No, I hadn't seen those yet Elleth. Thank you for pointing them out, I've been slowly working backwards through the posts in each section of the forum, as time and fancy permits. Thank you for the welcome! It's nice to be in a place where my desire to live in Middle Earth is looked at with understan...

Right, so I've been a member here for a while now and thought that I'd already posted an introduction...I know I typed one up when I joined, but apparently it didn't send to the site, possibly due to the fact that I joined in winter and we were having power and internet issues that winter. So yes, I...

you might look at getting the US Army Ranger's Handbook, it's got a lot of useful knowledge in it, and in fact it can be downloaded in pdf form from here http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/rt ... 1-2011.pdf

I know for a fact that the stuff Bruce has is excellent, I received the Shieneran long sword that he had as a gift a few years ago, and having had one previously, it is the same quality and sturdy build as the original piece I had. I hope that he still has several of the pieces currently on his site...

I have this http://www.museumreplicas.com/p-1397-mace-cane.aspx and can attest to it's effectiveness against a wide variety of wooden targets, haven't tried it out against steel targets or the like, nor on people either...however I know that it would definitely do some serious damage to anyone fooli...

I'm looking for a sword that MRL/Windlass used to make, their version of Aragorn's Ranger sword with scabbard if anyone can help I'd appreciate it, thanks.