[MR] How much damage would rattan do?

[Smith CTR Jeffrey C]

While that may be true for any normal person, this guy has two sets of injuries -- multiple slices to the torso and a hand chopped off.  I'd think either of those sets would stop him, but they appear not to have.

Recall the story of how the Army adopted the .45 pistol -- it sometimes takes a lot to stop folks.

Barcsi  Janos 

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From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org [mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of jbrmm266 at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 13:23
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Subject: [MR] How much damage would rattan do?


You don't have to break anything to incapacitate.? The pain of impact of a full-force blow on an arm would probably take they guy out of the fight - or the fight out of the guy, depending on how you look at it - and a blow to the unprotected head . . . I have this image of a smashed pumpkin.



Your servant aye

Donal





-----Original Message-----
From: logan <logan at ebonwoulfe.com>
Cc: 'Merry Rose' <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: [MR] Kinda off topic?



take one heck of a shot to incapacitate a guy with rattan.  given how hard it is to even break a bone with it because of its inherent flexibility beating a man down would be an impressive task indeed!  better to own a gun for the bad guys i think.

;^)
logan


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