Best home defense melee weapon

[Doughbelly]

Nothing that you can swing in close quarters will be much good. A spear or rapier would be a decent choice.

Proper strokes with a sword don't take much space at all.

The problem with a spear in a corridor is that once you get past the tip, the weapon has effectively been defeated. To a lesser extent, the rapier. Again, sabers are the better general purpose weapon, even in the instance of fighting in a hallway.

If I can throw a roundhouse in my house I can swing a sword. I don't live in a hallway.

I can pretty much deliver all basic strokes with a bokken or a sword in a hallway because in kenjutsu, your arms generally stay close to your body until you extend to cut. The sword follows a path around or over the body, but it isn't wide until the last second, which should make sense if you think in terms of power generation and angular momentum. This is another one of those differences between the -do in kendo versus the -jutsu in kenjutsu. Kendo assumes you're standing in a gymnasium on an open floor.

Still an inferior weapon to the saber, IMO.

 

[Scrody]

Just get a bucket of good sized rocks together. No ones about to volunteer to take a rock to the face.

 

[oleDirtyBast4rd]

Just get a bucket of good sized rocks together. No ones about to volunteer to take a rock to the face.

It worked well for david. Although I guess he had a sling. Those guys took down lions with slings

 

[Denter]

If I can throw a roundhouse in my house I can swing a sword. I don't live in a hallway.

I saw Roadhouse as well.

 

[Denter]

It worked well for david. Although I guess he had a sling. Those guys took down lions with slings

There are still shepherds in certain parts of the world that use slings. If done properly, they can easily crack skulls and kill wolves with them.

 

[Doughbelly]

Just get a bucket of good sized rocks together. No ones about to volunteer to take a rock to the face.

RNC > Rock throwing

Though I wonder, with a man Andre the Giant's size, is it even possible to do a proper RNC?

 

[These Two Hands]

A sawed off shotgun or short barrel shotgun is great. You can't miss. If hunting is legal, you can probably manage this.

I'm pretty sure if you use No 7 bird shot, or possibly a rock salt shell, you can argue it was an intentionally non-lethal round as well. Bird shot to the face is certainly going to slow a guy down though.

 

[Doughbelly]

Good grief. People talking about not being able to use swords indoors because of space constraints and now we're talking about slings?

 

[TheMMAn]

Sam sword is definitely the way to go. Especially if you are 6'6", crazy looking, and are willing to tuck just prior to the attack....

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[Anung Un Rama]

My hallway has a giant rolling boulder.

It's the only way to be sure.

 

[Shokushu Goukan]

Buy a sword and dress up like this guy

I think that is a different type of sword fighting.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Not enough "raptor" in this thread.

Sure my parakeets arent as large, but they are legion.

 

[El Chimpo]

My Louisville Slugger by my door and my knife under my mattress protect me for now

 

[Snubnoze707]

Still an inferior weapon to the saber, IMO.

That may be the case, but I prefer the aesthetics of the Japanese sword which is certainly a legit sword as well.

 

[RerouteToRemain]

Not that I want to share how I know this but its way harder to chop an arm off than you'd think.

Those are decent weapons for home defense though.

I've read a few examples of people limbs being cut off by Katanas. Quite a few of the weapons I posted are thicker and heavier and I think would probably do it, especially the two handed ones.


Regardless even the 13" blades would absolutely wreck somebody if they don't sever limbs.

 

[5H3RD0G]

Holy bible. :icon_chee I know a duel, Christian rifle vs Holy Bible.

 

[Monkadelic]

 

[Merlotte's]

Go full Samuel Powers. Offense, defense, and retard.

 

[peytonlucy]

I have two 54'' swords. They will cut right to the backbone in one swing. The point will go straight through a person like butter. A club length weighted steel pipe is more of a bone-crusher than John Matea (or whatever the guy in the early UFC was named.)

 

[peytonlucy]

A leopard with a chainsaw is bad news. Even ronda fans might think that a leopard with a chainsaw could beat her, if it could make 135.