January 15, 2009 at 6:45 am
GSquared (1/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
jcrawf02 (1/15/2009)
Have I mentioned how much I LOVE all of you, and REALLY APPRECIATE all of your help on the forum?(laughs nervously, backs away slowly...)
Oh now, don't be getting nervous over potato cannons. There are a lot more weapons around here as, or more, deadly.
For example, oh Gail, how many swords in your house?
Just katana, I've got two. Then... one celtic sword (leaf shaped, hand forged, steel not bronze), one irish sword (ring sword, stamped steel, looks cool, too top heavy), a viking sword (stamped steel again, but well built for all that), a claymore (I was young, but it's hand forged and beautiful), a scramasax (stamped steel again, sweet little blade), a sabre (junk, but it looks so cool)... do bokken count? 3-4 of those at home and two I donated to the dojo... That's about it. Unless you want to count bayonets?
Sounds like quite a nice collection. All I have is handguns, and none of them are particularly pretty (functional, but not quite so aesthetic).
Blimey are you lot waiting for armageddon or wot? Good grief!
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January 15, 2009 at 6:46 am
GSquared (1/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
jcrawf02 (1/15/2009)
Have I mentioned how much I LOVE all of you, and REALLY APPRECIATE all of your help on the forum?(laughs nervously, backs away slowly...)
Oh now, don't be getting nervous over potato cannons. There are a lot more weapons around here as, or more, deadly.
For example, oh Gail, how many swords in your house?
Just katana, I've got two. Then... one celtic sword (leaf shaped, hand forged, steel not bronze), one irish sword (ring sword, stamped steel, looks cool, too top heavy), a viking sword (stamped steel again, but well built for all that), a claymore (I was young, but it's hand forged and beautiful), a scramasax (stamped steel again, sweet little blade), a sabre (junk, but it looks so cool)... do bokken count? 3-4 of those at home and two I donated to the dojo... That's about it. Unless you want to count bayonets?
Sounds like quite a nice collection. All I have is handguns, and none of them are particularly pretty (functional, but not quite so aesthetic).
There are projectile weapons around the house, but I don't like advertising, type or quantity.
I'll say this though, John Moses Browning RULES!
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January 15, 2009 at 6:50 am
GilaMonster (1/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
For example, oh Gail, how many swords in your house?Only one at the moment. I'm considering buying a basket-hilt rapier (local weapons shop has a nice ornamental one) and I'm eyeing some of the Lord of the Rings weapons (Tolkien fan)
Plus three knives (2 sharpened), three practice swords (two bokken, one wooden wakisashi), two short staves, two wooden tanto, one recurved bow (30 pounds draw weight) and a quiver of arrows.
Oh yeah, two bows in the house, one a flat native american style long bow and the other a d-shaped english longbow with a Victorian riser and horn nocks. The flat bow is my wifes and pulls about 30 lbs. Mine is only 50 lb pull, so I think the local long bow nuts would consider it a trike.
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January 15, 2009 at 6:55 am
GSquared (1/15/2009)
Sounds like quite a nice collection. All I have is handguns, and none of them are particularly pretty (functional, but not quite so aesthetic).
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
There are projectile weapons around the house, but I don't like advertising, type or quantity.
I don't like weapons that can be easily taken and used against me. Down here, waaay too many gun owners get shot with their own weapons during robberies.
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January 15, 2009 at 7:07 am
I've got a few maritial arts weapons here at home, no swords. My pistols, however, are not stored at home at the moment as my wife didn't want them in the house when the kids were little and she was trying to do daycare for a while AND I didn't have trigger locks or speed loaders for them. One Colt Python and one Ruger Red Hawk. I actually prefer the Red Hawk as it fits my hand better. Haven't fired either of them about in 26 years. In fact, if memory serves, I only took them to the range once. Too expensive since I don't reload my own.
January 15, 2009 at 7:12 am
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
Oh yeah, two bows in the house, one a flat native american style long bow and the other a d-shaped english longbow with a Victorian riser and horn nocks. The flat bow is my wifes and pulls about 30 lbs. Mine is only 50 lb pull, so I think the local long bow nuts would consider it a trike.
I'll rise to that...our longbow-only club, mixed gender, averages about 45# for the women, about 70# for the blokes. Four of us in the club are working up draw-weight to mediaeval warbow, we're all currently around 95-110#. The regular warbow shooters average about 125#, a few of the more dedicated chaps are now pulling around 150#. That's at 32" draw. Grant I guess you're pulling to 28" with a chin anchor, your longbow would draw about 60#@32".
Sale of swords here in the UK is banned I believe, and handguns were outlawed some years ago, shortly after the Dunblane massacre. All the crims have 'em though.
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January 15, 2009 at 7:16 am
Chris Morris (1/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
Oh yeah, two bows in the house, one a flat native american style long bow and the other a d-shaped english longbow with a Victorian riser and horn nocks. The flat bow is my wifes and pulls about 30 lbs. Mine is only 50 lb pull, so I think the local long bow nuts would consider it a trike.I'll rise to that...our longbow-only club, mixed gender, averages about 45# for the women, about 70# for the blokes. Four of us in the club are working up draw-weight to mediaeval warbow, we're all currently around 95-110#. The regular warbow shooters average about 125#, a few of the more dedicated chaps are now pulling around 150#. That's at 32" draw. Grant I guess you're pulling to 28" with a chin anchor, your longbow would draw about 60#@32".
Sale of swords here in the UK is banned I believe, and handguns were outlawed some years ago, shortly after the Dunblane massacre. All the crims have 'em though.
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. I support our Second Amendment here in the States.
January 15, 2009 at 7:40 am
Chris Morris (1/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
Oh yeah, two bows in the house, one a flat native american style long bow and the other a d-shaped english longbow with a Victorian riser and horn nocks. The flat bow is my wifes and pulls about 30 lbs. Mine is only 50 lb pull, so I think the local long bow nuts would consider it a trike.I'll rise to that...our longbow-only club, mixed gender, averages about 45# for the women, about 70# for the blokes. Four of us in the club are working up draw-weight to mediaeval warbow, we're all currently around 95-110#. The regular warbow shooters average about 125#, a few of the more dedicated chaps are now pulling around 150#. That's at 32" draw. Grant I guess you're pulling to 28" with a chin anchor, your longbow would draw about 60#@32".
Sounds excellent. You're right. I'm using a chin anchor. You guys go past the head right?
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January 15, 2009 at 7:44 am
Steve - Should we change the title of this topic to "Are the posters becoming more violent"? 😀
David
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January 15, 2009 at 7:48 am
DavidB (1/15/2009)
Steve - Should we change the title of this topic to "Are the posters becoming more violent"? 😀
So far, I haven't seen anything violent. Everyone seems to just be passively amassing arms for some upcoming armegeddon or para-military action.
Someone from the Bush administration is getting this entire thread faxed to them as we speak.
January 15, 2009 at 7:51 am
Grant Fritchey
It eliminates the cursor from the query or it gets the hose again.
Tell me about the locks, Clarice....
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January 15, 2009 at 7:51 am
Michael Earl (1/15/2009)
DavidB (1/15/2009)
Steve - Should we change the title of this topic to "Are the posters becoming more violent"? 😀So far, I haven't seen anything violent. Everyone seems to just be passively amassing arms for some upcoming armegeddon or para-military action.
Someone from the Bush administration is getting this entire thread faxed to them as we speak.
Zombiepocalypse.
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- Theodore Roosevelt
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January 15, 2009 at 7:55 am
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
Chris Morris (1/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
Oh yeah, two bows in the house, one a flat native american style long bow and the other a d-shaped english longbow with a Victorian riser and horn nocks. The flat bow is my wifes and pulls about 30 lbs. Mine is only 50 lb pull, so I think the local long bow nuts would consider it a trike.I'll rise to that...our longbow-only club, mixed gender, averages about 45# for the women, about 70# for the blokes. Four of us in the club are working up draw-weight to mediaeval warbow, we're all currently around 95-110#. The regular warbow shooters average about 125#, a few of the more dedicated chaps are now pulling around 150#. That's at 32" draw. Grant I guess you're pulling to 28" with a chin anchor, your longbow would draw about 60#@32".
Sounds excellent. You're right. I'm using a chin anchor. You guys go past the head right?
Heh almost but not quite. There's a natural point a little past the ear where the muscles, bones and joints all line up nicely and if you can draw to that point, which for most equates to roughly 32", then you can hold there awhile far more easily than with a chin anchor. But where you gain in power, you lose accuracy.
They take a few moments to string, speshly in the dark, so if Mr Catburglar comes visiting then your best move would be to pin him to the ground after he's left the premises. A yard of 1/2" birch furnished with a type 16 would suffice.
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January 15, 2009 at 7:57 am
Michael Earl (1/15/2009)
DavidB (1/15/2009)
Steve - Should we change the title of this topic to "Are the posters becoming more violent"? 😀So far, I haven't seen anything violent. Everyone seems to just be passively amassing arms for some upcoming armegeddon or para-military action.
Someone from the Bush administration is getting this entire thread faxed to them as we speak.
Why wait for armageddon? Isn't that procrastination?
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January 15, 2009 at 8:07 am
Michael Earl (1/15/2009)
Chris Morris (1/15/2009)
Jeff Moden (1/14/2009)
Actually... I built a "cannon" to fire the potato part of the pork chop dinner. 5 foot barrel with a 5 foot extension (haven't tried the extension, yet), 45.5 millimeter (1.75 inch) muzzle, 2 foot by 0.5 foot combustion chamber, electronic ignition. I can get about 14 seconds of hang time out of a spud... haven't measured for distance yet but if I fire it at a brick wall from 30 feet away, the spud disintegrates leaving only a small potato cone adhering to the wall. I also fired it at the door of an old car at a friend's junk yard... the damage was very impressive. It worked pretty well on the windshield, too! Wouldn't want to get hit by the darned thing, that's for sure. Just for grins, I think I'll get a boneless pork chop, roll it up, and see what happens. I may just have to send Steve a movie of me riding my unicycle and firing it... like I told him, if I can make it recoiless, I'll be able to take the car springs off my butt. 😛Top work! What do you use as propellant? Don't tell me...when you're not clearing tables you collect the stuff 😛
I had a couple of these when I was a young lad. One was "confiscated" by authorities and the other ended up getting broken during a daring escape.
After extensive testing, Aqua Net hair spray ended up being better than any other propellant we could find.
I am old school, as always, nothing but Calcium Carbide for me.
Aqua Net hairspray and a Bic Lighter is what I use to remove to remove extra thick exterior latex. :hehe:
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