Kimber Pepper Blaster II

Kimber Pepper Blaster II

Kimber has an interesting pepper sprayer that looks like a small gun. It features two shots of OC.

The Pepper Blaster II features a more ergonomic feel and also includes sights! This advanced non-lethal self defense tool stops threats at a safe distance. Small, light, ergonomic and it carries easily in a pocket or purse. The outer body conforms to either a right or left-hand grip, and fits almost any size hand. The Guardian Angel contains two cylinders with powerful concentrations of near pharmaceutical grade OC (oleoresin capsicum), a devastatingly effective inflammatory agent. Driven by pyrotechnic charges, the solution travels at 90 MPH with little chance of cross-contamination, and with enough energy to wrap around glasses or penetrate a face mask. Effect is immediate and lasts for up to 45 minutes. Unlike conventional sprays, the Guardian Angel does not lose pressure over time.

Technical Information: Kimber Guardian Angel Pepper Blaster II Pepper Spray Gel 10% OC

Effective range is up to 13 feet. At 13 feet, the pattern is approximately 10″ in diameter.

Instantly incapacitates an assailant

Revolutionary propulsion operation

Jet delivery minimizes cross-contamination

Delivers a powerful blasts of OC, a second reserve shot is available as needed

Unit is not reusable and should be properly disposed of once both shots are discharged

This unit has a 2-year shelf life

 

One reviewer mentioned that the old sprayer resembled a cellphone or other electronic device in its pocket profile, while the new one resembles a gun –just a word of caution.

This may be a good solution for those who cannot carry a firearm, or choose not to.

Check out a video here.

Real Life Combat: Man Saves Woman

Hero Joey Shelton

CHAPEL HILL Joey Shelton was driving up North Columbia Street on Wednesday afternoon when he saw a man dragging a young jogger toward a car in a parking lot.

“He’s looking like he’s wrasslin’ her,” Shelton, 51, said Thursday. “All I knew was the guy was doing this woman wrong in broad daylight.”

Chapel Hill police say what happened next probably kept the 19-year-old woman from being kidnapped.

Shelton, a part-time barber and chauffeur, said he and his brother Freddie, 50, were going to check out surplus computers when they saw the man grab the woman.

She had been jogging past the parking lot behind the RBC Bank at East Rosemary and North Columbia streets, about two blocks north of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.

“We said it was wrong, let’s go do something,” said Shelton, who lives in Pittsboro.

He backed his Cadillac Concours into the lot to block the exit, and he and his brother got out.

The man had sprayed the jogger in the face with what she later described as pepper spray. He let go, and she fell to the ground, and he got into a white Chevrolet.

The Cadillac didn’t completely block his escape. He swerved the Chevrolet around the Cadillac, pinning Shelton between the two cars.

“He got me spinning like a top before I landed on his hood,” Shelton said.

“My body must have busted his window,” he said. “My brother said he watched in horror as he sees his brother just creamed by this car.”

Suspect found quickly

Fifteen minutes later, police found the Chevrolet up the road at Mill Creek Condominiums.

About 3:30 p.m., about 90 minutes after the incident, police saw the suspect walking out from the trees at Timber Hollow Apartments on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Theodore James Walker, 26, of 108 Timber Hollow Court, was arrested without incident, Lt. Kevin Gunter said. He was charged with second-degree kidnapping, assault on a female and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

Before Wednesday, Walker had only driving charges, including a guilty plea to driving while impaired in 2006, according to court records.

‘I just got sprayed’

On Thursday, police released 911 calls. On one, a woman at the RBC Bank was reporting the attack when the young woman, 19, was brought into the building and gets on the phone.

“I just got sprayed – what do I need to do for that – in the eyes,” says the woman, distraught but able to describe the man.

Is the man still there, the operator asks.

“I don’t know,” the young woman replies. “I ran away and started screaming.”

Police would not release the jogger’s name.

Gunter praised the Shelton brothers for getting involved. “I think this young lady may have been in grave danger if they had not intervened,” he said.

Gunter said he could not recall a recent similar attack.

In 1993, a jogger in Chapel Hill was killed when she sprayed her attacker with Mace and he shot her five times. Anthony Georg Simpson was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Kristin Lodge-Miller and was sentenced to life.

On Thursday Shelton was resting after treatment at UNC Hospitals for a fractured and compressed disc.

He said the young woman called to thank the brothers. “It was a beautiful thing,” he said, “because her birthday is today.

“She’s got a lot more birthdays, praise God.”

Lessons Learned:

Here is another incident of an attacker using pepper spray on a victim.It’s a good idea to be prepared against this.

Joey and his brother parked the car to block the exit and got out. Perhaps a better move would have been for one of them to have stayed in the car. Although they didn’t know it at the time, the assailant was using pepper spray as a weapon, and someone in the car would have been immune. Furthermore, the car can be used as a weapon.

Joey and his brother get out of the car, but where are their weapons? Even a bat in the trunk would have been accessible in this scenario.

What Chuck Norris Would Have Done

Real Life Combat: Rethinking Things

Man Beaten by Mob

In trying to advance the art of fighting with the stick, I have not only tried to devise techniques, but to think tactically and strategically.

For instance, while most styles train like-stick versus like-stick, I assume that I will be attacked by someone who does not have a stick like mine. So although I could devise and train in a lot of long stick versus long stick moves, I really don’t consider those worthy of the bulk of my time.

Also in my thinking I have viewed the close-in bayonet/rifle grip techniques as a last resort. In long stick versus long stick, or long stick versus staff or shovel, for instance, rifle grip works just fine. My concern is that I don’t want to be too overconfident against an “unarmed” opponent, only to find out he has a knife. Rifle grip versus knife is very dicey.

Some counter protesters at a pro-immigration rally were attacked recently, and the incident got me thinking, and reconsidering rifle grip. In the incident three counter-protesters were followed and harassed by a group of about 10. The 3 crossed the street to avoid trouble, but the mob followed. One of the females in the mob maced a counter-protester, but sunglasses protected his eyes. He was then pushed to the ground and kicked. At least two of the attackers had brass knuckles.

Some Questions:

Are you prepared to counter pepper spray? Because it is legal and readily obtainable, this may be an increasing threat.

At what point to you attack? This is something the martial artist should weigh carefully beforehand. When the mob (who has already launched verbal assaults and is intimidating and threatening) follows you across the street, it seems to me that a line has been crossed. The problem is that if you wait for them to launch the first strike, they may not attack until you are surrounded. That first strike may knock you to the ground, and at that point you’re helpless. In another recent politically motivated assault the victims were pushed to the ground, and when the woman was on the ground, her leg was stomped and broken in multiple places. By the time they launch their attack, you may be cornered and unable to use the reach advantage of the stick. It seems to me you need to strike before it reaches that point. I would hit low at the knee and move to the outside.

In a case like this (actually like these, if you consider the 2 assaults I link to) you need to be prepared to fight your way out of a pack when surrounded and pressed in close. In this case, you need to go into rifle grip and every strike needs to hit like brass knuckles. So I’m seeing a need for greater emphasis on close-in rifle grip counters, particularly when surrounded, as always with the goal of clearing a path out and getting back to long range.

"Umbuster" Brass Knuckles