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>>32314391
Anything that you can throw.

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>Throwing your weapon away
>non lethal.

If its' throw able but non lethal, it isn't a good weapon. if it's throw able and a good weapon, it's lethal.

A balloon full of bear mace is the closets you're getting.

>>32314361
Yes, there are plenty of examples for Indo-Persian armor made from wootz, lately I saw a Persian helmet from the Markes collection made from wootz. Also there are shields made from wootz and the common 4 mirror armour.
It was simply a high end material of the time, a good steel and it makes good armour, which should have some flex anyways. Since it was metallurgically uniform it was comparatively easy to hammer it into plates, however, bigger pieces needed two or more wootz cakes firewelded together.
Might as well ask on /his/ usually they are better than the /k/ plebs for antiques and such.

There are Asiatic sets of armor made, but i've never seen armor made in Europe out of the stuff.

>>32314361
I would like to point out that "extra flexibility" does not mean Damascus steel bends more for a given load. The Young's modulus of different carbon steels are the same. The extra flexibility is being able to take more force or bending before failure, hence cannot be a drawback for armor.

Sounds like the Glock 20 is your best option. How does the trigger hurt your finger? I don't understand how it would drag against the trigger guard.

>>32314280
grizzly or black? There's a big difference

>inb4 bear spray

>>32314293
Black.

>>32313696
see that bit:

> every type of sword has a proper application and context to be most properly used.

you answered your own question.

furthermore, time is linear. a 15th C longsword's not going to be available in 2nd C. Rome.

Therefore we can safely conclude that given sword types were replaced over time, as warfare changed, and no one particular type remained in use for 400, 500 years.while arms, warfare etc changed around them, that there is no such thing as a "greatest" sword, there is simply a range of swords which all excel in the application and context of when they were being used, against what they needed to be used for.

>>32313835
But my question is a hypothetical. Let's say *you* are thrown back in time and are gifted with all the proper training, you know that warfare will change, but you are forced to choose one type of sword. What would that be?

>>32313855
and you just answered your own question.

>every type of sword has a proper application and context to be most properly used.

that 15th C longsword? Bloody good in 15th C germany.
Shit in 2nd C Rome.
That 2nd C Roman gladii? Shit in 15th C Germany. That 16th C japanese Katana? Shit on a Viking age raid on Lindisfarne.

and so on.

there is no "greatest". there is no "best". your hypothetical question is utterly pointless, because these weapons are ALL the best, for thier time, for their environment they were used in. Each was honed and optimised to be the best against the prevailing conditions. Take it outside of its prevailing conditions and it no longer the best, its is sub-optimal for use.

>Just finished
"The Mighty Nimrod". A top tier biography, it's about F.C. Selous and his being a fucking cool dude in Africa in the late 19th century. A badass and a good guy.
>Reading
"A Splendid Savage". Biography about Fredrick Burnham, probably one of the most hardcore motherfuckers of all time and certainly one of the the most badass, skilled, hardcore and innawoods motherfuckers ever to come out of the American frontier lands. This guy was so fucking OPERATOR it really can't be overstated. Well written but not in the same class as the Selous biography.
>Next
Either "Commander" about Captain Edward Pellew, badass Royal Navy frigate captain during the Napoleonic era or "Technological Slavery"; the collected writings and manifesto of Theodore Kaczynski aka the motherfucking Una Bomber, who, if you didn't know already, is /k/ as fuck and literally a genius. Had some pretty good ideas about things minus the murder parts.

Bump
I should've known day/k/are was mostly illiterate.

>>32314323
Neat. I'll look into the one about the Unabomber for sure.

I will finally be getting into Clausewitz "On War" after I finish reading my current book as I've never actually read "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea". Any other suggestions for military philosophy, other than Sun Tzu and Napoleon?

>>32313687
no

customers suck
work sucks
pay sucks
constant threat of the government destroying your entire economic sector

and depending which state or country you actually live in, you can add the existing local firearms legislature on top as well

>>32313687
>>32313722
What about starting a business in firearms customization? I hear people in CA have a 4 month backlog so there's plenty work.

>>32313740
>firearms customization
the customers stay the same amout of weird and stupid
they just have a higher smugness level because they entered the "mid tier" segment

if you want to have fun at your job you'll have to deal solely in high end stuff

which you can't get into because those niches have been taken up for the last 300 years

>removed the clipazine
>racked it twice
>pulled the trigger
Looks like we got a magically teleporting bullet. Those chucklefucks never should've been near a real gun in the first place.

Let's play a drinking game, drink every time one of the four rules is violated. Whoever doesn't get alcohol poisoning wins.

>being bald and white and the victim being black is relevant to a case of obvious unintentional negligence

>>32313664
This is why you actually take the effort to visually check the chamber if you're going to be stupid with a gun.

>>32313611
Idiots will go
>muh 22
but that's fuddshit
shotgun or AR15, and be a real American

Pick up a 22 pistol and rifle first.

>>32313624
Why a 22? I was trying to have the most utility as early as possible, then expand on to guns that are just for fun.

Have fun getting the plastic shards removed from your face when the receiver blows up


because it will


because it's a Kel-Tec

>>32313229
OK, can you name a decent AR for around that price range?

No firsthand experience, but all the reviews make them sound solid.

I run a PSA ar15 for 3 Gun and classes. Cost me $500 to throw together. Has about 2,000 rounds through with no malfunctions yet. I see a lot of M&P15s, which run $625 here, and all perform well

DD v11 is also my first AR. You cannot go wrong. But get an Aimpoint T2 or MRO instead.

>>32313065
Expensive. You can build a better rifle for less.

>>32313101
Go be poor elsewhere. You don't tell a nigga to build an AR for his first AR

The nor/k/al group camped and shot up at an abandoned mine/ghost town earlier this year.

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>>32313041
>Go shooting in an unmaintenaned, gassy mine
>Muzzle flash causes and ignition and blows the whole thing up.

What could possibly go wrong?

>>32313118
Got an archive of it?

>>32312482
To sell people as much substandard bullshit as possible.

>>32312482
to make money?

>>32312482
To cobble together every last parts kit on the planet.

They're succeeding.

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>whole frame is plastic
ok

>trigger is plastic
ok

>sights are plastic
BETTER REPLACE THAT SHIT

>>32312247
Glock factory sights are pretty crude.

The ball-in-cup is okay for daylight combat use, but shit for precision and shit for night use. And there's better daylight combat sights anyway.

They don't have to be night sights. Unless you wish to be able to see them at night, then they do.

Yes, you need a sight pusher tool.

>>32312286
>all polymers are the same

The sights will probably fall out. Get a better gun next time.

L&MIDF damage control. Lockmart is going down. God bless Trump. Sage and hide.

>>32312097
I'm not even an Americunt

>MUH CONSOLE WARS