Cold weapon

Under a cold gun is understood in the Jägersprache a Falconry used Blankwaffe of metal that their "driving force" from the direct use of muscle energy refers. Cold weapons are among the oldest hunting weapons . Hunters used flint bladed weapons as far back as the Stone Age .

Cold weapons are used, among other things, to intercept and red work on game.

Cold weapons are to be distinguished from firearms .

Examples of cold weapons

• Bear skewer
• Deer catcher
• Hunting knife
• Hunting saber
• Nod
• Practices
• Booze pen
• Skinner
• Standhauer
• Tulle knife
• Woad leaf

literature

• Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon , Augsburg 2000, p. 457, and keyword: Blanke Waffen p. 105, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cold weapons in djz.de, accessed 15 September 2011