Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Hunting Tigers with Katars: Fact or fiction?

fernando · 20th September 2010, 10:32 PM

I confess Gene, that i wasn't familiar with the 'odd stack' term

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Well, i can't realize a guy go out hunting tigers with only a couple katars, but i can understand that, having nothing more practical at hand, he would 'parry' a tiger jump with one of such things.
One thing we can't deny is that, the way katars are built and hand held, is both ideal for pushing a blow against your standing foe as also for stopping (or trying to stop) the landing of an animal jump ... a tiger in te context.
But back to the odds, is all a question of size; the size of the tiger, the size of the katar, the size of the coolies team and, last but not least, the size of the nobleman's 'jewels'

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20th September 2010, 10:32 PM	#12
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	I confess Gene, that i wasn't familiar with the 'odd stack' term . Well, i can't realize a guy go out hunting tigers with only a couple katars, but i can understand that, having nothing more practical at hand, he would 'parry' a tiger jump with one of such things. One thing we can't deny is that, the way katars are built and hand held, is both ideal for pushing a blow against your standing foe as also for stopping (or trying to stop) the landing of an animal jump ... a tiger in te context. But back to the odds, is all a question of size; the size of the tiger, the size of the katar, the size of the coolies team and, last but not least, the size of the nobleman's 'jewels' .