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My cane. basically three feet of one inch steel pipe. It's always very close by.
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Originally Posted by HuntnShoot
My grandmother would send us out to pick a switch off the willow tree, with the caviat that if we didn't pick a "good" one, she would pick a "better" one. Quite an effective deterrent, for an afternoon, anyway. Happened to me many times !!!!!


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Originally Posted by MarineHawk
I'd grab my 13-yr-old son and an axe: https://i.imgur.com/rJPCgqz.mp4


Another example: https://i.imgur.com/1RIt5bB.mp4

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Originally Posted by Beoceorl
As a beekeeper I always have one or more hive tools handy in my truck, and often on my person. I frequently carry them in places where knives are forbidden, or restricted in length. The cutting edges can be honed razor sharp.

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I'm surprised that Alabama has restrictions on length of knives or forbidden places. What's up with that? Sounds like England.


Military Installations. Redstone Arsenal for example forbids knives over 3".


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When I was working in Dallas when I was 20, I and two friends got in an argument with a black guy and a couple of mescans. they had double-parked so when we pulled in next to them they couldn't open the car door. one pulled a screwdriver, my buddy reached down in the bed of the truck and grabbed a carpet knee kicker and hit him on the left cheek of his face, it was pretty ugly, we boogied out of there.

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Everything is a weapon.

5 minutes?

I can purchase a rifle, load it and be in position in 5 damn minutes.

improvised weapons are fraction of a second decisions.


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A cup of hot coffee. Sadly, I don't drink the stuff, so I'm rarely packing.

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Five minutes is plenty of time to get a gun if anywhere near the house. And the pickup is a wonderful second choice.

But for alternatives to the alternative, for many, many years, there were times when I was too far from the house to make it into the gun room. During those times I usually had a pair of bale hooks in my hands or a Pony featherweight no 0 irrigating shovel.

The irrigating shovel was always kept very sharp for cutting sod or stubborn roots. It would have been a formidable weapon of self defense against anything but a gun. It could be used as a cudgel for less than lethal blows. Or used as the entrenching tool previously discussed, only with almost three feet of extra reach.

As a kid I heard that a few Idaho residents had been murdered with a shovel. Most often over water disputes.


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I keep a hickory hoe handle in the back of my truck, right behind the cab and close to the fuel tank fill. I'm usually not far from my cane. In 5 minutes I'll have a gun and 4 minutes and 50 seconds left to make a plan!


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keep a break over bar in my truck for when I have to change a flat, sits in the side pocket of my door


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but I'm seldom unarmed.


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Originally Posted by stxhunter
but I'm seldom unarmed.

As long as there's a can of twisted tea around? wink


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Originally Posted by Idaho_Shooter
... I was too far from the house to make it into the gun room.



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And this in an unzipped camera bag under my driver's seat:

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Used a hymnal (church song book) to whoop up on a punk who sucker punched me in grade school. Told my parents, teacher called, got an "atta boy" from my mom.


For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."

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don't forget the twisted tea.





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A frozen turkey is my go to, when concealment is required a cornish game hen will suffice.


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Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
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Originally Posted by stxhunter
When I was working in Dallas when I was 20, I and two friends got in an argument with a black guy and a couple of mescans. they had double-parked so when we pulled in next to them they couldn't open the car door. one pulled a screwdriver, my buddy reached down in the bed of the truck and grabbed a carpet knee kicker and hit him on the left cheek of his face, it was pretty ugly, we boogied out of there.


Day-um, a knee kicker! Bet that left a lot of marks.

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Originally Posted by blindshooter
Originally Posted by stxhunter
When I was working in Dallas when I was 20, I and two friends got in an argument with a black guy and a couple of mescans. they had double-parked so when we pulled in next to them they couldn't open the car door. one pulled a screwdriver, my buddy reached down in the bed of the truck and grabbed a carpet knee kicker and hit him on the left cheek of his face, it was pretty ugly, we boogied out of there.


Day-um, a knee kicker! Bet that left a lot of marks.

yeah, it shredded his cheek.


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Handle from an old reloading press. With the big ball on the end.

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I like that scene in Bad Boys when Sean Penn throws a couple cans of pop into a pillow case.

Then proceeds to smash some skull. LOL

I imagine the first blow or two would be pretty awful.



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