My Kinda Swap: Knife For .30-30 Trapper
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My Kinda Swap: Knife For .30-30 Trapper
I'm doin' the happy dance, this aftenoon - fer sure !
I took some trading stock with me, to look closer at a 97% late-70's Winchester 94 Trapper .30-30, I spotted late Saturday as a local gunshop was closing for the holiday weekend. It has a Lyman peep & XS front, with the issue sights stored in the Lyman's box. Very pristine, except for a slight freckling the size of a dime in the blue above the loading gate.
No safety, no rebounding hammer, no sling swivels, etc.
I took a Randall knife, an old .22LR/.410 Savage 24, and a .22LR Nylon 66 with me - but I knew the shop owner liked knives.
Well - The guns never saw the light of day, but the Randall was a straight-up swap.
So, I'm doin' the happy dance, and I'll pick the gun up in a few days - as soon as my state paperwork clears.
I took some trading stock with me, to look closer at a 97% late-70's Winchester 94 Trapper .30-30, I spotted late Saturday as a local gunshop was closing for the holiday weekend. It has a Lyman peep & XS front, with the issue sights stored in the Lyman's box. Very pristine, except for a slight freckling the size of a dime in the blue above the loading gate.
No safety, no rebounding hammer, no sling swivels, etc.
I took a Randall knife, an old .22LR/.410 Savage 24, and a .22LR Nylon 66 with me - but I knew the shop owner liked knives.
Well - The guns never saw the light of day, but the Randall was a straight-up swap.
So, I'm doin' the happy dance, and I'll pick the gun up in a few days - as soon as my state paperwork clears.
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Pete back in '70 during hand 2 hand training & knife tactics one of the other wannabes made that quip about "don't bring a knife to a gunfighht." To which our instructor sad, "You do this right and there won't BE a gunfight."
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Pete44ru, it wasn't the Comancheros, I just watched that last night.Scott, that reminds me of an old Western flick - I think it might have been The Comancheros - where a fella with a knife in a hip sheath faced off against some pistolero, and kilt him daid ! Smile
I'm not trained in hand to hand, or any type of combat, but the one thing I've learned from common sense is; if you want to stay alive and in one piece, do not let a person with a knife get near you.Pete back in '70 during hand 2 hand training & knife tactics one of the other wannabes made that quip about "don't bring a knife to a gunfighht." To which our instructor sad, "You do this right and there won't BE a gunfight." Razz
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IIRC, inside 7 ft, the knife is faster. Statistically speaking.I'm not trained in hand to hand, or any type of combat, but the one thing I've learned from common sense is; if you want to stay alive and in one piece, do not let a person with a knife get near you.Pete back in '70 during hand 2 hand training & knife tactics one of the other wannabes made that quip about "don't bring a knife to a gunfighht." To which our instructor sad, "You do this right and there won't BE a gunfight." Razz
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Griff your definitely right about a knife faster than a firearm at seven feet.
In law enforcement we're taught that seven yards and closer a person with a knife or other type weapon will, nine out of 10 times, hit you or stick you before you can clear leather and get a fatal shot off.
Nothing to mess with. And that's with people that hadn't had any formal knife training. A person who knows how to use a knife will slice and dice a person so fast and fatal in mere nano seconds that the shows over before the victim knows he's even been stuck or sliced.
In law enforcement we're taught that seven yards and closer a person with a knife or other type weapon will, nine out of 10 times, hit you or stick you before you can clear leather and get a fatal shot off.
Nothing to mess with. And that's with people that hadn't had any formal knife training. A person who knows how to use a knife will slice and dice a person so fast and fatal in mere nano seconds that the shows over before the victim knows he's even been stuck or sliced.
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