Introductions

[phoenix]

Greetings all,

My wife and I live (currently) in Texas.  I found out about this site through one of Boston's books which has really opened my eyes to how life "can" be.  We are in process of figuring out how to make our way out of here and up to there so that we can for once, begin to enjoy life and all it has to offer. 

Please pardon my ignorance from time to time if I ask a redundant question.  I want to learn all I can before we uproot from here and move there.  I think our biggest concerns are the ability to hold our own financially once we get there.  I am currently a web designer/Photographer/graphics designer and leather crafter.  So hopefully my many skills would be able to find a place among the masses.

I think above all, from what I have read on this forum over the past month or so, I am impressed that there still exists a place in America where community still means something and freedom is upheld above political correctness.  We look forward to meeting with and talking to our future neighbors over the time between here and there and hopefully make some life long friends.

Scott & Jacqui

[colonial shooter]

Welcome to the forum, phoenix. Hope to see you around.

[wyomiles]

Howdy Scott, lots of info here so take your time and look around. Make sure Jacqui gets a chance to ask any questions too.

[planetaryjim]

Dear Scott and Jacqui,

Welcome!

I spend quite a lot of time in Houston.  What part of Texas are y'all from?

Send me a private message on this forum, and I'll send you an e-mail address for resume and such.  Vertoro provides a lot of consulting services in the areas you mention, except leatherwork.  As to leather crafting, I would be interested in commissioning a sword belt with saber hanger, along the lines of this illustration.

Regards,

Jim

[MamaLiberty]

Welcome, Scott and Jacqui! We're glad to know you. We're also glad to answer questions and point you toward information that will help.

The best way to know if you belong here, however, is to visit! Come see Wyoming for yourself, and plan to spend as much time as possible actually looking at some likely places to settle. There is information available in this forum and the original FSW site about weather, proximity to cities and all that sort of thing so you can get some general ideas of the areas you might like to see.

Come prepared to adapt - your expectations and even what you think you need! That seems to be one of the keys to success.

And if you come through Newcastle, please stop in and visit! PM for directions. MamaLiberty

[MANUMIT]

Jim...you just planning ahead?

When guns are outlawed, will we be allowed to carry swords?   

MANUMIT

[Terrible Claw]

Greetings all,

My wife and I live (currently) in Texas...

 We look forward to meeting with and talking to our future neighbors over the time between here and there and hopefully make some life long friends.

Scott & Jacqui

Great!  I recently made my move from Texas permanent here in the Crook County area. Whereabouts are you from?  I was living in the Dallas metroplex.  I tell you something, Wyoming is what I used to think Texas was as a child.  I'm home and I love it!

TC

[planetaryjim]

Jim...you just planning ahead?

When guns are outlawed, will we be allowed to carry swords?

First, your attitude is all mistaken.  I don't give a snap what is "allowed."  I am sovereign.  I do just as I please.

Second, the sword is the single best close combat weapon ever invented.  It has been developed by many different cultures into a very wide variety of shapes.   I like the katana, the saber, the cutlass, the descendant of the cutlass called a machete, and the long bent knife of the Gurkha.  Jim Bowie made famous a long knife which is essentially a short sword, balanced so it may be thrown - if throwing away your weapon occurs to you as your best option.

I've owned and practiced with swords since I was ten.  To this day, I own more swords than guns. 

Swords don't run out of ammo.  One never needs to explain what a sword is, nor what it does.  There's no question that someone with a sword knows enough to poke you with it.  He might be the sort to fumble the safety or not know how to chamber a round for his gun, or he might be unable to swap magazines, but he can always stick you with a blade.

Oh, sure, stick a knife on the end of your rifle.  Call it a spear or a bayonet.  Try to get it around your body for a quick thrust.  But don't be surprised if someone with a cavalry saber cuts your throat or hacks your legs out from under you, or slices up that part of your inside thigh where the femoral artery is near the surface and drops your body's blood supply out like pulling a cork from a wine cask.

In this case, I was thinking more of ornament and costume - we do have an annual costume party, ya know - than combat.  Any sort of baldrick would be pleasing.


P.S. Modified this post to replace a four-letter word meaning "to chamber a round" and also symbolizing a male barnyard fowl, with a longer phrase.  To my surprise, the four-letter word was replaced with "bad word here".  The censor software seems to be on, and incompetent to distinguish one sort of word from another.

[bobcat]

Jim, are you sure the sensor didn't say "bad dude here"?   Never know to what depth those sensors will work.

Swords eh?  That must be why you like being purveyor of the grilled food at the Jams.  It isn't the chef duties, it's all that cutlery that has you amped up.   

[manfromnevada]

Jim,
Not to sidetrack this thread, but have you read "The Black Arrow" by Vin Suprynowicz? It's a great book, and one that uses edged weapons throughout much of it with graphic details as to the aftermath.
Mac

[planetaryjim]

Bobcat, yes, I likes me some kitchen cutlery.

Mac, yes, I read Vin's version.  Personally, I think the earlier book by Robert Louis Stevenson with the same title is better.  Some of the characters are the same.

[phoenix]

We are in Houston as of now, but looking to get out sometime soon as finances allow for it.

[Brutus]

Hey,

I guess I could say I was a former FSP member and stumbled upon this project not too long ago.  Finishing school in WY looks better, there's with no doubt, more breathing room than NH, and I really how much more of a factor firearms seem to be in here than in NH.

[alexspartan]

Second, the sword is the single best close combat weapon ever invented.  It has been developed by many different cultures into a very wide variety of shapes.   I like the katana, the saber, the cutlass, the descendant of the cutlass called a machete, and the long bent knife of the Gurkha.  Jim Bowie made famous a long knife which is essentially a short sword, balanced so it may be thrown - if throwing away your weapon occurs to you as your best option.

I don't have any battle-ready swords, although I have owned some cheap ones suitable only for mounting on the wall.  I prefer something shorter and handier than a katana or cutlass, something like a machete, or, better yet, a tanto.  I like the tanto the best just because it has more of a combat use than a machete does (more than just hacking away). Kukris are way neat, too, although I'd obviously need some kind of training with it.

Interesting side-note: The Zulu warriors were sometimes put to death if they lost (threw) their spear in battle.

[MamaLiberty]

I've wanted a katana since I read Suprynowicz's "The Black Arrow," but to carry that in addition to my .45 would probably be overkill. But it would be neat to have one anyway. <G>