Also, if there’s cheesecake, acccording to the Marine General.Originally Posted by blues
If five were enough, beer wouldn't come in six-packs. (Sometimes the knife is necessary to remove the cap if you don't pour from a can.)
Also, if there’s cheesecake, acccording to the Marine General.If five were enough, beer wouldn't come in six-packs. (Sometimes the knife is necessary to remove the cap if you don't pour from a can.)
I have a somewhat similar story in a European city.
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Not backed up by a knife, but @Chuck Haggard has related a story wherein and older gentleman was followed home by a young doper who attempted to rob him. The 5 RNL's (one of which perforated his genitalia) did not end the fight. He commenced to wailing on the miscreant with the J-frame, to the point that the trigger guard was bent enough to prevent the free movement of the trigger.
"It's surprising how often you start wondering just how featureless a desert some people's inner landscapes must be."
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Absolutely. In Season 2 of "True Detective", Rachel McAdams went Winchester with her SIG 226, checked a fallen detective for spare magazines, and then drew her knife. Fortunately, she was saved by one of her partners. In the real world, I've never heard of such a thing.
I have read of a very few LEO's deploying a blade when they could not access a firearm. An incident where a state trooper was facedown in a stream with a suspect on top of him comes to mind.
As for those posting photos of their snubbies and blades on social media, I suspect many just really like those tools for whatever reason. While I prefer a Glock 19, 17, or 45, some have valid reasons for carrying a snubnose. I suppose at extreme close quarters, a blade would be faster than attempting a reload, but I think those who envision five shots and then blade work would be better served with a different handgun if circumstances do not restrict then to a snubnose.
Years go on Total Protection there was a discussion about pistol whipping that interested me. I wandered over to the property room one day, found a box of guns slated for destruction and started beating them against the steel shelving. Repetitive, full body,ranged blows and jabs into concrete. Chops, thrusts, sideslaps and ridgehand top of the slide.
An old S&W skinny barrel .38 took only a couple of blows to knock open the cylinder and bend the ejection rod, a couple more to collapse the trigger guard and I finally bent the barrel slightly.
A Taurus 92 probably beat a couple of brains out before the aluminum dust cover crunched.
A Glock 17 took it until my arm got tired, apparently none the worse for wear.
The property room guys just shook their heads at yet more evidence of my possible certifiableness.
Apparently, Wyatt Earp perfected "Buffaloing", slapping a drunk unconscious with the side of a 7.5" Colt, into a fine art in Dodge City.
I have a few '90s pistol-whippings in my resume. The G22 did fine with the side of the slide, but the earlier L-frame was the absolute champ.
Frank Hamer likewise used Ol' Lucky to adjust a few attitudes.
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Some years ago Tom Sotis, head of AMOK (primarily knife and empty hand combatives) brought Mark Human over from South Africa.
He was an instructor for some branch of the government. He said of the last 300 gunfights his unit had been in, 90% + were 0-5”.
Picture attackers coming through cardboard shack walls with knives etc…
He was teaching coordinated use of knife and pistol. What he demonstrated looked workable.
The guys who teach in Africa seem to have more blade awareness.
A knife is harder to disarm at FUT range and does not have shoot through problems. A fixed blade has very little to go wrong. Clinch Pic etc…
I am a firearms guy who has trained empty hand a lot and knives less. YMMV.
I would much rather have stand off and use a firearm, if I have a choice.
A doper decided to rob my partner on a street drug deal and pulled a knife. I buffaloed him with the side of my Beretta to the forehead. Sho'nuff split his wig to the white meat.
A little while later the Narcotics Sergeant rolled up and asked what happened. We told him and he smiled. "So he got what he asked for. Fuck him. Write it up" then rolled away whistling.
1992 was a completely different world.
I'm the attending physician for the local Federal prisoners when they come to my hospital for care. Occasionally, I would meet someone who has been shot, cut/stabbed or both. Small sample size but the vast majority of them would say that the prospect of getting cut/stabbed was more frightening than getting shot. Not everybody has been shot or shot at, but everybody has been cut or stabbed in some small way in their lives. There is something more visceral about a blade and maybe more "abstract?" with a gun. Oh, they universally also don't like getting bit by a police dog. Yup: dog >> knife > gun.
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