war if the worlds

i don tthink i'd ever be able to strangle a moose with my bare hands
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Maybe if you got lucky, or unlucky. They do just sit there and stare at you. Dumb things. I'm waiting for the day one attacks me while I'm running.

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haha i'd hate to be the moose that runs into you =)

i'll toss up a few pictures of the new bow im working on soon... been busy with work lately so havent had alot of time for myself =)

its actually more like a crossbow but i want to add a reel to it and some fishing monofilament and try to shoot some fish LOL

i think it'll be an interesting experiment...

its also interesting that no one has posted on my second question...

and that was what 3 knives would u take with you anywhere into the wild if the world was to end???

1 of these can be an axe/hatchet
 
jca21 said:
what 3 knives would u take with you anywhere into the wild if the world was to end???

1 of these can be an axe/hatchet
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If the world was to end, I would want to be at ground zero. If god came down and told me that I had to go forth into the wilderness and the only things I could take would be three knives, not four, not two, but three being the holy number, oh, and yes, one could be an axe. Then thus would I proclaim: (for the humor impaired, the preceding prelude was intended as comic relief and not to harass, denigrate, or flame the party posting the query)...sleep...I need sleep...:D :D :eek:

(these being items that I currently own, it might read differently if I had more money so owned more to choose from)


Full size axe (good brand)
Fallkniven F1
Victorinox swiss champ
 
hahah holy hand grenade.

well. potassium nitrate, willow charcoal, and sulfur in the correct amounts in an enclosed containor would get u the same results =)
 
jca21 said:
well. potassium nitrate, willow charcoal, and sulfur in the correct amounts in an enclosed containor would get u the same results =)
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That knowledge would be an example of a survival skill in my book!!:)

As for God only allowing the Holy Hand Grenade, he made an exception in my case because I had already used it when battling "the knights who go beep"(as opposed to the knights who say knee) last time they cut me off in traffic. He hasn't seen fit to provide a replacement yet, so he allowed me the choice of three. He has assured me that due to increased technology and better manufacturing methods, he should be able to supply me with my choice of the following new weapons shortly if the house of angels doesn't cut his military budget before completion: a: The Holy Howitzer b: The Holy Rotary Cannon , and, c: The Holy Neutron Bomb. He was going to elaborate more on the timeline, but he was in a hurry because he had to take The Holy Sh#t so we are left in the dark as to when these new weapons will become available.
 
well bigb if you ever feeling like getting back at those "beeping knights" try tossing a smoke bomb through their window next time they drive by

60% potassium nitrate 40% sugar
heat over hot plate very gently at low temp and stir around till you get look/consistancy of peanut butter

pour into film canister, stick in a couple inches of visco safety fuse and let harden =)

aside from survival skills and collecting knives...

my other hobby is pyrotechnics =) especially homemade explosives
 
jca21 said:
well bigb if you ever feeling like getting back at those "beeping knights" try tossing a smoke bomb through their window next time they drive by

60% potassium nitrate 40% sugar
heat over hot plate very gently at low temp and stir around till you get look/consistancy of peanut butter

pour into film canister, stick in a couple inches of visco safety fuse and let harden =)

aside from survival skills and collecting knives...

my other hobby is pyrotechnics =) especially homemade explosives
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While that is a very interesting hobby, I might not post that on a public forum if it was me...but, you're not me so......

That is an interesting and easy formula though. Thanks!! Are you going to now post the recipe for home made potassium nitrate?
 
Technology is pervasive but not necessarily permanent. Because it is so pervasive it will take a lot more than a “local” disaster like a Tsunami, hurricane or even a caldera like Yellowstone erupting to destroy technology. Technology will always be imported back into a disaster area after conditions locally allow that. However if a series of events or a global event occurs that is big enough to drastically reduce technology worldwide occurs then there will be no technology to import from anywhere. Pervasiveness does not equal permanence.

A major problem is that we humans have not been around long enough to really know how bad it can get on a global scale. The last ice age was the biggest event humans have a clear picture of. We survived but only because there was still technology in the warmer climates. There was a time when the human pop. was nearly wiped out, genetics suggest the whole world had a human pop. of a very small town and it is still not clear what happened. We know there have been great die offs in global history that killed from 40 to 90 something percent of ALL life. Trust me when everything except bacteria and blue-green algae dies that will include us. At least most of us.:rolleyes:

Humans are not great runners but we are great walkers. We can cover vast distances by walking and have done so in the past. A human in the right condition can walk a horse into the ground.

If some global event or events occur we will not survive by hunting anything. There is not enough wildlife on this planet to feed the present human race for even a few weeks. We will be subsistence farmers or we will die.

There are many types of technology and we must be clear on that. There are flint knapping, making a fire, microchips, autos, airplanes and chemical etc. technologies. What is important is what it takes to support these different technologies. Flint knapping takes a pair of hands and a brain. The infrastructure to design, build and launch a satellite is many orders of magnitude greater, more complex and expensive. If we don’t make the distinction we will put too much faith in the wrong technology. As long as no global events happen then we will all live in a Star Trek world where technology is our friend and always advances. If such an event does happen then those of the Star Trek mentality will forego popping by Starbucks and getting on this forum through their Wi-Fi connection and acquire some more basic knowledge. That or they will die and be eaten.

Remember there have been many species of humans who are now extinct.
 
the_mac said:
We humans don't have sharp teeth, long claws, and we don't run very fast. What we do have is a really well develloped brain.
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This is all true However, we can all renew our subscription to Backwoodsman. Thanks for jogging my brain, I am off to their website now.
 
bigbcustom... potassium nitrate (chemical name KNO3) is also known as salt peter...

potassium nitrate can be purchased at your local gardening centre for quite cheap... up here in canada i buy about 5 pounds of the stuff for 10 bux plus tax.

you can also mail order potassium nitrate and other fine chemicals from...

www.unitednuclear.com =) but i believe they only ship within the good ol USA

cheers
 
jca, my joke flew right past you. Thanks for the willingness to share though. I haven't seen kno3 in its pure form at any gardening center around here though, I may have to look around some more. You can easily get nitrate fertilizers from which you can extract kno3, but I haven't seen the pure stuff around. It is like a lot of chemicals. You can't buy nitric acid, sulphuric acid, etc. without a "legitimate" reason, but most things like that can be obtained from easily available materials. The processes probably shouldn't be posted on a public forum (I know there are sites that post the methods, but I don't neccessarily agree with the practice). Suppose some kid reads a "how to" for something nasty, and makes it, and seriously injurs himself? You would feel bad. You have to remember that this forum, while being populated with many thinking, intelligent, and mature adults, is also populated with kids that don't think through all the ramifications of their actions prior to performing said actions.

Sorry about the soap box.
 
thats true... haha

well.... i think one of the most hilarious things in the world is covering an m80 in peanut butter... waiting for a gopher to snatch it and boom =)...

but thats just me ^^

anyways your right.. shouldnt be posting that stuff on here LOL

cheers
 
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