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I keep a Kershaw Blur on my night table and a Hi-Point 9MM Carbine by my bedside.
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There is a CS carbon IV kukri on my EDC shelf with my police model spyderco. In my dresser is usually a springfield .45 or a glock and a Randall #1. The best coverage we have are our 3 wolf dogs which aren't going to let anything harm their meal tickets. Country living 400 feet off the road is nice too.
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Between mah teef!! Yarrrrgh
I have blades all over the place. None of them are for any tactical reason. I simply have amassed hundreds over the years and just stuffed them willy nilly wherever. Most of my big blades are in a trunk in my garage or in my truck. I also have a few propped in the corner of my bedroom.
I have SAKs and multi-tools and pocket knives off all varieties spread through the house. It's a lot easier to get the SAK out of the kitchen junk drawer or off the coffee table to turn a screw than it is to dig through my dresser drawers or go out into the garage. I'll have to secure these things a little more once our little one comes along and starts becoming more mobile.
As far as bump in the night blades go, for years I have relied on my very plain jane Cherokee Rose. I feel pretty good investigating any noises with 20" of hungry steel and wood. However, this is generally buffered by a Glock loaded with hollow points
Any smashing or obvious prying, I'm going to the gun cabinet and loading Chief up. Chief is my old 870P loaded with 00 buck and slugs. When I'm out of town (rarely if never), my wife has her dad's old .38 special loaded up and Chief gets left bedside corner.
In short, it could be a very bad day for a bad guy to break in. A crap shoot really. Just on my side of the street the houses go: Sheriff's Deputy, older couple that are never home (traveling), khukuri wielding nut-job (moi), and single pregnant lady with a bat....unless her 6'5" personal trainer boyfriend is staying over
I have blades all over the place. None of them are for any tactical reason. I simply have amassed hundreds over the years and just stuffed them willy nilly wherever. Most of my big blades are in a trunk in my garage or in my truck. I also have a few propped in the corner of my bedroom.
I have SAKs and multi-tools and pocket knives off all varieties spread through the house. It's a lot easier to get the SAK out of the kitchen junk drawer or off the coffee table to turn a screw than it is to dig through my dresser drawers or go out into the garage. I'll have to secure these things a little more once our little one comes along and starts becoming more mobile.
As far as bump in the night blades go, for years I have relied on my very plain jane Cherokee Rose. I feel pretty good investigating any noises with 20" of hungry steel and wood. However, this is generally buffered by a Glock loaded with hollow points
Any smashing or obvious prying, I'm going to the gun cabinet and loading Chief up. Chief is my old 870P loaded with 00 buck and slugs. When I'm out of town (rarely if never), my wife has her dad's old .38 special loaded up and Chief gets left bedside corner. In short, it could be a very bad day for a bad guy to break in. A crap shoot really. Just on my side of the street the houses go: Sheriff's Deputy, older couple that are never home (traveling), khukuri wielding nut-job (moi), and single pregnant lady with a bat....unless her 6'5" personal trainer boyfriend is staying over
gunknifenut put it best. I had a HUGE dude try to pull me out of my car by my throat at an intersection once. A Ruger .357 muzzle to the upper lip convinced him to stop trying to crush my throat. My dad and I were also the would-be victims of an armed carjacking, problem was, the bad guys didn't know I was there, and that I was packing, until it was too late. When they saw me pointing my Makarov at them, they appeared to not know whether to sh*t or go blind. Sure am glad they preferred running to shooting.
I don't have any desire to get in a gun fight, of to have to shoot anyone.
I've been stabbed once, and shot at 3 times. Getting stabbed is NOT fun. Getting shot at is NOT fun. Getting the snot beat out of you for no reason is NOT fun. I have no illusions about the safety of the world. When I was in tech school, one of the faculty members shot and killed another and then himself, just because she broke up with him.
I carry because it's my right, and because I have no plans of being a dead victim. Plus, I'm responsible for the safety of my wife and children.
BTW tasers are as usless as ta-tas on a mule. A friend of mine has one and I've let him shoot me with it, and let him use it like a regular stun gun on my, just to prove to him what a piece of junk they are. I used to shock my self with the most powerful stun guns the dealers had at gun shows. Some of them tingle. Some of them hurt. None of them would stop me If I were hell-bent on doing someone harm (not likely, I'm really laid back), therefore, I wouldn't trust them to protect me or my loved ones from someone who wants to do us harm.
You're better off with the most powerful cattle prod available than with a taser or stun gun. I've hit myself with them and they're MUCH MORE disruptive than tasers/stun guns.
I don't have any desire to get in a gun fight, of to have to shoot anyone.
I've been stabbed once, and shot at 3 times. Getting stabbed is NOT fun. Getting shot at is NOT fun. Getting the snot beat out of you for no reason is NOT fun. I have no illusions about the safety of the world. When I was in tech school, one of the faculty members shot and killed another and then himself, just because she broke up with him.
I carry because it's my right, and because I have no plans of being a dead victim. Plus, I'm responsible for the safety of my wife and children.
BTW tasers are as usless as ta-tas on a mule. A friend of mine has one and I've let him shoot me with it, and let him use it like a regular stun gun on my, just to prove to him what a piece of junk they are. I used to shock my self with the most powerful stun guns the dealers had at gun shows. Some of them tingle. Some of them hurt. None of them would stop me If I were hell-bent on doing someone harm (not likely, I'm really laid back), therefore, I wouldn't trust them to protect me or my loved ones from someone who wants to do us harm.
You're better off with the most powerful cattle prod available than with a taser or stun gun. I've hit myself with them and they're MUCH MORE disruptive than tasers/stun guns.
HOLLY COW! Does trouble seem to follow you wherever you go? Your life is like an action movie! It must have taken a mountain of self control not to blow a hole through the carjacers (both times).
And then you get just tickled by tasers while the cops bring down 350 lbs linebackers with them. It didn't sound like it, but could it be that you experienced a less powerfull one, like the common 6watt version as opposed to the recently introduced consumer-oriented 26watt (mine is the discontinued 18watt version).
Stay safe and keep packing (i have very fond memories of shooting Macarovs back in the day, perfect EDC guns)
Alex
P.S. I should buy a cattle-prod for EDC (just kidding). It does make me feel bad about the poor doomed cows though, like they don't go through enough. (I say as I am munching on a beef taco and chile relleno, nom, nom, nom...)
Let me preface this with a couple of facts. I am NOT a superman nor a bad*ss. I also do NOT look for trouble.
Well, I went to tech school in a bad part of town because it was the only one at the time that offered the A&P program in my area. I think I've had some bad luck about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I've always tried to avoid trouble because I don't enjoy fighting. Don't think I'd enjoy jail, either. I mind my own business and that's usually enough, but sometimes not.
The taser was the newer version, it was bought brand new, late last year. I probably have a high internal electrical resistance. In tech school, we'd wrap a cord around the drive shaft of recip engine magnetos and each of us would grab a lead. Then we'd get someone to yank the cord. I was the only one who could hold on and not let go. I didn't see the big deal. 115V tickles. 220V is a little uncomfortable. I got hit by one leg of a 440V 3 phase circuit last year on the job and it felt like I got jabbed in the finger. My customer was scared witless. He thought I was going to be fried. Funny thing, the shock made me mad, but that's all.
The cattle prod caused some good, involuntary twitching of the muscles. I was impressed with it. You have to make sure you get the most powerful version, though. They come in red, blue, and green. IIRC, green is the most powerful. You can feel a definite difference between them.
I'm sure the nice folks at Tractor Supply don't appreciate me playing with their cattle prods in store.
Now, the early Distributorless Ignition Systems would knock yer socks off. There were some mechanics killed by them back in the early '90s. I remember reading industry newsletters stating cases of that and warning mechanics of the dangers. I don't grab those while they're running. Then again, I don't grab regular ignition leads, unless I'm sure they're not firing. And I would NEVER willingly get shocked by a turbine engine ignitor. They're really hot.
I just wouldn't want anyone here to have a false sense of security with a taser. Not everyone is affected the same way by electricity. The only way you can reliably stop someone with electricity is to run enough amperage (.1 amp or more, enough to stop the human heart) across their heart, pushed by enough voltage to overcome the maximum possible human internal electrical resistance. Problem with that is that it will kill them, so no one makes a taser or stun gun with that kind of power. That would be a deadly weapon. Kinda defeats the purpose of non lethal self defense.
Personally, I'd rather take 100 taser hits than to get sprayed with 10% OC spray. I like hot sauce, but not THAT hot.
Even the OC is ineffective if someone's on narcotics. After my elbow surgeries, I was prescribed Vicodin for post-op pain. About 1/2 hour after taking my Vicodin, I could drink Tabasco sauce and Habanero sauce straight from the bottle and not feel ANY heat. I did that just to mess with my wife. Can't do that normally.
Well, I went to tech school in a bad part of town because it was the only one at the time that offered the A&P program in my area. I think I've had some bad luck about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I've always tried to avoid trouble because I don't enjoy fighting. Don't think I'd enjoy jail, either. I mind my own business and that's usually enough, but sometimes not.
The taser was the newer version, it was bought brand new, late last year. I probably have a high internal electrical resistance. In tech school, we'd wrap a cord around the drive shaft of recip engine magnetos and each of us would grab a lead. Then we'd get someone to yank the cord. I was the only one who could hold on and not let go. I didn't see the big deal. 115V tickles. 220V is a little uncomfortable. I got hit by one leg of a 440V 3 phase circuit last year on the job and it felt like I got jabbed in the finger. My customer was scared witless. He thought I was going to be fried. Funny thing, the shock made me mad, but that's all.
The cattle prod caused some good, involuntary twitching of the muscles. I was impressed with it. You have to make sure you get the most powerful version, though. They come in red, blue, and green. IIRC, green is the most powerful. You can feel a definite difference between them.
I'm sure the nice folks at Tractor Supply don't appreciate me playing with their cattle prods in store.
Now, the early Distributorless Ignition Systems would knock yer socks off. There were some mechanics killed by them back in the early '90s. I remember reading industry newsletters stating cases of that and warning mechanics of the dangers. I don't grab those while they're running. Then again, I don't grab regular ignition leads, unless I'm sure they're not firing. And I would NEVER willingly get shocked by a turbine engine ignitor. They're really hot.
I just wouldn't want anyone here to have a false sense of security with a taser. Not everyone is affected the same way by electricity. The only way you can reliably stop someone with electricity is to run enough amperage (.1 amp or more, enough to stop the human heart) across their heart, pushed by enough voltage to overcome the maximum possible human internal electrical resistance. Problem with that is that it will kill them, so no one makes a taser or stun gun with that kind of power. That would be a deadly weapon. Kinda defeats the purpose of non lethal self defense.
Personally, I'd rather take 100 taser hits than to get sprayed with 10% OC spray. I like hot sauce, but not THAT hot.
Even the OC is ineffective if someone's on narcotics. After my elbow surgeries, I was prescribed Vicodin for post-op pain. About 1/2 hour after taking my Vicodin, I could drink Tabasco sauce and Habanero sauce straight from the bottle and not feel ANY heat. I did that just to mess with my wife. Can't do that normally.
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whatever knives and or weapons are in my house they are not really there for defense. I will know your here in my yard before you know how your getting in. IF you get in (i don't think you will) I'll be waiting in the dark and you will never know what smashed your throat or took your eyes.
And I, for one, would NOT want to mess with a lady who hikes around Nepal carrying an Ang Khola Bowie. She's sweet, but I bet she's lethal.
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YEA I hear u guys.Me too.At 6' 3" 250 lbs.There r still alotta of krazy idiots out there who will stop at nothing to take what u have or ur life.Yes I've been mugged,jumped and all that.Grew up in NYC. It wasn't too bad but the little crap that happens is what u remember most because it so hard to believe mans inhumanity to man. How can this happen. Hi 18 ang kola in a bag at the nite table,CS spetsnaz shovel to keep it company. CS sword cane in the closet downstairs. Maglite 4 d-cell in the living room entertainment center.Surefiresin my go bag And so on.Wife thinks I'm krazy ofcoarse. But i refuse to be a victim again....I had a SPINGFIELD .45 AND S&W .357 BUT had to sell for emergeny cash in DEC 2008 when i got laidoff.Boy do i miss those things. Oh well, life goes on and so will all the BS AROUND THE WORLD....
When I called Auntie Friday to discuss my order, she told me how much she likes the AK Bowie, that she carried one while hiking on her last trip to Nepal.
She seems to think very highly of the design. I already knew that I will be needing one. Now it's on my very short list.
Sure would hate to be the criminal who mistakes her for a victim. Can you say,"sing soprano"?
She seems to think very highly of the design. I already knew that I will be needing one. Now it's on my very short list.
Sure would hate to be the criminal who mistakes her for a victim. Can you say,"sing soprano"?
I may be part Nepali, but my only khukuri (a 15" jungle khukuri) is stashed away--it has my grandma's last name engraved on it.
Right behind my bed I have a high carbon steel 4-foot long Northern Thai darb that was built and blessed by a renowned Thai bladesmith, a Bark River golok with rosewood slabs and a 18" bladed Visayan bolo with a seriously sharp point. To my left--a razor sharp tumbuk lada from West Java and a kris bladed balisong from Batangas. I also have a blackjack next to the tumbuk lada, and a Surefire 6P Defender and a cheap (but utterly reliable) Ultrafire 504, both with great LED bulbs. I have a small Japanese neck knife on, and a Javanese pisau (absolutely hair popping sharp) under my pillow. I also have a heavy Visayan bolo to the right of my bed, a Minangkabau keris and several goloks of different sizes (all from West Java and all razor sharp), an 18" wood billy club I've had since I was 15, four arnis sticks (two rattan and two kamagong) and two PR-24s.
I don't really have much space, so I squeeze in new toys where I can.
I've also had a few life experiences that have made me a little distrustful of those around me. at 7, I was stopped by three teenaged boys on the streets, and the one in the middle pulled a knife on me. I ran for my life. At 8, I was cowering and praying for my life under a bed as a man with an AK entered my aunt's home after someone got killed outside...I'll leave out some of the juicier stuff from my teen years and 20s.
My dad's been robbed for his inventory and tied up at knife point twice by armed gangs, and my best bud from elementary school got robbed by a gang armed with machetes in Ghana last year. I told him he needed a piece, but he didn't agree with me until he got robbed and saw one of his employees get chopped in front of him. He left Ghana ASAP.
I wish I could own guns here, but I do what I can with my blades and impact weapons.
Right behind my bed I have a high carbon steel 4-foot long Northern Thai darb that was built and blessed by a renowned Thai bladesmith, a Bark River golok with rosewood slabs and a 18" bladed Visayan bolo with a seriously sharp point. To my left--a razor sharp tumbuk lada from West Java and a kris bladed balisong from Batangas. I also have a blackjack next to the tumbuk lada, and a Surefire 6P Defender and a cheap (but utterly reliable) Ultrafire 504, both with great LED bulbs. I have a small Japanese neck knife on, and a Javanese pisau (absolutely hair popping sharp) under my pillow. I also have a heavy Visayan bolo to the right of my bed, a Minangkabau keris and several goloks of different sizes (all from West Java and all razor sharp), an 18" wood billy club I've had since I was 15, four arnis sticks (two rattan and two kamagong) and two PR-24s.
I don't really have much space, so I squeeze in new toys where I can.
I've also had a few life experiences that have made me a little distrustful of those around me. at 7, I was stopped by three teenaged boys on the streets, and the one in the middle pulled a knife on me. I ran for my life. At 8, I was cowering and praying for my life under a bed as a man with an AK entered my aunt's home after someone got killed outside...I'll leave out some of the juicier stuff from my teen years and 20s. My dad's been robbed for his inventory and tied up at knife point twice by armed gangs, and my best bud from elementary school got robbed by a gang armed with machetes in Ghana last year. I told him he needed a piece, but he didn't agree with me until he got robbed and saw one of his employees get chopped in front of him. He left Ghana ASAP.
I wish I could own guns here, but I do what I can with my blades and impact weapons.
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