Custom Fighting Knife

Discussion in 'Knives' started by sekelbos, Mar 26, 2019.

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  1. sekelbos

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    I'll put up some more custom knifes later
     
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  3. Duncan

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    Ik vind je messencollectie echt leuk. Heb je ze zelf gemaakt?
     
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  4. sekelbos

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    NO, i HAVE A FRIEND WHOSE CAREER IT IS TO BE A PROFESSIONAL KNIFE MAKER AND HE ALSO BELONG TO THE ELITE KNIFE MAKERS GUILD.
    I DESIGN NY OWN KNIVES ON PAPER AND HE MAKE THEM FOR ME
     
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  5. Oldguy

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    Why the interest in custom FIGHTING knives? this is a prepper forum

    As preppers/survivalists why carry something specialised for FIGHTING ?

    A utility knife would be much more usefull much more often than a custom FIGHTING knife unless of course one is out looking for trouble.
     
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  6. lonewolf

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    as a prepper/survivalist I am looking to AVOID trouble, not go looking for a fight.
    opsec/grey man as much as possible.
     
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  7. Morgan101

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    I agree with Lonewolf on this one. I don't want to get into any kind of fight, especially a knife fight. That said I do love the knife. I will just call it something different.

    Sekelbos: Have you ever thought of adding a slot on the front of the sheath to hold a ferro rod? that might be a nice addition.

    Duncan: You sneaky devil. I didn't know you spoke Dutch. I spent a lot of time in the Netherlands, but I still have to rely on Google Translate.
     
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  11. Sonofliberty

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    My main choice for a "utility knife" is also a proven combat knife. I use both a Kbar and a Tanto style Kbar. The good thing about the Tanto style is that it works fairly well as a wood chisel in addition to normal knife tasks.
     
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    I have seen a similar survival tool and their reviews on the ultimate knife kit. it's really an awesome tool.
     
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  13. Pragmatist

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    Good morning Stig 999,

    Just read the link; a good site.

    My usual "however"; The inexperienced Prepper/Suvivalist can easily get lost in the site's material because the inexperienced have not clearly identified their anticipated realistic environments and perils.

    The link did mention "wilderness" and to check one's area laws before a purchase.

    Not at the link but must mention a couple of cutlery matters;

    If inexperienced and young, it's frequently neglected to think that hands can get injured to the level of not being able to open a folding knife.

    The Ontario Knife Company (OKC) has a couple of machetes with a hand guard. Hand guards on knives (hard to find) are sought by those with pre-existing injuries. Even the gloved hand appreciates the extra protection of the guard.

    For those working around amphib equipment like life rafts and inflatable boats, points - drop, tanto, are out. Chisel/no point are in.

    For us Preppers/Survivalists, nylon sheaths are great for us in humid areas. If treated against mildew/mold, leather can be superior.

    ....

    Good info combined with my overflowing errands list delaying my check on too much cutlery and sheaths here. Will check on knife and machete in truck this AM.
     
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  14. Old Geezer

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    I am posting this mainly for our visitors. Preppers keep center-fire rifles and shotguns, plus the ammunition needed for stand-offs. A scoped well-sighted-in scoped deer rifle makes for good defense at distance -- interlopers coming in to one's area must pay the price. I'm going to provide information concerning knife fighting, but am beginning with a discussion of the usefulness of handguns.

    A knife to preppers is mainly seen as a tool for skinning & gutting game. Finding myself in a knife fight would be way past the worst nightmare for me. Having a handgun on the ready trumps a knife in the hands of an attacker. Guard your six'o'clock.

    Many -- as in, way over 1,000,000 citizens -- have recently purchased firearms and ammunition. If you are not already qualified, seek professional instruction. AND, practice, practice, practice, ... . This is critically true with handguns. Handguns lack stopping-power unless one is talking about large-bore or magnum calibers. Even then, you only have accurate shots out only so far. People who are instructors or who practice a WHOLE LOT can hit stop signs with an accurate handgun out past 100 yrds, they are the exception and certainly not the rule. With even a semi-decent battle rifle or hunting rifle, you can hit the same target out past 300 meters.

    If all you have is a handgun, you are under-gunned for the coming SHTF events. If you have a pump shotgun, you are getting there.

    And then there are those who possess no firearms whatsoever and are down to having to use a knife for fighting. God's Mercy be upon you.

    The following, I could term, "Grim Realities". Actually this is Mega-grim. Humans should never be placed in such hellish predicaments; yet, welcome to Earth.

    Beware, the following is just downright depressing.

    The Jewish people surrounded / trapped in the Warsaw ghetto during WWII had few, if any, firearms. Many had followed NAZI government mandates and had turned in their firearms instead of joining the resistance movement.

    What to do?

    First off, they were able to collect from their own around five or six handguns. With these handguns, they attacked German soldiers who were on patrol in insufficient numbers. One or two guards alone = target. After disabling/killing the soldier, they now had an actual weapon available. They had a battle rifle. And a good one at that, an 8mm Mauser. Accurate. Will shoot through building walls.

    The NAZIs inevitably had to bring-in artillery to attack these civilians. The courage and fighting abilities of these people caused the Germans to pull resources away from battlefronts where that artillery was greatly needed. These people were lost. However, they died with the greatest dignity imaginable. They were heroes one and all.

    That was them. What about you and your family, now. What if you do not even own a handgun, what do you do when civilization goes into full-tilt meltdown?! Brothers and sisters, that day is now upon us. This time next year, even the United States, a food-exporting nation, could find itself with tens of millions without food and electricity.

    Desperate people will do ANYTHING, including the super-human, to feed their families. Wherever you are, you will not be safe. Should it come to it, you may very well find yourself defending your home with a big knife and a metal water pipe.

    Where to stab?

    https://www.selfdefenseguides.info/close-combat/target-areas-of-the-body.html

    "Lower Abdomen (or Groin). The lower abdomen (or groin region) is a good target area because it is not covered by body armor."

    Old Gzr: No ribs in the lower abdomen. A retired light colonel Special Forces taught us when we were in high school to stab the enemy in the anus up into the rectum. A few years past that, when in anatomy classes at university, I learned how true were his words.

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      If all of this is repugnant, it should be. Never let yourself get into a knife-fight. A handgun beats the dickens out of a knife, but that's all one can say. Hurrah, Bernhard Goetz! I am hurt in the center of my being for your having been imprisoned for taking out the trash. Would-be preppers, learn how to use your handgun and if you are without a pump shotgun and center-fire rifle, do now spend the money to purchase them. What is coming is going to infinitely beyond the worst expectations of all of us.
       
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  15. TexDanm

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    I can't think of many long term survival situations that MAY not involve a bit of unplesantness from outside forces. If you are prepared for that you will probably survive if not you will become one of the ones that just didn't have what it took. Weapons, and the practiced use of them, are a must in nearly all situations short of stranded afloat at sea or lost in a cave. In the short term there are going to be a lot of problems that you need to be able to shoot. Hungry feral dogs will be a problem. They lack the natural fear of man that the wolves and coyotes have. Where I live they are already a problem. Hungry feral people will be a problem for a long time though. People that are lazy thieving trash now are not going to be any better after the fall. The ONLY solution for them will be a bullet. or a knife.
     
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  16. lonewolf

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    There is that American perception again, kill everybody.
    sure in the big cities the ferals and the have nots will be a problem, but once the filling stations are empty , could be as little as 24 hours, the majority that remain will not be going far, its surprising what a week without liquid and a month without food will have on the health or otherwise of people, they will be too frail and weak to go far.
    the further one is out from a big city the less of a problem it will be, dont say it will be no problem, but the further it is the lesser the problem.
     
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  17. TexDanm

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    If I am attacked I'm not going to kiss them lonewolf. I'm not going to hunt trouble but if things collapse my solution to any attack WILL be rather terminal and I make no apologies for that. Let me give you a hint...If you chase an attacker off he may well return and put a bullet in your back. If I'm attacked I will treat them just like I would a rabid dog and there is only ONE way to handle a rabid animal. You can't heal them and they are not going to change so you have to hunt them down and kill them.
     
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  18. Old Geezer

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    Ice-picks to gas tanks will be slim pickins, but if you've got a off-road bike and are looking for places where they might have some food, then petrol from a bunch of stranded cars and trucks will get you there. To a felon, most folk are marshmallows.

    Thus, my loads of buckshot and center-fire rifle ammo. I'm not worried about weak city-folk. I'm worried about the psychos and the desperate folk . Many people have migrated illegally into America across deserts. Same is true in Europe. These new migrants are anything but squishy-soft. What ever it takes, they will do it. How do I know this? Because they already have.

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  19. lonewolf

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    I'm not going to kiss them either Tex!!! but the possibility of getting attacked this far out lessens with every extra mile.
     
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  20. lonewolf

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    if cars and trucks are stranded its most likely because they have run out of fuel, over here most car drivers drive on empty only filling up when the warning light comes on, we see it all the time.
    post SHTF there wont be any delivery trucks.
    migrants come here for a better life, most are economic migrants even the illegal ones, they all head for the big cities where others like them live, they stick together in their communities and are unlikely to leave, even in dire circumstances their community is their lifeline.
    nearly half (48%) of all migrants to the UK live in London and the South East, in comparison only about 1 or 2% live in the North East.
    there is no reason for anyone to evacuate a British city and the only time this has happened was in the blitz during WW2 . the UK does not have the severe weather conditions that are prevalent in some areas of the USA.
     
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  21. Max rigger

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    In reality there is no such thing as a 'fighting knife', in a knife fight any old knife or blade will do going from a bayonet down to a John Wick pencil, if your close enough to use it you won the fight.

    Its nice to think your good enough, accurate enough to get in the kill stab but again in reality using a knife is dirty and you'll stab away until movement from the other guy stops; its not good being up that close and personal to an enemy.
     
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  22. lonewolf

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    knife fighting is hand to hand combat, okay if someone is SAS or Royal Marines but the ordinary person in the street will come off worst every time.
    in a SHTF situation knife fighting is probably the last option left when someone has run out of all others, not recommended.
     
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  23. TexDanm

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    I think that it may be that we have different views because of a difference in the people where we live. You see safety in distances. I live someplace where people may drive a hundred miles a day or more to go to and from work. I have worked places where I had 150 mile round trips every day. It is a 50 mile round trip for me to go to a store that is bigger than a convience store. I KNOW that here there will be no real safety from the hoards as long as you are within reach of what someone can cover with one tank of gas.

    I have often had to drive so far mostly so that my family could live someplace where there isn't much daily danger. We don't have gangs here. Criminals have a hard time when there are so few people to hide among. I never lock my doors at night. My wifes keys to her car are in her car. Despite this I know that when people get hungry they are not going to just sit in their hovels with no power and quietly watch their family starve to death.

    Where I live everyone has guns. We all were raised around hunting and outdoors activities. Unfortunatly if things fall totlly apart that is going to make life rather interesting until people adjust to a new reality. Now a thief can go along for decads and even if caught spend very little time in jail unless they hurt someone. Even if you hurt someone you may only serve a little time in jail and then be free again on parole. When there are no police to protect the "rights" of the criminals things will be simple. If you steal from me or harm me or mine I will kill you the FIRST time.

    Those that can't adapt won't last long. Honesty has more meaning when your life depends on not crossing the wrong person. Honor will return because you can't trust a person that lacks it. Crime and criminals thrive only when they are allowed to exist. At first it is going to be chaos until those that either can't act right either learn or are killed and those that are unable or unwilling to do what is needed are dead with them. The people that survive are going to be a hard people with little patience or mercy for anyone that would cause them harm and only ONE answer for dealing with a problem.
     
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  24. Old Geezer

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    Locusts fly. Humans walk.

    Ultimately, distances mean nothing.

    The hordes of migrants illegally entering the USSA have walked hundreds of miles. The desert didn't stop them.

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  25. lonewolf

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    I have known people that drive 100 miles to work but mostly its less than that, a 50 or 60 mile round trip is the norm, and if one lives and works in a big city its even less than that, but thats in the good times.
    in a SHTF situation in the UK the petrol stations will be empty within 24 hours with no hope of resupply, like I said every one (non prepared) drives on empty, during the recent increase in fuel prices they were paying hundreds of pounds to fill their tanks, I was paying less than 30 pounds to top up mine.
    post SHTF nobody will be driving anywhere, they will be walking thats if they can get out of the cities, martial law may be in force or they will get attacked and killed trying, especially somewhere like
    London for instance.
     
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  26. TexDanm

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    What we are doing here is the thng that will lead to people like us being the survivors and winners if the world as we now know it goes down the tubes. We live in a time of vast and amazing social and economic wealth. Even our poor live a life better than kings could have hoped for a couple of hundred years ago.

    If you live in the US and are hungry or are living without shelter it is because you have mostly chosen to live that way. Unfortunatly when you GIVE away the things that most people work for you are denegrating their work and creating a world where working is more a social practice than a necessity.

    Do you REALLY think that those that can't support themselves by CHOICE and not because of unavoidable hapenstance are the people we want to make the decissions about who is to lead our nation?
     
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  27. Old Geezer

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    I believe that an essential property of a knife that is to be used in a fight is one of having a thick spine to its blade. One can't have a weapon breaking right in the middle of the fatal festivities. It can't hit a bone, then break. When one twists the knife inside of the enemy's body, the blade must not break.

    Wet work is slick work. One can't have their hand slip forward off a slick-with-blood handle onto the blade, thus cutting one's own hand's tendons. Rather bad, that. Therefore, a fighting knife has a guard between handle and blade.

    Militaries provide their men knives with hardy spines plus good guards.

    My WWII combat veteran uncle gave me his Camillus M3 dagger when I was in grammar school. All the other boys had WWII items from their dads' issue-equipment. Plus, always there were weaponry items taken from enemy soldiers. One of the kids had a German helmet with a big hole in its temple area. My uncle's bayonet he brought back stank. I tried cleaning it and cleaning and ... I never could get that horrific stink out of it, so I never brought that out when we boys played Army.

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    My uncle's Camillus has a better scabbard than the leather one shown in the above photograph. It is a very hard material. It does have the leather leg-strap.
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  28. TexDanm

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    A dagger is hard to beat. Compared to other knives it is made from scratch to be a weapon and not a tool. I like the old Kabar military knife for a lot of things but it was a tool as much as a weapon and wasn't a very good pig sticker.

    These days a lot of kids tht were raised thinking of a handgun as THE ultimate weapon for close work fail to understand the lethality of a sharp knife. As long as a bullet doesn't take out the heart or brain it isn't going to be a quick kill and for sure isn't silent. Even guns with silencers are not that quiet unless they are on a gun that is also shooting subsonic rounds which are infamous for lacking in the area of penetration. A knife in the hands of a killer is a sudden and VERY sure death and totally silent.
     
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  29. Old Geezer

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    One's pocket knife should have a locking blade and some sort of finger guard. Non-locking blades can fold onto your fingers, i.e. not good, bloody results. I like a serrated edged blade -- I use it to strip the insulation off wires ... which, of course, dulls the dickens out of the serrations, so I have serration sharpeners. Having a flick-open (Kershaw, "Speedsafe", "assisted opening") mechanism allows me to be holding a wire with one hand and retrieving my pocket knife to strip it. Seems I'm always doing this even though I have plenty of wire-strippers at work and at home; plus, I've got all varieties of stripper designs, paid good money for them. Yet I continue to bugger my pocket knives. My tool box will be there in the same room, complete with strippers, yet out of reach. Men can be so stupid. I'm just the smartest idiot; "Ripley's Believe It or Not; Supposedly-Brilliant Idiots", 1987. One minute, I'll be programming; the next, wiring; next it will be tubing for fluids and air flow; all these things to fix puppies that cost tax payers way too much money to begin with. Buy new? With today's prices?! OUCH! If something can be put back into operation, then I like that. Something else about me: I'm a complainer. Anyone notice? Sh##, I don't even like the guy in the mirror.

    I've said it before, I love Kershaw pocket knives. The sharpest pocket knife I have is a Muela out of Spain. Spain has forever been known to have the finest steel for swords. You could shave with this Muela. Just the BEST metal.

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      Oh, and serrations are also for cutting the seat belts in cars and trucks. MVA, passenger unconscious, seatbelt locked, a knife without serrations will simply slide over the belt material -- won't cut the belt, they just don't. Serrations on a good knife blade do the deed. The blade's gotta be robust and somewhat long without being too long; 4" to 5" are fine. If the blade is 3.5" (9 cm) or shorter, you'll need more serrations. I use small rat-tail files to create or add serrations to knife blades.

      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=knife+blade+serrations+sharpener&t=newext&atb=v1-1&iax=images&ia=images

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  30. TexDanm

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    I carried a buck knife for a lot of years. It was a heavy beast and that offered a nice alternative as a weapon. It would give your fist more weight but even better if you just left it closed and popped someone on the forehead with the butt end of the knife they would be down in a flash. It was heavy enough to rattle someone brain. Back when auto-opening knives were illegal I could pop a buck knife open with one hand with my thumb as fast as any switchblade.

    I always found a knife to be a good defensive weapon mostly because most people seem to have a real aversion to getting cut. On a couple of occasion my knife worked as a peace maker for me against multiple adversaries. I just slipped it out popped it open and asked the crowd who wanted to see their innards out and on the ground...and smiled. Thy understood that I planned to gut at least one of them and since NOBODY wanted to be that person it was as if I was only being threatened by one person. They were all backing up and let me walk away.

    I could open that buck knife either slowly and silently so nobody noticed it until I made it known. Or if the situation would be better served by a little surprise I could open it about halfway and then snap my wrist and pop it open with a very notable Klack. The wonderful thing about it was that between my size and that knife I never once had to get it bloody. I was always willing to walk away and since nobody really wanted to dance they always let me. The important thing is that YOU have to be willing to dance if they want to. If they sense that you might back down if they stand firm you will end up hurt. NOBODY ever really wins a fight. At best you get hurt a little less than your opponent and in some of those cases you can lose even when you win. I've broken my hand and had my nose broken and the nose hurts less than the hand in the long road.
     
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    1. Old Geezer
      "It would give your fist more weight but even better if you just left it closed and popped someone on the forehead with the butt end of the knife they would be down in a flash."
      Good point.
      Thor's hammer.
       
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  31. Old Geezer

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    A lot of folk put a thumb stud on the spine of pocket knives so that they can use their thumb to open the knife when only having one hand free -- which, unfortunately, happens all too often. I currently have this on one of my carry knives.

    Just MIC the knife's spine to learn its thickness in millimeters. This is the spec used for ordering these.

    Mine works fabulously and hasn't worked loose. I put a bunch, maybe too much, torque on the set screw and it didn't strip. Maybe I was lucky, use your judgement.

    One pocket knife of mine is custom. The fellow who make it incorporated a stud bilaterally. He put a divot in the handle bilaterally so that one's thumb can acquire the stud for opening. By the way, that pocket knife isn't small and it is thick/robust, so as TexDan said, you can use it as a hammer.

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    This is the type of skull fracture that the "ball peen hammer" effect causes (obviously, this fellow didn't make it):

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  32. TexDanm

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    We need to stay the heck OUT of that mess. I think that russia is now wishing that they had not started it. The Ukraine is looking like it may be their Vietnam with no real win possible. I think if they were to take over there they would just have a country that was endlessly fighting them on a small block by block level and slowly bleeding them.

    They seem to be a lot like we were in Vietnam and wanting to pacify the enemy instead of actually defeating them. If they were fighting a war they would level all of the major cities from the air...just as we should have done to Hanoi had we wanted to win a war there instead of fight an endless police action.

    Some fights just can’t be won. They have jumped into one of those and we need to let them just swelter in the fire they jumped into. They are not likely to do what it would take to WIN the war that they are not fighting.

    Like we were in Vietnam they don’t want to escalate it to the level where their superior numbers and manufacturing ability would help them. When ever a big country tries to fight a little war with a small country they end up with a near endless problem. The fighters for the little country are fighting for the survival of their family...the soldiers for the big country are fighting for politicians.

    Cases like that are sort of like when a pet family dog gets in a fight with a wolf. The dog is fighting for dominance and defending his territory while the wolf is fighting for his next meal.

    One of the changes that I have noted in the last couple of generations is in the habitual carrying of a pocket knife. My Dad gave me my first knife when I was about 8 and I have carried a knife ever sinse then. When I was in school there were no rules against a small pocket knife. A knife is a tool and without one you are unable to do a lot of things very well.

    I almost will not loan my knife. I had a fool break a good knife trying to pry something with it. I FORCED him to buy me a new one and made sure that he knew that it had to be JUST like the one he broke. He was fortunate in that the knife was not very expensive and only cost him about 30 dollars. The silly fool thought that I was kidding him. I had to explain to him that if he didn't replaces it I was going to take my payment out of his ass in the form of blood and broken bones. He decided a knife was cheaper than hospital bills so he replaced it.

    The BEST thing was that he was so sure that he was in the right and I was an ass that he proceeded to tell everyone about it. After that nobody would loan him anything and also almost nobody wanted to borrow my knife from me.

    I usually carry a Kershaw assisted opening pocket knife these days. They are all tool and not a lot of weapon. I have a license to carry a concealed handgun now so the chances of me needing to get in a knife fight are very low.

    Around home there is no need. Small towns are seldom places that offer a threat but if I go to Houston I have a handgun on me along with a buck knife. Never have had need of it but having it makes sure that if I need it I've got it. My wife usually has her Taurus 38 in her purse too loaded with my 125 grain +P+ reloads. Reloading with a fast burning powder makes the short barrel a little less of a factor as far as power.

    I like that Taurus a lot. It is all steel framed and strong. The ejector rod is shielded so if I decide to go up side your head with it there won't be any damage to it. There are lighter snubbies out there but they won't handle hard use and strong reloads well at all.
     
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  33. lonewolf

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    a knife to a British prepper is not a weapon its a TOOL and used as such.
    I'm of that generation that always had a pocket knife, it was and still is used for a lot of jobs but it is NEVER used to stab people with, getting up and personal like that post SHTF means one has run out of options.
     
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  34. Max rigger

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    I've had an Opinel of one size or another all through my army days and outdoor days, one of them and a Mora and your sorted plus both are incredible value for money. Add a couple of Gransfors Brucks axes and thats all your blade needs covered.

    That said, for me knives are like tents...I just seem to accumulate them. I was a good boy this year and kept off all the online new year sales because after a couple of late night single malts I'll see a tent or jacket or knife or stove...and buy it or all of them :(

    Off topic I did succumb to a Microsoft i7 1TB Surface Pro 8 to take to work (thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it) to replace my Pro 7 which my lad 'borrowed' on his last visit to Spain and its a fantastic bit of kit. I'll attach a clip to store my fighting knife ;)
     
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  35. lonewolf

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    knives to a prepper are an obsession!!!
     
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  36. Old Geezer

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    Knives are PROFOUNDLY necessary and useful. Fire and cutting tools are the very stuff of human evolution.

    No true prepper is prepared unless they are proficient in their use.

    Same with firearms. Firearms provide food and disable "humans" who wish to redistribute the preppers supplies to themselves and other members of their tribe. Your family lives or their brood lives. Survival 101.

    Humans are at the very least as aggressive as wolf packs.

    An unlimited number of examples of humans behaving more aggressively than wolves are available. Wolf packs pale in comparison to human aggression.

    Ok, so firearms are superior to sharp pieces of metal, nevertheless for millennia, swords and knives protected the civilized from the inferior uncivilized.


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  37. lonewolf

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    Humans lived for many thousands of years without firearms, they are a fairly modern invention.
    cutting tools were firstly flint then later bronze and iron.
    weapons were first spears and later bows and arrows.
     
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    Even inferiors are able to use firearms; thus, true humans are put-upon to use firearms (centuries-old technology) for their survival against less-evolved "humans".
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    "At least 3 people were killed and 5 seriously injured in a knife attack in Wuerzburg, southern Germany. The prime accused has been identified as a 24-year-old Somali immigrant. German news outlets reported that the suspect attacked people in the city-centre with a knife. A video circulating online also showed passers-by trying to stop the suspect using chairs."
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  40. lonewolf

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    depends on the firearms in question, simple ones yes but some modern firearms are complicated.
    a shotgun will do most things and is simple to use.
    if I had a firearm I'd like one of those pump action shotguns but I'm fairly sure they are not legal over here.
     
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  41. Max rigger

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    I met a couple of 'bushcrafters' who had fantastic knives but would never dream of using them, not even whittle a twig with some of them...look but don't touch.

    You can own a pump action in the UK LW but I think they are limited to two cartridges and one in the chamber if you hold a shotgun license but IIRC more if you have a full firearms certificate. You can own a .50 cal sniper rifle with a full FAC in the UK.
     
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    just looked it up, yes they are legal but only with 3 cartridges, there was a move to ban them last year after the shooting in Plymouth but it hasnt happened yet.
     
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    I had intended to get an FAC this year but Spain will stop that, don't have enough time to qualify at a range. Lot more firearms held in Spain so I'll look into that more but I doubt I'll have time this year other than shooting at clubs as a guest. There are over half a dozen clubs in Alicante and that includes handguns and tactical firearms clubs but again I don't have enough hours in the day at the moment.

    Stay healthy you lot
     
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