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I am learning a lot here about the Khukuris. Guns I know. I grew up and started shooting a 1911 about age 5. Carried same in the Army as a Drug Suppresion Officer. After leaving the green machine I used the Glock 21 and really liked it. Now I carry a .44 Mag with hard cast 330 grain flat nosed bullets loaded to 1350 feet per second. This not only takes care of the two legged preditors but is supposed to penetrate to the hip line on frontal shots at Grizzlies. Hey if they want to play I want them to pay dearly for any damage to my hide. Having growen up in Arkansas and on occasion had to take out Razorbacks with .22 Shorts I learned to go for the spine. A friend was shipping out to Viet Nam and had a custom "Big" Bowie made as he was a minister and later became known as the Tunnel Rats Chaplin. He let me try it out on a big hog that ate all our fish we were to have for supper so instead of fish we had pork. Really chewy pork at that. Proper tools for the job at hand make it much easier be it knife or gun. I for one like the large version of both.

Rocky
 
Just remember, if you ever actually attempt to stop a grizzly with a .44 mag, make sure to save the last round for yourself. :eek:
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
I don't think my antique .38 is going to get the job done the way I want.
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Bro you have talked about your antique .38 for so long now I hadn't given it much thought.
Mayhaps none of the rest of us have thought of it either...........
Just now it hit me and now I'm wondering just how antique is the ammo you have for it?:eek:
If the ammo is as antique as the .38 it would be my advice to bite the bullet, pun intended ;), and buy some new ammo.
I know that the ammo we've been able to get for some years now will keep for a long time if stored properly, but nothing lasts forever.
You just may accidently need the antique .38 for an emergency sometime and it would be well if the ammo you have in it was friable and potent.:rolleyes:
Can you imagine an intruder just 5 feet away and you squeeze the trigger and all you hear is a mild "click?":eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
That may be the loudest sound you would have heard in your entire life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:o
 
And the Official Police is on the 41 frame like the Python so you needn't worry if the only loads available are the +P ( 10% higher pressure ) kind. Before there was +P ammo there was 38/44 ammo - still the 38 special cartridge, but hot loaded for shooting only in the 44 frame or equivalent. ( The OP is equivalent. )
 
Ammo is about 25 years old but I have confidence in it. I've had good luck with old guns and old ammo.

Last time I shot the gun I was down in Cajun country about 20 years ago. A skunk had been terrorizing me for days and one AM I was ready to leave home and there was the skunk on the porch waiting for me. I was in a hurry and was fed up with the skunk so I got my antique .38, cracked the door open enough to get my hand and gun out, aimed and squeezed off a round. The skunk did a back flip and landed dead. I'd got him right thru the spine just behind the head.

This was just before my first journey to Nepal with the Peace Corps and I was not much of a Buddhist at the time. I don't know what I'd do with that skunk today. He'd have a better chance but I still might shoot him. I'm not a very good Buddhist.

I sound a little like Ghostsix, don't I?
 
I've had a customer since day 1 who is a pretty fundamentalist preacher. He came to us while he was still in college. He's from the hills of Virginia and grew up hunting, fishing, carring knives and guns. And he's a tough guy with God on his side. He told me this story.

He was in a gun shop and had a khukuri on his belt. A couple of guys in the shop were looking at the khukuri and one said, "I'll bet we can take that knife away from you." Our pal drew the khukuri, looked the guy straight in the eye and said, "How much?"

End of conversation and my kind of preacher.

When our pal finished college I tried my best to get him to join the Marines and become a chaplain. The notion of a Marine Chaplain carrying a .45 and a khukuri on his best greatly appealed to me -- but he opted for civilian duty and now ministers to a small flock in PA.

I admit to killing the skunk but I'll bet that's the only skunk in the world who has been prayed for a thousand times.
 
Thanks for sharing that story Uncle. We need more folk like that. People of strong faith, but wise to the ways of the wicked.

Reminds me of the Irish headmaster of my old missionary school, Rev Bro Donahue - a man of strong faith who did not spare the rod when the boys deserved it :D

Andrew Limsk
 
Originally posted by MauiRob
Here's what you need Bowie: ;) :D :D :D

Yangdu Martino, holding the Janawar Katne. IIRC it weighs 8lbs!!!
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I think mine has another pound and a half. It make the 30" sirupati feel like a pocket knife.
 
I think mine has another pound and a half. It make the 30" sirupati feel like a pocket knife
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WOW! Can you even really swing that, or do you just hoist it up and let it FALL on things?:D

Rusty should get one of these for EMERGENCY back alignment therapy:D
 
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