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[Hazcat]

When I'm overseas or in DC, NYC or LA I can not carry. I do check a good knife in my luggage and I always have a 6P on me.

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[Solus]

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Surefire 6P?

[ratcatcher55]

Sorry, I thought everyone understood Tacticool! 
Yes Surefire 6P.  It's an old one but has held up very well. I've used it much more than I would have thought and it does not cause anyproblems with TSA.

[Hazcat]

Thanks!  I have an 'off brand' that is very similar.  Has a 'strobe' setting as well.

[ratcatcher55]

Thanks!  I have an 'off brand' that is very similar.  Has a 'strobe' setting as well.

At the time it was a that or a big honking Maglight. There seems to be some really good lights available but the Surefire is still going strong. I have not lost it to the luggage gods or my own carelessness.

I had a Surefire E2 but my wife snatched as her own the day I brought it home. It would be a better size to travel with.

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[Walter45Auto]

Fight, I probably didn't convey the fact that I am also pi$$ed......

I thought that was a given.

[DGF]

I am 70 years old. I carry a cane with me where ever I go. I live near DC and have no problem carrying it there. TSA will not question me if I travel by plane. I made my own cane from a blank 36" piece of white oak with a crook at one end. It is about 11/8th in dia.I got it on a website that sells stockman's canes for use with livestock. I cost me $8.50 plus shipping. I copied one of the canes I saw on the "Cane masters" website plus I made some additional modifications. I sharpened the end of the crook, not to a needle point but good enough. I also mitered the inside shaft of the cane to 45degrees which gives me basically a cutting edge without appearing so. I have Michael Janics "Martial Cane Concepts" CD and practice several times a week. Whether I will ever have to use it for self defense is a question I do not want answered. But if push comes to shove at least I am not unarmed. I generally also carry a folding knife.

For those of you that travel a cane is an ideal addition to your self defense arsenal. I enjoyed making the cane so much that I am going to make another with additional modifications , perhaps some brass inlay on the crook to give it a little additional weight. I have some other ideas as well but I have to be careful that it doesn't appear to be a sword or a war hammer, I think it can be done however for the sake of decorative art.