title: Blowguns: The Breath Of Death
author: Michael Janich
description: Michael D. Janich is one of the foremost modern authorities on handgun point shooting and one of the few contemporary instructors to have personally trained with the late close-combat legend Col. Rex Applegate. In addition to making his own martial arts equipment, noted martial arts author and instructor Michael Janich has designed and engineered everything from blowguns to knives, including the highly acclaimed Masters of Defense Tempest folding knife.
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  FIGHT CLUB
  
  
  
  
  
  by **Chuck Palahniuk**
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
  TYLER GETS ME a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth
  and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time
  though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know
  about Tyler Durden.
  
  
  
  
  
  The barrel of the gun pressed against the back of my throat, Tyler says “We
  really won’t die.”
  
  
  
  
  
  With my tongue I can feel the silencer holes we drilled into the barrel of the
  gun. Most of the noise a gunshot makes is expanding gases, and there’s the
  tiny sonic boom a bullet makes because it travels so fast. To make a silencer,
  you just drill holes in the barrel of the gun, a lot of holes. This lets the
  gas escape and slows the bullet to below the speed of sound. You drill the
  holes wrong and the gun will blow off your hand. “This isn’t really d