Home made wepons

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.

sharkbait said:

I took a dozen roofing shingles and pushed about 100 nails through each one and then neatly stacked them on a shelf in my garage.They are gonna make great doormats and guards under my windows after TSHTF.Covers easily with leaves,grass clippings,gravel,etc.

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Now I know what to do with my left over shingles

Neat, I've made caltrops outta scrap steel....maybe or maybe not beefy enough to stop a car...but it would mess your foot up pretty good

sharkbait said:

I took a dozen roofing shingles and pushed about 100 nails through each one and then neatly stacked them on a shelf in my garage.They are gonna make great doormats and guards under my windows after TSHTF.Covers easily with leaves,grass clippings,gravel,etc.

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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.

Thats still how they top alot of "security" walls in Mexico & Central America

eireguy said:

Thats still how they top alot of "security" walls in Mexico & Central America

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Even in the Philippines.

jimLE said:

i like the water gun part.but i think id rather go with home made pepper spray instead.of course that means going with the most potent pepper i can come up with,right along with lemon juice,garlic jouice and other needed ingredents for the spray..

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Use bear spray...500x's more powerful than law enforcement OC spray!

I'm not sure but if you can't spell 'weapons', should you be messing with them? Here! Hold this beer and watch THIS!

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.

Damn good info here. Not sue about throwing snakes at people though, lol.

I wanted to post this when the tread popped up 4 years ago but forgot:

2) Smashed glass, to put under windows.

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Or just grow thorny bushes under them.

5) Knife, duck take and a pole or stick. do i really need to enplane?

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Yes, some "enplaning" is necessary, hehe....if the duck takes my knife, what am I doing with the pole or stick?

6) Boiling water, bleach and sugar. this is not a pretty one as it well melt flesh and the sugar makes it stick to the person!

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Pretty sure the boiling water alone does the job...

7) Battery powered fan and knifes taped to blades.

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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?

8) Deodorant and a lighter. use tape to attach the lighter for 1 handed use.

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Looks impressive, but really isn't that hot.

12) Heated pan.. used to smack people in the face with.

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Hot or not, that's going to hurt...

13) Sock and a bar of soap.

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ROCK and a bar of soap

14) News paper. when folded correctly it can be hard enough to brake bones with!

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What? Just grab a piece of rebar....

15) Hot melted wax or plastic

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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...

OK I got to ask were you using it like a whip I have always heard of a hose being used but never how

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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.

Jonathan said:

OK I got to ask were you using it like a whip I have always heard of a hose being used but never how

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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....

Uncle Albert said:

at the top of the wall they cemented broken pieces of glass to deter burglars or assassins.

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Saw that in the middle east as well. Good idea until you have a ladder and a piece of carpet.

Iirc, if you put gasoline in a water pistol it will dissolve the plastic

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.