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Ernestrome: that is an excellent source of information!
Mine was the slap jack, probably a junior or the smaller one. You want to round the edges around the lead or carrying it in your pocket the lead will soon eat through the leather.
Dan Joseph (my slap jack and nigh stick instructor) showed me how using one of those oversize basket balls filled with sand that we would play catch with in Gym. as a target. It did not take much of a hit to the back of the head (side - behind the ear) and it was lights out!!
He asked me if I wanted a demonstration and I said yes,---woke up laying on the floor with a very discrete bruise behind my ear.
Proper use was much more humane than the Mag Lights or night sticks and very subtle when folks were watching.
I also carried an iron claw for a while - very useful restraint device! But you had to keep it lightly oiled or it could lock up, it was also too obvious if you were not careful.
During the Viet Nam war protesters would simply sit on the ground blocking roads etc. and officers had to carry them to the patrol cars, they broke sweats and wore them selves out. With my Iron Claw I helped many protesters to the waiting patrol cars and never broke a sweat. It would only leave two tiny bruises and never was mentioned in court.
Mine was the slap jack, probably a junior or the smaller one. You want to round the edges around the lead or carrying it in your pocket the lead will soon eat through the leather.
Dan Joseph (my slap jack and nigh stick instructor) showed me how using one of those oversize basket balls filled with sand that we would play catch with in Gym. as a target. It did not take much of a hit to the back of the head (side - behind the ear) and it was lights out!!
He asked me if I wanted a demonstration and I said yes,---woke up laying on the floor with a very discrete bruise behind my ear.
Proper use was much more humane than the Mag Lights or night sticks and very subtle when folks were watching.
I also carried an iron claw for a while - very useful restraint device! But you had to keep it lightly oiled or it could lock up, it was also too obvious if you were not careful.
During the Viet Nam war protesters would simply sit on the ground blocking roads etc. and officers had to carry them to the patrol cars, they broke sweats and wore them selves out. With my Iron Claw I helped many protesters to the waiting patrol cars and never broke a sweat. It would only leave two tiny bruises and never was mentioned in court.
We openly sell guns on the roadside and are allowed to carry in the open without a permit...We can carry automatics and throwing stars if we want too