Wooden weapons for survival
“I don’t know what kind of weapons the third world war will be fought with, but the fourth will definitely be fought with clubs and axes.”
I warn the section - the manufacture of wooden weapons falls under the article “Article 223. Illegal manufacture of weapons.” Any stick in the shape of a baton is a bladed weapon with percussion-shot action. Especially if screws are screwed into it or nails are driven into it. What can we say about sticks, even a baseball bat carried in a car tends to be classified as a weapon.
So we will talk about making wooden weapons only in the context of survival - those when you find yourself in an emergency situation and you need a weapon specifically for survival. Well, for example, a plane crashed in the taiga, the nearest housing is more than 500 km away, you don’t have a compass, it’s not clear where to go, you have to survive, bears and wolves roam around the parking area organized by the surviving people, and at night yetis come from the forest and try to steal away the spoils they hunt food, brew infused with the gifts of the forest, and they clearly look at the tents with the girls.
So, the simplest shock-shot type weapon is a baton.
In fact, a baton is an ordinary stick, one end of which is thicker and heavier than the other. However, not all so simple. Let's start with the shape of the baton.
Here is a photo of the wrong baton.
Now I will explain why. Tell me, why are these wooden weapons constantly expanding? The weight of the baton should be concentrated near the striking end, because the punching effect does not consist of the mass of the baton, but of the mass multiplied by the speed! With a 500 gram baton, the mass of which is concentrated at the end, the blow will be much more penetrating than a kilogram baton with an almost constantly distributed mass. And ready-made material in this form cannot be found in nature, which means that in order to make a baton of this shape, you will have to spend a lot of effort.
Here's a photo of the correct baton.
This is a German trench baton from the First World War. Agree - the Germans were not fools to make the wrong weapons on an industrial scale!
It is much easier to make such a baton with your own hands. That thickening at the end is the transition of the tree trunk into the rhizome. You can find a tree with a trunk of a suitable size, dig it up, cut off excess roots - using any pointed stone. Only the handle of the club needs to be processed smoothly, the roots can be left as small shoots - it will turn out to be quite a club, yes, if possible, it is worth weighting the striking end with the help of improvised means.
Look at photographs of World War I batons. They will direct your imagination in the right direction.
Working with a baton is quite simple. After all, she is just an extension of the hand. At the moment of impact, it is necessary to put your body weight into the striking end. However, when meeting a bear, a club will not save you. The most you can do is make him angry. And you can easily break the back of a lone wolf or a feral dog without investing body weight. Just hit quickly, sharply and with all your strength!
If you want to learn how to use a baton, buy a regular baseball bat at a sporting goods store and practice with it.
Here is an example of such baton training. Of course, there are a lot of feints and interceptions in this technique; you won’t need them in a real fight with an animal, but they train general coordination of movements. But coordination and the beauty of the flickering of the baton alone is not enough; training is also necessary for the strong blows themselves. To work it out, use a bat to hit a tree wrapped with a thick rope or car tires placed on a pole. Such blows will not dry out your hands and, at the same time, will allow you to develop the power of your blow. Combine coordination training with strong blow training - deliver powerful blows to the target right at the moment of the connection.
Tactics of using a baton in battle. Strike cleanly. If there are many opponents, you need to have a covered rear (alternatively, stand with your back to a tree). What you shouldn't do is swing your baton, hit it in the air and in front of the enemy. Many people think that this is how to intimidate the enemy, but this is not so. Firstly, in the case of an animal, you will simply enrage him. Secondly, from such swinging you will quickly get tired, and, as they say, a tired warrior is a losing warrior. So - clear blows, attentiveness, calm and concentration.
Impressive set of batons! But I remember the famous thing - better than kung fu and karate, an old TT!
