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Howdy, Any of you guys ever bought a shillelagh from this site before? http://misticshillelagh.tripod.com/id5.html If no one has ever given them business before, can any of the "stick experienced" people here comment on the probable quality based on the pictures shown?

Simply put: As a wood for a walking stick with secondary self defense applications, which is the best among the following? 1)Blackthorn 2)Ash 3)Hickory 4)Oak Which has the highest tensile strength?

Anyone here own a D handled Ontario Machete? http://www.ontarioknife.com/catalog/category/6 I bought one yesterday and i'd like to know whether i bought a quality product. Are there any weaknesses to Ontario machetes in relation to the similar products of other manufacturers?

Anyone here watch this cop series on a regular basis? http://www.tnt.tv/series/darkblue/ Any opinions on the weapons carried by the undercover protagonists? If there are any real life cops reading this, would the guns used on the show be really what undercover cops would carry? Also, I...

Can standard velocity .38 special 158gr LRN rounds out of a 4" barrel penetrate an M1 helmet (vietname war steel pot) with helmet liner? Will +P rounds make a difference? To all older or retired soldiers.....how was the blunt trauma protection of these helmets like?

Dear THR friends, I need your help. But first, a little background info is in order.......about two months ago, I quit my previous job and landed a post as a research officer for a Member of Parliament (MP) in my country. An MP is analogous to a Congressman in America. Anyway, two days...

To all SCA, ARMA or THR weapon historians.... What was leather lamellar armor historically designed to counter? If a padded jacket was worn underneath it, which medieval or pre-medieval threats could it stop? For instance, was it of any use against broadhead arrows shot from a light bow...

Forgetting for a moment how rediculous one would look if you wore a padded gambeson and this: http://armstreet.com/store/armor/1/202.html and started walking down main street, how protected would you be against commonly encoutered non gun weapons like: 1) Hypodermic needle/syringe? 2)...

Do the sharksteeth serrations on canemaster's canes actually make a difference to the striking effectiveness? Or will a heavier plain shaft be just as effective?

I know that cold steel puts most of their knives through sharpness and toughness tests like slicing through free hanging rope, punching through car hoods and hacking effortlessly through slabs of meat. However, are other companies knives (SOG, Ontario, Defunct Camillus BK&T, Emerson....) capable...

Just to seek the opinion of my fellow forum participants..... Hypotheticallty speaking, if allied troops (and only allied troops) were issued with late 1990s style floatation type body armor with rifle plates, would the casualty rates at omaha beach and tarawa atoll have been much lower...

My father recently told me about how a close friend of my grandfather was killed in a gangland assasination back in the late 1950s. This friend was a police sergeant and was having coffee at a roadside cafe when three men got out from a nearby parked car, approached him claiming to be reporters...

G'd Day Folks, I know that .380 ammo is a little hard to come by nowadays but for all you guys out there who have experience with this round, how does it's inherent accuracy compare to other calibers? It's often been said that .45ACP and .38 Special both offer better accuracy compared to...

Scenario: You may only make one choice due to budget constraints and there are only two brands of ammo in stock. Choice A is Remington Express 88gr JHP Choice B is Winchester Super-X 85gr STHP You will be carrying a decent sized .380acp pistol as a primary CCW piece. Which choice...

While .38 special can be fired in .357 Magnum revolvers, can .22LR be shot in .22 WMR revolvers?

Is there an ideal knife/baton length to fighter height ratio? For the sake of discussing weapon using martial arts, a colleague of mine and me were discussing the topic that batons should be customised to the user. Hence, for the field of stick combatives, he said that someone like me...

I bought a model 84 beretta cheetah .380 pistol about 3 weeks ago. Today was the day that I finally put it through it's paces. Range fodder was CCI blazer 95gr TMJ and 95gr Fiocchi FMJ. First off, lets talk about general impressions.... The gun is well made and finished. In comparison to...

Hi guys! Have you tried the following rounds in your beretta Model 84 .380ACP pistol? 1) 95gr Fiocchi FMJ 2) 90gr Fiocchi JHP 3) 95gr Winchester USA 4) 85gr Winchester Silvertip If you have, which ones feed well and which ones don't? Also, which of the above has the least felt recoil?

What do you guys think of the cold steel laredo bowie? Is it a good knife? Are there better mass produced bowies out there? How historically authentic is the laredo bowie? (in terms of design features, not steel type)

Does anyone here own a Cold Steel African Walking Stick? http://www.coldsteel.com/91was.html If used as a self defence impact weapon, how effective would it be? Would you be comfortable using it if the average local thug's weapon of choice was a 1950s style switchblade?