Buttstroke, the Glossary
A buttstroke or butt-stroking is the act of striking someone with the buttstock of a rifle, shotgun, or other long gun.[1]
Table of Contents
16 relations: Bayonet, Firearm, Grappling, Gunstock war club, Hand-to-hand combat, Hardtack, Long gun, Mordhau (weaponry), National Guard (United States), Pistol-whipping, Public domain, Rifle, Shotgun, Soldier, Stock (firearms), Weapon.
- Blunt weapons
- Combat
- Firearm techniques
- Trench warfare
Bayonet
A bayonet (from Old French bayonette, now spelt baïonnette) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped melee weapon designed to be mounted on the end of the barrel of a rifle, carbine, musket or similar long firearm, allowing the gun to be used as an improvised spear in close combats.
Firearm
A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.
Grappling
Grappling is a fighting technique based on throws, trips, sweeps, clinch fighting, ground fighting and submission holds.
Gunstock war club
The gunstock club or gun stock war club is an indigenous weapon used by many Native American groupings, named for its similar appearance to the wooden stocks of muskets and rifles of the time.
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Hand-to-hand combat
Hand-to-hand combat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a physical confrontation between two or more persons at short range (grappling distance or within the physical reach of a handheld weapon) that does not involve the use of ranged weapons. Buttstroke and hand-to-hand combat are Hybrid martial arts.
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Hardtack
Hardtack (or hard tack) is a type of dense biscuit (British English) or cracker (American English) made from flour, water, and sometimes salt.
Long gun
A long gun is a category of firearms with long barrels.
Mordhau (weaponry)
In the German school of swordsmanship, Mordhau, alternatively Mordstreich or Mordschlag (in German literally "murder-stroke" or "murder-strike" or "murder-blow"), is a half-sword technique of holding the sword inverted, with both hands gripping the blade, and hitting the opponent with the pommel or crossguard. Buttstroke and Mordhau (weaponry) are blunt weapons.
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National Guard (United States)
The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the U.S. military's reserve components of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force when activated for federal missions.
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Pistol-whipping
Pistol-whipping or buffaloing is the act of using a handgun as a blunt weapon, wielding it as an improvised club. Buttstroke and Pistol-whipping are blunt weapons and firearm techniques.
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Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Rifle
A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting and higher stopping power, with a barrel that has a helical or spiralling pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall.
Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug.
Soldier
A soldier is a person who is a member of an army.
Stock (firearms)
A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing mechanism are attached.
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Weapon
A weapon, arm, or armament is any implement or device that is used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill.
See also
Blunt weapons
- Baseball bat
- Blunt instrument
- Buttstroke
- Ceremonial mace
- Ceremonial maces in the United Kingdom
- Chainlock
- Eku
- Hammers
- Kubotan
- Mordhau (weaponry)
- Pistol-whipping
- Tonfa
Combat
- Buttstroke
- Chip on shoulder
- Combat
- Combat diving
- Combat effectiveness
- Combat endurance
- Combat sport
- Combat sports
- Combat vehicles
- Dual wield
- Dueling
- Hoplology
- LINE (combat system)
- Machai
- Mutual combat
- Night combat
- Shooting
- Shootout
- Single combat
- Street fighting
- Theatrical combat
- Trials by combat
- World War II combatives
Firearm techniques
- Blowing from a gun
- Buttstroke
- Cavalry draw
- Double tap
- Fanning (firearms)
- Fast draw
- Gun fu
- Gunspinning
- Isosceles Stance
- Modern technique
- Mozambique Drill
- Pistol-whipping
- Point shooting
- Side grip
- Speed reload
- Tactical reload
- Tap, rack, bang
- Tueller Drill
- Weaver stance
Trench warfare
- Assault Battalion No. 5 (Rohr)
- Buttstroke
- Cluilian trench
- Courland Pocket
- Crossfire
- Fort Decaen
- Live and let live (World War I)
- Loophole (firearm)
- MPL-50
- Necrotizing gingivitis
- No man's land
- Parados
- Peaceful penetration
- Periscope rifle
- Stanley Pearl
- Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany)
- Traverse (trench warfare)
- Trench art
- Trench fever
- Trench foot
- Trench map
- Trench nephritis
- Trench raiding
- Trench rats
- Trench warfare
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttstroke
Also known as Butt stroke, Butt stroking, Butt-stroke, Butt-stroking, Buttstroking, Rifle butt strike.