Improvised Weopons
Learning what is available in your enviroment is essential to survival. In a wartime situation one will almost always end up with some sort of improvised weopon at one time are another. So here are some I think are easy and have been used for centuries in battle.
With basic hand tools none of these should be a problem.
- Crossbow. Car spring, cable and Rifle stock ect. secure the spring to the base with some kind of clamp. Notch each end about a half inch to a inch from the end. Tie cable on. Simple hook on back with thumb release will do. as for bolts,,use your imagination. but long steel bolts with ends sharpend will work nicely but not the most accurate
- Spiked Club. just take any club and drive long nails thru it at various points on the end. Ideal thing would be to apply epoxy as driving nails thru, otherwise they tend to loosen up and come out. Use a green stick otherwise it will split.
- Zip gun, .22 cal bullets, and small pipe or pen housing, spring and nail, pretty self explanitory actually just get something that allowes shell to go in but catches the rim, then attach a machanism with the spring and nail and a catch and wallah.
- Spear, tons of ways to make a spear. a easy and I believe highly effective would be to make a tip out of thick glass. simply split the end of pole and insert your tip, clamp it tightly and your ready to rumble. Also a sharpend bolt works nicely as well.But drill hole in end of pole slightly smaller than bolt and ram it in.
- War hammer, tie anything hard to top of pole, be it rock or steel or a brick.
- Knife. lots of ways to make a improvised knife without steel. but with steel car springs cut down work the best. Otherwise you can use Glass (tape the piss out of the handle), plastic or even bone.
- Throwing stars, easy way to make ok one is take four nails file off heads into point,,notch them in middle and tape them tightly together.
- Garrott, Pianno string or cable tied to two pieces of wood.
- Molotov Cocktail. Essentially just gas in a bottle with a rag stuffed on top. To increase burn time add oil. or with the addition of styrofoam you have napalm
- Pipe Bomb: two pieces of pipe plugged drill hole in top plug (before its on bomb) insert fuse and wallah, can add nails, bbs,name it for shrapnal
Weopons laying around that need no modification
- Baseball bat, especially aluminum will work well.
- Hammer, doesnt have to be that big, you nail someone in the melon and it will shatter like one
- Golf clubs, ( I still have a nice dent on the top of my skull where a jerk hit me with one)
- Pitchfork ( hurts like hell too)
- Any kind of rope or cable for strangling.
- Tire Iron
- Pots Pans
- Scyth
