The Armory

[HypnotizinChikns]

you know, i don't actually have any knives (besides my kitchen knives) because, unlike the guns, I can't easily disarm them. I don't keep ammo in my house and disable my guns because I only use them when i want to shoot. I've always been afraid my son would get a hold of a knife and do only god knows what with it, but i think he's old enough now to trust that he won't do anything he shouldn't do. He's never gone for any of my guns, he knows even his BB gun isn't a toy and he's only allowed to use it when one of us are there. I'm thinking of making this my first knife,

 

http://www.survival-gear-guide.com/SOG-Seal-Pup.html

 

 

and then getting a case for it (or a bigger case for even more knives haha) that i can lock.

 

(BTW i love the website i found that on, it's full of hilarity)

[Mr. Hakujin]

^ i do own it her name is Zed, but we call her Z for short. front grip and red dot sight were add ons. came with three clips. next a weighted grip, she's a bit heavy in the front, but the slide on panels you see in the front also came with it and can be removed. i need a bi-pod for it, and some zombies muhaha.

total weight about 7 lbs.

 

torture tested at 20,000 + rounds and it didn't fault once.

 

piston driven man...once you go gas you never go back.

 

shoots both .556 and .223, and i can convert to a .22 if i feel like go lightweight, or i just get bored someday.

sights and other acces. go for about 400.00 alone if bought separate, but came with it. a steal at about 1200.00 to 1400.00 but the dealers are stripping them to make profits on the panels and sights.

 

shot with .223 -

 

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Back-

You're such an effin' badass!

[Signal08]

Dr,

 

Just focus on the blade type and handle comfort. As far as blades, carbon is great and stainless is a bit cheaper. Do not settle for anything less than AUS6, go AUS 8 if you want. My buddy sells knives as a side business and is in the process of trying to get his catalog online. I get a 3rd off the price when I go through him! Anyrate, SOG makes a good knife and most are AUS 6 to AUS 8.

 

Stay away from 'smith and wesson, baretta' and the like gun company knives... they generally use afghani/pakastani cheap grade stuff.

 

Randall, Cold Steel, Benchmade, Columbia River Knife and Tool (CRKT), Case, Gerber, Kissing Crane, SOG... perhaps Kershaw. Again, if you get into the Zippo and brand name stuff, you are going down in quality.

[Signal08]

and Dr,

 

To disarm...

 

Square up on the weilder, quickly with both hands charge at wrist holding the knife with your fingers upward sort of as you are coming with your hands from your hips then up from under the weilders hands and grab onto his wrist, then with your strong arm, you pull back and make a fist and have your fist nearly touching your opposite shoulder (your other hand is still grabbing the weilders wrist firmly). Once you do that you move your forearm forward making the part of your arm near your elbow the point of attack and overpower it forward to the blade. your natural ergonamic body movements will force your elbow area in from the side so you will not encounter the blade dead center to the blade, but sort of from an angle. You take your weak arm gripping the blade and pull it closer to you and then with your strong arm you -BANG- punch your shoulder into the knife. This wrist pressure and immobility, and top end punch from your elbow will disarm the knife. You might cut your elbow area, but it hurts far less than a blade into your rib cage.

 

I used to be an assistant teacher on Knife defense (disarming knives), in case none of you knew.

 

If you feel that you are possibly quicker or longer reach than your attacker, you can also form your hand like you are doing a military salute and jab it into the throat of the weilder, it often makes the weilder cringe and reach for his neck with both hands forcing them to drop the knife.

 

a lot of videos on youtube on this too. This guy I am going to post does more in depth moves, should check him out.

 

[HypnotizinChikns]

^^ very cool video.

[The NZA]

i wont speak on it till i see the krav maga & other techniques, but that video looks like a bunch of ways to get yourself cut up.

[HypnotizinChikns]

oh hell no I'm going up to random people in the street and trying all kinds crazy knife shit on them.

 

 

(not really but I could see some one trying it after becomming a youtube expert)

[The NZA]

 

[Signal08]

i wont speak on it till i see the krav maga & other techniques, but that video looks like a bunch of ways to get yourself cut up.

 

People dont just go to making 3 pointers in bball... they pratice.

 

Those methods work, as I have disarmed a real knife from my trainer (after a lot of practice). The method I typed out first for Dr G, usually results in a cut on your elbow region, but I'd rather a cut on the elbow than a punctured rib cage... just sayin'.

[The NZA]

no, i would too - but every disarming technique ive been taught/seen in various martial arts presupposes the attacker moves in the set pattern you're wanting them to, whereas every stab/cutting wound ive treated looked like they moved erratic as fuck.

 

again, the exercise i learned from this old spec-ops manual on hand-to-hand shit was: take a shirt you dont like, a plastic knife, dip it in red paint and give it your friend, offer a dollar for every red mark you get before disarming them. if your technique gets it away from them without a single mark on you....please believe, i will learn your technique.

 

dont act like you didnt like the 5.0 rifles!

[Thelogan]

I would follow Mr. Jimmy Hoffa's advice on matters like these (although they may not have done him much good ).

 

Always run from a knife and rush a gun.

[Signal08]

or you could simplify it...

 

Always shoot the bastard who wields a knife or gun.

[The NZA]

XM25

 

 

For once it seems the Army is actually turning fiction into science.

 

After nearly a decade in the shadows -- with billions spent on earlier versions long since abandoned -- the Army is moving quickly to field a revolutionary new weapon to Joes a lot sooner than anyone had ever imagined.

 

It's a weapon that can take out a bad guy behind a wall, beyond a hill or below a trench, and do it more accurately and with less collateral damage than anything on the battlefield today, officials say. It's called the XM25 Individual Air Burst Weapon, and by next month the service will have three prototypes of the precision-guided 25mm rifle ready for testing.

 

"We've done a lot of testing with this, and what we're seeing is the estimated increase in effectiveness is six times what we'd be getting with a 5.56mm carbine or a grenade launcher," said Rich Audette, Army Deputy Project Manager for Soldier weapons.

 

"What we're talking about is a true 'leap ahead' in lethality, here. This is a huge step," Audette added during a phone interview with Military.com from his office at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey.

 

Born of the much-maligned and highly-controversial Objective Individual Combat Weapon -- a 1990s program that sought a "leap ahead" battle rifle that combined a counter-defilade weapon with a carbine -- the XM25 only recently gained new momentum after the Army formalized a requirement and released a contract in June for a series of test weapons.

 

Current infantry weapons can shoot at or through an obstacle concealing enemy threats, but the Army has been trying for years to come up with a weapon for engaging targets behind barriers without resorting to mortars, rockets or grenades -- all of which risk greater collateral damage. After fits and starts using a 20mm rifle housed in a bulky, overweight, complicated shell, technology finally caught up to shave the XM25 from 21 pounds to a little more than 12 pounds.

 

If the XM25 does what its developers hope, it will be able to fire an air-bursting round at a target from 16 meters away out to 600 meters with a highly accurate, 360-degree explosive radius.

 

The XM25 is about as long as a collapsed M4, weighs about as much as an M16 with an M203 grenade launcher attached and has about as much kick as a 12-gauge shotgun, said Barb Muldowney, Army deputy program manager for infantry combat weapons.

 

The semi-auto XM25 comes with a four-round magazine, though testers are looking at whether to increase the capacity to as much as 10 rounds.

 

Brains are what really makes this Buck Rogers gun work -- it has them. The weapon combines a thermal optic, day-sight, laser range finder, compass and IR illuminator with a fire-control system that wirelessly transmits the exact range of the target into the 25mm round's fuse before firing.

 

A Soldier can aim the XM25 at a wall concealing a sniper, for example, but "dial in" or adjust the distance by an additional meter above the target. When fired, the Alliant Teksystems-built round will explode above the enemy's position, essentially going around the obstruction, Muldowney said.

 

"It's so accurate, that when I laze to that target I'm going to be able to explode that round close enough that I'm going to get it," Audette added.

 

The service hopes to field several types of 25mm rounds for the XM25 -- for breaching doors, piercing armor, even non-lethal air burst and impact rounds, and an anti-personnel round.

 

Testers at Picatinny plan to put the XM25 through its paces over the next several months, certifying it as safe for a Soldier to operate and tinkering with the weapon's effectiveness and durability.

 

The weapon costs about $25,000 each, but experts were quick to point out that a fully-loaded M4 for optics and pointers costs pretty close to $30,000. Each ATK-made 25mm round costs about $25.

 

As Heckler and Koch, makers of the weapon itself, and L3 Communications -- which makes the fire control system -- crank out more weapons, the Army plans to push them out to the field for testing beginning in March 2009. That could include the first use of such a weapon in combat, Cline said.

 

If all goes according to plan, Soldiers might have their first XM25s in hand by 2014, far sooner than the Army's small arms community had predicted even last year.

 

The program "came very close to ending," Audette explained. "But the Army took a look at all the work that was done -- and the testing that projected the kind of lethality increase that we could get -- and they said 'we've got to do this.' "