Ok...here is a summary of a rather well written earlier post I lost (ok, I am being silly)....
Ok….skipping to the nuts and bolts….self defense is the main concern.
There will come a time that gunpowder and “bullets” are not easy to find. Yes there are recipes for black powder but none of the ingredients are
so easy to find….if you can find and secure them…you will prob win…but otherwise…listen up…
Cold Steel website is an awesome source for competition/battle grade weaponry. From long swords to axes…they have it and is made to very tough and
strict codes of standards…and you pay for that…a lot.
My favs…
The Italian style long sword and matching dagger…awesomeness
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at almost $800.00 for the pair…they strike me as being the best of the overall.
Crushing power…sometimes speed can still be overcome by crushing power…these two are awesome…
The Greatsword -
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The Chinese War sword
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Neither of these are for the common zombie fighter…(kidding)
The Scottish Dirk….better know what it is best at, but nonetheless…an awesome piece of craftsmanship….
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other items I am tickled with not shown here…
The Lucern Hammer/BecDeCorbin - awesome piece of battle engineering….look them up, they were very well thought out…not an accident but a true
design with purpose. At 6’-0 to 8’-0 long…they are a better than clever alternative to a plain spear.
A simple 12' Bowie Knife
A seriously awesome blade made famous in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...the Khyber Bowie at 24"
Archery…
Yes Compounds mark the day but there will come a time when no one has the tools or means to service them…get a recurve or an English long bow. Both
have issues with long term strength but the Long Bow is by far the easiest to reproduce and make from scratch….many articles online for how to do
so…get them, print them and keep them…you grandchildren might sing song of your greatness if you do…
Grrr...all the long bow images are not really that great....put it this way, the long bow was at one time the most lethal weapon on the
planet....it's lethality has not stopped, it has only been superseded...
Close up alternatives…
Hard to beat a simple steel shafted hammer….the Estwing 28 ounce framing hammer should be classified as a deadly weapon…the straight sweeping
claws…the 16” length…it is a might weapon for about 35-40 bucks…
Beyond self defense, get awake….save your seeds from everything…tomatoes, cucumbers, hot peppers….save garlic cloves….all of which is easy to
grow more from…get them…keep them.
here are some ranged alternatives to think about...
The atlatl easily made and history shows multiple thousands of years of effectiveness....make it!
A blowgun...easy-easy to make...darts too....tip your darts in human dung and you have now created a horribe weapon....
Anyway....defense is mostly what you do with what you have....an xacto knife in the right hands is a lethal weapon....never forget that.