I am a nurse in the ER and I can tell you that brass knuckles will definitely put holes in your head. We had a guy with 3 separate skull fractures and about 30 staples.
@@bulllea not sure, never got to see them, just got to aid in cleaning and stapling. They are certainly more effective than a bare fist for sure. If the fractures had been a few mm deeper and had splintered into the brain then that guy would have been in serious trouble. He was very lucky to have walked away and not been in the ICU.
@@Hawkeye-ef4xf There is security cam video of dude ringing door bell, and holding his hand in the pocket as the home owner opens it. Then instantly cracks the guy with knuckles he was hiding in his pocket as the house owner talks to him. If i remember right the victims skull was fractuted even though didnt look even full power punches. I think even standard ones can put holes in the skull too because each "knuckle" part of the finger rings concentrates lots of force in tiny area, and have sharp corners.
I had a black belt tell me when I was 13. That if I hit a guy in the head with the ones I had. I might kill someone. I would be better to hit them in the Collar bone instead. He said they wouldn’t wanna fight no more. And you’d have plenty of time to get away.
I've been hit with brass knuckles before and four bones in my face were broken as a result. Now I've got a metal plate in my face. It's definitely effective.
As a Bouncer with 17 years experience in Red Light Districts i worked 90% of my Time alone and a Knuckle Duster is a nice upgrade when you fight multiple opponents.
@@eisenbeisser6630 me too, except I fought 50 guys. Maybe more. I karate chopped the first guy, and he went right down. Then the rest jumped me. I used the fire extinguisher as a smoke screen. They were all so confused as I used my ninja skills to sneak around and chop them down one by one. By the time the gas cleared, there were only 5 or 6 guys left..... Easy work as I simply used my chi-power skills to round-house them into oblivion. I wasn't even out of breath. How did you use your fire extinguisher?
Im ashamed to say I used brass knuckles in a fight a long time ago and it seriously messed the other dude up. He immediately had to go to the hospital, he a had few facial fractures and had to get a ton stitches. I experienced no pain or injury from using them, so whatever that proves.
I used them as a bouncer , when 3 drunk college kids want to make a name for themselves and jump the bouncers , you have to consider it a fight for your life
My Grandpa gave me his brass knuckles as a gift before he passed away. He explained that most of them were fitted and the inner (the part which goes into the palm) was usually covered in something like a thick piece of leather to help with grip and to cushion the impact on the inside hand bones. He also explained that often people would wear a pair of gloves (usually leather) which again tightens up the fit to prevent slipping. I don't know how my Grandpa Franzese knew this stuff! ha
i dont know, and wont comment, about "mafia" stuff, but i will confirm your grandfather knew what he was talking about when discussing how to use knuckles
I’ve seen people get hit with brass knuckles 3 times in my life. In all 3 cases, the person that was hit suffered from broken bones in their face. In all 3 cases, the person punching was not injured at all.
With knuckles it doesn't take much force to injure anyone with a light punch. You could jab with knuckles in hand: A person will have a dint in their head. The problem is if you commit to a punch and miss, and you hit a wall or concrete you can injure your hand.
One point with the brass knuckles. You start hitting someones hands, forearms, shoulder, collarbone, ribs with those jabs - they're gonna know alllll about it, and it really doesn't need any power behind it at all. Just the ole 'shin bump' amount of force, against a bone with little to no meat padding it, and someone will want absolutely nothing to do with it.
@@jasonpatio8338 nobody attacked me mate, I was just talking about the practical application of that kind of weapon. you're right, there's a lot of better suited metals, alloys, and synthetic materials being used that are more effective. and yes definitely, collarbone will be a fucker to get hit by one... but literally anywhere in the body with small, fine bones - or limited padding... they are pain compliance more than crippling body damage.
Here in texas, you can basically carry anything on you. I always carry my brass knuckles on me. I’m very aware of how dangerous it can be to strike someone with it. I will only use it if very necessary. Just like any weapon, carry and use responsibly.
Hell with that, I've been licensed to carry/conceal carry since 2015. You know there's constitutional carry now right? I don't agree with it, but beside the point. Brass knuckles are a hell of a lot slower than my EDC.
I I've in ftw. I carry, 1 fox folding karmbit, 1 sbc 9mm, 2 sets of brass knuckles, 1 knife in boot/shoe. If an asshole tries to rob an innocent in Texas, they surely must be from California. But they defiantly gonna die in Texas.
I’ve seen the damage a pair of dusters can do, and it’s devastating. It’s a great equaliser if you’re going into a fight against more than one person, you will only have to connect once. Even more dangerous if you can already throw a punch.
I have been on the other end of these. Its not pretty. Even if you have no clue how to throw a punch you can shatter a jaw with ease. Ask me how I know.
bruh read up on that, im def getting some nuckles cause I have a drinking problem so when I get over that then ill get my gun haha . gotta be safe and I like punching shit sooo hahah
You need to check into that again. You can own them in most places but if you conceal them that is a FELONY in most jurisdictions. Laws against brass knuckles are often EXTREMELY strict.
Something I haven't seen mentioned here: brass knuckles make you impossible to disarm. Nobody can take it from your hand, unless they cut your fingers off.
@@restistance4387 dodge the strikes, do not attempt to block them: these will severely damage your arm. When clinching/grappling, control the weapon arm or put your head in their weapon shoulder, as that will reduce their power and cover your face. Back control would be ideal. Don’t get married to the idea of ko-ing them first - in 90% of the standing fight, if you’re in range to ko them, the same is true for your opponent. They need less force to do it, meaning it’ll be easier for them to do so than you. On the ground, ensure you still control their weapon arm/ shoulder, as most strikes with it will easily bust your rib cage.
My dad seen a big bar brawl and watched a guy slip on brass knuckles and then wrap a white handkerchief around them. The guy started knocking people down. My dad then overheard 2 guys talking and one said to the other “hey, watch out for that guy with the broken hand over there, he’s beating the shit out of everyone” 😂
Get some dollar store gloves, get two flea market brass-knukles, insert into gloves . Then shield your face snd body as they hit the top of your hands. I didn't even have to swing back and still won.
Back in the 70s, I was a young teenager when I saw my big brother (he was 17) quickly put two guys down with brass knuckles (his were made of some kind of cast metal, but weren't brass), who were giving him a hard time. It was broad daylight and I never even noticed him put them on (he kept them in the back pocket of his jeans, from wear they would leave eventually an imprint on all your blue jeans). I was standing back away, holding a small baseball bat behind me just in case I was needed. Sometimes us brothers (4 of us) would get into fist fights with each other, but when it came to trouble, we were always very supportive. Great times.
There were 3 of us brothers growing up. Me being the oldest. Only person allowed to beat them was me. Everyone else had to go thru me first. And my bros werent shy about what would happen if they person got over on me either. Lol.
I carried a set the same way for a long time. I was in some hipster bar and some guy complimented me on my jeans and I was like 'What? They're just wranglers?' and he pointed out the fade outline of the knuckles and said something along the lines of 'How'd you get them to look like you have knuckles in your pocket' and he actually paled when I hooked them out and showed him. I thought it was sorta funny, the guy has brass knuckles tattooed on his cheekbone but never realized people still actually use them. Talk about projecting an image.
My house was broken into, and i was attacked just last week. My wife was home. Closest weapon to me was my knuckles. I was able to get him out of the house and keep my wife safe, and only suffered minor damage to my left hand. And what damage i did take was due to a glancing blow that settled happily into concrete. Also, my style of knuckles is very different from the one you guys are using. I can say that if you just fully commit to the strike, it really doesnt hurt. As for the judge and jury, I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
@@howey935 well I mean it’s a moral thing to protect those you love and so morals don’t really go out the door brother it’s just that it depends on the context
My grandfather went to Cambridge in England as an undergrad. He worked a bar at night and walked back home in some shady areas during the 1920's. He claimed to have punched two men with brass knuckles during his time there to escape being robbed. One lived, one did not.
A couple of year's ago in a small town about 20 minute drive from here a guy killed another guy with one punch with bare knuckles the guy that died was drunk and was the one that started the fight so the other guy was just defending himself but goes to show that you can kill someone with just you're bare fist
I'm pretty sure if some dude came up to you at a gas station and you popped on some knuckle dusters and slipped a mouth guard in they would think twice about trying to steal your wallet.
Back when i was in highschool we had a basketball player that superman punched another guy with brass knuckles over a girl. Long story short, the guy he hit was put in a coma and almost died. lost vision permanently in his left eye and had a shattered cheek bone and fractured skull. Dude that punched him went to prison for attempted murder with a deadly weapon. Case and point : while effective, unless your looking to make a bloody mess out of things dont carry brass knuckles.
There are so many weapons that people are not allowed to carry in public. I’ve never understood training with martial arts weapons that are illegal to wield on public property. In many parts of the U.S., you can conceal carry a firearm with a permit, but there are no permits for brass knuckles, nunchucks, sais, swords, etc. So, most people are better off getting a permit and carrying a gun.
I have real world experience with brass knuckles. I know someone who was attacked by a man who had brass knuckles. The victim ended up with multiple head lacerations requiring a lot of stitches and a concussion. They're definitely effective.
There is always the old biker trick of a bandana tied through the loop of a padlock. You keep the lock in your back pocket with the bandana hanging out. You can swing the lock from the bandana as an improvised flail or palm the lock with your middle finger through the loop. Used to be part of a particular MC dress code. Some guys had a lock pocket sewn into their Cut.
Once, a friend hit someone on the shoulder who was trying to rob him. He did a hammer blow with his brass knuckles just above his delts, then flew out. He always talks about how he heard the guy screams while he was running
A friend of mine was up in Chicago this passed January and a guy in a pub started harassing him. When he told the guy to F off, the guy blasted him in the face with brass knuckles. My buddy is a really big dude, but not a fighter… he’s a very passive guy, so he thinks this other guy was messing with him because my friend was bigger than him. Turns out the guy that hit him with the knuckles just got released from prison 6 weeks prior after doing time for aggravated battery. The shot with the knuckles broke his orbital bone, two teeth, and detached his retina. My friend is also my tattoo artist, and with one eye barely working, it has crippled his livelihood. He has a wife and kids to support. The attacker was identified quickly and warrant issued, but to date is still at large. He ended up assaulting another person a few weeks later in another bar similarly and was identified through surveillance cameras in establishment. He is still at large as of this writing.
I put many layers of spongy tape around the part that pushes against the palm of the hand. Also the interior of the finger holes where the meat of the fingers will compress against the inner hole of the weapon. This works SO much better when I walk around town punching walls and telephone poles.
@@hard2hurt I don't have a sweet-tooth but ironically I always have candy. Literally people give me and I just collect. I wish someone would steal em from me.
I am a smaller man so I carried one when I lived in Denver. Used it twice as self-defense, but in my off hand. It packs quite the punch as a jab and doesn't hurt as much :)
I had a friend get hit with brass knuckles in a bar fight…and he had to go to the hospital with broken ribs. It wasn’t even a clean punch and my friend didn’t think much of it until he woke up having problems breathing and found a big bruise on his side.
I really thought you’d hate them so that was surprising. During a fight even a quick hit to a dudes collar bone would be enough for them to surrender when used correctly this tool is devastating.
@@MrCmon113 Chill there, slayer. People here are generally talking about knuckle dusters as a tool of incapacitation, not a fucking killing weapon. If you slice someone and they bleed out, you're a fucking murderer. Yeah, sure, you can kill with a knuckle duster too, but only if you aim for the specific parts of the head. Knife can cut a major arteria and the man is a goner in a couple of minutes.
@@KeksimusMaximus Thank you for this comment, I have seen this Taxtro guy reply to over 5 different comments on this video talking about why a knife is so much better.
Two things. This is my first encounter with your channel ( I may have surfed through in the past and not remember though.) and I really dig your pragmatic approach so I'm subscribing. Second, my father has told me what it was like to be hit with brass knuckles as a young man in his early twenties. He boxed for most of his teenage years so he knows what a solid punch feels like, with some bare-knuckle highschool stupidity thrown in, and he said it felt nothing at all like a punch. Not even a little bit. It was an entirely new experience. He said he was not knocked out. He was fully aware of what was happening around him but the hit dropped him to his knees and even though he could think about moving he couldn't actually make his body do what he wanted. Again, he wasn't stunned into a conscious K.O. as can happen in the ring. He described it as being cut from his body in a way so foreign and terrifying that even if his body had responded to his intentions he might have been frozen by pain and fear and unable to move anyway. He said it lasted for at least a minute and if the guy had wanted to beat him to death there would have been nothing he could do to stop him.
that sounds actually terrifying wtf especially if your dad was a genuine boxer and those still put him on his ass like that. wow definitely taking some mf precautions
@@CenaCold75 depends how much you’ve drilled with correct form. In boxing matches those guys go can go 12 rounds and still maintain good form even with fatigue and adrenaline. Same applies with a street fight. Although, bottom line is, it’s fairly difficult to hurt your hand with brass knuckles and even if you do end up hurting your hand chances are you won’t need to use it again because the other guys going to have mush for a face.
My friends father was a young rocker in late fifties when he died my friend got his leather jacket there was foot long switch blade in breast pocket and brass knuckles right side pocket. That was a suprise
@Luke Brown You're right about the state specific thing but switch blades specially are more restricted than any other. Like in Georgia where I live you can't have a switch blade over 6 in so I've never seen a foot long switch blade.
I've watched your brass knuckle video before. But I just watched a video on how to properly hold brass knuckles and they're not supposed to be used by making a normal fist. You're supposed to brace them on the heel of your palm and the Knuckles part goes between the the first two Knuckles instead of going all the way over the second knuckle of your fingers. You may want to try that technique and see if it alleviates any hand pain.
It will alleviate hand pain, but the metal on skin will be doing damage there rather than fullforce punch to the wobble the brain. I'm not proud of this but I had a set of knuckle dustersq with skulls on the knuckle, I ended up against a guy with a very deviant past, I was 16 and alone with him at the time, I was him pour something into my drink, at which point Islipped on my dusters, I landed about 20 flush punches which left my arms looking like they'd been dipped in blood, seriously seriously ducked the guy up (remember, grown man, I'm 16 at time) I was actually quite traumatised at how badly I beat him, blood on the ceiling and everything. I did duck up my last two fingers and it definitely hurt, but this fella was scarred for life in the face
I remember watching old-school tutorials on how to use the brass knuckles. The instructor was like, "think outside the box! You don't have to just hit 'em in the noggin, you can swipe their shin and kneecap with it!" And proceeded to teaching how to punch knives out of people's hands lol
That's the wrong way to use them. The hand is held more like an old-school "leopard punch" and the strike is like a boxing rabbit punch. You are NOT supposed to use a conventional punch with them. Most people do not know how to use them correctly.
People didn't used to need a vid to show them common sense, its an old school pugilistic tool. There are plenty of HEMA Bartitsu, bare knuckle channels that could show you if you need to see pictures but just putting them on and spending more than 5 min thinking how it works will teach you.
As a teenage we bought brass knuckle paperweights from the carnival and like yours they spread our fingers so far apart it hurt our hand to hit anything. A few years ago decided i wanted a real pair. Searched high and low but finally found a pair of quality, solid brass knuckles that fit my closed fist perfectly. I tested them hitting on a BOB dummy and heavy bag with no discomfort to my hand. I dont carry because 1. I dont want to kill someone and 2 i dont live in a bad area where i could see me ever needing them and 3 they are a quality collectable unlike so many cheap paperweight knuckles, id prob never find another pair.
@@Traps510 some place i found online that made custom handmade. Unfortunately i dont remember the name but look around. I also got one thats a brass single knuckle.
I remember more than thirty years ago deciding to make a set of these. My father has access to a machine shop at work, so I started going to work with him at the weekends. My dad “ a master machinist ” has taught me the value of mock-ups and the hardest thing to get right with those wood test pieces was the palm fitment. I’m not surprised that a generic set would scare you because with that palm piece as narrow as the front of the knuckles, means the same amount of concentrated force from your punch Is winding up in your palm. From what I learned the only way to really put steam into these things is with something fitted to your palm. Even then though, no free lunch in physics the force must be spread out on a larger surface than the front.
The point is to increase brutality and to push the force into your palm instead of into your thin finger bones plus in a street fight ending the conflict quick is very important fuck your hand up if need be just stop the other guy I've personally broken my hand over someone's skull once and in the moment I didn't even notice it was broken until I saw it
"Never heard of anyone good keeping one of these for anything good." Trench knife variants used by the US military in WWI and in the 1940s. The WWI trench knife had a rounded handguard which could be used as a knuckle duster. The Mark I of the 1940s had the knuckle dusters as well as the stiletto dagger all in one piece. Although the stiletto was the primary use of the weapon, the knuckle dusters were there along with different kinds of pommels as a secondary weapon in case the blade failed to work or broke.
Oh yeah thats a thing init, I've seen those on battlefield or whatever didn't know a knife knuckle duster was real.. seems a bit much, kinda like ww1 I guess
When I was a doorman, I never carried brass knuckles but I did carry home made ones made from a plastic bread board. No saggy pocket and wouldn't set off any detectors.
Wrap the backstrap. Two reasons. 1: They'll be more comfortable and the little bit of padding prevents them from hurting your palm. 2: If you use them, you will have blood all over your hand, and when that happens the backstrap will slide out towards your fingertips and your fist will collapse. Knuckles do not play. I think you can see that pretty well from what you have experienced testing them, but I want to reinforce the idea. You will lacerate skin, crush bone, and the difference between a lethal strike and just making the guy's head swim is small enough you do not want to be swinging anywhere near as hard as you would with an unassisted strike. Anecdotal evidence abounds in these comments, some likely more legitimate than others, but I will add my own story from the first time I used a set here. I was standing in an alley behind a friend of a friend's house, waiting for him to buy a little green from his paranoid buddy who 'doesn't like new customers'. Some guy walking down the alley was acting erratic, looking around and checking over his shoulder, so I put the knuckles on in my hoodie pocket, and leaned against the garage across the alley so he'd have to pass in front of me. Pulled my phone out and cranked the volume so I didn't look threatening, just bored. Guy was about ten feet out and I looked up and gave him a nod, just acknowledging his presence and letting him know I was seeing him, and he started running his mouth about how I didn't know him and what the hell am I doing talking to him (I got the impression he had already marked me and this was just an excuse to have a confrontation) and he took a couple aggressive steps. I decided he had advanced enough and stopped him with a jab that was aimed for his teeth but he tried to slip it and it hit him over his eye. He falls over, tries to get up, falls, hands are covering his face, blood everywhere, and then his hands drop when he loses conciousness and the nice smooth curve above his eye is now an irregular dent and his eye is bulging. I ran up to the door, told paranoid boy he can fuck himself, me and my friend need to go NOW. Later we heard the police and an ambulance showed and took the guy to the hospital. Paranoid boy told the cops he had no idea what happened, the cops said he might not survive, they didn't know how long he had been unconcious. It was WELL after we left before someone found him and called. Paranoid boy of course freaked out because the cops showed up, but they never came back so I assume either the guy made it and wasn't too fked up or they realized what had probably happened and didn't care that he didn't make it. It wasn't exactly a nice part of town, I am sure it wasn't the first time they found a man on the way to being a body in that alley. Long story short, the knuckles were easily more effective than an unassisted punch, and I learned not to hit people in the head with them like I mean it unless I fking mean it.
@@GamingManiacManBest advice ever given. The cops key in and focus on the most incriminating words you say and lead you to agree with statements THEY make. They put words into your mouth and you go along with the lead and the next thing you know, you've confessed to a crime you didn't commit without even realizing it. There was a cop (of all people) that was accused of grape. (The "G" is silent) The investigator asked him to come in and give his account and he agreed. He said that he didn't need an attorney because he was innocent and he would just tell the truth. BIG MISTAKE. To make a long story short, he did 7 years of a 20 year sentence before DNA cleared him. If they will do that to one of their own, what chance would you or I have?
I've had the unfortunate exp of having come across someone who had these used on them. Rather than going into detail imagine what a unhardened clay sculpture of someone face would look like if you threw a right hook towards the eye. It was one of the most gruesome injuries I've ever seen.
@czongq yeah if you want to kill someone or go to prison for using the them then go for it but before you do learn to fight cus you're going to do alot it behind bars or you're going to become the wreck of compound.
@czongq Bet you been waiting to say that since you heard it. 🤣 It does sounds cool to a teen or someone who hasn't been through much. Also if I had to choose a weapon for self defense the last weapon I'd choose are knuckle dusters.
@@quique7764 I've been raped before. If I had one of these, I would have used them with 0 hesitation, and not lose an ounce of sleep over it. I'll never be fucked with like that again, because I will do anything it takes to protect my body. Even if it means mangling their face with knuckle dusters and risking prison. (They're legal to carry where I live btw)
@Wicker 2 TBH that's prob. your best choice in this scenario while retaining a lawyer & STFU. A lot of ppl think they know what self defense means, they typically don't. I've heard ppl say if they just utter these magic words, "I was in fear for my life" they can justifiably kill someone. That seems to only work if you're a cop & the person you kill is a minority or poor for that matter.
One of my friends was assaulted by a guy holding those. Being a judoca, he managed to grapple and take the knuckles of the hand. Biggest mistake was that he theatrically threw them away, as they "did not save the thug" and recieved a textbook knockout uppercut while doing so.
Some loser tried robbing me on my way to work, so I punched them in the face with my brass knuckles. That taught them not to do bad things like trying to steal from people, and now we've been happily married for 15 years.
I've still got the brass knucks that my father carried when he was an MP from 1935 to 1939..then he became a glider pilot..hammer fist to the collarbone was pretty much how he used them, they never struck heads with sticks or saps or brass knuckles, would destroy government property, you know...
I really like the bone tactical “key chain”. It’s basically a small fist pack with 1 or 2 finger rings. You can make a normal fist with a added advantage.
Same in California. I seen someplace that was selling paperweights that just happened to be the exact size and shape as brass knuckles. Don't know how long they got away with that though.
in high school someone who fancied themselves a mobster beat someone up with knuckles in a weed deal and the dudes guts got all perforated and he had to go to the hospital for weeks and weeks. it still probably hurt his hand tho
Look, I'm almost 60, lived in North Philly all my life. I have a set of Brass Knuckles that I've had since I was 15. Believe me, they've been used on more than a couple of occasions. Thing is, when I was coming up, you didn't have a lot of shooting... we threw hands. If you were lucky enough to come across a set of knuckles, you may have a slight advantage. But like anything else, you had to be used to and know how to use them...
It could definitely also be seen as intent to harm, alongside GBH. Not something you want to be prosecuted for! I think in most countries the amount of damage inflicted, which is significant, would be sufficient to be classified as extreme or undue force in most altercations. Especially because situations often seem more dangerous to those involved than to a legal judiciary. I've seen quite a few comments talking about how brass knuckles are good for self-defence, or that judges are too harsh for deeming them illegal/punishable. But I can fully see people getting into fights against UNARMED opponent's, smashing their face in, and thinking they were justified in it. Though, I don't really understand why they are illegal in countries like America, where guns are legal in many states...
I've been assaulted by a guy who used a pair, luckily I ended up learning what happens when you finish a heel hook but I ended up losing 7 teeth and needed an ass ton of stiches
I think that what you said at 11:06 is one of the main reasons to carry brass knuckles. Someone doesn't have to be a good fighter to cause damage/pain in a self-defense situation. If the person is, lack of a better word, small and weakly, elderly, or handicapped in some way. A weapon like this used against an attacker, without him/her seeing it coming, could do enough pain/damage to cause the attacker to give up or allow the victim to get away. Yes, it may hurt the victim some, but not as much as it would hurt the attacker if they are used correctly.
Crazy guy came to my house with a ball pin hammer looking for a fight a long time ago. Brass knuckles were all I had. Im not a fighter so I honestly felt bad after only hitting him once. I understand why they're illegal.
@@pet3r387 Being successfully used in defense isn't a good reason? The fact that being illegal doesnt prevent criminals from having them? The same argument applies to any weapon. The only valid weapon law is that it's illegal to use a weapon to commit a crime. I dont care if it's a gun, knife, sword, hammer, whatever. If you're not using it for a crime, possession alone shouldn't be made a crime. A weapon is a form of a tool. All weapons are tools, most but not all tools can be weapons. If you can use it to defend yourself, and arent using it for harm, you should have the right to have it. Imagining arresting someone for brass knuckles after someone attacks them with a hammer and they use them to defend yourself. That would he an awful arrest. A hammer is WAY more effective and deadly. The cause justifies the means.
@@Sheridantank Right but you can also use a hammer since their primary use is of a tool, not a weapon. However imagine police catch someone outside someone’s house with a brass knuckle, if the weapon is legal they could arrest him but don’t have any real case against him, he could argue that he was just relaxing there ect. now if the weapon is illegal they could actually put him in jail for having it. Also let’s not gloss over the fact that if it can be legally bought a portion of people would be either unable to use or would be yearning to use it.
@@pet3r387 That doesnt happen. They use kitchen knives. Again, criminals dont follow the law. Your premise is that we should ban something that can and has been used for self defense to keep criminals from having it. Zero, exactly ZERO criminals are effected by weapon laws. Illegal or not. You must be a kid or live a sheltered life. Criminals dont use these in crime and if they want to being illegal doesnt make it harder to get. THE ONLY VALID WEAPON LAW IS THAT IT'S ILLEGAL TO USE A WEAPON TO COMMIT A CRIME. If you believe otherwise, you live a sheep's life. You should read the story about the sheep who ask the wolf to shave down its teeth because it might use it to hurt them.
I was shown a variation with a fork. Grip the handle tight in your palm, fold the fork over the back of your knuckles, then bend the tines back up like spikes. We were (teenagers) at a restaurant late at night in a questionable part of town and getting hassled by some bigger dudes. Some random guy walked up to our table and made one to show us and threw it on the table. He said to make a couple more and use them outside if needed. I was more scared of that one guy than the table of a-holes lol
It sure is effective, saw a friend knock 2 people out with it once before he himself was put to sleep by another guy who hit him with a bar stool. He has a small stature but he is always getting into fights so he can throw a decent punch but those 2 that was knocked out by him were huge. All went to the hospital in the same ambulance, it was wild.
Bullshit. How I know this is a BS story is there is no fckn way all 3 would go on the same ambulance, there's not even room in the back for 3 people plus 2 EMTs 🤦🏼♂️ 😂
brass knuckles are a weapon youd literally only use if you were in a position where you were life or death fights...not just like a cool thing to use haha
Did you know that, historically, some police forces issued brass knuckles to the constables? I've seen a pair in my local museum (in Trowbridge, England), and I believe there are surviving examples of New York Police brass knuckles. Also, have you seen "sap gloves"?
sap gloves are the ones with sand sewn into them? a security guard coworker had a pair in the 90's and I thought it wouldn't end well for him with the police.
Sap gloves are a lot more practical, because they're combining the benefit of padding your knuckles with the added force from the extra weight. They're illegal in a lot of places, and I seriously doubt that it will end well for you legally speaking if you ever have to use them. Perception of weapons can make a huge difference to what the police and prosecutor and jury decide. So yeah, even though a pistol is objectively deadlier and more likely to cause more damage than brass knuckles or sap gloves, defending yourself with a pistol is probably less likely to land you in court or prison.
They were commonly used in ww1 trench fighting and self made lead ones were used regularly in the United States Civil War on both sides when things got past bayonet close. And historically they were well rounded as compared to sharp edged modern ones
Cold steel makes (made?...maybe discontinued) both an 8" dagger and a 10" Bowie blade with integrated knuckles... They are big and heavy, so not easy to conceal, but wow, they are what I would want to have in a zombie attack... Very deadly. The nuckles are very oversized, so even with my XL hands, I can wear leather gloves easily with them. If legal in your state, I'd highly recommend the dagger version for a combat belt carry... Second only to a surpressed pistol for quiet sentry removal in combat.
I've used to use carry various fist loads. My idea was as a boxer any thing that makes my punches stronger was a good idea. Brass knuckles started getting to much negative attention so I would used a roll of quarters wrapped in electrical tape which constantly had tot be replaced because I would use the quarters.
as a delinquent juvenile we would use either the quarters like you mentioned or a bic lighter wrapped with electric tape as a fist pack. they help. no question about it
I feel like with the extra little bit of mass and the hard metal, you clap someone a few times at like 60% and they are already gonna start to think twice. Also there's the benefit that if they get the upper hand you can aim a gorilla smash with all your might at the bone just above the eye and you should split them open like a banana skin, most ppl are gonna be at least distracted when their own head starts pissing merlot
I saw 2 drunk guys get their teeth punched down their throats by 1 older man who wasn't taking their B.S . Brass knuckles are very effective. Do not take them lightly, they will cause serious damage.
You have such a great personality on camera and it is good to see that you tell your before and after often and you let your ideas of what you think change if it seems plausible. My thoughts on the brass knuckles is that they are for people that don't hit as hard as they want to. Say an older person that has been in fights and knows how to hit and take a hit, but they plan on dealing out some pain and just want it to make their punches hurt more. Especially body punches.
As someone who unfortunately got in to a fight with someone who had one of those and was in a clinch scenario it cut my face up bad. Didn't stop me from fighting but I've got scars from it. Hurts A LOT
Cut your face up bad? I would think these are kinda used as a sucker punch as opposed of in an actual fight. Kinda like a walk up and finish someone off brutally for something they did etc. In a fight i could see them as a crutch. Either way if i land a shot with these on. Its night night, attempted murder charge and alot worse then sum cuts..
@@FlexFast thats what you think, but usually you will split them open really bad, and thats about it. If you break a jaw, it doesn't put them to sleep. Been there done that. I also beat someone half to death in a real one on one with a pair of BK. Intensive care for almost a week. But I wore them facing in and hammer fisted with them. That way I don't worry about my hands or wrist. I'm not proud of the fact, but they DEFINITELY work in a scuffle pr regular fight.
@@Gottiline_Ace you can connect anywhere on their skull though. So if i run up on you and you take a shot to the side of the head, or anywhere for that matter its gonna break bone. I would think this is where knuckles woukd be used as a cheap shot weapon to inflict alot of damage or potentially kill someone
@@Gottiline_Ace in an actual scuffle your right for sure though. You'll be landing punches but not as crisp as one not seen coming so i see how the nasty cuts come about. And damn yu psycho lol i aint punching nobody lol
I trained muay thai for 5 years before switching to bjj but after 2 years in mt i stopped wearing wraps as i felt my hands could harden over time the last time i was training upper body striking for about 2 years and i built my hands up to being able to punch a metal structural pole with 12 oz gloves at full blast for a few rounds. My knuckles grew and the gap between them shrunk ive been in a couple fights since then and whenever i hit someone i almost didnt know if i made contact their face felt like punching through the air you can condition knuckles to take a bad beating even though the hand is weak structurally but there is risk of short and long term complications also genetics play a role as well.
When I was in pre-school I lived down the street from a karate studio. Somehow I was convinced in my head that if you were a student there, on your birthday they would put up a piñata for you and you had to break it by kicking it.
Former correctional officer here. I do know that Brass Knuckles are illegal in several municipalities/states. some states also consider them the same as any other concealed weapon and MUST have a CC permit to keep them in your pocket. Federally though they are not regulated. So it is difficult to get a wholesale ruling on this. No one place to look for a law....what that means is PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check your state and local town/city/county/etc!
The whole point is that with this you don't need a lot of power to do a lot of damage, a light jab can cause a fracture, you really don't need to swing that hard. With bare fist you can break your hand when the other guy just eat that.
Late to the party but as a fun fact: The "duster" name comes from the garment, because dusters were worn as protective clothing by workers and they protect the knuckles. And brass knuckles protects your knuckles, hence a knuckle duster. :D
there was one brazilian youtube channel that I forgot the name, where he tested the Brass Knuckles and he concluded that they would be awesome if you are trying to do "cutting" moves with the fist, instead of punching.
Grandad said he used his in a raking motion on the rib cage he said don't use them like boxing gloves. He was pretty gnarly in trench warefar5e he said these and his trench knife mods kept him alive, he was bittish. He told me once, leave me musket leave me canon, give me a pistol and some brass knuckles and i will take that trench alone": he was drunk af tho and like 93 RIP.
Everything I've ever seen about brass knuckles being used "the right way" has always demonstrated them being used in a hammer-fist fashion; using quick wrapping motions like knocking on a door. Through experimentation I've found that it takes VERY little force to break test materials through clothing (tried bone, wood, and cinderblock). I imagine most traditional punches are going to mess up your hand since the knucks break wrist alignment.
I agree, it's like do you wanna sacrifice your boxing in a fight or do you wanna break your hand. Both seem shitty to me, like i wouldn't feel safe if i can't box in a fight
Yeah, hammer style is one way. The main way is to hold them as if you had paws and not hands. Slashing rakes and paw punching are the more common ways to use them.
I think the intimidation factor can't be discounted either. Everyone has seen a movie where these were used at least once, usually to devastating effect on a minor character.
Agreed. But I was surprised he didn't pad the bottom of his brass knuckles. I really takes away a lot of the pain coupled with the fact if you use it like you were to throw a leopard punch.
That right there is one reason why a lot of places have them outlawed in some way and you can get in a lot of trouble just carrying them around..ya REALLY gotta check the laws for your state when it comes to this thing..even if a half a dozen flea markets can get away with selling them as 'belt buckles'. The thing is something like this has been around in various cultures for hundreds of years so it's never really gonna go away no matter how much law makers try..as long as someone wants to add extra power to their punch something like this will find a way to pop up.
@@chomdaim3542 Yep..and like a comedian once pointed out..I think it was George Carlin..you could kill someone with the plastic knife they give you on the airplane if you really wanted to, it would take some effort but you could.
They are using the brass knucks wrong. You put them on the 2nd section of your fingers and swipe more than punch with them, not the top section ( the middle section of your fingers, section 2/3). Completely protects your hands and still does massive damage
my grandpa was always getting in fights as a kid, and he showed me his pair. based on what he told me, the reason they're hurting you is because you're holding them wrong. you're not supposed to hold them far up on your fingers and throw straight-wristed, ordinary punches, but instead you're supposed to put them just below your second knuckle and turn your hand upward slightly so that, instead of your knucklebones being in line with your arm to absorb the shock like normal, the curved bit is now in line with your arm bones as it braces you for each strike. it feels awkward at first, and to someone with as much muscle memory as I'm sure you have I'm sure it would feel completely wrong to punch with the weaker knuckles on that part of your hand, but because of the fact that the knuckles are taking most of the impact, it means that you don't risk breaking your fingers by throwing such a punch.
so if i get this as a comparrison... normal jabs are a straight line, and with knuckle dusters you basicly hit in more of a hook or haymaker-ey type ways... right?
Yes Brass knuckles are more than effective. I've used them and the guy had to go to the hospital and get tens of stitches. Needless to say I was deeply ashamed for using them on somebody, it was more of like the spur of the moment kind of thing like most fights are.
Yeah my dad got a hold ifnthese leather fingerless "combat gloves" they had stabby proof stuff in the pals, some lead heavy shit in the knuckles and some hard plastic shit just before the cut offs. They seemed quite legit like they were heavy and we were punching walls with them our hands were fine.. so was the wall but still
@@rykehuss3435 do you think they would work well for boxing someone with a helmet? Just in case I need to fight a guy riding a motorcycle and want to attack his head
So true. 2 weeks back, I slapped and punched a dude couple of times(no knuckles) and I didn't feel a thing until I was back and figured my knuckles are paining.
They are using the brass knucks wrong. You put them on the 2nd section of your fingers and swipe more than punch with them, not the top section ( the middle section of your fingers, section 2/3). Completely protects your hands and still does massive damage
As a former corrections officer I think you should do a bit about defending vs improvised weapons when you're unarmed. Garots, improvised blades, puncture weapons, etc
My cousin got his jaw knock out. I've always been told to rap the brass for padding and better to use lower not for a straight punch . Good review tho never used them my self
I would disagree. The palm is one of the hardest part of one's hand. And physics never lie, smaller the area, more pressure. And ridge material (metal) provides more force since the more the momentum is transferred to the target compared with flesh. I do think it will be awkward if one is not familiar with such weapon.
As I learned from a real legit "street fight for money" type dude from the 70s; get some 1mm leather cut into a long thin strip and wrap the "palm" thing with it like you were tightly wrapping it around a pole with a half diameter overlap.
Knucks work if you know how to use them as a defensive weapon and not offensive weapon. Which means you’ll most likely have to hit from a different angle which is what they’re designed for. A hammer punch is best effective when held right you’ll feel no pain when connecting. My friend was trying to use them with a straight on punch and before he tried hitting a tree I immediately stopped him and showed and told him how it needs to be done, I showed him no pain was issued to me, while the tree had 3 deep dents. He tried to say he doesn’t wanna use them this way and proceeded to hit the tree and broke his hand. Guys don’t let yourself have an ego when it could end your life.
Also don’t let the knucks go past the knuckles like seen on the watermelon test. They’re supposed to sit right on, but not directly on the tips of the knuckles. They’re called brass knuckles not brass fingers
Depends on what you buy. Cast pot metal knuckles will shatter when you hit someone with them. I've seen it happen to a friend of mine. They literally busted into 4 pieces.
The area against your palm needs to be wrapped. Leather or cable of some kind is common. Also you really have to set them comfortably against your palm and this is going to vary for every user, honestly I think custom made are the only real way to go.
The design of the brass knuckles could be tweaked slightly, meaning you could use a lot more force. The part that sits in your palm could be made wider and slightly convex, or like a piece of 1 1/4" tube that you can hold with the knuckle bits welded on. Possibly even wrapping some paddling round it as well. Although this might make them a little larger and harder to conceal
Brass knuckles are deadly, very easy to conceal, easy to use and deadly. Yes I said it twice. Good brass knuckles well made do little or no damage to the user. Love the things.
Yeah if you see a pair from the 20's there more space infront of the fingers so it doesn't break them which has been done away with in modern pairs because looks but you can tell they were made to be used
@@maxhames499 Brass knuckles are deadlier, one good strike to the side of the head and it’s over. The knife will kill you from blood loss, but it might not be enough to stop the agressor
My only experience with knuckledusters is when i was back stage at a concert and one of my friends girlfriends came up and gave him a pair of knuckledusters like "yo look what i just got, check these out!" And he was just like "yo im keeping these, he ain't getting them back" Then he kept threatening "dust" people the rest of the night
Question for Viewers: What other weapons should we look at?
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how about more hammer vids
Where is the knife video?😏😀
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I am a nurse in the ER and I can tell you that brass knuckles will definitely put holes in your head. We had a guy with 3 separate skull fractures and about 30 staples.
Holy shit
that particular brass knuckles that you are talking about ... that have spikes . or small balls on the edge .
@@bulllea not sure, never got to see them, just got to aid in cleaning and stapling. They are certainly more effective than a bare fist for sure. If the fractures had been a few mm deeper and had splintered into the brain then that guy would have been in serious trouble. He was very lucky to have walked away and not been in the ICU.
@@Hawkeye-ef4xf There is security cam video of dude ringing door bell, and holding his hand in the pocket as the home owner opens it. Then instantly cracks the guy with knuckles he was hiding in his pocket as the house owner talks to him. If i remember right the victims skull was fractuted even though didnt look even full power punches. I think even standard ones can put holes in the skull too because each "knuckle" part of the finger rings concentrates lots of force in tiny area, and have sharp corners.
I had a black belt tell me when I was 13. That if I hit a guy in the head with the ones I had. I might kill someone. I would be better to hit them in the Collar bone instead. He said they wouldn’t wanna fight no more. And you’d have plenty of time to get away.
I've been hit with brass knuckles before and four bones in my face were broken as a result. Now I've got a metal plate in my face. It's definitely effective.
how did u get to such fight
And I bet you learned your lesson .
@@ms00x22 Those fights tend to come to you unfortunately!
😂 😂
@@klipser66 😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a Bouncer with 17 years experience in Red Light Districts i worked 90% of my Time alone and a Knuckle Duster is a nice upgrade when you fight multiple opponents.
Please tell more
Same here. Pepper spray and a HARD right hand. They will back up or get dropped. Stay safe bruh.
@@patricklandor47thank you, you too Brother.
😂 me too. When I have to fight 10 guys at once, my brass knuckles make me like a ninja.
@@eisenbeisser6630 me too, except I fought 50 guys. Maybe more. I karate chopped the first guy, and he went right down. Then the rest jumped me. I used the fire extinguisher as a smoke screen. They were all so confused as I used my ninja skills to sneak around and chop them down one by one. By the time the gas cleared, there were only 5 or 6 guys left..... Easy work as I simply used my chi-power skills to round-house them into oblivion. I wasn't even out of breath. How did you use your fire extinguisher?
Im ashamed to say I used brass knuckles in a fight a long time ago and it seriously messed the other dude up. He immediately had to go to the hospital, he a had few facial fractures and had to get a ton stitches. I experienced no pain or injury from using them, so whatever that proves.
Why are you ashamed?
@@kostaborojevic498 long live the spirit of yugoslavia!
@@kostaborojevic498Might have been a fight over a petty dispute or argument instead of legitimate self defense
I used them as a bouncer , when 3 drunk college kids want to make a name for themselves and jump the bouncers , you have to consider it a fight for your life
@@jram7047 How'd that go?
My Grandpa gave me his brass knuckles as a gift before he passed away. He explained that most of them were fitted and the inner (the part which goes into the palm) was usually covered in something like a thick piece of leather to help with grip and to cushion the impact on the inside hand bones. He also explained that often people would wear a pair of gloves (usually leather) which again tightens up the fit to prevent slipping.
I don't know how my Grandpa Franzese knew this stuff! ha
Your grandfather was probably apart of the mafia of something... He seems like he knows his stuff...
i dont know, and wont comment, about "mafia" stuff, but i will confirm your grandfather knew what he was talking about when discussing how to use knuckles
Your grandpa was a badass and knew his shit.
He use to work in waste management.
That's a cool story bro, respect 🇮🇪🍀
I’ve seen people get hit with brass knuckles 3 times in my life. In all 3 cases, the person that was hit suffered from broken bones in their face. In all 3 cases, the person punching was not injured at all.
Same here I saw a guy get a couple teeth knocked out from a hit
did the punchers get sued or jailed?
With knuckles it doesn't take much force to injure anyone with a light punch. You could jab with knuckles in hand: A person will have a dint in their head. The problem is if you commit to a punch and miss, and you hit a wall or concrete you can injure your hand.
@@freeform7012 I think even without the knuckles if you hit concrete or a wall you will hurt your hand
@@freeform7012 same without brass knuckles tho lmao
One point with the brass knuckles. You start hitting someones hands, forearms, shoulder, collarbone, ribs with those jabs - they're gonna know alllll about it, and it really doesn't need any power behind it at all. Just the ole 'shin bump' amount of force, against a bone with little to no meat padding it, and someone will want absolutely nothing to do with it.
This
@@jasonpatio8338 nobody attacked me mate, I was just talking about the practical application of that kind of weapon. you're right, there's a lot of better suited metals, alloys, and synthetic materials being used that are more effective. and yes definitely, collarbone will be a fucker to get hit by one... but literally anywhere in the body with small, fine bones - or limited padding... they are pain compliance more than crippling body damage.
Only the crest of the shoulder (right above the deltoid) has exposed bone, the others are all good.
One good chin jab outta nowhere will make your attacker think about life reevaluations after you connect one blow with a enough force behind it
Imagine someone punches your elbow with that thing. You have to wonder how you ended up in that situation and reconsider the path your life is taking.
Here in texas, you can basically carry anything on you.
I always carry my brass knuckles on me.
I’m very aware of how dangerous it can be to strike someone with it.
I will only use it if very necessary.
Just like any weapon, carry and use responsibly.
I think it would tickle if you got hit by them
I mean it just like carrying a knife or any other weapon it's going to be your last resort.
Hell with that, I've been licensed to carry/conceal carry since 2015. You know there's constitutional carry now right? I don't agree with it, but beside the point. Brass knuckles are a hell of a lot slower than my EDC.
I I've in ftw. I carry, 1 fox folding karmbit, 1 sbc 9mm, 2 sets of brass knuckles, 1 knife in boot/shoe. If an asshole tries to rob an innocent in Texas, they surely must be from California. But they defiantly gonna die in Texas.
@@Texan1048carry both, and a knife.
I’ve seen the damage a pair of dusters can do, and it’s devastating.
It’s a great equaliser if you’re going into a fight against more than one person, you will only have to connect once.
Even more dangerous if you can already throw a punch.
I can confirm this to be true
@@BradCrandall if multiple people fight one guy alone they definitely do😂
i love this
I have been on the other end of these. Its not pretty. Even if you have no clue how to throw a punch you can shatter a jaw with ease. Ask me how I know.
@@williamfrance856 How do you know?
They are legal in Texas. One thing you aren't considering, Being 55 years old, I have lost most of my power. This levels the playing field!
bruh read up on that, im def getting some nuckles cause I have a drinking problem so when I get over that then ill get my gun haha . gotta be safe and I like punching shit sooo hahah
You need to check into that again. You can own them in most places but if you conceal them that is a FELONY in most jurisdictions. Laws against brass knuckles are often EXTREMELY strict.
@@danlorett2184 You can legally carry brass knuckles with you in Texas even concealed
@@Andyhaucqog1 Yeah, they just changed the law a couple years ago. Before that it was minimum a year in jail and in some counties even worse.
@@danlorett2184 In my country you can't even own it legally, you go to a flea market or cast them yourself and you're already a criminal
Something I haven't seen mentioned here: brass knuckles make you impossible to disarm. Nobody can take it from your hand, unless they cut your fingers off.
Probably why trench knives have knuckle duster grips. Imagine all the entangled fighting in the trenches in ww1
I never thought about that we need a instructional video on how to defend against someone with brass knuckles.
@@restistance4387 dodge the strikes, do not attempt to block them: these will severely damage your arm. When clinching/grappling, control the weapon arm or put your head in their weapon shoulder, as that will reduce their power and cover your face. Back control would be ideal.
Don’t get married to the idea of ko-ing them first - in 90% of the standing fight, if you’re in range to ko them, the same is true for your opponent. They need less force to do it, meaning it’ll be easier for them to do so than you.
On the ground, ensure you still control their weapon arm/ shoulder, as most strikes with it will easily bust your rib cage.
@@juliansanderson839 Good ideas
@@restistance4387 Quick kick to the balls and then run
My dad seen a big bar brawl and watched a guy slip on brass knuckles and then wrap a white handkerchief around them. The guy started knocking people down.
My dad then overheard 2 guys talking and one said to the other “hey, watch out for that guy with the broken hand over there, he’s beating the shit out of everyone” 😂
This some funny as shit😂😂
Fake story
@PinHeadThePopeOfHell No, I read it, it's really a story.
@@DallasG83 fake
Get some dollar store gloves, get two flea market brass-knukles, insert into gloves . Then shield your face snd body as they hit the top of your hands. I didn't even have to swing back and still won.
Back in the 70s, I was a young teenager when I saw my big brother (he was 17) quickly put two guys down with brass knuckles (his were made of some kind of cast metal, but weren't brass), who were giving him a hard time. It was broad daylight and I never even noticed him put them on (he kept them in the back pocket of his jeans, from wear they would leave eventually an imprint on all your blue jeans). I was standing back away, holding a small baseball bat behind me just in case I was needed. Sometimes us brothers (4 of us) would get into fist fights with each other, but when it came to trouble, we were always very supportive. Great times.
Now that’s a good ole boy!
There were 3 of us brothers growing up. Me being the oldest. Only person allowed to beat them was me. Everyone else had to go thru me first. And my bros werent shy about what would happen if they person got over on me either. Lol.
I carried a set the same way for a long time. I was in some hipster bar and some guy complimented me on my jeans and I was like 'What? They're just wranglers?' and he pointed out the fade outline of the knuckles and said something along the lines of 'How'd you get them to look like you have knuckles in your pocket' and he actually paled when I hooked them out and showed him. I thought it was sorta funny, the guy has brass knuckles tattooed on his cheekbone but never realized people still actually use them. Talk about projecting an image.
No offence, but that is the most Italian shit I’ve ever heard lol
We get it you saw four brothers last week
My house was broken into, and i was attacked just last week. My wife was home. Closest weapon to me was my knuckles. I was able to get him out of the house and keep my wife safe, and only suffered minor damage to my left hand. And what damage i did take was due to a glancing blow that settled happily into concrete. Also, my style of knuckles is very different from the one you guys are using.
I can say that if you just fully commit to the strike, it really doesnt hurt. As for the judge and jury, I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
12 jurors, 6 lol
Buries
Stop using my name
I been to prison. But thats irrelevant. Any male who claims to be a man should be willing to do whatever it takes to protect his family.
@@JamesThompson-xn2jv respect dude
@@poopyanalbumhole and you wouldn't? you'd rather die than spend prison time?
When it comes to protecting my family I leave my morals at the door and would do and use anything I could
Where do you live where random people break into your house and try to hurt your family?
@@Thomas-gj1zn north east england the poverty capital of the uk
@@howey935 well I mean it’s a moral thing to protect those you love and so morals don’t really go out the door brother it’s just that it depends on the context
Agree.
I whole heartedly agree with you, nobody f**ks with the family I've got even if they're on my bad side.
My grandfather went to Cambridge in England as an undergrad. He worked a bar at night and walked back home in some shady areas during the 1920's. He claimed to have punched two men with brass knuckles during his time there to escape being robbed. One lived, one did not.
Whoa
Coward he couldn't his fists like a man cowards use weapons men fight with fists until death
Honestly not surprised. People forget how serious head injuries are.
Best grandfather ever. I am proud of him. And i wish my both grandfathers were the same instead of drunkards...
A couple of year's ago in a small town about 20 minute drive from here a guy killed another guy with one punch with bare knuckles the guy that died was drunk and was the one that started the fight so the other guy was just defending himself but goes to show that you can kill someone with just you're bare fist
I've noticed that there are different sizes of brass knuckles. Maybe finding one that's suited to the user's hand size is the fix.
Oh for sure, that and some have wire edges from casting. I recommend a set of needle files and patience for tayloring one to your hand
Yup, size and shape. No two hands are the same.
Those ones look like the Chinese ones from DHGate. They are pretty small even if they are thick.
I'm pretty sure if some dude came up to you at a gas station and you popped on some knuckle dusters and slipped a mouth guard in they would think twice about trying to steal your wallet.
@@Tobby4063 yeah the mouth guard makes you a harder to hurt opponent instantly and there is no laws regarding it.
Back when i was in highschool we had a basketball player that superman punched another guy with brass knuckles over a girl. Long story short, the guy he hit was put in a coma and almost died. lost vision permanently in his left eye and had a shattered cheek bone and fractured skull. Dude that punched him went to prison for attempted murder with a deadly weapon. Case and point : while effective, unless your looking to make a bloody mess out of things dont carry brass knuckles.
Simp hours
A truly heartwarming story.
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There are so many weapons that people are not allowed to carry in public. I’ve never understood training with martial arts weapons that are illegal to wield on public property. In many parts of the U.S., you can conceal carry a firearm with a permit, but there are no permits for brass knuckles, nunchucks, sais, swords, etc. So, most people are better off getting a permit and carrying a gun.
@@Scorch1028 if you have a concealed carry you can carry anything you can conceal it. You don’t have to carry a gun but when you can why wouldn’t you
I have real world experience with brass knuckles. I know someone who was attacked by a man who had brass knuckles. The victim ended up with multiple head lacerations requiring a lot of stitches and a concussion. They're definitely effective.
What are the characteristics of a good knuckle?
There is always the old biker trick of a bandana tied through the loop of a padlock. You keep the lock in your back pocket with the bandana hanging out. You can swing the lock from the bandana as an improvised flail or palm the lock with your middle finger through the loop. Used to be part of a particular MC dress code. Some guys had a lock pocket sewn into their Cut.
that's fuckin terrifying
@@anactualalpaca7016 😂😂 yeah it is
In prison you put a lock in a sock and use that. Super dangerous weapon
I first read banna
@@sunofpeter2 in the marine corp they use towels and bars of soap =O
I got jumped by some melons one time, but I was able to talk my way out of it.
not me , when I got jumped i cut the heart out of every one of those bully melons
Mal Theri well he did say everything...
@Conor Eliot that sounds like a horrible first night in the produce cell block.
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Love how a channel called “Hard to Hurt.” You hurt yourself every episode.
That's why it's hard to hurt. Not hard to hurt yourself lol.
that's what happens when you don't know how to throw a punch properly
Funny seeing you here instead of over at the Bog lair or at the Cool Taste Lounge
Once, a friend hit someone on the shoulder who was trying to rob him. He did a hammer blow with his brass knuckles just above his delts, then flew out. He always talks about how he heard the guy screams while he was running
He probably tore open the entire shoulder... damn. This is a scary weapon
I almost feel bad for the robber
@@unterhau1102 Almost.
@@Mightylcanis almost
Did the other guy have a weapon?
A friend of mine was up in Chicago this passed January and a guy in a pub started harassing him. When he told the guy to F off, the guy blasted him in the face with brass knuckles. My buddy is a really big dude, but not a fighter… he’s a very passive guy, so he thinks this other guy was messing with him because my friend was bigger than him. Turns out the guy that hit him with the knuckles just got released from prison 6 weeks prior after doing time for aggravated battery.
The shot with the knuckles broke his orbital bone, two teeth, and detached his retina. My friend is also my tattoo artist, and with one eye barely working, it has crippled his livelihood. He has a wife and kids to support. The attacker was identified quickly and warrant issued, but to date is still at large. He ended up assaulting another person a few weeks later in another bar similarly and was identified through surveillance cameras in establishment. He is still at large as of this writing.
Escape Chicago while you can.
Jesus Christ Chicago is a fking shit hole. The fk are the cops doing there?
wishing your friend the best
@@JonGunnrOHainifin He did a long time ago. He was up there visiting family and went out to a bar with some friends.
Sounds about Chicago
I put many layers of spongy tape around the part that pushes against the palm of the hand. Also the interior of the finger holes where the meat of the fingers will compress against the inner hole of the weapon. This works SO much better when I walk around town punching walls and telephone poles.
Bingo
Hahahhahaha lost it at you walking around town punching telephone poles randomly 😭
Yeah I've noticed a lot of people making these videos don't actually know how to use brass knuckles...
Dude try old school granny knuckle them ,don't put em way down your palm,just halfway down to the middle in your hand.
You wanna be friends with someone who's not really into sweets. They'll never steal your candy or ask u to share lol
Buy they never have any for me to steal
That might explain why people wanted to be my friend in school
@@hard2hurt Real talk
@@hard2hurt I don't have a sweet-tooth but ironically I always have candy. Literally people give me and I just collect. I wish someone would steal em from me.
@@hard2hurt But you wouldn't need to steal it from them, they'd just give it to you.
I am a smaller man so I carried one when I lived in Denver. Used it twice as self-defense, but in my off hand. It packs quite the punch as a jab and doesn't hurt as much :)
Bro I live in Denver! Why you scaring me talking about you used it twice hahah
Got in a fight in Denver??? Its Candyland out there. Use your words bro, easily end up in prison using knuckle dusters.
@@cliffhooper3558 words can help?
@@JG-ij5hb depends on the words 😈
I had a friend get hit with brass knuckles in a bar fight…and he had to go to the hospital with broken ribs. It wasn’t even a clean punch and my friend didn’t think much of it until he woke up having problems breathing and found a big bruise on his side.
"You close it out by not closing it out."
That's some Confucius shit right there.
shit moved me bro
Later this summer: "Why are all these watermelons growing in the middle of a park??? "
I really thought you’d hate them so that was surprising.
During a fight even a quick hit to a dudes collar bone would be enough for them to surrender when used correctly this tool is devastating.
That's what my father did as an MP circa 1935...
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@@MrCmon113 Chill there, slayer. People here are generally talking about knuckle dusters as a tool of incapacitation, not a fucking killing weapon. If you slice someone and they bleed out, you're a fucking murderer. Yeah, sure, you can kill with a knuckle duster too, but only if you aim for the specific parts of the head. Knife can cut a major arteria and the man is a goner in a couple of minutes.
@@KeksimusMaximus Thank you for this comment, I have seen this Taxtro guy reply to over 5 different comments on this video talking about why a knife is so much better.
What I've learned from this is that hard2hurt is pretty easy to hurt.
Haven't heard "own that hurts" so many times in one video in a while.
Literally trying to impress a child and his very big but very soft friend, while looking like he’s literally never had a fight in his entire life 😂
Two things. This is my first encounter with your channel ( I may have surfed through in the past and not remember though.) and I really dig your pragmatic approach so I'm subscribing. Second, my father has told me what it was like to be hit with brass knuckles as a young man in his early twenties. He boxed for most of his teenage years so he knows what a solid punch feels like, with some bare-knuckle highschool stupidity thrown in, and he said it felt nothing at all like a punch. Not even a little bit. It was an entirely new experience. He said he was not knocked out. He was fully aware of what was happening around him but the hit dropped him to his knees and even though he could think about moving he couldn't actually make his body do what he wanted. Again, he wasn't stunned into a conscious K.O. as can happen in the ring. He described it as being cut from his body in a way so foreign and terrifying that even if his body had responded to his intentions he might have been frozen by pain and fear and unable to move anyway. He said it lasted for at least a minute and if the guy had wanted to beat him to death there would have been nothing he could do to stop him.
dude..... that's crazy scary o.o im so glad your dad lived through that, that sounds like sth i wouldnt wish on anyone
that sounds actually terrifying wtf especially if your dad was a genuine boxer and those still put him on his ass like that. wow definitely taking some mf precautions
Sounds like a serious attitude adjustment!
@@shadygraves 😂😂😂
yeah they hurt your palm, but you know what hurts more? breaking your knuckles on someone else's skull.
if you swing hard enough to break your knuckles on someone's skull you probably killed them lmao
@@connorferguson5952 you can hit at a bad angle or sonething
@@CenaCold75 if you punch with incorrect form yeah 😆 you should probably only get them if you know how to box
@@connorferguson5952 in street fight with increased hearth rate and everything it is pretty likely someone will punch with bad form
@@CenaCold75 depends how much you’ve drilled with correct form. In boxing matches those guys go can go 12 rounds and still maintain good form even with fatigue and adrenaline. Same applies with a street fight. Although, bottom line is, it’s fairly difficult to hurt your hand with brass knuckles and even if you do end up hurting your hand chances are you won’t need to use it again because the other guys going to have mush for a face.
My friends father was a young rocker in late fifties when he died my friend got his leather jacket there was foot long switch blade in breast pocket and brass knuckles right side pocket. That was a suprise
A foot long???? Holy shit. Also don't tell anyone about the switch blade or you'll get in trouble.
@Luke Brown You're right about the state specific thing but switch blades specially are more restricted than any other. Like in Georgia where I live you can't have a switch blade over 6 in so I've never seen a foot long switch blade.
@Luke Brown Yeah and I keep running into this gray area when I try to research the legality of brass knuckles in Georgia
@Luke Brown Texas made Brass knuckles along with tactical batons legal about 2-3 years ago.
2018 IIRC.
One foot long? That might as well be a sword at that point.
I've watched your brass knuckle video before. But I just watched a video on how to properly hold brass knuckles and they're not supposed to be used by making a normal fist. You're supposed to brace them on the heel of your palm and the Knuckles part goes between the the first two Knuckles instead of going all the way over the second knuckle of your fingers. You may want to try that technique and see if it alleviates any hand pain.
It will alleviate hand pain, but the metal on skin will be doing damage there rather than fullforce punch to the wobble the brain. I'm not proud of this but I had a set of knuckle dustersq with skulls on the knuckle, I ended up against a guy with a very deviant past, I was 16 and alone with him at the time, I was him pour something into my drink, at which point Islipped on my dusters, I landed about 20 flush punches which left my arms looking like they'd been dipped in blood, seriously seriously ducked the guy up (remember, grown man, I'm 16 at time) I was actually quite traumatised at how badly I beat him, blood on the ceiling and everything. I did duck up my last two fingers and it definitely hurt, but this fella was scarred for life in the face
I remember watching old-school tutorials on how to use the brass knuckles. The instructor was like, "think outside the box! You don't have to just hit 'em in the noggin, you can swipe their shin and kneecap with it!" And proceeded to teaching how to punch knives out of people's hands lol
That's the wrong way to use them. The hand is held more like an old-school "leopard punch" and the strike is like a boxing rabbit punch. You are NOT supposed to use a conventional punch with them. Most people do not know how to use them correctly.
Make a vid on em
People didn't used to need a vid to show them common sense, its an old school pugilistic tool. There are plenty of HEMA Bartitsu, bare knuckle channels that could show you if you need to see pictures but just putting them on and spending more than 5 min thinking how it works will teach you.
Exactly. And you don't throw full power into either, a little jab will slice.
@@masterej7998 Because you don't believe me?
@@BatDeckard1138 no i believe you you'd probabaly explain it better then the dudes on this vid
Next Video:
"Can POOL NOODLES really be this destructive?"
I could easily use a pool nood as a weapon
Actually, wrap it around a limb or neck...
i mean he uses them to train
Google "giant dildo larp ko" ...
@@camfer9616 omg, thank you so much!
As a teenage we bought brass knuckle paperweights from the carnival and like yours they spread our fingers so far apart it hurt our hand to hit anything. A few years ago decided i wanted a real pair. Searched high and low but finally found a pair of quality, solid brass knuckles that fit my closed fist perfectly. I tested them hitting on a BOB dummy and heavy bag with no discomfort to my hand. I dont carry because 1. I dont want to kill someone and 2 i dont live in a bad area where i could see me ever needing them and 3 they are a quality collectable unlike so many cheap paperweight knuckles, id prob never find another pair.
Where to get quality brass knuckles mate?
Where did you get em?
@@Traps510 some place i found online that made custom handmade. Unfortunately i dont remember the name but look around. I also got one thats a brass single knuckle.
I got a pair given to me ill never part with um
@@qeczx1017ya can't easily in France u can buy um over coynter
I remember more than thirty years ago deciding to make a set of these. My father has access to a machine shop at work, so I started going to work with him at the weekends. My dad “ a master machinist ” has taught me the value of mock-ups and the hardest thing to get right with those wood test pieces was the palm fitment. I’m not surprised that a generic set would scare you because with that palm piece as narrow as the front of the knuckles, means the same amount of concentrated force from your punch Is winding up in your palm. From what I learned the only way to really put steam into these things is with something fitted to your palm. Even then though, no free lunch in physics the force must be spread out on a larger surface than the front.
Best comment I'm putting tape on my handle
The point is to increase brutality and to push the force into your palm instead of into your thin finger bones plus in a street fight ending the conflict quick is very important fuck your hand up if need be just stop the other guy I've personally broken my hand over someone's skull once and in the moment I didn't even notice it was broken until I saw it
If you hit hard enough to break their face, it won't hurt as bad.
"Never heard of anyone good keeping one of these for anything good."
Trench knife variants used by the US military in WWI and in the 1940s. The WWI trench knife had a rounded handguard which could be used as a knuckle duster. The Mark I of the 1940s had the knuckle dusters as well as the stiletto dagger all in one piece. Although the stiletto was the primary use of the weapon, the knuckle dusters were there along with different kinds of pommels as a secondary weapon in case the blade failed to work or broke.
ww1 was not good.
Oh yeah thats a thing init, I've seen those on battlefield or whatever didn't know a knife knuckle duster was real.. seems a bit much, kinda like ww1 I guess
BC41 knuckles...
@@kelvinwilliams6999 Didn't know about those but now I do. Cool.
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Hey link us to the CD when it drops....
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Send cd bro
Badass, you gonna sound like Suicidal Tendencies or Kreator? I'm down for it either way, let me know if you need a bass player!! lol
When I was a doorman, I never carried brass knuckles but I did carry home made ones made from a plastic bread board. No saggy pocket and wouldn't set off any detectors.
How tho? Just curious
Wrap the backstrap. Two reasons. 1: They'll be more comfortable and the little bit of padding prevents them from hurting your palm. 2: If you use them, you will have blood all over your hand, and when that happens the backstrap will slide out towards your fingertips and your fist will collapse.
Knuckles do not play. I think you can see that pretty well from what you have experienced testing them, but I want to reinforce the idea. You will lacerate skin, crush bone, and the difference between a lethal strike and just making the guy's head swim is small enough you do not want to be swinging anywhere near as hard as you would with an unassisted strike.
Anecdotal evidence abounds in these comments, some likely more legitimate than others, but I will add my own story from the first time I used a set here. I was standing in an alley behind a friend of a friend's house, waiting for him to buy a little green from his paranoid buddy who 'doesn't like new customers'. Some guy walking down the alley was acting erratic, looking around and checking over his shoulder, so I put the knuckles on in my hoodie pocket, and leaned against the garage across the alley so he'd have to pass in front of me. Pulled my phone out and cranked the volume so I didn't look threatening, just bored. Guy was about ten feet out and I looked up and gave him a nod, just acknowledging his presence and letting him know I was seeing him, and he started running his mouth about how I didn't know him and what the hell am I doing talking to him (I got the impression he had already marked me and this was just an excuse to have a confrontation) and he took a couple aggressive steps. I decided he had advanced enough and stopped him with a jab that was aimed for his teeth but he tried to slip it and it hit him over his eye. He falls over, tries to get up, falls, hands are covering his face, blood everywhere, and then his hands drop when he loses conciousness and the nice smooth curve above his eye is now an irregular dent and his eye is bulging. I ran up to the door, told paranoid boy he can fuck himself, me and my friend need to go NOW. Later we heard the police and an ambulance showed and took the guy to the hospital. Paranoid boy told the cops he had no idea what happened, the cops said he might not survive, they didn't know how long he had been unconcious. It was WELL after we left before someone found him and called. Paranoid boy of course freaked out because the cops showed up, but they never came back so I assume either the guy made it and wasn't too fked up or they realized what had probably happened and didn't care that he didn't make it. It wasn't exactly a nice part of town, I am sure it wasn't the first time they found a man on the way to being a body in that alley. Long story short, the knuckles were easily more effective than an unassisted punch, and I learned not to hit people in the head with them like I mean it unless I fking mean it.
Your story only confirms what I've read in the comments, the best use is light fast jabs to the body.
@@BusinessWolf1That is, if you care about a potential murder charge, which should be on your mind
@@_Odinn_ good rule of thumb after self defense, say you require a lawyer and then invoke the fifth and don't talk until it's with your lawyer
@@GamingManiacManpeople need to read this more. the cops AIN'T your friend
@@GamingManiacManBest advice ever given. The cops key in and focus on the most incriminating words you say and lead you to agree with statements THEY make. They put words into your mouth and you go along with the lead and the next thing you know, you've confessed to a crime you didn't commit without even realizing it.
There was a cop (of all people) that was accused of grape. (The "G" is silent) The investigator asked him to come in and give his account and he agreed. He said that he didn't need an attorney because he was innocent and he would just tell the truth. BIG MISTAKE. To make a long story short, he did 7 years of a 20 year sentence before DNA cleared him. If they will do that to one of their own, what chance would you or I have?
My great grandfather carried brass knuckles during his tours in WWII In both europe and the Pacific, airborne swore by them as a trench weapon
I can see value in somebody not being able to turn it against you while grappling, like compared to a knife or club
The explanation I got was that there were a lot more farm boys back then. So knuckle dusters made real use of their strength.
I've had the unfortunate exp of having come across someone who had these used on them. Rather than going into detail imagine what a unhardened clay sculpture of someone face would look like if you threw a right hook towards the eye. It was one of the most gruesome injuries I've ever seen.
Horrible
@czongq yeah if you want to kill someone or go to prison for using the them then go for it but before you do learn to fight cus you're going to do alot it behind bars or you're going to become the wreck of compound.
@czongq Bet you been waiting to say that since you heard it. 🤣 It does sounds cool to a teen or someone who hasn't been through much. Also if I had to choose a weapon for self defense the last weapon I'd choose are knuckle dusters.
@@quique7764 I've been raped before. If I had one of these, I would have used them with 0 hesitation, and not lose an ounce of sleep over it. I'll never be fucked with like that again, because I will do anything it takes to protect my body. Even if it means mangling their face with knuckle dusters and risking prison. (They're legal to carry where I live btw)
@Wicker 2 TBH that's prob. your best choice in this scenario while retaining a lawyer & STFU. A lot of ppl think they know what self defense means, they typically don't. I've heard ppl say if they just utter these magic words, "I was in fear for my life" they can justifiably kill someone. That seems to only work if you're a cop & the person you kill is a minority or poor for that matter.
One of my friends was assaulted by a guy holding those. Being a judoca, he managed to grapple and take the knuckles of the hand. Biggest mistake was that he theatrically threw them away, as they "did not save the thug" and recieved a textbook knockout uppercut while doing so.
Some loser tried robbing me on my way to work, so I punched them in the face with my brass knuckles. That taught them not to do bad things like trying to steal from people, and now we've been happily married for 15 years.
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Where are these stories coming from hahaha
You married the robber?
LOL what
*"Your fruit killing skills are remarkable"*
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@@curtismcpsycho8212 you right you right...
I've still got the brass knucks that my father carried when he was an MP from 1935 to 1939..then he became a glider pilot..hammer fist to the collarbone was pretty much how he used them, they never struck heads with sticks or saps or brass knuckles, would destroy government property, you know...
Ur from which country?
I really like the bone tactical “key chain”. It’s basically a small fist pack with 1 or 2 finger rings. You can make a normal fist with a added advantage.
Which one the long one or the short one? I googled it... Looks sick!
@@trollface391 the longer one.
In Michigan you go to jail for simply being in possession of them, using or not.
Damn, what kind of commie BS is that?
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not with the correct permits they're classified like guns having them requires concealed carry man.
Really, I haven't
Same in California. I seen someplace that was selling paperweights that just happened to be the exact size and shape as brass knuckles. Don't know how long they got away with that though.
There was a time when brass knuckles were required to be considered an official grandpa.
in high school someone who fancied themselves a mobster beat someone up with knuckles in a weed deal and the dudes guts got all perforated and he had to go to the hospital for weeks and weeks. it still probably hurt his hand tho
Look, I'm almost 60, lived in North Philly all my life. I have a set of Brass Knuckles that I've had since I was 15. Believe me, they've been used on more than a couple of occasions. Thing is, when I was coming up, you didn't have a lot of shooting... we threw hands. If you were lucky enough to come across a set of knuckles, you may have a slight advantage. But like anything else, you had to be used to and know how to use them...
I've seen one person getting suckerpunched by one of those, broken jaw and teeth flying.
Never carried it around after that.
Same experience. It was a pair of those spiked knuckles. Skin flayed along the cheek, and the bone was smashed. Gnarly.
What happend to the guy who used them, did he hurt his hand or go to prison?
@@adamzoubi96 Prison and a fine.
But this was in norway wich has very strict laws.
It could definitely also be seen as intent to harm, alongside GBH. Not something you want to be prosecuted for!
I think in most countries the amount of damage inflicted, which is significant, would be sufficient to be classified as extreme or undue force in most altercations.
Especially because situations often seem more dangerous to those involved than to a legal judiciary. I've seen quite a few comments talking about how brass knuckles are good for self-defence, or that judges are too harsh for deeming them illegal/punishable. But I can fully see people getting into fights against UNARMED opponent's, smashing their face in, and thinking they were justified in it.
Though, I don't really understand why they are illegal in countries like America, where guns are legal in many states...
I've been assaulted by a guy who used a pair, luckily I ended up learning what happens when you finish a heel hook but I ended up losing 7 teeth and needed an ass ton of stiches
I think that what you said at 11:06 is one of the main reasons to carry brass knuckles. Someone doesn't have to be a good fighter to cause damage/pain in a self-defense situation. If the person is, lack of a better word, small and weakly, elderly, or handicapped in some way. A weapon like this used against an attacker, without him/her seeing it coming, could do enough pain/damage to cause the attacker to give up or allow the victim to get away. Yes, it may hurt the victim some, but not as much as it would hurt the attacker if they are used correctly.
Crazy guy came to my house with a ball pin hammer looking for a fight a long time ago. Brass knuckles were all I had. Im not a fighter so I honestly felt bad after only hitting him once. I understand why they're illegal.
That's a perfect example of why they should be legal. Criminals dont follow the law.
@@Sheridantank that's not a very good arguement tho is it?
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Being successfully used in defense isn't a good reason? The fact that being illegal doesnt prevent criminals from having them?
The same argument applies to any weapon. The only valid weapon law is that it's illegal to use a weapon to commit a crime. I dont care if it's a gun, knife, sword, hammer, whatever. If you're not using it for a crime, possession alone shouldn't be made a crime.
A weapon is a form of a tool. All weapons are tools, most but not all tools can be weapons. If you can use it to defend yourself, and arent using it for harm, you should have the right to have it.
Imagining arresting someone for brass knuckles after someone attacks them with a hammer and they use them to defend yourself. That would he an awful arrest. A hammer is WAY more effective and deadly. The cause justifies the means.
@@Sheridantank Right but you can also use a hammer since their primary use is of a tool, not a weapon.
However imagine police catch someone outside someone’s house with a brass knuckle, if the weapon is legal they could arrest him but don’t have any real case against him, he could argue that he was just relaxing there ect. now if the weapon is illegal they could actually put him in jail for having it.
Also let’s not gloss over the fact that if it can be legally bought a portion of people would be either unable to use or would be yearning to use it.
@@pet3r387
That doesnt happen. They use kitchen knives. Again, criminals dont follow the law. Your premise is that we should ban something that can and has been used for self defense to keep criminals from having it.
Zero, exactly ZERO criminals are effected by weapon laws. Illegal or not. You must be a kid or live a sheltered life. Criminals dont use these in crime and if they want to being illegal doesnt make it harder to get.
THE ONLY VALID WEAPON LAW IS THAT IT'S ILLEGAL TO USE A WEAPON TO COMMIT A CRIME. If you believe otherwise, you live a sheep's life. You should read the story about the sheep who ask the wolf to shave down its teeth because it might use it to hurt them.
I was shown a variation with a fork. Grip the handle tight in your palm, fold the fork over the back of your knuckles, then bend the tines back up like spikes. We were (teenagers) at a restaurant late at night in a questionable part of town and getting hassled by some bigger dudes. Some random guy walked up to our table and made one to show us and threw it on the table. He said to make a couple more and use them outside if needed. I was more scared of that one guy than the table of a-holes lol
You just met Jack Reacher
It sure is effective, saw a friend knock 2 people out with it once before he himself was put to sleep by another guy who hit him with a bar stool. He has a small stature but he is always getting into fights so he can throw a decent punch but those 2 that was knocked out by him were huge. All went to the hospital in the same ambulance, it was wild.
Bullshit. How I know this is a BS story is there is no fckn way all 3 would go on the same ambulance, there's not even room in the back for 3 people plus 2 EMTs 🤦🏼♂️
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Did you conjure this up on your day off in your mind or something ?😂
brass knuckles are a weapon youd literally only use if you were in a position where you were life or death fights...not just like a cool thing to use haha
@@MrCmon113 crazy to think that brass knuckles can be more lethal than knifes. Depend on who's using it I guess.
That's what a weapon is nigga,
Did you know that, historically, some police forces issued brass knuckles to the constables?
I've seen a pair in my local museum (in Trowbridge, England), and I believe there are surviving examples of New York Police brass knuckles.
Also, have you seen "sap gloves"?
sap gloves are the ones with sand sewn into them? a security guard coworker had a pair in the 90's and I thought it wouldn't end well for him with the police.
They used to be called 'Knucks' or 'Metal Gloves'.
Sap gloves are a lot more practical, because they're combining the benefit of padding your knuckles with the added force from the extra weight. They're illegal in a lot of places, and I seriously doubt that it will end well for you legally speaking if you ever have to use them. Perception of weapons can make a huge difference to what the police and prosecutor and jury decide. So yeah, even though a pistol is objectively deadlier and more likely to cause more damage than brass knuckles or sap gloves, defending yourself with a pistol is probably less likely to land you in court or prison.
They were commonly used in ww1 trench fighting and self made lead ones were used regularly in the United States Civil War on both sides when things got past bayonet close. And historically they were well rounded as compared to sharp edged modern ones
@@chrisfoster27 I've seen sap gloves with metal ball bearings in em
They used trench knives in WW1 that essentially was a Brass knuckle with a knife attached. Those were brutal.
Hold the knife upside down, forward swinging motion. Deal two blows at once. Jab and swing. Very effective.
Cold steel makes (made?...maybe discontinued) both an 8" dagger and a 10" Bowie blade with integrated knuckles... They are big and heavy, so not easy to conceal, but wow, they are what I would want to have in a zombie attack... Very deadly. The nuckles are very oversized, so even with my XL hands, I can wear leather gloves easily with them. If legal in your state, I'd highly recommend the dagger version for a combat belt carry... Second only to a surpressed pistol for quiet sentry removal in combat.
I've used to use carry various fist loads. My idea was as a boxer any thing that makes my punches stronger was a good idea. Brass knuckles started getting to much negative attention so I would used a roll of quarters wrapped in electrical tape which constantly had tot be replaced because I would use the quarters.
as a delinquent juvenile we would use either the quarters like you mentioned or a bic lighter wrapped with electric tape as a fist pack. they help. no question about it
I feel like with the extra little bit of mass and the hard metal, you clap someone a few times at like 60% and they are already gonna start to think twice. Also there's the benefit that if they get the upper hand you can aim a gorilla smash with all your might at the bone just above the eye and you should split them open like a banana skin, most ppl are gonna be at least distracted when their own head starts pissing merlot
I doubt they would be 'thinking twice', unless you are reffering to subconcious thought.
@@Leo.23232 Even at 60% you're caving their face in
yea more like 30% which could still break a nose or jaw pretty easily
"do i need him bleed on me" that THAT is the best words of wisdom i heard this year
I saw 2 drunk guys get their teeth punched down their throats by 1 older man who wasn't taking their B.S . Brass knuckles are very effective. Do not take them lightly, they will cause serious damage.
How is that even possible😂
You have such a great personality on camera and it is good to see that you tell your before and after often and you let your ideas of what you think change if it seems plausible. My thoughts on the brass knuckles is that they are for people that don't hit as hard as they want to. Say an older person that has been in fights and knows how to hit and take a hit, but they plan on dealing out some pain and just want it to make their punches hurt more. Especially body punches.
Seems like it'd be way more devastating to the face than to the body
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 a punch to the collarbone would really hurt.
If you punch a melon with bare knuckle is going to hurt you more of what it would with the brass knuckles.
As someone who unfortunately got in to a fight with someone who had one of those and was in a clinch scenario it cut my face up bad. Didn't stop me from fighting but I've got scars from it. Hurts A LOT
Busted eyebrow for me, mace and a knife in my pockets after that
Cut your face up bad? I would think these are kinda used as a sucker punch as opposed of in an actual fight. Kinda like a walk up and finish someone off brutally for something they did etc. In a fight i could see them as a crutch. Either way if i land a shot with these on. Its night night, attempted murder charge and alot worse then sum cuts..
@@FlexFast thats what you think, but usually you will split them open really bad, and thats about it. If you break a jaw, it doesn't put them to sleep. Been there done that. I also beat someone half to death in a real one on one with a pair of BK. Intensive care for almost a week. But I wore them facing in and hammer fisted with them. That way I don't worry about my hands or wrist. I'm not proud of the fact, but they DEFINITELY work in a scuffle pr regular fight.
@@Gottiline_Ace you can connect anywhere on their skull though. So if i run up on you and you take a shot to the side of the head, or anywhere for that matter its gonna break bone. I would think this is where knuckles woukd be used as a cheap shot weapon to inflict alot of damage or potentially kill someone
@@Gottiline_Ace in an actual scuffle your right for sure though. You'll be landing punches but not as crisp as one not seen coming so i see how the nasty cuts come about. And damn yu psycho lol i aint punching nobody lol
I trained muay thai for 5 years before switching to bjj but after 2 years in mt i stopped wearing wraps as i felt my hands could harden over time the last time i was training upper body striking for about 2 years and i built my hands up to being able to punch a metal structural pole with 12 oz gloves at full blast for a few rounds. My knuckles grew and the gap between them shrunk ive been in a couple fights since then and whenever i hit someone i almost didnt know if i made contact their face felt like punching through the air you can condition knuckles to take a bad beating even though the hand is weak structurally but there is risk of short and long term complications also genetics play a role as well.
When I was in pre-school I lived down the street from a karate studio. Somehow I was convinced in my head that if you were a student there, on your birthday they would put up a piñata for you and you had to break it by kicking it.
Cute
We actually do that at my dojang, if the little guys choose to celebrate their birthday there 😂
@@nickcarroll8565 I knew that had to be a thing somewhere!
Former correctional officer here. I do know that Brass Knuckles are illegal in several municipalities/states. some states also consider them the same as any other concealed weapon and MUST have a CC permit to keep them in your pocket.
Federally though they are not regulated. So it is difficult to get a wholesale ruling on this. No one place to look for a law....what that means is PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check your state and local town/city/county/etc!
Fuck that ima still carrying them with me
@@Youpeakpanish Tis better to have and not need, than to need and not have!
The whole point is that with this you don't need a lot of power to do a lot of damage, a light jab can cause a fracture, you really don't need to swing that hard. With bare fist you can break your hand when the other guy just eat that.
Late to the party but as a fun fact: The "duster" name comes from the garment, because dusters were worn as protective clothing by workers and they protect the knuckles. And brass knuckles protects your knuckles, hence a knuckle duster. :D
there was one brazilian youtube channel that I forgot the name, where he tested the Brass Knuckles and he concluded that they would be awesome if you are trying to do "cutting" moves with the fist, instead of punching.
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That metal makes a pretty easy hard edge. If knuckles can cut pro boxers imagine the metal
In fact, there arw brass knuckles with a knife on it, like some pointed blades to do those lashes
@NoComment don't think so, Junichiro got the answer.
I remember watching that video too, big dude that did martial arts. I’ll have to look up his channel again.
Brass knuckles can be very effective when striking the fists of your opponent during a fight.
And someone swing first on it might be over
Do a video on SAP Gloves or any hard knuckle glove.
Grandad said he used his in a raking motion on the rib cage he said don't use them like boxing gloves. He was pretty gnarly in trench warefar5e he said these and his trench knife mods kept him alive, he was bittish. He told me once, leave me musket leave me canon, give me a pistol and some brass knuckles and i will take that trench alone": he was drunk af tho and like 93 RIP.
Everything I've ever seen about brass knuckles being used "the right way" has always demonstrated them being used in a hammer-fist fashion; using quick wrapping motions like knocking on a door. Through experimentation I've found that it takes VERY little force to break test materials through clothing (tried bone, wood, and cinderblock). I imagine most traditional punches are going to mess up your hand since the knucks break wrist alignment.
I agree, it's like do you wanna sacrifice your boxing in a fight or do you wanna break your hand. Both seem shitty to me, like i wouldn't feel safe if i can't box in a fight
Yeah, hammer style is one way. The main way is to hold them as if you had paws and not hands. Slashing rakes and paw punching are the more common ways to use them.
I think the intimidation factor can't be discounted either.
Everyone has seen a movie where these were used at least once, usually to devastating effect on a minor character.
Agreed. But I was surprised he didn't pad the bottom of his brass knuckles. I really takes away a lot of the pain coupled with the fact if you use it like you were to throw a leopard punch.
That right there is one reason why a lot of places have them outlawed in some way and you can get in a lot of trouble just carrying them around..ya REALLY gotta check the laws for your state when it comes to this thing..even if a half a dozen flea markets can get away with selling them as 'belt buckles'. The thing is something like this has been around in various cultures for hundreds of years so it's never really gonna go away no matter how much law makers try..as long as someone wants to add extra power to their punch something like this will find a way to pop up.
@@ShinKyuubi 100% agree. But the thing about outlawing weapons in general, is that it only applies to law abiding citizens not criminals.
@@chomdaim3542 Yep..and like a comedian once pointed out..I think it was George Carlin..you could kill someone with the plastic knife they give you on the airplane if you really wanted to, it would take some effort but you could.
They are using the brass knucks wrong. You put them on the 2nd section of your fingers and swipe more than punch with them, not the top section ( the middle section of your fingers, section 2/3). Completely protects your hands and still does massive damage
my grandpa was always getting in fights as a kid, and he showed me his pair. based on what he told me, the reason they're hurting you is because you're holding them wrong. you're not supposed to hold them far up on your fingers and throw straight-wristed, ordinary punches, but instead you're supposed to put them just below your second knuckle and turn your hand upward slightly so that, instead of your knucklebones being in line with your arm to absorb the shock like normal, the curved bit is now in line with your arm bones as it braces you for each strike. it feels awkward at first, and to someone with as much muscle memory as I'm sure you have I'm sure it would feel completely wrong to punch with the weaker knuckles on that part of your hand, but because of the fact that the knuckles are taking most of the impact, it means that you don't risk breaking your fingers by throwing such a punch.
100% accurate. It does take a while to get used to but it's effective
Can anyone have a video/picture that actually show this??
Amen
so if i get this as a comparrison... normal jabs are a straight line, and with knuckle dusters you basicly hit in more of a hook or haymaker-ey type ways... right?
@@crustybomb115 sorta, think of it like if you were gonna swipe with wolverine claws, impacting with the front of the fist rather than the top
Yes Brass knuckles are more than effective. I've used them and the guy had to go to the hospital and get tens of stitches. Needless to say I was deeply ashamed for using them on somebody, it was more of like the spur of the moment kind of thing like most fights are.
Did you knock him out ?
@@mustaphabenmansour7382 no, probably because I didn't know how to punch
Proves how effective they are
I'd rather had some kind of armored glove with something over the knuckles, this way I have the option to grab.
Carbon fibre motor bike gloves are the ones 👌
I mean its ideal for a boxer
Ceastus basically but I like the idea
Yeah my dad got a hold ifnthese leather fingerless "combat gloves" they had stabby proof stuff in the pals, some lead heavy shit in the knuckles and some hard plastic shit just before the cut offs. They seemed quite legit like they were heavy and we were punching walls with them our hands were fine.. so was the wall but still
@@rykehuss3435 do you think they would work well for boxing someone with a helmet? Just in case I need to fight a guy riding a motorcycle and want to attack his head
You won't feel anything when your adrenaline is rushing but afterwards it will hurt pretty bad depending on how hard you hit someone with knuckles
their head and face will hurt more
@@3x739 most definitely I've been hit in the temple with them before i was fine somehow ig my heads hard af
@@Blaster651 If you hit someone hard enough to where you are seriously hurting your hands they are likely dead
So true. 2 weeks back, I slapped and punched a dude couple of times(no knuckles) and I didn't feel a thing until I was back and figured my knuckles are paining.
They are using the brass knucks wrong. You put them on the 2nd section of your fingers and swipe more than punch with them, not the top section ( the middle section of your fingers, section 2/3). Completely protects your hands and still does massive damage
As a former corrections officer I think you should do a bit about defending vs improvised weapons when you're unarmed.
Garots, improvised blades, puncture weapons, etc
Sometimes people act slow for no reason everyone in the world knows brass knuckles are very effective
My cousin got his jaw knock out. I've always been told to rap the brass for padding and better to use lower not for a straight punch . Good review tho never used them my self
I would disagree. The palm is one of the hardest part of one's hand. And physics never lie, smaller the area, more pressure. And ridge material (metal) provides more force since the more the momentum is transferred to the target compared with flesh. I do think it will be awkward if one is not familiar with such weapon.
As I learned from a real legit "street fight for money" type dude from the 70s; get some 1mm leather cut into a long thin strip and wrap the "palm" thing with it like you were tightly wrapping it around a pole with a half diameter overlap.
Knucks work if you know how to use them as a defensive weapon and not offensive weapon. Which means you’ll most likely have to hit from a different angle which is what they’re designed for. A hammer punch is best effective when held right you’ll feel no pain when connecting.
My friend was trying to use them with a straight on punch and before he tried hitting a tree I immediately stopped him and showed and told him how it needs to be done, I showed him no pain was issued to me, while the tree had 3 deep dents. He tried to say he doesn’t wanna use them this way and proceeded to hit the tree and broke his hand.
Guys don’t let yourself have an ego when it could end your life.
Also don’t let the knucks go past the knuckles like seen on the watermelon test. They’re supposed to sit right on, but not directly on the tips of the knuckles. They’re called brass knuckles not brass fingers
I never did think about using jabs though, I’m sure that’s pretty effective
This is exactly the precise scientific testing I was looking for
Depends on what you buy. Cast pot metal knuckles will shatter when you hit someone with them. I've seen it happen to a friend of mine. They literally busted into 4 pieces.
The intense level of laughter at the start from the pinata wiffs was weird
The area against your palm needs to be wrapped. Leather or cable of some kind is common. Also you really have to set them comfortably against your palm and this is going to vary for every user, honestly I think custom made are the only real way to go.
The design of the brass knuckles could be tweaked slightly, meaning you could use a lot more force. The part that sits in your palm could be made wider and slightly convex, or like a piece of 1 1/4" tube that you can hold with the knuckle bits welded on. Possibly even wrapping some paddling round it as well.
Although this might make them a little larger and harder to conceal
Seen them tweaked just like you said.
I've got paracord on mine and they're comfy as hell
Brass knuckles are deadly, very easy to conceal, easy to use and deadly. Yes I said it twice. Good brass knuckles well made do little or no damage to the user. Love the things.
Yeah if you see a pair from the 20's there more space infront of the fingers so it doesn't break them which has been done away with in modern pairs because looks but you can tell they were made to be used
@@BamBlamboTv Yeah, I have a pair from 1890 made of steel. Good stuff
Better than knife for self defense?
@@kostaborojevic498 against an unarmed person any weapon works. A knife gives you reach too. A knife is legal to carry. A knife is probably better.
@@maxhames499 Brass knuckles are deadlier, one good strike to the side of the head and it’s over. The knife will kill you from blood loss, but it might not be enough to stop the agressor
My only experience with knuckledusters is when i was back stage at a concert and one of my friends girlfriends came up and gave him a pair of knuckledusters like "yo look what i just got, check these out!" And he was just like "yo im keeping these, he ain't getting them back"
Then he kept threatening "dust" people the rest of the night
Cool story bro.