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Alot of great points made here and no one ever knows what they are capable of
Training and muscle memory are the much over used words in describeing the solution. There is a reason these words are used and that is because they are the absoloute truth.
They say that you have to repeat an action 2500 times to commit it to muscle memory. That is why some people always carry the same thing in the same place and draw over and over again so hopefully when in a time of distress things work to a some what better conclusion.
Kevin my dear friend I want to lay out a scenario and tell me if in this situation you would do the same. This is all just for fun so please play along.
Among many things I am a realtor and I do alot of work for the banks selling and doing walk thru's of large old bank owned propertys in an economicaly beaten up town in NJ.
Sometimes when I enter these building I hear rats and sometimes vagrants exiting these building and so forth. Can stoves and other goodies left here and there are sometimes present
Say ya get a phone call from Pittsburg and they say Joe buddy please go down to this building open it up the electric co needs access. Alot of these buildings have no electric and my Surefire and I go for a walk thru basements looking for breaker boards and such. Now say on this particular day ya got your brand new shiney Jason Knight Fighting Bowie or your old faithful Bagwell lying on your seat or in a case stuck somewhere. Remember for me to have a loaded gun anywhere near me while I am in this state is against the law. I will go to jail if I am found with said hand gun. Would you not take your nice friend with ya you know the knife ya camped and backpacked with the knife ya slept with in strange cities and tents. Hell the things like a pacifier.
So ya stick old faithful in your belt behind your hip where every knife ya ever carry goes and ya throw your sport coat on and ya walk on down the hall. Well behind door # 3 theres 3 tweakers that instead of scurrying away look at your hand and see a ring . Not just any ring your fathers fathers ring. Well they can't have that ring they can have my money but they can't have that ring. This is the moment that ya hope that all the stupid practice the drawing of the blade the working on cuts and sparring ya hope all pans out and my ring and I go home to my kids so someday one of them can wear that ring. Imagine if one of my kids where with me which would not happen because I would not take them into that situation but my point is some situations they dont just want your money they want something ya just can't give be it a stupid ring or one of your children. In that situation would you not be glad ya had snazy Combat Bowie with ya or would ya have left it in the car ?
While my Bowie is sleeping in its cape buffalo case while riding in my car I am not breaking the law like I am if I have a loaded firearm.
So I respectfully disagree that there is not a want or need for proper fighting Bowies. In this situation I think its about perfect. I know if I hit a man in the side of the head with a knife thats got the right amount of weight I am gonna stop them in there tracks and deal with tweaker 2 and if I get thru him I am almost home.
To me this tool is alot better tool than a 3 to 5 inch knife that I have to roll around with three guys with box cutters playing slice and dice and people looked at me strangely when I carried around a baseball bat
Training and muscle memory are the much over used words in describeing the solution. There is a reason these words are used and that is because they are the absoloute truth.
They say that you have to repeat an action 2500 times to commit it to muscle memory. That is why some people always carry the same thing in the same place and draw over and over again so hopefully when in a time of distress things work to a some what better conclusion.
Kevin my dear friend I want to lay out a scenario and tell me if in this situation you would do the same. This is all just for fun so please play along.
Among many things I am a realtor and I do alot of work for the banks selling and doing walk thru's of large old bank owned propertys in an economicaly beaten up town in NJ.
Sometimes when I enter these building I hear rats and sometimes vagrants exiting these building and so forth. Can stoves and other goodies left here and there are sometimes present
Say ya get a phone call from Pittsburg and they say Joe buddy please go down to this building open it up the electric co needs access. Alot of these buildings have no electric and my Surefire and I go for a walk thru basements looking for breaker boards and such. Now say on this particular day ya got your brand new shiney Jason Knight Fighting Bowie or your old faithful Bagwell lying on your seat or in a case stuck somewhere. Remember for me to have a loaded gun anywhere near me while I am in this state is against the law. I will go to jail if I am found with said hand gun. Would you not take your nice friend with ya you know the knife ya camped and backpacked with the knife ya slept with in strange cities and tents. Hell the things like a pacifier.
So ya stick old faithful in your belt behind your hip where every knife ya ever carry goes and ya throw your sport coat on and ya walk on down the hall. Well behind door # 3 theres 3 tweakers that instead of scurrying away look at your hand and see a ring . Not just any ring your fathers fathers ring. Well they can't have that ring they can have my money but they can't have that ring. This is the moment that ya hope that all the stupid practice the drawing of the blade the working on cuts and sparring ya hope all pans out and my ring and I go home to my kids so someday one of them can wear that ring. Imagine if one of my kids where with me which would not happen because I would not take them into that situation but my point is some situations they dont just want your money they want something ya just can't give be it a stupid ring or one of your children. In that situation would you not be glad ya had snazy Combat Bowie with ya or would ya have left it in the car ?
While my Bowie is sleeping in its cape buffalo case while riding in my car I am not breaking the law like I am if I have a loaded firearm.
So I respectfully disagree that there is not a want or need for proper fighting Bowies. In this situation I think its about perfect. I know if I hit a man in the side of the head with a knife thats got the right amount of weight I am gonna stop them in there tracks and deal with tweaker 2 and if I get thru him I am almost home.
To me this tool is alot better tool than a 3 to 5 inch knife that I have to roll around with three guys with box cutters playing slice and dice and people looked at me strangely when I carried around a baseball bat
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