number of possible permutations of lights, lasers and pistols is so great, that custom makers like Leatherneck Tactical have a niche market.
Designed by an active service Marine Corps veteran, these holsters emphasize sturdiness and speed of access.
Examples shown here are the maker’s own carry pistols.
FNS40 is a large pistol, but it felt comfortable in this IWB holster.
LNT also make knife sheaths.
I like the quality and the designs that Jeff creates.
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Sharp, pointy things
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New articles up on AllOutdoor
Comparative Performance of Three Rifle-Caliber Pistols:
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Pole arms and hoplophobes
I wonder why the fans of Markley’s Law don’t annoy the Swiss guardsmen with their helberds or the Japanese history reenactors with spears and naginatas. Seems to me, the users of pole arms are far more appropriate targets for the accusations of compensating for insufficient potency than the users of small handguns.
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Waste not
The knife handle is coyote jawbone. The club for seal hunting is petrified walrus penis bone.
Human parts aren’t generally used for crafts, but they make fine temporary display stands for arms.
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Firearms, a matter of credibility
Assuming an ideal spherical teenager in vacuum…ok, let’s not. Let’s use this very specific 12 year old in a hypothetical situation of being threatened by something human-like. From the perspective of the predator, which of her weapons would pose the greatest threat to the attacker?
- Two throwing knives
- Katana
- Glock 41
Now, let’s further assume a very well informed goblin who has done his homework on the girl. It knows that she’s fairly experienced with the throwing knives, untrained with the sword and minimally trained with the pistol.
Despite the relative lack of experience with the firearm, she would most likely be considered the hardest prey with it in hand. “She just might get lucky.” With the throwing knives, she has two tries and there’s a possibility that the foe could deflect them or not be incapacitated quickly enough. With the sword, there’s a possibility that she would strike out from inexperience and be disarmed or knocked out. With the pistol…it’s possible to rush her but, with adequate situational awareness, she would have fourteen tries at stopping the foe, starting at considerable range. The power of the hit would be only slightly related to the defender’s strength and agility.
I am not suggesting that pistols are magic wands. They require training for full effectiveness. But even a very slightly trained person would have more of a chance with one in hand than most criminals would find sporting. Guns give credibility to the manifested intent to fight back. That would be true even if she was holding a .22 instead of a .45 — nobody likes getting shot, not even a little bit.
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History you can touch
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Gothic piratical?
Writer Monalisa Foster with a rare .34 caliber percussion revolver. A friend of mine is selling it (as is, the lockwork isn’t right) — let me know if interested.
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A blue watch face.
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Is this how UK views the US?
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A pointed argument.
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Paleolithic Britain
The recent terrorist event in the zoo previously known as Great Britain illustrated the unfortunate decline of that people. On the one hand, brave residents went after the perpetrator of violence with all available tools. On the other, the sole available weapon was a narwhal tusk in its original shape, not even fashioned into a proper spear. That’s Paleolith-level tool, no better than those available to Neanderthals.
It’s symptomatic that the would-be mass murderer continued the rampage until the zoo-keepers known as “bobbies” showed up with German submachine guns and Austrian pistols to shoot him. Good for the British subjects for taking the fight to the foe. My sympathy to them for having to do that with completely inadequate tools, for having been stripped even of bronze age implements like knives and even of paleolithic tools like non-metallic blades.
Kipling’s book “The Light That Failed” set around 1880 shows even ten-year-old kids of very modest means able to buy and carry modern firearms. A hundred and forty years later, even the adult specimens of the British herd have no such right or ability.
As with other island species that evolved away from the ability to defend themselves, or even to recognize newly imported predators upon encounter, the residents of the British Isles are in trouble. The trouble doesn’t come as much from the imported terrorists, for their depredations are opportunistic and not statistically significant yet, as from the domestic zoo-keepers using the specter of the Islamic hobgoblins to keep the proles scared, clamoring for more surveillance, for more restrictions on tools and behavior, for tighter and more constricting bondage. People elsewhere should learn from their example and pick a more constructive path.
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