Recent content by Bikewer

The folks mentioning obsidian have a point. You can only get steel so sharp... Has to do with the micro structure of the material. If you look at a very sharp edge under an electron microscope, it looks pretty much like a saw. Rather jagged, but all the little "jags" are in the same...

Pedantic mode.... "Detonation" is confined to high explosives. Small-arms ammo may "go off", "fire", "cook off", or go Bang!....But not detonate. Or if it does, inside a firearm, it's normally catastrophic destruction of same.

As I recall from some rather extensive reading in The Primitive Bowyer's Bible series and other works... Amerind bows varied greatly depending on the materials available to them. Eastern woodland tribes had fine bow woods...Hickory, Osage Orange, many more. Western tribes often had to make...

I didn't read through the whole thread, so forgive if someone mentioned, but mine is an oddball... In the second of the old Three Musketeers movies, the 1974 "The Four Musketeers"... AThos is threatening Milady DiWinter.... And he spans his wheel-lock pistol before pointing it at her. Not...

I just did our second session of "MACTAC" training. This is something all area police departments are doing; an extension of the "active shooter" training most everyone has done by now. This is bigger-scale stuff, much more like military squad/small unit tactics. The idea being to let...

Maybe they thought it worked like bug repellent....

I point out all the time that the superb accuracy you've developed on the range may vanish in an actual combat situation. In addition to the sheer stress of combat, your opponent may be moving, hiding, in poor light, whatever. All that business of "shot placement is everything" may become...

We issue the Sabre Red law enforcement formulation... I've had uniformly good results with it. In every case, the naughty person quit doing what they were doing and gave up. I have not used the stuff on dogs. One of our sergeants worked for the city police, and they did regular raids on drug...

I've got one of the stainless jobs that I've used as an off-duty gun for about 30 years. It's been very reliable and reasonably accurate....Mine has the Pachmayr-style rubber grips and a dehorned hammer.

"cops were lucky they could hit a target with a 38,much less a 45"...... General statements are generally wrong... I've been in police work for over 40 years and I have seen an awful lot of coppers shoot... Most all of 'em pretty well, thanks. Anyway... Back when I started, in '68, the county...

It's been many, many years. As I recall, I ordered some military unarmed-combat manual. The catalog at the time was full of copies of military manuals... They also had all those lurid titles about dropping out of society and establishing false identities and all that.... The downside is that...

The only scenario I can see is if you wanted to engage a suspect at long range...Where you'd have comparatively more time. I shot my qualification round well enough so that most rounds went into one ragged hole and there were three flyers... All still in the K-zone. I thought that was...

Spent the last two days in training with my new duty piece, the Sig P229. We've been issuing the Glock 23 for about 15 years. For reasons still not entirely clear, the department decided to drop the Glock in favor of the Sig. (It's their money....) So anyway, we've been doing this in...

I didn't see anyone else mention, so I will. A "gauss gun" is an entirely different animal from a "rail gun". A Gauss gun is essentially a magnetic-field accelerator. The projectile passes through a series of magnetic fields, picking up a bit of acceleration with each one. This is...

Just about anything will kill reliably if absolute precision is allowed. In one of my history books I have a "humane firearm" that was designed to dispatch wounded horses circa WWI. It had a device to position it so that the .32 caliber round would penetrate the braincase into the medulla...