Make Your Own Weapons

kildare.17hmr

Sling bow

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NshtEe_TsRA

ScumLord

Martin_94 wrote: »

You can buy it quite easily online, alternatively it can be made at home or in a lab by mixing hydrogen fluoride and antimony pentafluoride in a ratio of 1:1.

To the lab! Expect me to run out screaming "My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing" in 30 minutes.

McChubbin wrote: »

I have a camera tripod that could double up as a melee weapon. It has lots of pointy bits and sharp, angular corners. Failing that, I've got plenty of kitchen knives and a cricket bat named Shaun.

Manfrottos are the best, plenty of weight in them. I have a Manfrotto superclamp, its a heavy lump of metal that you can clamp onto anything instantly turning whatever you attach it too into a heavy mace. It does something with cameras too.

Grizzly 45

A Sthil 048 36in bar Chainsaw.The modern answer to a broadsword.

johngalway

If it's a single walker or not many more I can't see most hand weapons being a problem.

My thoughts keep coming back to more than that number, obviously not a planned situation. Weight versus effectiveness might become an issue in surviving. Too heavy and you'll tire too quickly and slow down. Too light and it might take too many blows to effectively kill any one walker.

It would have to be a Goldilocks weight weapon!

Cruel Sun

A Lynx can and a lighter. Pretty much everyone has some sort of deodorant and most people have a lighter. Light, easy to carry around and would make a fairly good flame thrower.

johngalway

Martin_94 wrote: »

A Lynx can and a lighter. Pretty much everyone has some sort of deodorant and most people have a lighter. Light, easy to carry around and would make a fairly good flame thrower.

Cept fire won't kill them. But it may make them irresistible to female zombies, Lynx & burning flesh, who could resist.

I just realised my deodorant is roller type :pac:

Think I'm going back to the idea of a lighter weight hammer on an as unbreakable as possible sledge length handle.

Find myself looking at household items and thinking "hmm, would that be any good?" around this time of the week, for some strange unknown reason...

Oh yeah, I was reading a thread earlier about the Tv show/comic TWD. One guy has had experience of Katanas and reckoned they'd not be much use, needing repair and the possibility of them breaking.

nimrod86

johngalway wrote: »

It would have to be a Goldilocks weight weapon!

Just trip her up and use her for bait while you get the hell out of there!!

RiderOnTheStorm

i know its not homemade, but Aldi are selling chainsaws next week !



What do folks think of placing speed-reducing obsticles about your house in the event of ZA. Cars arranged to funnel Z's into killing zone? Trip ropes / nets / brambles to slow them down so that you dont get swamped while taking them out one-to-one ? You could stand cars up on their bumper and have a trip-wire tip them over onto the Z's (ok, its a last resort, as its a one-shot-deal, but it might buy you time to get out of the house and move to the backup house ...... you do have a backup house right? )

RiderOnTheStorm

johngalway wrote: »

Find myself looking at household items and thinking "hmm, would that be any good?" around this time of the week, for some strange unknown reason...

+1

ScumLord

I was in in supervalu today and noticed that they had a fecking machete behind the meat counter. I didn't realise they used that shaped knife in butchers. The blade was 10" long on it.

Not homemade but if your out shopping when it breaks there's probably a commercial grade machete in every supervalu.

RiderOnTheStorm

ScumLord wrote: »

.... there's probably a commercial grade machete in every supervalu.

thats good to know!

laoch na mona

ScumLord wrote: »

I was in in supervalu today and noticed that they had a fecking machete behind the meat counter. I didn't realise they used that shaped knife in butchers. The blade was 10" long on it.

Not homemade but if your out shopping when it breaks there's probably a commercial grade machete in every supervalu.

i have one in the kitchen

ScumLord

laoch na mona wrote: »

i have one in the kitchen

Do you use it in the kitchen? I never realised they where used as a kitchen implement. I suppose a butcher could make good use of one.

laoch na mona

ScumLord wrote: »

Do you use it in the kitchen? I never realised they where used as a kitchen implement. I suppose a butcher could make good use of one.

its for cutting up large pieces of meat
i never used it my father did