What caliber for Turks and Caicos?
Heading to an unsecure and, I guess now, disclosed location. Blogging will be sporadic. May queue up some re-runs.
It’s interesting to me that I did some research on the place and, of course, guns are banned as are pocket knives and pepper spray. It is apparently common for the locals to keep hornet spray to fend off invaders. I find that amusing. Of course, they are subjects.
Looking at the weather, it may be an interesting trip.
October 6th, 2015 at 8:28 am
Flew over it once. From 30,000 feet it looked beautiful and tiny. Have fun.
October 6th, 2015 at 10:24 am
Screwdrivers are legal there right? Just something to think about.
October 6th, 2015 at 10:59 am
You think a light like a Surefire E1D/E2D is banned?
Because I can promise you, unless you have real edged weapon training, a knife is not what you want anyhow. If you have a concept of switches and timers, and how to actually use one, a knife is fine but you have to expect to also take a beating while using one.
But… 1000 lumens in someone’s face will buy you 1-2 to 1 second to decide your next move. If that’s running away, great! If it’s bashing the canulated end of the light into their forehead, and you understand just how much foreheads bleed, and that no one wants to fight with their eyes full of blood…. Take a good tac light over a knife.
October 6th, 2015 at 11:00 am
Fwiw… I travels to France and Paris earlier in the year and knives were an absolute no-go, but the light was no issue.
October 6th, 2015 at 11:33 am
Despite the high rate of violent crime per 100K persons, it’s almost all locals and drugs. Tourists do not often have issues.
I don’t think you’d come across as easy prey. Just hang out near hipsters. It’s like the law of the jungle: you don’t need to be the fastest; you just don’t want to be the easiest catch.
Have fun.
October 6th, 2015 at 12:36 pm
You feel like you are in Tennessee what with the fantastically corrupt local government, incredibly high crime rate, and blistering heat.
October 6th, 2015 at 6:43 pm
Being that you’re on an island, this little gizmo works wonders if you need to use it:
https://youtu.be/r5YzsHKt-GU
October 6th, 2015 at 8:46 pm
I don’t know who Caicos’ are, but ole ‘Puckle’ had the remedy for Turks…square bullets!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckle_gun
October 6th, 2015 at 11:17 pm
I hear from people who have been there that it is beautiful, but keep in mind that Supreme Court Justice Breyer was robbed at machete-point in his house there in 2012 despite theoretically being under protection from the US Marshalls.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/13/us/justice-breyer-robbed/
October 7th, 2015 at 5:26 pm
http://www.westmarine.com/buy/orion–12-gauge-high-performance-alerter-basic-4-signal-kit–8665804
12 gauge aerial flare. You might even be able to find one after you arrive…
Not sure if the formula has changed, but these used to be impossible to put out once lit. (They will burn under water.) And of course if you were on your own boat, you would have someone machine an insert to shoot 357 or 44 magnum. The Poles make a 26.5mm steel flare gun, but the flares are impossible to find.
Mossberg also sold a “line thrower” for a while, which was basically the back-end of a 12 gauge Mariner. (so you had to disguise the regular barrel as conduit, pluming, whatever….) Now I think it is only sold as a kit for that shotgun.
While I haven’t looked at T&C for awhile, a lot of islands allow smooth-bore shotguns.
With a few obvious exceptions, the islands are safer than any big city on the mainland. If you are going to a resort, stay on the beaten track.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:09 am
Good job Zendo! Those are excellent ideas…. If you want to throw away everything in your life and rot in a foreign jail.
October 9th, 2015 at 10:57 pm
Other Steve, if it’s that or succumb to a lowlife thug, I’ll take the rotting in jail, content in the knowledge that the corpse of said lowlife thug is concomitantly rotting underground.
The rights to self-preservation and the tools for it don’t disappear due to some socialist political infringement. That’s the whole gunnie deal.