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Anyone have a walking cane that they like really well?
I'm thinking maybe a Blackthorn cane that can double as a "club"

Something less lethal than a handgun to "whack" an aggressive Dog, or...?

Thanks! Virgil B.

Get yourself a hiking staff, a nice long one.

Remove the endcap and replace it with a 3/4 copper coupling filled with lead. Reattach it to the staff by drilling a much longer hole and using as long and as fat a lag screw as you can.

You see where this is going, right? I carried one for years when I was living near downtown.


Want another idea? Get a piece of rebar as big as you want and bend it to meet your needs. Then take long strips of thin leather and wrap it to suit your tastes. My best buddy's father worked in the IL prisons and the prisoners made him one in the shop. Nasty MOFO. Makes a blackthorn stick look like a toothpick. You keep it dressed with shoe polish.

No need to get fancy. I've used the adjustable length aluminum tube canes sold by Walmart and every drug store in the country since nearly losing a foot in a motorcycle accident 10 years go- - - -with a pound of bullet casting lead poured into the tip. Makes a completely concealed "attitude adjuster" that nobody notices. A quick shot to the crotch with that little item gives me time to go to my lockback knife or my pocket rocket.

I used the regular old hook-handled cane when I hurt my knee.
I liked it, so I still use it alot, as was said a weapon. I have 4 or 5.
Used at stockyard loading chutes, the original "cow poke".

About 3 months ago a pair of “rescue tea-cup poodles” escaped from their yard and attacked an elderly man who was walking his daughter’s mutt around the lake. Another neighbor grabbed an umbrella pole from his deck and fought them off. I have an adjustable metal wal-gren’s cane but I don’t like it so I bought one of these.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394837082520?itmmeta=01HSBN5PT6J6T0VVE0R0NA6N13&hash=item5bee1fc198:g:yrYAAOSwKvZk6JlR&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8GGhefhjXcE6LxsJfA6kl9caNrnhpyHNv3hs8Wgoh%2Fs1wlt12QwkLu93chGb%2BaA%2FwldCp5phxC9cgOFx%2BAZ0fAPFypZk4CCVZkZfw311AJ88X10MjCneJ2R%2Fqf9QKQDHcjVNAt0EuZ%2FW8JrTmv4O%2BB6BV2L019FYI6ZFnSOC5wCiRP7j%2Fs%2F%2B8Y4vyCrMql99NBjATfVBZbZiC8LNVvaDEg6IYdWqosQh4cuO870a7Ug2CeXt2jj0KvPsTFyKFu3FCUWHcvHNUjtiCBToHBEZsz6aShVTSDmJPPeThIaJKg9KU%2FhgbwFfoeJre3ql8S8W%2Bw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6TtlvXKYw

I used it last month when we went to Seattle to the clinic. It went thru tsa without a hitch and I even got a couple compliments from the scanner people. It is light and sturdy. The hill between the hotel and doc.’s office is not so jokingly called heart attack hill and it was a real help on the wet slippery pavement. If I ever had to defend myself from a viscous tea-cup poodle that brass knob would do the job.

Ka-Bar defensive cane. It's on the website.

I have one made of Osage Orange with a door knob on one end filled with lead.

I hike with an ash staff that is 5 foot long. Spike on the end. Used it once on the AT to discourage an over aggressive bull on that long slope down to I-81 at Groseclose VA.

Used one earlier today on my grocery store
errand. It was a regular adjustable aluminum
cane. I have several moses sticks and different
canes to use. Probably the stoutest is the "stock
handling " canes like posted ^ ^ ^ ^
Used one of mine for a couple of weeks after
a surgery. Most feed stores around here have
them. I made all my moses sticks and several
canes from different things. One is a persimmon
sapling. Another is wood from a pear tree.
Several are privit. A good straight piece of
privit makes a stout moses stick.
Around here there's a good many
stray dogs that are nearly feral that these hoodrats
raise up as security for their crack shack, and
turn em out when they get evicted or get taken
to jail. The last time was almost a mess and I
didn't have a moses stick at hand. Had one of
those red ryder type BB guns trying to move a
few pitmutts on along, and one didn't like to
be rushed. My lil BB gun didn't impress it at
all, and it like to have took a sample the hard
way. Luckily the nearest hoodrat saw what was
happening and stepped in with a golf club
and helped out. I graciously allowed him to
play through

Stick - knife- heater = mandatory

Good Luck with your quest

I'd like a 12 ga. walking cane.....not that I need it

Diamond Willow

Tore my LCL in January, and had to walk with one for a month, so I decided to do it in style.

I had to watch a YouTube video to learn how to use one, turns out I was using it incorrectly!

I was told to carry it on your good side.

Correct. As your weak leg comes down, load should be on the cane on the opposite side. I have one like you posted, all twisted. I think it came from a sassafras root.

https://www.coldsteel.com/heavy-duty-sword-cane/

I have one and it is heavier than my regular cane.

In 1991, I was released from the hospital with a rebuilt hip and reconstructed heel. Opposite sides!

Ortho doctor sent me to PT.
Gave me a walker.
Therapist says, "Walk to that door and back."
Got back, sat down and therapist says, "That's too easy. Try these.", and handed me two canes! One for each hand!
I've despised those damned things ever since!
I'll hobble and wobble before I pick up another one! 😡

Just a note.
Not only have I had both hips replaced. One heel is pinned in place. One shoulder has been replaced and the opposite elbow is bone on bone. Even if I had a cane, I can't fully support myself with either arm. 😖

Makes it tough on an old turkey hunter. No "run & gun" for me.

Solid Hickory Cowboy cane

Plan cane for work

LOTS of good ideas!

Thanks!
Anyone have one of the cold steel Blackthorn canes?
I've got one I made from Vine Maple, but it's a little light for swinging hard.
At 71, and bad depth perception, etc. It's time to have a little extra support.

Keep the ideas coming!

Virgil B.

Check these out. Extreme high quality and craftsmanship.

https://www.swordcane.com/