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Old 05-13-2010, 05:49 PM   #50
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Default Re: What is the new Low Tech like?

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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company View Post
Not surprising. It's a relatively recent development (as in, during the past couple of decades) and the idea of the choking harness is very well-entrenched, thankyouverymuch Jean freakin' Gimpel.

This is a pretty good source on the subject, tracing the history of the choking harness theory and bringing out problems with it.
Well, that article is quite an eye-opener. So now I have this pile of about half a dozen books that, as I was just ranting to my wife, got this wrong. And if they got that wrong, what else did they get wrong? Sigh. Next you will tell me that I can't trust Oakeshott.
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