You could use ant poision as a form of mace. You could also dig holes and cover then up (in front of windows). My final contibution is you could look into deer sized traps such as pitfalls.
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Your ideas really stimulate my scenses. I would hate to accidentally come around your compounds. This reminds me of how they built walls around an apartment building that I lived on weekends in Vietnam. It was civilian and I wasn't supposed to be there but hey, I had a woman friend and we weren't going to be denied. Anyway at the top of the wall they cemented broken pieces of glass to deter burglars or assassins. It was a scary place to live but I was sure that I was going to die there, so I found happiness when I could.
My latest stealth weapon is a blow gun with darts smeard in snake venom. Hope we never have to reach that stage.
Even in the Philippines.
Use bear spray...500x's more powerful than law enforcement OC spray!
Imporvised weapons?
I like snakes, and have had several as pets.
Throwing a live snake at someone will repell quite a few people...and buy you time to follow up with a baseball bat.
Simply holding a container ( like a travel mug, with cover and handle) filled with caustic lye and/or drano, and flinging it into your assailant's face will stop anyone.
I like snakes, and have had several as pets.
Throwing a live snake at someone will repell quite a few people...and buy you time to follow up with a baseball bat.
Simply holding a container ( like a travel mug, with cover and handle) filled with caustic lye and/or drano, and flinging it into your assailant's face will stop anyone.
I wanted to post this when the tread popped up 4 years ago but forgot:
Or just grow thorny bushes under them.
Yes, some "enplaning" is necessary, hehe....if the duck takes my knife, what am I doing with the pole or stick?
Pretty sure the boiling water alone does the job...
Would have to be a really powerful fan. A standard one wouldn't do much damage at all (and you'd be better off arming multiple people with those knives)...and where is the power coming from?
Looks impressive, but really isn't that hot.
Hot or not, that's going to hurt...
ROCK and a bar of soap
What? Just grab a piece of rebar....
Wax, not so much...ever see a hand casting? Plastic....just would harden pretty quick.
Once, when I was a kid, another (older) kid came in my yard threatening us, holding a large stick. I grabbed something close...a garden hose...and beat that kid mercilessly (after breaking his stick with the hose)....While the black rubber left nasty bruises, the metal hose tip wasn't nice to him either.
OK I got to ask were you using it like a whip I have always heard of a hose being used but never how
im guessing he used it like someone swinging a stick or paddle..but thats only if it was a short piece of hose.and it had the necessary stiffness to it..
Nope, it was long...
Yes. I Pulled it back with my arm, then quick snap forward (with the metal end facing out). For breaking the stick, choked up on it some, and had a tighter swing. Note, this was an old school, black rubber hose, not the modern nylon stiff ones.
Yes. I Pulled it back with my arm, then quick snap forward (with the metal end facing out). For breaking the stick, choked up on it some, and had a tighter swing. Note, this was an old school, black rubber hose, not the modern nylon stiff ones.
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Take a length of hose about a foot long and fill with lead shot and plug both ends. It generally doesn't leave any marks but hurts like hell. If hit in the face it will leave the inside of your mouth feeling like hamburger. It got my attention years ago....
Saw that in the middle east as well. Good idea until you have a ladder and a piece of carpet.
I saw a TV program where someone welded eight steel tubes together and used them to launch homemade ordinance. Can a spring activated tube be used to launch some of your wonderful ideas? I like the idea of keeping people far enough away so that throwing boiling water is not an option.
One of the first anti tank weapons was spring loaded . Quite dangerous to the user and hard to load . A team of Brits or Canadians used one to stop a SS Panzer group that was on the way to defend aginst the D Day invasion in WW II . The divise was designed by the Brits and part of thier issued kit .
3/8" OD, 9" long steel rod, sharpened at each end, top end a bit blunt. for safety as you grab it swiftly. Make sheaths out of milk jug plastic, using a heat gun to form them. Carry many of them, throw them, any hit is highly likely to work just fine, since they are heavy. For legal air travel, make some "ends" out of hard plastic, about 1/2 " OD, 2" long, with cross holes already drilled. Hide them inside something like a deodorant container. When you get where you're going, all you need is sand, PVC pipe, a drill bit and vicegrip, fiberglass rod/pins, and you can make as many as you like. Walk right thru metal detectors, you see.
Empty CO2 cartridges like what you use in a co2 pellet gun.
Drill a hole in the EMPTY/SPENT cylinder.
Fill with 4 f g black powder, commonly used as pan powder in a
flint lock.
Get some water proof cannon fuse available on line and cut at
least 5 " and insert into cartridge of 4 f g black.
Seal around the fuse with glue to keep water out.
Light, throw, run.
Remember the bomb is made of metal so shrapnel will get ya.
Good way to kill fish for dinner.
Good anti personnel bomb if you roll the thing in glue then
roll in steel air gun bee bee's.
Be sure you are behind cover.
Not that I've done that.
Drill a hole in the EMPTY/SPENT cylinder.
Fill with 4 f g black powder, commonly used as pan powder in a
flint lock.
Get some water proof cannon fuse available on line and cut at
least 5 " and insert into cartridge of 4 f g black.
Seal around the fuse with glue to keep water out.
Light, throw, run.
Remember the bomb is made of metal so shrapnel will get ya.
Good way to kill fish for dinner.
Good anti personnel bomb if you roll the thing in glue then
roll in steel air gun bee bee's.
Be sure you are behind cover.
Not that I've done that.
PIAT!
The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank (PIAT) Mk I was a British man-portable anti-tankweapon developed during the Second World War. The PIAT was designed in 1942 in response to the British Army's need for a more effective infantry anti-tank weapon, and entered service in 1943.
From wiki.
It worked but often the shooter got shot.
Had to be real close to hit a tank.
For thoes that have been here a while or others that care to look it up . A member from the Philippines that went by the name Overlord showed us a sling shot that shoots nails . I said I would make one but never got it right . I saw a video of someone in the Philippines fishing with one snd He shot through 2 fish and had a light line on the nail and pulled them in .
Ever seen a knife made from pasta? It dries hard enough to put a serious edge on!
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There is a YouTube channel where this guy makes knives out of all kinds of crazy stuff.
Like smoke!
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The tried and true molotov cocktail.
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Make a PET knife of any size....melt down a couple of PET bottles into a flat blade, form with a saw or angle grinder, sharpen to desired needs and beware metal detectors...
I studied improvised knives (I hired an ex-con to teach me how to make shanks and shivs, and I hired an anthropology student to teach me how to knap flint and obsidian), but I don't see myself making one out of smoke or pasta.
I have been hunting for an all-ceramic kitchen knife that can go through metal detectors, however. It seems that a lot of these ceramic kitchen knives have a token amount of metal incorporated specifically for the purpose of setting off a metal detector, however.
So . . . any pointers where to get such a knife? I want a kitchen-style knife because it's easier to explain away rather than a double-edged ceramic dagger.
