Gunstock War Club, Battle Club

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Gunstock war club, battle club

Cold Steel® proudly presents the modern interpretation of a legendary, culturally significant, and quintessentially American instrument of war: the gunstock war club, a battle club shaped like a rifle butt.

As early as the 16th century, Native Americans recognized the devastating consequences of using a rifle butt as a weapon of attack and wasted no time in designing their own war clubs using this basic form. These clubs, made from straight-grained hardwoods such as hornbeam, maple, ash, hickory, or oak, could strike with immense force and proved extremely effective, particularly when supplemented with a short, pointed thorn or even knife blades.
In fact, the rifle butt club became so popular that it reached the Pacific coast and lasted well into the 1880s. Today, it remains an iconic ceremonial object.

Cold Steels® version of this fascinating instrument was designed by knifemaker Rich McDonald and has all the special characteristics of his historic models, such as the central ridge, sharp spine, and classic handle shape.

Instead of traditional hardwoods, Cold Steel® opted for impact-resistant, injection-molded polypropylene. This material is extremely impact-resistant and virtually indestructible, making it ideal for the production of impact weapons. It's also extremely weather-resistant: unlike wood, it won't rot, crack, splinter, or warp.

For American frontier reenactors, the war club features a very realistic wood grain and, when painted, its surface looks like wood.

Details:

- Material: impact-resistant polypropylene

- Total length: approx. 74.9cm

- Steel toe length: approx. 7.6 cm

- Thickness: approx. 3.8 cm

- Weight: approx. 1004 g

- Includes leather sheath for the blade

- Cold steel® item number: 92pgs




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