The knife thrower?
The knife thrower?
A highly trained special operations soldier is also an expert knife thrower, he can bring down any opponent from ten to twenty yards away with ease.
Is that a true statement, or is it pure bullshit?
I'm going with the second response, but I'd like to hear your views on such a Hollywood favorite.
I'll go into my reasons later.
-JoBa
Is that a true statement, or is it pure bullshit?
I'm going with the second response, but I'd like to hear your views on such a Hollywood favorite.
I'll go into my reasons later.
-JoBa
Re: The knife thrower?
The only reason I would throw a knife at someone was to distract them while I reloaded to shoot them.....
C Co 3/75 88-90 (Just Cause)
124 MI(LRSD) 90-91 (Desert Storm)
Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
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124 MI(LRSD) 90-91 (Desert Storm)
Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
ΜΩΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Gen. James Mattis
Panem Et Circenses
My safe space
Re: The knife thrower?
Concure.RangerX wrote:The only reason I would throw a knife at someone was to distract them while I reloaded to shoot them.....
Ranger Class 13-71
Advisor, VN 66-68 69-70
42d Vn Ranger Battalion 1969-1970
Trainer, El Salvador 86-87
Advisor, Saudi Arabian National Guard 91, 93-94
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Advisor, VN 66-68 69-70
42d Vn Ranger Battalion 1969-1970
Trainer, El Salvador 86-87
Advisor, Saudi Arabian National Guard 91, 93-94
75th RRA Life Member #867
Re: The knife thrower?
Lunch wrote:The power attained through the Three Wolf Moon t-shirts they were under their armor makes any hit a +50 damage bonus.
They have since upgraded. Behold, the mighty 3 Hippopoticorn Moon t-shirt!
C Co 3/75 88-90 (Just Cause)
124 MI(LRSD) 90-91 (Desert Storm)
Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
ΜΩΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Gen. James Mattis
Panem Et Circenses
My safe space
124 MI(LRSD) 90-91 (Desert Storm)
Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
ΜΩΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Gen. James Mattis
Panem Et Circenses
My safe space
Re: The knife thrower?
That was the standard, and as always, standards evolve. Heck, even the SEALs are trying to get in on the mojo:Lunch wrote:Shit, I remember when they first started issuing the 3 Wolf. I'm such as a has-been.
this was of course after their failed attempt:
C Co 3/75 88-90 (Just Cause)
124 MI(LRSD) 90-91 (Desert Storm)
Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
ΜΩΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Gen. James Mattis
Panem Et Circenses
My safe space
124 MI(LRSD) 90-91 (Desert Storm)
Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
ΜΩΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Gen. James Mattis
Panem Et Circenses
My safe space
Re: The knife thrower?
RangerX wrote: They have since upgraded. Behold, the mighty 3 Hippopoticorn Moon t-shirt!
Awesome. Can I get one of these with a scroll on it?
C 3/75 89 -91
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RLTW!
Re: The knife thrower?
I'd like to think that like Dr. Jones, I'd bring a rifle to the knife fight.
In RVN I did practice with my knife throwing but not too many did likewise. Except that knife throwing towards your opponents feet game.
In RVN I did practice with my knife throwing but not too many did likewise. Except that knife throwing towards your opponents feet game.
RLTW
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4/325 82d DIV 68-69
2nd Bde HHC (LRRP), 4 ID
K Co (Rgr), 75th Inf (Abn), 4 ID
69-70
I cooked with C- 4
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4/325 82d DIV 68-69
2nd Bde HHC (LRRP), 4 ID
K Co (Rgr), 75th Inf (Abn), 4 ID
69-70
I cooked with C- 4
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Re: The knife thrower?
Knowing a person who has been stabbed by someone with malice and forethought, I'm not sure how effective throwing a knife would be. She said that oddly, it didn't hurt in the least (stabbed 6 times in the neck & torso. dude was bat-shit crazy..) I think you would literally get one chance to hit someone if you were lucky and hope you hit something vital.. and it wouldn't be the "one in the chest and then the dude dies quickly & quietly"..
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"ahh, Daniel-san.. When balance good, Karate good...everything good!.." K. Miyagi
Re: The knife thrower?
I'd prefer a .45 with a suppressor.The Sleepy Doc wrote:Knowing a person who has been stabbed by someone with malice and forethought, I'm not sure how effective throwing a knife would be. She said that oddly, it didn't hurt in the least (stabbed 6 times in the neck & torso. dude was bat-shit crazy..) I think you would literally get one chance to hit someone if you were lucky and hope you hit something vital.. and it wouldn't be the "one in the chest and then the dude dies quickly & quietly"..
Ranger Class 13-71
Advisor, VN 66-68 69-70
42d Vn Ranger Battalion 1969-1970
Trainer, El Salvador 86-87
Advisor, Saudi Arabian National Guard 91, 93-94
75th RRA Life Member #867
Advisor, VN 66-68 69-70
42d Vn Ranger Battalion 1969-1970
Trainer, El Salvador 86-87
Advisor, Saudi Arabian National Guard 91, 93-94
75th RRA Life Member #867
Re: The knife thrower?
I'd take spare mags vice the can
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RS 10-94.
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RS 10-94.
200 meters of green shit next to a river in the desert does not qualify as a "Crescent of Fertility" -me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, one meter wide and two meters long" -Lazarus Long
Re: The knife thrower?
You never throw your weapon away. Anything that could possibly come of it would be pure luck, nothing more. In all probability, your adversary would pick your weapon up and come back and give you a quick class in knife fighting.
I've only been stabbed once, in the leg. It didn't have bleeders, the handle broke off. The doc used a pair of pliers to get it out. I didn't feel anything hardly at all until the next day. I got nailed with a broken bottle in my shoulder, the pain didn't start for about half an hour, then it felt like the wound was full of broken glass. When I got to the ER, their wasn't any glass in it at all. (All of this was many, many years ago.)
-JoBa
I've only been stabbed once, in the leg. It didn't have bleeders, the handle broke off. The doc used a pair of pliers to get it out. I didn't feel anything hardly at all until the next day. I got nailed with a broken bottle in my shoulder, the pain didn't start for about half an hour, then it felt like the wound was full of broken glass. When I got to the ER, their wasn't any glass in it at all. (All of this was many, many years ago.)
-JoBa
Re: The knife thrower?
Man, this site is just a cascading waterfall of unicorn pussy.....
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until it has destroyed itself from within." -W. Durant
Rio Hato/AO Diaz CCT/Commo
"It is a heavy thing, to see a Father so strong in life, unable to rise."
"A great civilization is not conquered from without
until it has destroyed itself from within." -W. Durant