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The rest of the world will put you down enough if it gets a chance, don't do that to yourself bro. I've got more respect from a shiv (shank) in the hands of a prisoner with nothing to lose, doin' a life term, than I would have for many other people with a bowie or a 9mm that have not the experience to use it. Saw someone roll a 1 dollar bill up into a shiv, woulda killed a person if you were to hit them in the right place. These are the things that make you go "aaahhhh" and create something of your own, Live free, GP
Thank you.
 
I feel so outclassed.

I'm not neccesarily a knife maker, but I did hire a few ex-cons who did hard time to teach me how to make (and use) a prison shank.

I feel that a shank can be almost as deadly and useful as a "real" knife (my paramedic experience with the prison system supports this), and they can be made from materials that are cheap, or even free.

One of the more interesting shanks can be made by sharpening a bone from a chicken or turkey leg.

If it's ground down and shaped in the right way, it will go through a leather motorcycle jacket.

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I love my blades but those are just damn scary looking.
 
When it hits the fan, the only reason to be completely unarmed, is because you want to be unarmed. A million (okay small exaggeration) weapons lay close to our hands, just a little work and imagination and we can all be armed.
 
When it hits the fan, the only reason to be completely unarmed, is because you want to be unarmed. A million (okay small exaggeration) weapons lay close to our hands, just a little work and imagination and we can all be armed.
Agree 100%.

Explosives, guns, medications, knives, clothing, etc. can be made from almost anything.

If you guys ever read the works of Tom Brown Jr., he outlines how he makes a "down" jacket for almost nothing.

He wears two shirts at the same time, stiches the sleaves, necklines, cuffs, and waistline together.....and stuffs cattail down between the two shirts.

I tried it when I was living in Upstate New York, and found the warmth comparable to a down jacket. I went snowshoeing with it when it was 10°F outside, and I was fine.

I've always believed survival was always more about knowledge and skills....rather than amassed, hoarded stuff.

If I was going to point to a Hollywood stereotype of a survivalist, I'd be more interested in MacGuyver rather than Rambo.
 
I've learned so many crazy things in my 61 years, that my nickname in CA was Jonney Horizon, in Croatia they called me Red Beret and the german friends have decided on Garynator and that MacGuyver was my biography on film. But in reality, if you are surrounded by beginners and the half-trained of the army, it is easy to impress them.
Learn daily, practice often, look for new things, ways and gadgets. All those theories are only then considered truths, when you have proven them to work yourself. GP
 

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