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Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650622 01/13/21
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 79,321 B Bristoe Campfire Oracle
Bristoe Campfire Oracle B Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 79,321	I've carried a cold steel entrenching tool in my truck for years after putting an edge all the way around it. It's just a little shovel sitting there minding its own business. But it probably wouldn't be a good idea for somebody to try to come in my truck uninvited.

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Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650660 01/13/21
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,666 colorado bob Campfire Tracker
colorado bob Campfire Tracker Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,666	I've got a Mag-Lite flashlight in my driver's side door panel. It's a 3 or 4 "D" cell.

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650664 01/13/21
Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,487 Wind River Wyoming S szihn Campfire Tracker
szihn Campfire Tracker S Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 5,487 Wind River Wyoming	claw hammer or roofing axe

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650668 01/13/21
Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 476 Wisconsin H Hypocrite Campfire Member
Hypocrite Campfire Member H Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 476 Wisconsin	3/4 ton truck

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650691 01/13/21
Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 151,008 Texas hanco Campfire Savant
hanco Campfire Savant Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 151,008 Texas	Piece of 3/4 steel pipe

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Re: Your favorite improvised weapon Hypocrite #15650702 01/13/21
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 4,177 Warshington, Wet Side Brazos Campfire Tracker
Brazos Campfire Tracker Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 4,177 Warshington, Wet Side	Originally Posted by Hypocrite 3/4 ton truck Beat me to it. Totally agree!

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650704 01/13/21
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 3,964 GRIZZ Campfire Tracker
GRIZZ Campfire Tracker Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 3,964	I took a large decorative solid wooden fork off a kitchen wall and nearly beat someone half to death with it back in the 70's. So I reckon my answer is anything that's handy... Coyotes shot no waiting.

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650705 01/13/21
Joined: Sep 2015 Posts: 10,193 nampa,ID persiandog Campfire Outfitter
persiandog Campfire Outfitter Joined: Sep 2015 Posts: 10,193 nampa,ID	screw driver , legal everywhere

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon Beoceorl #15650814 01/13/21
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 15,289 Wyoming and Arizona jnyork Campfire Ranger
jnyork Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 15,289 Wyoming and Arizona	Originally Posted by Beoceorl As a beekeeper I always have one or more hive tools handy in my truck, and often on my person. I frequently carry them in places where knives are forbidden, or restricted in length. The cutting edges can be honed razor sharp. I'm surprised that Alabama has restrictions on length of knives or forbidden places. What's up with that? Sounds like England.

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon Bristoe #15650829 01/13/21
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 33,662 Either Texas or Idaho E EdM Campfire 'Bwana
EdM Campfire 'Bwana E Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 33,662 Either Texas or Idaho	Originally Posted by Bristoe I've carried a cold steel entrenching tool in my truck for years after putting an edge all the way around it. It's just a little shovel sitting there minding its own business. But it probably wouldn't be a good idea for somebody to try to come in my truck uninvited. I like that. Conduct is the best proof of character.

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Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650859 01/13/21
Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 15,741 M mjbgalt Campfire Ranger
mjbgalt Campfire Ranger M Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 15,741	When it was common...could break off an antenna from an older car and be quite well armed in a dim parking garage if approached lol Imagine that would hurt like a SOB

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Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 11,944 NB / Canada SuperCub Campfire Outfitter
SuperCub Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 11,944 NB / Canada	Running away .......

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650876 01/13/21
Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 9,189 15 min from elk, MT H HuntnShoot Campfire Outfitter
HuntnShoot Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 9,189 15 min from elk, MT	My grandmother would send us out to pick a switch off the willow tree, with the caviat that if we didn't pick a "good" one, she would pick a "better" one. Quite an effective deterrent, for an afternoon, anyway. I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.

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arkypete Campfire Tracker Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,737 Richmond, Virginia	An empty beer mug, a steel folding chair, a rolled-up magazine, stainless T-Ball jotter, a heavy duty belt with a very heavy buckle,a legal-size clip board,> Those are what I've used in the past that I can remember. Almost forgot a bar of soap in sock. Last edited by arkypete; 01/13/21. "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650919 01/13/21
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 5,755 Omaha, NE BOWHUNR Campfire Tracker
BOWHUNR Campfire Tracker Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 5,755 Omaha, NE	Two socks and a full can of soda. Know fat, know flavor. No fat, no flavor. I tried going vegan, but then realized it was a big missed steak.

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon EdM #15650924 01/13/21
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 79,321 B Bristoe Campfire Oracle
Bristoe Campfire Oracle B Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 79,321	Originally Posted by EdM Originally Posted by Bristoe I've carried a cold steel entrenching tool in my truck for years after putting an edge all the way around it. It's just a little shovel sitting there minding its own business. But it probably wouldn't be a good idea for somebody to try to come in my truck uninvited. I like that. https://greatwar.nl/quotes/immortal38.html In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and your entrenching tool. The sharpened spade is a lighter and more versatile weapon - not only can you get a man under the chin, but more to the point, you can strike a blow with a lot more force behind it. That's especially true if you can bring it down diagonally between the neck and the shoulder, because then you can split down as far as the chest. When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick in the guts to get it out.

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650947 01/13/21
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 44,934 North East Urth Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana
Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 44,934 North East Urth	A can of chili will work. No beans cans have more heft I've been told. The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni) member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon HuntnShoot #15650953 01/13/21
Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 3,905 Beaver Nation! T Tide_Change Campfire Tracker
Tide_Change Campfire Tracker T Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 3,905 Beaver Nation!	Originally Posted by HuntnShoot My grandmother would send us out to pick a switch off the willow tree, with the caviat that if we didn't pick a "good" one, she would pick a "better" one. Quite an effective deterrent, for an afternoon, anyway. We had the same grandma! Black walnut trees were abundant in our region. Nasty little switches would leave nice bright welts. Kept my sorry little ass in line though, and in all honesty I never got a lickin' that I didn't deserve. Five minute prep time - I'm with Jim. Gun. That's plenty of time.

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon ringworm #15650958 01/13/21
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,504 MarineHawk Campfire Regular
MarineHawk Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,504	I'd grab my 13-yr-old son and an axe: https://i.imgur.com/rJPCgqz.mp4

Re: Your favorite improvised weapon Bristoe #15650965 01/13/21
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31,599 Fall Creek Blanco Co. Texas K kaywoodie Campfire 'Bwana
kaywoodie Campfire 'Bwana K Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31,599 Fall Creek Blanco Co. Texas	Originally Posted by Bristoe Originally Posted by EdM Originally Posted by Bristoe I've carried a cold steel entrenching tool in my truck for years after putting an edge all the way around it. It's just a little shovel sitting there minding its own business. But it probably wouldn't be a good idea for somebody to try to come in my truck uninvited. I like that. https://greatwar.nl/quotes/immortal38.html In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and your entrenching tool. The sharpened spade is a lighter and more versatile weapon - not only can you get a man under the chin, but more to the point, you can strike a blow with a lot more force behind it. That's especially true if you can bring it down diagonally between the neck and the shoulder, because then you can split down as far as the chest. When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick in the guts to get it out. "All Quiet On The Western Front" Must have read it at least a dozen times while in high school Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester "Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored." WS

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