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Somehow I suspect your hip-fire would still be more accurate than the rapid fire from the shoulder the guy was doing with a short-barrel AK when I was there. Safer too.
 
My son and I and some friends all bought some of these M92 AK pistols right after they first came in and were under $400. I got one of the original "recoil booster" muzzle devices to put on mine, but it really doesn't make it any quieter. We were out at the shooting range one night and stayed until after dark. Here's a picture of the muzzle blast :eek:


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This was just some ordinary Tulammo, nothing special...
 
Dang! I thought that was a flame thrower! I love flame throwers...I dont know why? Maybe i should have my testosterone checked of something. Thats what my wife tells me. :D
I always said! If its up you can shoot it down and if its down you can blow it up. They just dont get it? I really am a peaceful man:rolleyes:
 
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Dang! I thought that was a flame thrower! I love flame throwers...I dont know why? Maybe i should have my testosterone checked of something. Thats what my wife tells me. :D
I always said! If its up you can shoot it down and if its down you can blow it up. They just dont get it? I really am a peaceful man:rolleyes:
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Spoken like a true Texan. Kukris, guns, and flamethrowers, it's a beautiful thing.
 
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Spoken like a true Texan. Kukris, guns, and flamethrowers, it's a beautiful thing.
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yeh, too bad the sheeple won't allow y'all to actually own a bowie, or any other knife with a blade over 5.5". jim must be rolling in his grave, wherever that is...
 
good. i hope y'all get it changed. meanwhile in the over 5.5 in. category, i've acquired this from tblisi, georgia (the ex-russian one, not our usa one) 30in. blade. not sure how old, might even be recent.

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it's a khevsurian pranguli.
Total length is 86.5 cm (34 inches)
Total weight is about 1115 gram (39.3 ounce), blade - 707 gram (24.9 ounce).

see also [video]http://www.gfmstudio.com/productions/lostcrusaders[/video]

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I'm personally thinking of finally getting into the well-above 5.5 inches category. I want to get a good one-handed Messer with the more Bowie-like blade. Unfortunately Messers are hard to find because they're not popular weapons among those who do sword stuff these days.
 
I had a chance to post an absentee bid on this lot of "Chinese archaistic bronze swords" at an auction gallery preview today. The auction house has an estimate of $500-$700. I handled one of them (the second from the top in the photo) and it felt good in the hand, and very solid. The blades were all very beautiful and highly polished. They had real edges, but not very sharp. The longest was listed at 26.5". The bidding will be tomorrow, but I won't be there.

I decided to pass on this lot because I don't know enough to tell real from fake, and I don't know how a swordmaker would get those fantastic patterns on a bronze blade. Also, there would be no question of using these blades for anything except to admire their beauty. Based on sheer looks alone it probably would be a good deal at the $500 low end of the auctioneer's estimate.

Does anybody know enough to venture an educated guess about these blades? If nothing else, I'd like to know how those geometric patterns are applied to the blades.

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anything chinese is likely to be recent, it's illegal for chinese to export real antiques without a permit. i'd suspect the patterns are painted on with chemicals to colour the bronze at best, or maybe just painted in epoxy, acrylic or oil based. real antiques in this condition would have another zero added to that price. the light green patina looks suspiciously chemical. other than that, as an art object they are cool and bronze is under rated as a weapon material, it can be work hardened by hammering & sharpened to a good edge, romans used bronze razors to shave with. it was better than most iron swords for a long time until they figured out how to make & heat treat proper HC steel.

all in all, if you can afford it, like it and are happy with it as an art object, go for it. as in all art it's value is in the eye of the beholder and what people are willing to pay for it. just like in japanese samurai swords who are basicly a bit of wood, cloth, rayskin, and HC steel made from poor japanese ores mixed by hammer forging layers into something better, and accidentally producing an artistic result...or like my sword just above which if really old i would have expected another zero on the price, which i would not have been able to afford. the main difference is that the khevsurli were actually in a time warp and were still going to war with chain mail armour and swords/spears well into the 20th c. and were still making them for actual use at least until the 1930's when stalin finally broke them, with a few still being made for the significantly reduced population up to today, while the chinese make them as art objects for display and not intended for any real use.

would i buy one? yes. but not at that price unless i could afford it & didn't need it for something else.
 
Last time I went to Eric's shop to pick another rehandling job. I saw one of his hunting knife that I really liked. I asked him to make a bigger badder one for me.
I also noticed a uber cute oyster knife that I couldn't resist having one made.

The result was not disappointing. Here they are:

Hunting Knife: Stainless blade, OAL 11.25, Spine .25, brass bolster/guard
Oyster Knife: Stainless blade, OAL 6.5, Spine .1, bass bolster/guard

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really cool oyster knife. you could really ruin an isis/isil/daesh oyster's day with that. can you shave with it?
 
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really cool oyster knife. you could really ruin an isis/isil/daesh oyster's day with that. can you shave with it?
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:) The hunter is shaving sharp, the Oysterer is not. Couples of years ago I got another Oyster knife from a very nice knife maker here on bladeforums
(Older knife - small handle, wide tip, difficult with smaller/b!tch to open Canadian oysters)
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Our local oysters in Canada are tough to open. First you need to get in, then tork them open. Aparently the above design works very well for the oysters available close to the knife maker but gives us a hard time. Eric's made a fat handle providing a very good grip to twist/tork and more pointy tip to ease the insertion. It doesn't have a sharp edge (for safety reason) but the tip is sharp enough to cut/separate the muscle from the shell.
 
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I love your hunter. Great design even for the largest of game yet the belly to work with smaller game and fowl. It reminds me a bit of a Puma Whitehunter but better. The file work kicks it over the top.I love your oyster knives as well. I order mine on the half shell. No matter how much I practice, the oyster always wins.
 
I spent my summers floating around the Canadian West Coast. I was always amazed because generally smaller oysters are much better, but in some areas in the Desolation Sound (think Prideaux Haven area) there were oysters as big around as a plate that still had that wonderful tender/salty/clean flavor. For those the second of Snow's oyster knives would have been perfect. But I know what he means about the wide flat shape of his new one being optimal for the majority there.

Some beautiful functional art in both those new ones.
 
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