What non-firearm weapons do you have?

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LT.Diver My 20 ounce Estwing straight claw hammer in one hand and a steel framing square in the other. Bring it!
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Makes me think of that little troll kid with the steel boomerang in Mad Max 2 :D
 
Never much thought about it, but lets see....

Heavy cavalry saber, 1840 pattern NCO sword, smallsword, italian stiletto dagger. Cold steel gladius machete, 4 regular machetes. 2 Roman pilum spears. Ka-bar knife, M9 bayonet, two edged dagger, and a box full of all kinds of other knives. 8 cans of pepper spray.

Blade collection - $1k - $2k
Other stuff - $500
Sour attitude and the face to match - Priceless
 
A baaaaaad attitude! :fire:

Aside from that, if we only consider things designed as weapons, I've got:

2 x Yawara Sticks (wood and aluminum)
1 x Sap
1 x Japanese Jo (4 foot wooden staff)
1 x Japanese Bo (6 foot wooden staff)
1 x CAS "Practical" Wakizashi
1 x Ka-Bar Aluminum Cane
1 x Cold Steel Heavy Duty Sword Cane
12 x Daggers and Fighting Knives
2 x Tactcial Hawks (CRKT and VTAC)
 
Let's see
1917 naval cutlass
mexican war sabre
handmade cutlass circa civil war
short sword
replica french smallsword
sap
Kukri
SOG fasthawk
traditions Bowie Knife
Glock Field knife
Kabar TDI ankle knife
Kabar TDI belt knife
more pocket and small belt knives than I can count
 
Rock maple warclub.
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Wielded on a couple occasions during my brief career as a publican.
 

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Yikes, if you didn't know what you were doing with razorsword you could pretty much disembowel yourself!
 
Forgot another one ... Sjambok! 42 in.

Madcap Magician,

I've been thinking about getting one of those umbrellas - which model do you have, and how do you like it?

Corpral Agarn,

I went to our local "Tractor Supply Co" and got a "lunge whip". About a 6 ft fiberglass pole wrapped with braid, then another 6 ft. or so of loose braided whip. It's intended use is for for horse training.
 
The Razor Sword is worn edge down- but, yes, a sharpened one, worn edge up, would be dangerous to the big bellied.

John
 
Sticks, stones, bows, knives, a machete for the zombies, an entrenching tool and two cars. Bottles cans of vegetables, and this year lots if apples. :)
 
craftsman said:
I've been thinking about getting one of those umbrellas - which model do you have, and how do you like it?
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I have the premium full-length one with the crook handle. It was expensive, but they do sales fairly often and they're a great company to deal with. The umbrella is extremely well made. I have not abused it like they do in their testing videos, but it will flex and return to true readily without damage.

I have only a little training in cane techniques, so if I ever used it, I would primarily rely on the bayoneted rifle grip and techniques I learned in the Army. The end is steel-tipped, rounded, and blunt. It won't cut anything, but as a jabbing impact weapon, it's pretty good. The crook is wide and has a reverse chisel tip that is not sharp and doesn't catch the eye. This is well-designed for limb and neck control techniques for people who have more training or experience than I do.

Did I mention it was well made?

I don't regret the purchase, although the biggest reason that's the case is because it's a really high quality umbrella. I wouldn't say it's windproof, but it's more so than any cheap umbrella you'd get or any expensive umbrella not expressly designed to be windproof. Canopy coverage is wide, somewhere between a regular umbrella and a golf umbrella. My wife kind of rolled her eyes a bit when I spent $200 on an umbrella, but it truly will last a lifetime and left a lot of broken cheapo umbrellas in its wake.

As a defensive tool it is too large and bulky to carry unless you have no other choice, and of course it sticks out if it's not raining. In an airport it's a good choice because umbrellas stick out less there (it could be raining anywhere you came from or are going to, after all), and because of the limits on other viable self-defense tools. And because unlike a cane, it's an umbrella. :D

I would rate a good cane as a slightly better striking weapon, since the canopy and canopy frame provide some slight 'padding' with cutting strikes with the shaft, but the umbrella's steel tip is a better jabbing weapon than the rubber walking tip on most canes.

Single-handed striking with the umbrella is a little more difficult as well, because the balance point is forward of the crook handle, so you're grasping it around the collapsed canopy and canopy frame, which has some slight rotational give around the main shaft and does not provide the solid grip you would have on a cane.
 
A things use determines if it is a weapon or not.

I suppose the closest thing to a Non firearm "weapon" I keep close to hand at home is a 30 some year old Gerber fighting knife. For got the model number and just looked and it does not seem to be marked. Not the wasp waist model but the later one with the M4 type blade with the false edge scalloped. I bought it hurriedly just be fore going over seas as my other knives had been stolen.

Sam......
Please do not arm the Garden Gnomes! I think they may be after me....... in 1981 when I was doing pre planned fire planning for 3rd Armored DivArty I penciled in a pre plan battery 6 mixed Quick and fuse delay on what appeared to be a road junction on the map. I was queried over why I would pre plot that junction with the speculation that I was trying to deny Soviet access to the positions we would have just abandoned on the feeder road when the mission was scheduled. Nope, I explained to the Colonel that if he looked right on our way into our main battle position at that last turn on our next trip to the boarder he would see the largest non Commercial Gnome Garden collection I have ever seen, right where the target cross and dot were centered.

He agreed that it was in the best interest of man kind that those little devils not fall into the hands of the Soviets.........

-kBob
 
Knives, both folding and fixed, single edge and double.
Cold Steel Grosse Messer sword
Norse hand axe
SOG 'hawk
Blow gun
Compound bow
Wooden staff
Wooden and HDPE walking sticks/ canes.
Steam Punk inspired wood, steel and brass cane
Machetes
Old aluminum base ball bat.
BB rifles and pistols.

Lots of other tools and items that could be pressed into service as weapons
 
non firearm weapons

I have 500+ lumen lights with sharp bezels near at hand, and a farmer type cane pretty close most of the time. The .45 is locked and cocked an near at hand most of the time, but I feel that most situations can be avoided by vigalence!
 
Madcap_Magician,

You make 3 of us at least that have this umbrella. I've carried mine any number of places you can carry anything else.
 
I don't think the premium vs. standard model matters too much, except the umbrella furniture on the premium is metal instead of plastic. The core shaft and handle are the same.

I actually may have had something to do with the collapsible one coming out, I e-mailed the company saying I would buy a smaller one 18-21" long in a heartbeat, and they should consider making one for escrima/baton techniques, and the company president wrote back saying he thought it was a good idea. About three months later I got an e-mail advertising their collapsible. :D

Still saving for that one. It looks really good.
 
I would have liked to have seen it done like the Asp in steel or Al instead of fiberglass.
 
Up in the rafters over the garage is a six ft long bang stick that holds a 12 gauge shell.
If it works on a 7' tiger shark, it should work on 5'+ mugger

blindhari
 
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Too many items to list here; they multiply when you start acquiring them. A few favorites:
  • Cold Steel mace
  • Estwing Camper's Axe
  • Swiss bayonet
  • OLD Puma Bowie that was a "rescue": a friend had in his kitchen as an icepick, after buying at a yard sale for a buck! :eek:
  • Fixed blade that I made from a Deba Bocho knife
  • Homemade "pilum" heavy javelin
  • Kitchen chopper made from an Ontario machete (after I removed the awful D-handle)

Sam: I love the belt sword, but those ain't legal for carry in Texas. Bummer!

All my best,
Dirty Bob
 
Wrist Rocket slingshot
several bayonets
small ceramic belt knife

The Leathermen and various folding knives are tools, and don't count. If they do, I have an impressive collection of "weapons" in the workshop...

I had a crossbow once, but the sear mechanism was junk and unfixable without machining new parts. It was also astonishingly loud. I traded it off for something-or-other. I also had a nice compound bow, which I gave to a friend as a present when arthritis took all the joy out of shooting it.
 
For thirty-seven years I have studied martial arts from people who believe and teach that toy swords make toy swordsmen. So, all of the below are full steel combat-ready versions, with which I have trained combative technique. Single and double Chinese Plum Blossom Broad Swords. Gim . Chen Style Taji Broad Sword. Chinese war sword. Chinese spear. Seven and nine section steel whip. Iron Pipe (kind of an arcane weapon, even by my standards). iron fan. Double Ring Daggers. Butterfy Swords. 6-foot Staff. Three-section-staff. Kwan-Tao. Katana. (Studied Kenjitsu). To name a few. There are more. I have been busy.
 
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