Never in the history of SOFREP Radio has there been a more requested guest in my experience than Pat McNamara. We were glad to deliver. On this episode, the former Delta Force operator and tactical shooting Youtube sensation gets down and dirty. We get some stories out of him including a HALO jump right before his retirement where a woman […]
Knife fighting
Watch: Cutting, fighting, and killing with Jim “Smokey” West
Check out this live question and answer session with retired 7th Special Forces Group Warrant Officer, Jim “Smokey” West as he answers questions about hand-to-hand combat and knife fighting. *Image courtesy of World Nomads Originally published on SOFREP and written by Jack Murphy
Blade Brothers Knives: Forged in war
Blade Brothers Knives is a small veteran-owned business in Ukraine that specializes in high quality knives designed for various combat applications. While they have a very wide selection to choose from, each with its own purpose, I will focus on the three that I chose to acquire. BB Knives was born from the war between […]
Slashing versus stabbing, knife tactics and their relevance
In combat marksmanship, shot placement is incredibly important and more often than not it is the determining factor in lethality. No matter the caliber of bullet or model of firearm, the location on the body where the round strikes determine how much damage is done with the exception of scenario-modifying circumstances. It is the same […]
Using An Inner Tube As a Knife Mount: Conclusions
This post serves as the end of my experimentation of using a bicycle inner tube to mount a knife to my belt. You can read the original post here, as well as my follow up once I started force on force training with it. FINAL EVALUATIONS I continued to use the bike tube + retention line […]