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| Buttstroke is among the major offensive techniques with the rifle |
Buttstroke is among the major offensive techniques with the rifle. <ref>''To Be a U.S. Marine'', by Stephen F. Tomajczyk, 2004, ISBN 0760317887 </ref> The 1918 ] Landing-force Manual desribes the following techniques of buttstroking.<ref name=usnavy>Landing-force Manual, United States Navy, 1918 By United States Navy Dept, United States, </ref> | ||
| *Buttstroke I - Upward swing: Swing the butt up at the opponent's crotch, ribs, forearm, etc.,-using a half-arm blow or advancing the rear foot. Buttstroke I is essentially a half-arm blow from the shoulder, keeping the elbow rigid, and it can therefore be successfully employed only when the right hand is grasping the rifle at the small of the stock. | |||
| *Buttstroke II - Forward strike: If the opponent jumps back so that the first butt stroke misses, the rifle will come into a horizontal position over the left shoulder, butt leading; the attacker will then step in with the rear foot and dash the butt into his opponent's face. | |||
| *Buttstroke III - Downward cut: If the opponent retires still farther out of distance, the attacker again closes up and slashes his bayonet down on his opponent's head or neck. | |||
| *Buttstroke IV - Side blow: If a thrust has been made at an opponent and parried, the butt can be effectively used by stepping in with the rear foot swinging the rifle to the left and rear, so that the butt leads and is in front of the right forearm. Then dash the butt into the opponent's face, or against the side of his head or jaw. When the opponent is out of distance, butt stroke III can again be used. In individual fighting, the butt can also be used horizontally against the opponent's ribs, forearm, etc. This method is impossible in trench fighting or in an attack, owing to the horizontal sweep of the bayonet to the attacker's left. | |||
| The butt must not be employed when it is possible to use the bayonet effectively. The buttstrike methods will usually only temporarily disable an enemy, who must be killed with the bayonet.<ref name=usnavy/> | |||
| ==Pistol whipping== | ==Pistol whipping== | ||
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Usage of a firearm as a blunt weapon is encountered in various situations. Examples include butt-stroking (sriking with the butt of a rifle) and pistol-whipping (beating someone with pistol).
Buttstroke
Buttstroke is among the major offensive techniques with the rifle. The 1918 US Navy Landing-force Manual desribes the following techniques of buttstroking.
- Buttstroke I - Upward swing: Swing the butt up at the opponent's crotch, ribs, forearm, etc.,-using a half-arm blow or advancing the rear foot. Buttstroke I is essentially a half-arm blow from the shoulder, keeping the elbow rigid, and it can therefore be successfully employed only when the right hand is grasping the rifle at the small of the stock.
- Buttstroke II - Forward strike: If the opponent jumps back so that the first butt stroke misses, the rifle will come into a horizontal position over the left shoulder, butt leading; the attacker will then step in with the rear foot and dash the butt into his opponent's face.
- Buttstroke III - Downward cut: If the opponent retires still farther out of distance, the attacker again closes up and slashes his bayonet down on his opponent's head or neck.
- Buttstroke IV - Side blow: If a thrust has been made at an opponent and parried, the butt can be effectively used by stepping in with the rear foot swinging the rifle to the left and rear, so that the butt leads and is in front of the right forearm. Then dash the butt into the opponent's face, or against the side of his head or jaw. When the opponent is out of distance, butt stroke III can again be used. In individual fighting, the butt can also be used horizontally against the opponent's ribs, forearm, etc. This method is impossible in trench fighting or in an attack, owing to the horizontal sweep of the bayonet to the attacker's left.
The butt must not be employed when it is possible to use the bayonet effectively. The buttstrike methods will usually only temporarily disable an enemy, who must be killed with the bayonet.
Pistol whipping
"Pistol-whipping" and "to pistol-whip" were reported as "new words" of American speech in 1955, with cited usages from 1940s. However both the term and the practice traces back to the Wild West of 1800s. Paul Wellman notes that a Westerner clubbing an opponent with the butt of a gun held by its barrel, seen in some westerns, is a wrong picture. There are several reasons why it would be wrong: the gun would be rendered useless for its primary purpose, danger of unintentional discharge, and loss of precious time to switch the grip. Instead, pistol whipping (also known as buffaloing) was done with the long and heavy barrel of the gun held in an ordinary manner.
Pistol whipping may leave unusual lacerations on the body of the injured due to various protruding details of the pistol.
References
- "Butt Stroke", Random House Unabridged Dictionary
- "Pistol whipping", Random House Unabridged Dictionary
- To Be a U.S. Marine, by Stephen F. Tomajczyk, 2004, ISBN 0760317887 p. 42
- ^ Landing-force Manual, United States Navy, 1918 By United States Navy Dept, United States, pp. 508-510
- "Fifty Years Among the New Words: by John Algeo, p. 142, from vol. 30 (1955), no. 4 of the American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society
- The Trampling Herd: The Story of the Cattle Range in America by Paul Iselin Wellman (1988) ISBN 0803297238, p. 196
- The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-popping Cow Waddy, by Charley Hester, Kirby Ross, 2004, ISBN 0803273460, Chapther 14: "Buffaloing"
- "Pistol whipping", in Forensic Pathology, by David Dolinak, Evan W. Matshes, Emma O. Lew, 2006, ISBN 0122199510, p. 185