How hard is it to find the right spot with a 2” blade when the animal is attacking? Very. Two inches will just barely penetrate the skin layer. For a human, you need at least 3” to reach a vital organ. Better to have at least one inch over that.
ONE INCH IN THE RIGHT PLACE IS SUFFICIENT.
BUT ONLY WHEN YOU KNOW WHERE THE RIGHT PLACE IS!
If you place the fingers of your right hand onto your neck just to the left of your larynx, and slightly above it you’ll feel a very strong pulse. Feel around, you’ll find it, 2-3 FINGERTIPS LONG! It’s your carotid artery, 1/4 inch below your skin. Sever it completely and you will bleed to death in no time at all. Compress the left and right arteries, internal and external, simultaneously, cutting off ALL blood flow to the brain, and you will be unconscious from instantly to a second or two...dead in very few seconds more. There is no more vital organ than the brain and without blowing it out of its skull no quicker way to kill it than depriving it of its necessary oxygen, either by blocking the flow of blood to it or directing the flow elsewhere by opening the pipes of this closed system to the outside (Takes just a very little longer). There are other arteries within an inch of the surface of the skin, but you can’t just look for them, telepathic or not, ya gotta know where they are.
I sure wouldn’t care to go at a puma with anything much less than a platoon of infantry, but in a push come to shove sit a 2”, very sharp knife CAN do the job...guided by knowledge.
Held down the way he was, a sharp 2” knife might very well
have sufficed...guided by knowledge of where the right places are...a little luck and a HUGE set a rocks!
Have you found your carotid arteries yet and discovered how vulnerable they are to the 2” knife these women had? Harder to do on a lion, but not impossible.
BEAR THIS IN MIND:I heard once on a TV show, spoken by a master martial artist to his favorite student, “HAVE NO OPINION GRASSHOPPER, SPEAK RARELY, AND THEN ONLY TO ASK, THAT YOU MAY LEARN AND ACQUIRE WISDOM.”
I thought to myself, “WHAT A CROCK!”