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Canemasters offers various woods for use in their canes. My question is..... Is there any difference to identically sized canes if one is made of plain hickory versus it's "twin" made of pure hickory heart? Is the second cane stronger/heavier? If so, by how much stronger?

Using accelerometers, ballistics gel bodies and high speed cameras, the people who produce the "deadliest warrior" series at spike seem to be able to derive an indication of the damage potential of various hand weapons. But to those here who are familiar with hardwood oak and hickory canes...

I've been watching the undermentioned series from Spike..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadliest_Warrior and I have to say that I disagree with the show's methodology and approach, especially with the episode where they compared a Chinese Ming dynasty warrior with a French Musketeer...

not quite sure if this is even covered under NFA weapons but...... To all THRers who have served in the infantry either in the army or marines..... Why do they say that the one-shot disposable LAW (light anti-tank weapon) should NOT be used against Main Battle Tanks and if they are...

I'm thinking of buying one of cold steel's polyproplene baseball bats as a defensive tool. Are there any weapon based combat systems out there that can be adapted to the use of a baseball bat for home defense? The rooms in my home are rather large and contain minimal furniture (for now at...

Apart from the tacti-cool factor, do you guys see any practical use for this knife? http://sogknives.com/store/TS-01.html

Hi all, I was watching episode 5 of "the pacific" and there was a scene when the marines had landed on some island to take it from the japanese. They fought their way in from the beach and encountered a building defended by a japanese force. From what i could see, there was a sandbag...

The police service of the largest city in my country is facing the problem of increasingly well organised and violent mugging and pickpocketing gangs. They are particularly good at escaping from the police through the messy urban terrain. My cousin is a police lieutenant and he told me that...

Since early bulletproof vests used silk panels, I'd like to try a simple experiment. I'm going to create panels of silk consisting of variations of between 12 - 20 layers of quilted silk and shoot them with various 2 3/4" shotshell loads out of a factory standard smoothbore Remington 11-87...

Good day Gentlemen, If kevlar vests are decleared illegal in some localities like Australia, how would a reproduction 15th century style Brigandine incorporating 1.5mm thick overlapping steel plates do against a .38 special 158gr LRN slug travelling at 740ft/s? If we forget about blunt...

Weird question but please humour me. Using technology and industrial base of the USA during 1944/45, which if any of the modern (designed from the early 80s onwards) assualt rifles could have been manufactured? Are there any specific diffuculties that late generation assualt rifles would...

Am writing a script for an amateur production zombie movie to be submitted for an upcoming horror movie fest but I'd like to get some pistol technical details right. Will the following rounds penetrate a human skull? 1) .38 special 148gr wadcutter target load fired from a 4" barrel at 25...

I watched a documentary on piracy last night and they talked about the 1600s carribean type as well as the latter day RPG-7 carrying type. An interesting fact communicated was that a great many attacks carried out in South East Asia today still involve pirate with matchetes without guns. This...

I know that level IIIA kevlar vests do not stop rifle rounds at distances of 100 or even 150 yards or less but what about stopping 5.56m or .308 winchester rounds at long range? Someone told me that the old PASGT kevlar helmet was ment to stop a M193 55gr 5.56mm round fired from an M-16 at 200...

What models and quantities of firearms (i.e. springfield bolt rifles and number of) would you be likely to find in the armory of a small 1941 era USN warship like a destroyer escort? How much small arms ammunition would the ship carry? Are there any ex-USN personnel here who can shed light on...

I am quite possibly going to buy a bolt action rifle chanbered in .22 hornet. Assuming a target at 50 meters, how is the terminal ballistics of this round? There is precious little data after this round's performance so i'd like your opinions. Also, please don't tell me to upgrade to .223 or...

Thanks for the imput on my previous threads. You guys are rather enlightening. I've pretty much decided that I will get myself a cane for self protection as the youth gangs in my area as getting more "adventurous". I'll be ordering something off the canemasters website and I'd like the opinions...

Is this guy for real? http://www.combatcanes.com/Home_Page.html The maker who posted the above website claims to make combat ready self defense canes while possibly making unfavourable comparisons to Canemasters canes. Has anyone here ever bought his canes? Should I consider his products?

If we assume that guns are not available, pepper spray or other aerosol devices are illegal and eletro-stun devices are for LEO use only, what weapon would be best suited for an UNTRAINED person to use for self defense in: a) An enclosed space like a normal sized bedroom or private office...

Will a modern level IIIA soft armor vest be able to stop a 577-450 slug from a martini-henry rifle at a distance of 10 yards? Assume that the round is loaded to original british army specs and that the rifle is the mark I version.