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Posted: 10/20/2018 7:45:43 PM EDT

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Thats one of the things I hope I never figure out from personal experience

Posted: 10/20/2018 7:48:09 PM EDT

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I would rather get shanked any day of the week than get sliced with a razor (Tomahawk). I probably have over 200 authentic prison shanks in my collection, here are just a few:

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Your pen let's you take home evidence, or those were found uncontrolled on the yard?

ETA - Nice bone crusher on the right. Good find.

Posted: 10/20/2018 7:48:49 PM EDT

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The plan in prison is to stick you so many times that the doc can't patch them all up fast enough.

Posted: 10/20/2018 7:51:18 PM EDT

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I voted cut because to me the thought of a long deep cut is unnerving. But a lot of the replies make sense as to why it still might be more survivable.

Posted: 10/20/2018 7:58:17 PM EDT

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Your pen let's you take home evidence, or those were found uncontrolled on the yard?

ETA - Nice bone crusher on the right. Good find.

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Yeah, that bone crusher is a beast! Just the thought of getting booked with a bone crusher is enough to put fear into any man's heart. Of course, it's what you do with that fear that matters.

Posted: 10/20/2018 7:58:23 PM EDT

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There are a couple of Tamahawks here, usually they will melt a razor to the top of a toothbrush for that. There is also one here made from a fork, and the cylinder shaped one is made from melted plastic or styrofoam. The one on the far left even has a scabbard, that's so when it was kiestered it wouldn't cut his insides.

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People collect some weird stuff. If I'm reading you correctly one of those was up an inmates ass at one point. Think I'd pass on that one.

Posted: 10/20/2018 8:10:19 PM EDT

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Looks like right now, 87% goes to getting stuck being worse than getting cut.

Posted: 10/20/2018 10:26:18 PM EDT

[#8]

Greater risk of infection with a puncture.
A puncture puts bacteria deep into vitals.

A deep enough cut obviously can open an artery so greater chance of bleed out.

Posted: 10/20/2018 10:33:30 PM EDT

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My ex stabbed me with an ice pick in the arm and it hurt like hell. I did this in my shop and it hurt way less that the stabbing, I'd rather be slashed.

Posted: 10/20/2018 10:34:46 PM EDT

[#10]

Get both?

Posted: 10/20/2018 10:46:34 PM EDT

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I always like the idea of using a sharpened, pointed section of copper pipe or conduit.

1) Cut length of pipe at a sharp angle so that it forms a point suitable for stabbing

2) Cut and bend barbs along length similar to a fishhook barb.

The idea is that you trust it into the marks body and leave it, the barbs make it difficult to pull
out, the copper pipe/conduit acts like a spigot that can't be shutoff, allowing the red red kroovy
to flow freely.

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You're evil. If I ever go to prison I'm taking you with me.

Posted: 10/20/2018 10:49:55 PM EDT

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Ha! Have you shot a target with each? FPs always penetrate deeper. The blades on BHs are designed to induce rapid blood loss.

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In all fairness, "deeper" is moot when the broadhead equipped arrow goes through the deer and into the ground. It went into the deer as deeply as possible, and then some.

Posted: 10/20/2018 11:06:11 PM EDT

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I would much rather be cut than stabbed. That said,in prison the biggest threat to your health is getting stabbed by bubba's meat shank. Aids is no joke yo.

Posted: 10/21/2018 12:40:54 AM EDT

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I would worry more about aids if I survived.

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Agreed. Watched a documentary about some Aryan Nation guys. The interviewee was telling about a good rumble they had on the yard. Apparently, they'd gotten some folding knives smuggled in.

"It was awesome! We had real Buck knives keister stashed. When it came time for business we got them out and went to town!"

I wonder how many bodily fluids those blades had been soaked in before finding flesh?

Posted: 10/21/2018 12:50:29 AM EDT

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I recall a case where some a-hole stabbed a guy multiple times with an ice pick.
The victim then pulled a gun, killed his attacker, and waited for an ambulance.

Watching a reality prison show I saw where they liked to get a victim involved in a physical activity to get his heart rate up. That way when they are stabbed multiple times they are much more likely to bleed out and die.

Posted: 10/21/2018 6:15:53 AM EDT

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I have a few hours of knife fighting training, and while I do not feel confident that I could get out unscathed, I do think I would be better at putting up a fight. However all of our stuff was typically telegraphed and practiced repeatedly. If someone with no form or full of rage just went hog wild like in some of these videos there's not a lot you can do (specific technique wise) to stop them.

One thing that resonated with me is that you may not be the one to flip the switch, but once it goes you need to go full bore back. Going for the knife or blocking just gets you stabbed a bunch until they connect with something good. You need to go to them (face, eyes, throat) to take them out of the fight.

scary shit. Although I do carry nicer knives now and really understand that your blade comes out, so does my gun. I'm not looking to dick around.

How does one collect legit prison shanks?

Posted: 10/21/2018 11:20:49 PM EDT

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How does one collect legit prison shanks?

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I wondered that too. Could probably just make some reproductions at home.

Posted: 10/21/2018 11:22:18 PM EDT

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It's a shiv, not a shank.

I hate to be that guy, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

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It's regional. It's a shank in Texas.

Posted: 10/21/2018 11:28:49 PM EDT

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Penetrating trauma takes MUCH less to do more damage than trauma from a slash.

Posted: 10/21/2018 11:48:57 PM EDT

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It's a shiv, not a shank.

I hate to be that guy, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

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Been calling them shanks for 16+ years behind the wire.
Stabbed sucks - only been stuck once, just a needle, but that wait to see if HIPPA will allow them to tell me what my chances for AIDS and other infectious diseases was, well, that sucked. The edge on most shanks os worthless, sharpened on concrete floors, despite the look, they are stabbing weapons. Darts are worse, sometimes - straightened staple, tied to a bit of mattress fluff, stuffed down a tube made of rolled paper and tape, with the spade point forward end dipped in urine, feces, blood and semen. Or the shit squirt guns, with an empty toothpaste tube "refilled" with a cocktail of the above substances. We wear face shields in the pods for a good reason.
Oh, and the above? I came up clean.

Posted: 10/22/2018 12:18:22 AM EDT

[#21]

The thrust/stab is king.

Posted: 10/22/2018 12:22:34 AM EDT

[#22]

Everything gets a thread in GD.

Posted: 10/22/2018 1:36:09 AM EDT

[#23]

ill take ham slice for $400 alex! puncture wounds, especially deep ones, hurt far worse than any cut!

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