My blackberry storm is my pocket watch.

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My weapon of choice is piano wire - good, clean kill.  The next best is the handy Ghurka knife, quite effective for close range assassinations. If you need a gun, then less is more, especially around town.  A snub nose .38 is just the ticket, especially if you can't afford vintage 1805 Naval boarding pistols. Ofcourse, you won't leave a distinctive calling card that will distinguish you from the rest of the Lebananese and Chechyan assassins. In this instance, its handy to have a decent tailor, makes all the difference at the interview, when you see these cretins turn up with Iranian suits and grey plastic shoes with a gold buckle on - you know you have the sartorial edge. Oligarchs and Columbian generals can and will tell the difference.

The Russkies are indeed practical engineers, especially when it comes to aeroplanes, take the Tupolov 134 and 154 slightly higher rate of crashes than a Boeing, but you stand a better chance of survival in the Tupolov when it crash lands outside of Astrakhan with the chunky undercarriage down.  The ability to switch the nose cone and toilet into rotating gun turrets within thirty minutes, is another winning edge of revolutionary engineering completely lacking in the West.

The Brits were also involved covertly in Vietnam with submarines conducting surveillance activities in the North. The French were also in Vietnam, just they gave up ten years earlier than America.

Jan, never bounce between forums. I had just pontificated on milsurp bolt actions as northern arboreal survival rifles and mentioned the 1909 argentine carbine 7.65x54 with mojo peep sites, stoned trigger and hunting rounds as a nice package if wieght is an issue.


AceFace, the gurkha blade is properly called a kuhkri and retains it's unique shape from the bronze swords of Alexander, the arch decreasing that metal's tendancy to bend and happily giving increased kinetic chopping power. Each kukhri will have a small utility knife and steel blade hone in the buffalo sheath.

But for assassination via knife the fairbairn commando is splendid except it is prone to snapping unless confined to slitting throats, plunging down behind the collarbone to the heart  or upward to the intestinal diaphram again under the rib cage.

Pianno wire is prone to snapping under extreme curving. I have found stainless steel aircraft cable far superior and the strands grip tissue better with less slippage.

If you must use a snubnose, I  know where a fitz special built on a Colt New Service in .45 Colt may be had. 255 grain roundnoses with a melplat vs 158 grain rounds are far less prone to richochet off of cigar cases.

ARRRGGGGHHH!!!! I've seen both 53 and 54 in the literature.  I feel like the day a  rangemaster panicked when I was going to fire 'tokarev' ammo in my C 96 commercial and argued they were different cartridges and my broom the weaker action

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