The "tactical walking stick."

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The "tactical walking stick."

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Would a Ti head and tip, w a carbon shaft be the better choice, or a brass or silver head?
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Cold Steel makes a great one. I would just buy theirs.
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skb12172 wrote:Cold Steel makes a great one. I would just buy theirs.
What he said! Personally, I really like their stuff.
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Wouldn't Ti be so light you'd impart very little energy?
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Just mosied over to Cold Steel. I may need the aluminum head sword cane.
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I don't know - its that v^2 but I was thinking about - golf clubs are made quite light.
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Brass, silver or tungsten. Nice dense materials. Lots of inertia and thumpiness.
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Cold Steel's stuff is mostly indestructible plastic. Which is fine, buth rather transparently a weapon, much like a Mag-Lite of anything greater than 2 D-cells.

I'd druther mount a heavy brass decorative head on a nice hickory, ash, or oak stick.
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For the budget minded, 3' of 1" black pipe with an elbow and short L-handle, and the tip rubber capped would suffice, or even a simple straight pipe with metal pipe caps at either end painted white, for those dressy Fred Astaire-like outtings. 8-)
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Weetabix wrote:Wouldn't Ti be so light you'd impart very little energy?
You could get lots of speed, and therefore kinetic energy, but it would dissipate very rapidly when it met something solid. The firearms analogy would be 'lack of penetration'.

So if you wanted to give someone a REALLY painful, really really nasty welt, sure. Like caning (no pun intended).
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CByrneIV wrote:
Aglifter wrote:Would a Ti head and tip, w a carbon shaft be the better choice, or a brass or silver head?
Brass... a reassuringly weighty thump.
A tungsten head would do wonders, but how to thread it without an EDM?
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