Only firearm I wear is in the line of service. SigSaur 226. We Swedes have a whole diffrent set of persepctiv, mentality and laws when it comes to privat ppl owning firearms. 99% in this thread would never get to owon your fireamrs in Sweden.
My personal firearms that I own are FN 509C S&W MP 2.0 Colt Single Action Army Model 1873 Carbine My EDC is a SOG Instinct.
I have my grandfather's ceremonial WWII sword from his dress uniform. (Lt. Commander of the Holder, U.S. Navy) And a pair of nunchaku. I've trained in escrima so I could make do with two broom handle shards if I had to. So basically I'm dead if a burglar has a gun....
Walked in hoping to see some fellow knife enjoyers, and it seems this thread is mostly guns…. Ah. Well. Bound to happen. Have fun in here.
Two years late, yes, yes, I know, but I’ve started putting some of the advice here into practice! I own several combat-ready knives, in various sizes and stylings. I haven’t been able to formally seek the kind of training surrounding maximized efficiency and fatality of use re: such weapons, but…. Some time in the next year I WOULD like to approach some form of in-person self defense training or another.
Knife fights are pretty icky and ideally I'd try to avoid such a situation. I don't have any knives that'd be considered defensive weapons. I have pocket knives for every day use, but nothing I'd really use in a fight fight. That being said I do have an OTF for that.
All conflict is “icky”, and I’d prefer to avoid all situations where it becomes reality instead of hypothetically, but I’ve been stalked 5 times this year alone, since moving out of my hometown, and I’d rather be stalked and heavily armed than stalked and unarmed.
Knives is my personal preference over firearms and will usually have either a SOG, Benchmade, or a Buck on me.
So... Just picked this up.... Gotta love German Engineering.... but they proof and mark everything...
I do love German engineering. I had opportunity to train on the G36 weapons platform while in Iraq. Too bad it has an issue with warping when firing for extend period but I still love firing it.
When I worked for an armory we used to get knife training from the owner who taught knife and blunt weapons tactics to cops. Has his own Karambit design for fighting. We used pens, and I learned...everyone is maimed in a knife fight. If you fingers work again after your forearms get hacked you'd be lucky. We'd walk away, winners and losers, looking like Picasso pen illustrations.
You made the point more eloquently than I am. I mean I'll never disparage knife skills and if you're gonna use a knife for self defense then you use what you got. But there's a reason why I train with a gun and why I carry a gun as my last line of defense. If I'm down to my knife I'm in a situation where I'm fucked six ways to Sunday and I'm in a mad situation to survive whatever is attacking me. The reality of knife fights is that you're gonna get cut, you're gonna get maimed, and you might not come out of it any better than the other person. It's why I said it's "icky." Knife fights are never clean encounters. You're gonna get grappled, punched, kicked, all while blades are involved. You might lose your blade, the other guy might lose theirs. Got another? Can you grab yours before the other? For me I choose to be able to know to disengage or de-escalate, and if I need to draw, I'll draw and shoot and avoid the whole fighting thing to begin with.
It is my wish that my swords will be kept and passed down instead of sold, so that some beloved relative can claim that it's been in the family for generations. Even if it's only by 2 or 3 gens, but other people don't need to know that.
