Walking stick for canids

Me,too. (dogwood) A bud calls it my Ugly Stick. One church official suggest I not carry a weapon to sacrament meetings when he saw it. Wife and kids saw it on a trip to Arid-zona and immediately thought of me carted it home on the plane.

-kBob

Sticks are illegal to carry in a lot of states. Fortunately for the OP, they were made legal to carry in Texas in 2019.

There are states that go against the Americans with Disabilities Act?

-kBob

The OP used the term "stick" but his intention of "dealing with... threats" very clearly meets the legal definition of club or billy. Just because he calls it a "stick" doesn't make it a stick, or cane. If the prosecutor calls it a club, who's right? Again, not an issue in Texas, but only because of relatively recent legalization. Not all states have repealed their prohibitions of carrying clubs, billies, and batons.

kBob said:

There are states that go against the Americans with Disabilities Act?

-kBob

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Beating dogs doesn't mitigate a disability.

To be sure, I am not in opposition to someone carrying a nightstick, club, baton, a billy, or a spiked mace. As far as I'm concerned, the 2nd Amendment protects the liberty to do so. The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Even so, the reality is that many states prohibit bearing these arms and have few exceptions primarily for law enforcement officers. Concealed carry permits often do not grant permission for weapons other than a handgun. The absurdity is not lost on me that in my state I can carry a 44 Magnum concealed on my person without violating the law, but cannot carry a collapsable baton without being guilty of a gross misdemeanor. You can try to be cute and have a plan to say that the club you're carrying to beat-down dogs is really for an ache in your back, but a lot of the weapons proposed in this thread aren't very convincing in such a charade.

I can't find it now, but canes were exempted from prohibited weapons, I don't think one needed a disability card to prove it.
I do think it needed to look like a cane (which can do a lot of damage).

I killed a rottweiler with a walking stick. I had a gun but was in a city park. I carry a hickey cane often anymore. Unfortunately I am to the point know one questions it

Cold Steel makes a line of walking sticks and canes. I have used the axe head model for a couple years. Has the advantage of a hook/crook to hang on your arm if you need two hands for some reason. Have flown with it and no issues.

I carry a stick, about armpit high for all my serious hiking. Mine is made of yucca which is strong and light. But when I travel, especially when I fly, I carry a simple wooden cane. No problems with the "authorities" anywhere in the world. It would serve as a weapon against any threat, no matter how many legs it has. Just learn some basic defensive moves and anything that gets within its range is going to get hurt.

Speedo66 said:

Curious how you attached the piece of fireplace poker in the stick so that it had the strength "to hook it onto something and then pull myself up".

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The fireplace poker was threaded. I used a screw-bolt combo. Drilled a pilot hole in the stick with a slight recess in the end for the screw. I also filled the hole with epoxy before screwing it in. It means I can easily unscrew the poker part and screw in something else. Or just put a plastic cap on the end to make it a much lighter walking stick. The stick by the way is something I laminated myself out of hardwood scraps I had in the shop. Without the sling or flashlight it weighs 21oz mostly in the poker end. I really like the idea of a hook and pointy pokey end when exploring. Always on the lookout for a something lighter to replace the end.

westernrover said:

Sticks are illegal to carry in a lot of states. Fortunately for the OP, they were made legal to carry in Texas in 2019.

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Gonna be a lot of pissed off cane users I imagine.

Forget canes and skinny whimpy-sticks. What you really want is a staff. Top one weighs 24 ounce, middle one 40 ounces, and the closest one is 30 ounce. All have metal caps on both ends.

On this legal thing...I hope I never live in a place where I would be questioned for using a staff, or that my world ever regresses to such a state of affairs.

About seven years ago I busted my right leg pretty bad. When I got off crutches I used the staff for quite a while. I went everywhere with it, even "Cosco" and never heard a comment or hint of an idea that I should not have a staff, or it could be a weapon, or that it might scare a wimpering fool or something. Never a: "sir! You can't come in here with that!" "You might SCARE somebody!" That was before I retired from the High School, and I walked the halls and classrooms with it every day and no one blinked an eye or hinted that it might be "inappropriate". The teens thought it was "cool". (and perhaps were a bit more respectful?)

Anyhow, it you switch your hands on a good staff to the skinny end, and swing it like a baseball bat, I don't see or imagine any dog or coyote sticking around for a second helping. Do that with that 40 ounce staff in the middle, and I don't see it getting back up again. Forget the sticks. You want a staff!

Ugly Sauce said:

On this legal thing...I hope I never live in a place where I would be questioned for using a staff, or that my world ever regresses to such a state of affairs.

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It depends on which social class you're a member of. If you're in the lower social class, a peasant or worker, then you can indeed expect they will come around to being banned again. They're already banned in airports and on commercial planes, as well as baseball bats, pool cues, canoe paddles and lacrosse sticks. The upper classes don't fly in "a long tube with a bunch of demons" and will gladly ban things they have no use for. If you want something that you won't be banned from possessing, try a broomstick, or mop handle.

Canes, yes. Quarterstaffs, no.

JShirley said:

In what universe do you think medieval weapons should be allowed in the cabin of commercial flights?

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In the land of the free and home of the brave.

No, really, I was referring to the post that was praising the stave and advising to "forget canes."

JShirley said:

And, for that matter, staves were a weapon of commoners. Are you also claiming "the upper classes" are allowed to carry their rapiers in the cabin at will?

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Why yes. In their private jets.