Search results for query: *

To all cane users...... .........any opinion at all would be welcome. Please give me your $0.02 worth.

Canemasters offers various woods for use in their canes. My question is..... Is there any difference to identically sized canes if one is made of plain hickory versus it's "twin" made of pure hickory heart? Is the second cane stronger/heavier? If so, by how much stronger?

Dear guys, Canemasters is touting their pure hickory heart canes as being tougher then their other oak or "normal" hickory canes. Is this true? Are the canes from the core of the tree really tougher? More importantly, will these core canes be denser and have more damage potential? Or should...

To everyone who has replied thus far... .....so if using the cane purely as a tool for self defense via blunt force trauma, would this be a good choice? http://www.canemasters.com/custom-street-walking-cane-p-298.html or would this...

Using accelerometers, ballistics gel bodies and high speed cameras, the people who produce the "deadliest warrior" series at spike seem to be able to derive an indication of the damage potential of various hand weapons. But to those here who are familiar with hardwood oak and hickory canes...

To Moharrow, Please remember that we're talking about metal lamellar, NOT leather lamellar. Leather provides absolutely zilch protection against firearms. My beef with the show was that if the wheel lock pistol had been tested against a metal lamellar overcoat made of several hundred...

I've been watching the undermentioned series from Spike..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadliest_Warrior and I have to say that I disagree with the show's methodology and approach, especially with the episode where they compared a Chinese Ming dynasty warrior with a French Musketeer...

not quite sure if this is even covered under NFA weapons but...... To all THRers who have served in the infantry either in the army or marines..... Why do they say that the one-shot disposable LAW (light anti-tank weapon) should NOT be used against Main Battle Tanks and if they are...

I'm thinking of buying one of cold steel's polyproplene baseball bats as a defensive tool. Are there any weapon based combat systems out there that can be adapted to the use of a baseball bat for home defense? The rooms in my home are rather large and contain minimal furniture (for now at...

Apart from the tacti-cool factor, do you guys see any practical use for this knife? http://sogknives.com/store/TS-01.html

Hi all, I was watching episode 5 of "the pacific" and there was a scene when the marines had landed on some island to take it from the japanese. They fought their way in from the beach and encountered a building defended by a japanese force. From what i could see, there was a sandbag...

To Sunray and all: It most probably IS a politicians idea. The top police brass are nominated to their posts by who ever is in power after winning the last major election. Hence, the chief constables of law enforcement effectively are in many cases, the mouthpieces of the politicos.

The police service of the largest city in my country is facing the problem of increasingly well organised and violent mugging and pickpocketing gangs. They are particularly good at escaping from the police through the messy urban terrain. My cousin is a police lieutenant and he told me that...

The reason why I suggested using shotgun loads as a shrapnel simulator, apart from the fact that I don't have access to grenades and other explosives is that the folks from ESS goggles tout their stuff and being helpful against shrapnel or fragmentation type threats and advertise this capability...

Since early bulletproof vests used silk panels, I'd like to try a simple experiment. I'm going to create panels of silk consisting of variations of between 12 - 20 layers of quilted silk and shoot them with various 2 3/4" shotshell loads out of a factory standard smoothbore Remington 11-87...

Good day Gentlemen, If kevlar vests are decleared illegal in some localities like Australia, how would a reproduction 15th century style Brigandine incorporating 1.5mm thick overlapping steel plates do against a .38 special 158gr LRN slug travelling at 740ft/s? If we forget about blunt...

Weird question but please humour me. Using technology and industrial base of the USA during 1944/45, which if any of the modern (designed from the early 80s onwards) assualt rifles could have been manufactured? Are there any specific diffuculties that late generation assualt rifles would...

Its technical cos the ready made film will be judged by a panel of 5 media professional judges, of whom two are known to be avid sport shooters. The cool thing is that the local graveyard district supervisor has give us his blessing to film the movie in his sprawling 20 hectare burial...

Am writing a script for an amateur production zombie movie to be submitted for an upcoming horror movie fest but I'd like to get some pistol technical details right. Will the following rounds penetrate a human skull? 1) .38 special 148gr wadcutter target load fired from a 4" barrel at 25...

I watched a documentary on piracy last night and they talked about the 1600s carribean type as well as the latter day RPG-7 carrying type. An interesting fact communicated was that a great many attacks carried out in South East Asia today still involve pirate with matchetes without guns. This...