OK guys you did it.
I got this guest from JW Bensinger here at my house for a while now.
I didn't want to show it until I finish a review but can't hold it back anymore.
Hands down my best fighter but why and more details later
Very nice!
OK guys you did it.
I got this guest from JW Bensinger here at my house for a while now.
I didn't want to show it until I finish a review but can't hold it back anymore.
Hands down my best fighter but why and more details later
i was an engineer officer, we had deckies to tie knots if we needed them, had a deck officer show me how to macrame belts out of small stuff. that was during hippy times when they were popular. of course, not all deckies were qualified knotists. they did have their uses tho.
For the record we pointed and deckies did, unless what we pointed was totally stupid which happened at times but since we were messing with boats and the Navy, they wanted us able to handle things just in case...it was a waste of taxpayer money in my case on the knot school...at least, past anything i ever actually needed.....any cub scout would smoke me like a cheap cigar...
I hate to open the legal can of worms, as although there are quite a few folk who live in "liberal" major metro cities and states where there are horror stories of unjust prosecution by DAs, the simple fact is that the vast majority of Americans do not live in such a situation and most internet wrangling is armchair theorizing from folk who read too much and then "project"....
HOWEVER, since this is not the bad old days when you could kill without compunction and snuff a life like a candle even because duty calls, there are things to think about as to what makes a good real world fighting knife which one might actually use in a life or death one-in-millions emergency...
And it boils down to simple terms...if anyone uses a blade which obviously was designed as a specialized weapon strictly with design features of only offense and defense, and totally useless for most any other task in the minds of urban and suburban Americans, they are going to have a lot of tall explaining to do and so very easy for that person to be described as a "Taxi Driver" waiting to happen....
these are the folk who seem to think they will be able to use their battle axe or black knife with white stenciled skulls and spiked pommels and guard which shoot out razor blades and an oil slick, and not have law enforcement give them a good hard look.
Such folk might wish to give a second thought to such tactics and if in training for mortal combat, to train with less flashy tools and more with more "normal" knives , avoiding plans of using the old scimitar or broadsword and go more the direction of things excusable as machetes, hunting and fishing and kitchen knives, garden implements and etc....obvious Rambo gear with double edges, double guards, sawteeth as in my beloved #18, and smashing pommels might want to be given a second thought as to is this really what one wants impounded and examined by a grand jury as a "self defense" weapon even as those planning on opening up full auto on a housebreaker....
Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.....as a civilian pretty much, today i tote things such as the Randall 5-6 "Camp and Trail" or 10-5 "Salt Fisherman and Household Utility" or a Dozier hunting knife for a reason...even though legal in this state, the squashed frog is essentially a riggers knife complete with marlin spike...and the universal tool khukuri....
...they have reasons for being around besides making piles of bodies out of a Conan novel...
Add more mundane blades to the training and carry list....southern style duels to the death where cutting commences at the slightest insult are pretty much gone....plan accordingly and carry a good fighting knife for the purpose....and the times.
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Just mine own thoughts and suggestions....based on a very simple observation....what sword or axe killing (or anything possibly described as such by ill informed or ill educated sheriffs or spokesmen) does NOT make national headlines....and then what happens to a fair trial as various people and groups decide to get some publicity out of the event......THE END.
Top knife is quite attractive Kronckew. Blade reminds me of an American M3 Fighting Knife, though more attractive.
Moonw, I thought people would enjoy that little story. From what I know, just about all blades are legal in Utah. And take a look at On Killing by David Grossman. It's about the psychological effects of killing, and has a section on knife killing. It focuses on military and police, but it's quite interesting and broadly applicable.
Grab = grave (or as a verb grab it means asking somebody to dig)the others in the photo are a bundeswehr fighting knife (ww1) top, utility knife (middle - was current issue in the '70's) aka grabendolch - grave daggers.
Grab = grave (or as a verb grab it means asking somebody to dig)
Graben = trench, ditch (or as a verb simply digging)
Dolch = dagger
Grabendolch I'm certain is a trench dagger.
A grave dagger would be Grabdolch and thats nothing I ever heard of. In fact even if that word should exist when hearing that in German it sounds more like a dagger for digging than a grave dagger.
Trench dagger is the best translation in my opinion.
What is a fighting knife and makes one good is that it is the knife you happen to have with you when the fight breaks out...