Looking To Buy My First Rifle...

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Thomen

I got the full sized replicas. Fortunately, these are to heavy to heavy for my wife to use in a fashion where they would be dangerous to anyone but herself.

I bought a really nice meditating Buddha statuette a few years ago. I'm guessing it's made of some kind of resin but it is heavy and solid as a rock. The base on which he sits is about 8" around and maybe 5" high, but his body is just the right diameter to get your hand around should you want to pick it up and swing the base at someone. It's also just the right weight - not too light to be ineffective and lack momentum, but not so heavy that you can't lift it and swing it easily. I have it sitting in my bedroom.

So that would probably be the first thing I'd pick up if I thought someone had gotten into my apartment at night... I figure it's not just a blunt instrument, it's a lesson in karma.

OTOH - in the kitchen? Heh, that's why the knives are on the counter in a block and not stuck away in a drawer somewhere.

In the front room I've got a solid oak bokken leaning up against my DVD shelf. Also a 6' staff although that would be a tad unwieldy indoors.

Of course I've also got two each of hands, elbows, knees and feet. Plus I bite.