Wasp Knife

[POLAND_SPUD]

would it really be so difficult ? there are number of possiblities: you could use a time fuze or add a contact fuze that will release co2 when the needle/blade/pipe is all the way in the body

[brogdenlaxmiddie]

No one in there right mind would use this on a person it would no doubt kill them

Well, if you're stabbing someone, that's usually the general idea

A prize for Captain Obvious!

Hmm, interesting, but I do have my doubts - I wouldn't be that surprised if it was banned as inhumane pretty quickly.

Besides, I although can see it as very useful for say, a diver - surely hunters (and soldiers, while I'm at it) would have more effective, and longer range, things to resort to?
If you're hunting something that requires something more complex than a normal knife to stop it, firstly, I wouldn't want to have to wait for it to get that close, and secondly, presumably you'd have a rifle or some other firearm anyway? I mean, what exactly were you hunting with in the first place?

I don't think that it would get banned. Especially for being inhumane. I can see it banned in hunting, but not in diving. Honestly, when your being attacked by a large animal, don't you want to be able to completely blow its head clear off?

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

would it really be so difficult ? there are number of possiblities: you could use a time fuze

Explosive bullets that can explode in the body exist, to discuss their manufacture is beyond the scope of this forum.

[POLAND_SPUD]

yeah I know that... and currently I am not interested in making them... I am just pointing out that's possible to build something like that...

I've used the word 'fuze' not becasue I am suggesting using explosives but becasue I lacked the right word to describe a mechanism which triggers the valve with a time delay - that's all

[clide]

What would be even better ( ) would be to have a bullet that would do this.

A few years ago I was actually considering making a 12g CO2 round that would penetrate a needle into pumpkins and inject the CO2 to make them burst open. Unfortunately preliminary tests of directly injecting CO2 were generally disappointing and the project never got any further.

[Pyro Ninja]

Speaking of "Explosive Bullets"

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Speaking of "Explosive Bullets"

It's a gimmick really - that explosive effect is a result of the bullet's extremely high velocity and the resulting shockwave it generates while passing through the air, the "exploding gopher" will result from a close enough shot from any 0.223 bullet.

For reliable killing power it's better to have a bullet that remains intact in order to penetrate deep enough to reach the vital organs. Note how even an ordinary 0.223 bullet will break apart when fired into tissue analog:

[dark2023]

Speaking of cool knifes


I heard the old switchblades where the blade came strait up (not swung in a semi circle to be at the top) could be modified by removing the stop on the blade. Then when you hit the button it would shoot out like a little rocket and you could "stab someone halfway across the room"

So im going to try to make some thing like a knife that sticks out all ready but then can be shot out if you want to

[SEAKING9006]

I see that being very unstable in flight. I doubt it could be used as an effective weapon.

[dark2023]

it would be a full lengh knife you could slice and stab with then at will you could launch the blade (maybe with pressurized air, co2, propane) at your enemy

[SEAKING9006]

First, you'd have to find a place to put pressurized gas in a friggin SWTICHBLADE.

[dark2023]

id make "THIS" switchblade myself, or mabey ill call it a LaunchBlade, or SuperStab

witch do you like better

[elitesniper]

SuperJailTime. yup

[marpat]

this may be a project for my homemade 12 gram cor adaptor a piece of lawn mower blade and som oak

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Then when you hit the button it would shoot out like a little rocket and you could "stab someone halfway across the room"

So im going to try to make some thing like a knife that sticks out all ready but then can be shot out if you want to

A discussion of why "ballistic" knives are silly can be found here