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7 Badass Weapons You Can Make At Home. Want to make some awesome homemade weapons?

7 Badass Weapons You Can Make At Home

In a SHTF situation, you’re likely going to need a way to protect yourself. Weapons, though very useful, are also a lot of fun, especially when you can make them yourself. With a multitude of DIY weapon techniques mastered and under your belt, you will never be without the ability to be armed or entertained. Check out our step by step instructions for 7 badass weapons you can make at home. Booby traps created by the VC during the Vietnam War. A Cutting Edge: Creating a Steel Blade in a Primitive Setting. Since I was pretty young I wanted to be a bladesmith, and one of the reasons I didn't begin learning earlier in life was that I was under the mistaken impression that it required very large, heavy and expensive tools.

A Cutting Edge: Creating a Steel Blade in a Primitive Setting

I could not have been more mistaken! About 5 years ago after stumbling upon an on-line primitive bladesmithing community, I began to heat and pound on steel and absorb all I could learn about simple carbon steels and the methods for working with them. Much has been learned through trial and error and advice from those willing to share. I have also picked up several lessons from blacksmith friends. Choosing a Survival Knife - Survival Knives. According to survival legend John "Lofty" Wiseman and countless other survivalist; a reliable survival knife is the single most important tool in your survival kit.

Choosing a Survival Knife - Survival Knives

There are many tasks you can perform in the wild to survive using ONLY a knife, so it stands to reason that choosing the right survival knife is probably the biggest decision you have to make regarding your survival gear. While not listed as one of the seven, it's almost universally accepted that a folding knife makes a poor choice as a survival knife. Even the strongest, well-built folding knife will be weak at the joint and far easier to damage than a fixed-blade survival knife. Folding knives are great backup knives or for fine work where you don't need a larger blade. Feature # 2 Size Most survival knives are between 5 and 12 inches.

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The Complete Guide To Knife Blades Including Benchmade Knives (Types of Knife Blades) [Infographic]

Hone A Knife Sharp Enough To Shave. By now just about everyone has heard of 127 Hours, the critically acclaimed movie inspired by Aron Ralston, the climber who was pinned by a boulder in Utah and spent an hour sawing his arm off with a dull knife blade. It's a dramatic film, but I don't think moviegoers would have had to close their eyes for as long if Ralston had carried a pocket hone in his pack, or even a piece of fine-grit sandpaper. Sharpening a knife so that it is keen enough to sever your limb, or, less drastically, skin and butcher a deer, really isn't that difficult.

Bow making Basics. I remember making my first bow as a kid.

Bow making Basics

I found a branch on the ground under the black oak trees that grew in our yard. There was a windstorm the prior evening and branches were everywhere. How To Build a .22 - Instructions to construct a safe and easy to use .22 Zip Gun. Preface the gun which I am about to explain how to build is an original style zip- gun.

How To Build a .22 - Instructions to construct a safe and easy to use .22 Zip Gun

Other zip-guns have been made, but most have been of inferior quality and are very dangerous to operate. The gun I have constructed is easy to use and safe to operate. History: Zip-guns where used during the gang war era because of their easiness to build and their small size. Materials. Axe Bros. The Backyard Bowyer is a badass who runs a YouTube channel, BackyardBowyer, dedicated to building bows from the ground up (strings and arrows included) and then shows them off.

Axe Bros.

He even made a radical crossbow for his 200th video. He also runs a blog that has even more DIY bow-making, including picture tutorials. I recommend to give it a look. Really, all you need is a 6′ long piece of 1-1/4 inch schedule 40 PVC pipe, a heat gun, and some bow string. Contact cement and shrink tubing is optional. He has even written quite a few books on the subject, you should defiantly check out his books if you are into bow making. SISTMA. Armbrust-Vereine, Bogenvereine und Schützenvereine für Armbrüste - Bögen & Armbrüste - CO2air.de. How to Determine the Distance of Long Range Shots. By Chuck (Onehorse) Tarinelli For making accurate shots beyond point-blank range, there are two things the hunter must be able to do.

How to Determine the Distance of Long Range Shots

The first is to know precisely where his or her rifle bullet will hit at the longer ranges, and the second is to be fairly accurate at judging the distance at which the shot will be taken. If you can’t do BOTH of those things when you are looking through your scope at an animal – DON’T SHOOT! At the range, it’s easy to practice shooting at various long distances. Most ranges have back stops at hundred yard intervals, or , if you have your own area in which to shoot, set these up for yourself. As for judging distances in the field, you can buy a laser range-finder from any of hunting equipment suppliers. When I started hunting over forty-five years ago, my buddies and I didn’t get dozens of catalogs each year from “The World’s Foremost Outfitter” or anyone else, so we pretty much had to design and build much of our equipment.

Sniper School: Precision Long-Range Shooting Tips to Make You a Better Hunter. The Ethics of Long Shots on GameEven if we have the skills to make 1,000-yard shots on targets, do we have any business shooting big game at those ranges? The answer is no, for many reasons. Shooting at extended ranges is fun because each shot is a puzzle that needs to be solved, the complexity of which increases exponentially the farther out we attempt to go.

Subtle FactorsAt extreme ranges we need to add barometric pressure, relative humidity, our elevation and other elements into the equation—to say nothing of judging the wind over that entire distance. Then there’s the unpredictability of the target. Survival Bow Making Instructions. An Ax to Grind: A Practical Ax Manual, 9923-2823-MTDC, Getting the Hang of It (continued) Sharpening "Putting your nose to the grindstone" implies tedious, repetitious, and unending work. You will find that sharpening a dull or abused ax is indeed tedious and repetitious, but to do it right you have to do it slowly (Figure 62). Along the way, you'll learn the value of patience, and appreciate the differences in steel tempering and ax quality as you sharpen different axes.

Survivalist Project: PVC bow with 60 lb draw weight for under $15. JNC, Barton-Wright, Self Defence with a cane part 1. Journal of Non-lethal Combatives, February 2000 From Pearson’s Magazine, 11 (January 1901), 35-44.

JNC, Barton-Wright, Self Defence with a cane part 1

Contributed by Ralph Grasso. Editor’s notes by Ralph Grasso and Joseph Svinth copyright © 2000 all rights reserved. Hakula: Learn the Natural State of 'Fearlessness' The Natural Fear-Free State of Calm… Hakula, is the natural state of optimal human performance.

Hakula: Learn the Natural State of 'Fearlessness'

It is the opposite of the tunnel-vision-fear state many have experienced, because it creates a feeling of calm, and enables the greatest perspective and flexibility of behavior and response. It is so powerful it is one of the key tools we teach our one-on-one clients in our VIP program. How to Practice HakulaPick a spot on the wall, somewhere higher than eye level, around the center of your field of vision.

Now, as you focus on that spot, notice that within a matter of seconds you can easily see things in your peripheral vision. Knife Throwing.info - The sport of throwing knives.