What are some weapons that are good for distance

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And, um, some of us can go from 0 to serious in no time flat.
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Being in my early fifties...

I may not be as good as I once was, but I am good once, as I ever was in using :

Tennis shoes, tossing a vehicle in gear and hitting the gas, throwing a glass pitcher, a fire extinguisher, vehicle antenna busted off a vehicle in a parking lot, cast iron skillet, rolled up newspaper, tumping tables and throwing napkin dispensers and tumping chairs behind me, throwing a picture ripped off the wall...

...ash can with sand next to elevator, and throwing sand in face, then ash can to perps knee, then back up and under chin.

...broom, mop bucket being kicked toward perp, OR bed, bags of Saline , X-Ray machine being rolled to impede travel of those following, and said machine blocking door...

...Ripping the big button that opens doors, out, so that door would not open, and therefore bgs could not come down a hall...
Rolling a Anesthesiua cart toward a punk, whom went into a hall, then shutting doors and using Penrose drains to tie those doors shut...

Did I mention hitting reverse, putting the gas pedal to the floor, and with smoking tires , getting up enough speed to move two vehicles out of the way to evade.

Suggestion: Get the good ins coverage from Rental Car folks, or have really good insurance that covers rental car damage.


Distance is not only measured in feet and yards, also in time...seconds do make a difference.


The earlier one picks up a signal, the more distance they have.
 
Ill go with sm. I am 57 and pretty fit, but then I am not 26 anymore.

To carry any item for SD and conceal it at all means a GUN, and if not a gun a really big knife, and the biggest one it seems i can conceal is my bowie. Which I can wear inside my belt, since the walnut scabard has a hook going outside my belt, and i wear it across my back.

Now the only way I know i can hide this is, I was at a primitive event, where some guy not knowing I make knives tried to sell me one of his. His ploy was, "You need a knife!" and so I grinned at him, and pulled out my patch knife from the possible bag strap.

Then he said "You need a bigger knife, and so I reached inside the neck of my shirt and with drew my neck knife, and offered another grin.

Getting a bit frustrated he sort of yelled "You need a big knife!" and I reached for my birds head butcher on my belt hanging vertical, and grinned again.

At that point he assumed i was all done, and said screaming at the top of his lungs "YOU NEED A REALLY BIG KNIFE!"
and i reached back behind me and haul this thing out :D
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So this is as big of a blade as I can conceal. Now is it anything of any distance? Well that depends on what you have as if it is with no gun, my knife away.

The only other item I am aware of is a taser, and I have no use of a taser.
 
The only effective use for thrown weapons I know is as a distraction-type device, like the real use of the shuriken. But unless you are cornered or closing in on your attacker for some odd reason I don't see much of a use for them.

I bet a chemist or someone who knew how to use explosives (I'm NOT advocating a grenade type device, more like a mild flashbang) could make a pretty cool little distraction type device that would buy you a few seconds if you threw it at someone's face. But of course you'd want it safely and easily carry-able and legal, not very likely.
 
We live in a weapon-rich world, if we choose to view and use it that way. Salt and pepper packets and shakers, sugar, low-cal sweeteners, hot sauce, ketchup, mustard, hot coffee, pocket change, you name it: the things that can be used as metsubishi or to just plain stop an aggressor are limited only by our acknowledgment of them.
 
JShirley nailed it. Small objects, such as coins, a "short" can of soda, a bunch of old keys on a ring, etc. are your best bet. The idea is to cause the attacker to duck or flinch, which gives you the opportunity to run away or to draw something more effective.

A drink in a fast food cup, or a cup of hot coffee could be tossed at the bad guy's face. Great thing about a beverage is that it's normal to walk around with it in your hands.

My favorite primitive missile weapons are hand axes and spears. The former is really nasty, because of its weight. The butt of the handle or the top of the ax head can still hit really hard. I also got pretty good throwing a 3/4 ax one summer. Not practical, but fun as heck!

Regards,
Dirty Bob
 
Is this a trick question?

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:p :D
 
It's a given that firearms are more effective at a distance than other tools, easier to learn to use well, and the preferred defensive tool if available. This thread is about what else could be used to create distance if firearms are not an option.

Help me understand how your 25 firearms fit into Non-Firearm Weapons choices. (And, incidentally, you show the silhouette of the G36 twice.)
 
Alright, lately I have been really big into knives as a back up but really those are an up close a personal type of deal, what are some ideas for weapons that can be used from somewhat of a distance however this excludes OC spray and tasers I can't think of anything at all.
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Try slingshots, they come in a variety of types/sizes for diffrerent purposes.
Plus their's alot of "stuff" you can slingshot at someone, alot!
 
Funny. The point is, any side that hits is fine: there's no dependence on angle of attack.
 
On the other hand, a 2 ounce throwing knife that hits handle-first would have almost the same "oomph" as a 2 ounce ball bearing that hits surface-first, with a small chance of doing "bonus" damage if it hits blade-first.
 
In the 3rd World, machetes are ubiquitous, and legal pretty much everywhere. Best thing short of a projectile weapon, in my opinion.
 
As a young teen I designed and built an atlatl for shuriken. It actually worked. With practice I achieved far better velocity and penetration than from throwing the silly little things by hand. Still, compared to a Beretta ... well, it sucked.
 
Al wrote:
I'm thinking three pool balls joined with 550 cord.
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Some punks thought getting into joint with a bar, pool tables, shuffleboard, and pinball machines, would be easy, about 9am. Especially since it was just "girls" that arrived early to get everything set up.

Pool balls when thrown will get punks with small shiny guns at a back door, to think differently.
Which is good, because pool cues were in some hands, and unknown to them, so was a Stevens 311 , Gov't Model of 1911 and Model 19.

Girls are so neat...

"Stripes or Solids?"

"Don't matter, rack 'em up, and lets bust some balls"

*whups*
 
Bo shuriken. The Torpedo is just the largest example I've seen.

And hso's last comment was a pun, if you didn't get it. Unfortunately, I did.
 
machetes are ubiquitous
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They are. But be careful if you live in a big city. A friend got thrown in jail for a night because he had one in his truck in Dallas TX.
 
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