Geeks with Guns ?

[Landsknecht]

get a C&R FFL, you can get anything on the BAD ATTITUDE TOWARD FREEDOM'S Curios & Relics list delivered right to your door, like the Mosin Nagant MN 91/30 Rifle in 7.62X54R, or the 1895 Nagant Revolver in 7.62X38

I'm with you on the Nagant. I love mine. 1942 Finnish manufacture.
She drives 4" groups at 300 yds. My Mauser, 1915 manufacture, still hits 3" groups at 300 yds. My MKIII SMLE, 1916, manages a still respectable 4" group at 200 yds. I also dearly adore taking my Gew 88 out to the range. I have to special load the 8x57mm cartridges with black powder for it. Still holds a 10" at 500 yds. All with iron sights. I only have a scope for my SKS because the Chinese Army issued it that way. Oh I do have a scope on the 22 cal. pellet rifle I used to hunt squirrels with as well. Mmmmmmm..... tasty. Especially when stewed with tomatoes, onions and peppers.

[Landsknecht]

This guy talks a lot of good sense for a troll. I can't disagree with anything he says. People tend to having a fear of sharp pointy things on a basic level, as if they will be more dead if cut to bits than if they are shot. Some head shrinker could explain why but who cares as long as it works.



Now I can do some expounding on specifics since he opened the can of worms I place the blame on him if anyone gets bored reading. No matter where you live self-defense and stuff protection is important it is not just your right but your responsablity. If you cower and let somone get away with it then they will be enboldened and will do it again. Stop them now stop them fast and stop them so hard that any other thug that hears about it will think "Dang that is a really stupid thing to do. Doing that will get you messed up."

The basics

Be comfortable with weapons your and your potential threat. If you are not comfortable with the idea of and use of a gun when you see somone with agun you will think "Gah they have a gun!" and at that point you go from acting to reacting. That is bad. If however you can keep your head then you can access the situation and act appropiately. Practice practice practice whatever your weapon of choice know it well and know you can use it well.

I will stop now before I go into a long drawn out rant.

There's a story about someone in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism)
who was living with a non-Scadian (Mixed relationships never seem to work out ) and they were living in her, the non-Scadian's, Apt. It was an amicable break up so he moved out and she had gathered the rest of his stuff by the front door. Late one night someone began pounding on her door. She cracked it open and someone burst the security chain (they only keep honest people out) and pushed his way in. She grabbed the first thing off the top of his stack of stuff and struck her attacker. She ran to her bedroom and barricaded the door while her would be attacker screamed and ran off into the night. The police arrived some time later and found the assailant (long list of assaults and out on parole ) at a local hospital. They talked to the girl and asked her "What did you hit him with? No charges are going to be placed on you. We just have never seen anything that causes that amount of damage on one hit!" She showed them the flanged mace that her former boyfriend had by then gifted to her. She's kept it handy ever since.

Oh, that would be rapist? He had a pulverized shoulder socket, three smashed ribs, A shattered collar bone and a collapsed lung. (snicker)

[IK the Troll]

There's a story about someone in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism)
who was living with a non-Scadian (Mixed relationships never seem to work out ) and they were living in her, the non-Scadian's, Apt. It was an amicable break up so he moved out and she had gathered the rest of his stuff by the front door. Late one night someone began pounding on her door. She cracked it open and someone burst the security chain (they only keep honest people out) and pushed his way in. She grabbed the first thing off the top of his stack of stuff and struck her attacker. She ran to her bedroom and barricaded the door while her would be attacker screamed and ran off into the night. The police arrived some time later and found the assailant (long list of assaults and out on parole ) at a local hospital. They talked to the girl and asked her "What did you hit him with? No charges are going to be placed on you. We just have never seen anything that causes that amount of damage on one hit!" She showed them the flanged mace that her former boyfriend had by then gifted to her. She's kept it handy ever since.

Oh, that would be rapist? He had a pulverized shoulder socket, three smashed ribs, A shattered collar bone and a collapsed lung. (snicker)

Yeah, the modern day version of mace doesn't leave as long lasting an impression as the good old fashioned MACE. I love the two I have, beautiful and dangerous, just like my lady.

[KiaKat]

*giggle*

You're smitten. It's cute.

[IK the Troll]

*giggle*

You're smitten. It's cute.

And proud to be so.

[sableagle]

(Image from ancient-east.com)

[KiaKat]

Want.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Me too! I wanna be harder to rape!

I like playing hard to get. Brutally hard to get.

[IK the Troll]

Want.

HAVE!

http://www.museumreplicas.com/museumreplicas/detail.aspx?ID=789

http://www.museumreplicas.com/museumreplicas/detail.aspx?ID=790

[Farler]

Me too! I wanna be harder to rape!

I like playing hard to get. Brutally hard to get.

Plunder, it's only rape if you resist it. It's especially not rape if you actively seek it out and initiate it.

[Leffy]

i used to get their catalogue. niiiice stuff.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Plunder, it's only rape if you resist it. It's especially not rape if you actively seek it out and initiate it.

But if I initiate it, the mace can still be useful!

[IK the Troll]

Here's a pic of me as King Richard the Lionheart from a few years back. In it you can see the upper half of my yummy Pole Mace.

[KiaKat]

Nice costume. Needs a better crown, though. That one looks like it came from Burger King.

[sableagle]

Ack! *WANT*

http://www.museumreplicas.com/museumreplicas/detail.aspx?ID=1367

http://www.museumreplicas.com/museumreplicas/detail.aspx?ID=689

... *want*