In a more drastic survival situation, SHTF moment or prolonged survival environment, traditional weapons for hunting and protection will eventually be used up.
Even the best prepared, if the survival situation is dire and long enough, will exhaust their ammunition, gun parts will break or weapons will just wear out.
Or, if you are taken surprised or unprepared for a survival situation, you could find yourself weaponless, which in some cases, could be a death warrant.
In either case, being able to fashion your own weapons out of whatever is at hand is a critical skill you must learn.
Luckily, thanks to man’s “footprint,” you can find manmade articles that can be molded into weapons virtually anywhere you go if you look hard enough.
In the video on the next page, the video-maker uses an old, glass beer bottle he found on the side of the road to make arrowheads.
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Flint mapping is flint mapping
its flint “knapping” and glass is altogether different than flint
Bill Bates here’s a project for you.
I’ve made acouple
John Conrad look familiar ? I still have the one you made.
Knapping
Touché
it’s funny to see people learn how to make them and then see them in flee markets listed as authentic indian made arrowheads with a pricetag of $100 each.
Native people having been knapping points out of obsidian, or volcanic glass, for millennia. Nothing special or surprising here.
This is a skill that is much harder then it looks. Most of the traditional or historical skill sets are all much harder then they look. Heck, Blacksmithing is insanely complex, yet people will think it only involves “Heat it and Beat it.” Learn these and other skills it will keep you off the streets.
Glass is certainly easier to knapp than flint or chert, but it still takes a bit of practice to make good arrowheads. I like using obsidian for making them, but the bottom of a bottle works pretty well also. Curved glass, from the side of the bottle, is harder to work with due to the shape.