Prepper's melee weapon
Let's start with the cold one - in my humble opinion, it makes sense to purchase, in addition to our main one, several more serious knives, one of which has a long blade (daggers up to 50 cm). Good penetration is important here.
A bayonet from a Mauser K98 rifle is good for these purposes for a survivalist; Caucasian daggers with normal handles are also good. It costs about 6,000 rubles in various states of preservation. And yes, this is a bladed weapon. Where can I buy? There are a lot of offers and online auctions on the Internet, for example meshok. But we need to remember about scammers. Kidalovo accompanies the purchase of any more or less interesting product on the Internet and is found at every step.
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The second big knife is a machete. But not every machete will do. What you need is something heavy, with a lot of weight at the end of the tip and a thick blade for powerful chopping blows.
You've probably seen scary videos from Latin America, where drug dealers kill their victims with machetes. Powerful slashing blows of a heavy blade (the actual machete is wielded like a saber) chop off the legs, arms and head of the still living victim. These videos are, of course, vomiting, but there is so much you can watch for moral fortitude and to broaden your horizons. You can't be afraid of the sight of blood. Forewarned is forearmed.
A sapper shovel (a small infantry shovel) with sharpened edges causes serious injuries, but as Merzlikin’s character said in one film, it is an entrenching tool, a weapon of last chance. And I wouldn’t seriously consider it, although to create caches you must have it, and you need to be able to manage it.
Reasonable redundancy in survival is one of the foundations of survival.
Notes from a Survivalist
March 12, 2020
I was 24 when it happened, I don’t know what happened, whether it was a global experiment by scientists, a new weapon, or He Who Must Not Be Named had a hand in it, but it banged loudly, or rather, it not only banged, but even glowed without a light bulb Read a book at night, and this is in central Russia, where aurora borealis have never happened and could not exist in principle. But first things first, I need to escape from a pack of wild dogs that haven’t smelled me yet, because the wind was blowing from their direction towards me, but they protect my feet...
Well, I successfully saved myself from possible troubles and since it was already getting dark, I climbed a fairly large tree for the night. I didn’t want to sleep yet, and I decided to start writing my survivor’s diary, which I thought about while sitting in the dark basement and shaking with fear, in order to somehow clear my mind and not overwhelm myself with unnecessary fears. Well, I think we need to start from the beginning.
March 11, 2020.
I was born... well, not that much at first. It was an ordinary Saturday evening, my father and I arrived at a country house to hunt, he is a terrible hunting fan, like me in principle. But city life takes its toll, and after a particularly hard week at work, I wanted to lie down rather than hunt. According to the pedometer readings, today I walked around the store for more than 20 km, explaining to the grannies how one narrow-eyed manufacturer differs from another and why this one is more expensive, but they look almost the same. So, my father ran off into the night, he was so eager to get out of the city and taste the smell of freedom, and I was left to watch some not very long movie on the laptop. Because electricity in the house was provided by a gasoline electric generator, and “oats are expensive these days,” as my grandfather joked. After watching a “so-so” movie about a cheap apocalypse, I was attracted by a strange glow outside the window, the city was almost 70 km away, so the advertising lights couldn’t shine that much. I just wanted to take a piss, so I went outside and at the same time see what was shining there. Coming down from the porch, I looked at the sky and somehow immediately forgot why I came out. The entire sky had the most natural aurora. Terribly beautiful and terribly scary. I don’t know how long I stood there, but then my brain exploded with thousands of questions: what the hell??? Why??? What the fuck??? Perhaps this saved me then, because this unreal beauty was captivating, and it was as if there was nothing else around, but my own questions distracted me a little and I heard a gradually increasing noise or even more of a rumble. It was as if a strong wind was blowing and millions of bees were buzzing in it, and then there was a bright flash from the direction of the city, and if it weren’t for the house in the shadow of which I was, then goodbye to my eyes. Immediately before my eyes flashed pictures from a life safety textbook and various films, a nuclear explosion bl!!! While my head was thinking, my legs were already carrying me to the basement. My father was a little carried away by the idea of survivalists, there were all sorts of nuclear winters, wheat in the basement and so on. It hadn’t come to that yet, but we had quite a deep concrete basement. I flew into it, rushing headlong, luckily I hadn’t forgotten to close the hatch behind me. Literally collapsing to the floor, I covered the back of my head with my palms, naive, as if it would help if the house collapsed on me along with the basement ceiling, but for some reason my brain remembered lines from the textbook, where it was advised, in the event of a threat of a nuclear explosion, to lie with your muzzle in the ground and cover your head with your palms. And man is such a creature that he grabs the slightest chance to survive. Lie. I lie there for 10 minutes. I’m shaking, either from the cold or from fear. After another 5 minutes I began to think, there were no earthquake shocks or vibrations, strange. There was an explosion, but there was no shaking, although to the city, about 70 kilometers away, the damaging factors of a nuclear explosion may not be felt at such a distance, but I don’t remember the exact values, so we sit. "FATHER!!!! Damn, he stayed there, ahhhhhh what should I do? Damn, dad, dear, I’ll come running to you right now, I’ll save you!!! “I didn’t know any other thoughts then, and when I was already rushing out into the street, I caught something on the way and hit my head hard, losing consciousness.
March 12, 2020.
I didn’t wake up soon, judging by the watch about seven hours later, apparently from the stress I experienced I fell asleep without regaining consciousness, but I thought about it only later. First of all, as soon as my thoughts began to move a little faster than the grandmother at the crossroads, I immediately remembered everything: the radiance, the explosion, the fear, the father! As soon as I was blown up to run, I immediately besieged myself. “Stop, buddy. Run now, you’ll die sooner than save someone. Sit down, have a drink, we’ll think about it,” but it was difficult to think, because it’s scary and dark, and in the dark it’s twice as scary. Using a flashlight from my phone to illuminate myself, I started the generator and turned on the lights, and it immediately felt better. In the utility room, where all the supplies were, I took a can of stew and sat down on the sofa. I didn’t want to eat, but I had to eat, I needed strength and energy. My hands were shaking so much that I either didn’t get the fork into the jar or dropped the hard-earned pieces. “Okay, calmly, put the jar on the table, carefully, soooo, now inhale and exhale calmly for a long time, again.” Well, I let go a little, but not completely, I was still scared to death, scared from the unknown, and I wanted to live, but how? Only a great vegetable knows. With less trembling hands, he took the jar and continued to eat, while trying to answer the eternal Russian questions: “What should I do now? So what should we do? »
And so, more than eight hours have passed since the explosion, and the prevailing wind blows in the opposite direction from the city, which means the main radioactive trace was away. At least that’s what was written in the life safety textbook; of course, we won’t trust it. My father had a small warehouse with equipment, I hope there is a gas mask there. The phone beeped, signaling a low battery level. Having put it on charge, it’s good that now they are almost universal, I went to get ready for a hike. First of all, I threw off all my city clothes, right down to my underpants, and dressed in my slightly worn, but favorite, waterproof overalls, which I wore when I went hunting. Now I need a backpack - “it was here somewhere, yeah I found it, it’s big, about a shitload of liters.” Now you need to throw food and water into it, oh dad, well done for stocking up on everything for this matter, your eyes stung, tears welled up in your eyes. “So stop, now is not the time, and he’s alive, ALIVE, is that clear to you!?” – Driving away bad thoughts, I climbed further, we take water, 10 liters in a flat, durable plastic bottle, not very flat, of course, but it will do. Then I threw in about seven cans of stew, if one for the morning/lunch/evening is enough for two days, and then I almost reached the city, I also put in all sorts of powdered concentrates to drink with vitamins there, by the way about vitamins. A first aid kit, a super fashionable Spasov first aid kit, there are several of them here, I’ll take two, in case you need them. Damn, what else should you take with you in such cases? I should have subscribed to all sorts of smart public pages on VKontakte, so that right now I wouldn’t stand and scratch my turnips, like Alyoshka Popovich in the cartoon. Okay, maybe I’ll figure something out along the way, but now let’s move on to the main thing, this is where the experienced ones will begin to salivate, and schoolchildren will exclaim “NUNAKANETSTA”! To the weapon, it’s still better to take it off than without it. But here a bummer awaited me, the safe with my Saiga was locked, but there were no keys, apparently my father forgot to leave it in the hiding place. It’s bad, but not fatal, there are a couple of excellent knives - let’s take it. “What's left? Sure, it’s a gas mask,” I saw it somewhere, a special one for firefighters with panoramic glass, I don’t know what it’s called, but in fact it doesn’t matter, “yeah, I found it.” Well, I’m awesomely equipped, it’s time to go, but nothing is going. I’m scared, my legs have become weak, fear has slowly started to chill my back again, perhaps we’ll sit on the path, apparently that’s how we came up with this custom, but while I’m sitting I can eat. While I was eating, I thought that if I survived, I could write a book, something like a survivor’s note, although it seems to me that the book “how to survive on a salary in Russia and buy things NOT on credit” would be more successful. Okay, don’t delay, but we have to go. Phone in your pocket, turn off the generator. I also wanted to take 20 liters of gasoline for exchange, if anything, but I went crazy with the weight and changed my mind. Stairs, gas mask, inhale, go outside...
a sequel is being written.
Prepper's Signal Weapon
I left the reworking of the signal PMs for the last part of the article. Now let's talk about military pyrotechnics - signal and lighting flares, flare guns and signal cartridges and pistols. Signaling devices are not considered firearms and are freely sold throughout the Russian Federation.
Let's start with signal flares Rop-30, Rsp-30 -30, 40, 50, SHT-40 and the like. These things can seriously harm a person in very rare cases. As a rule, a burn remains and the star ricochets to the side. I wouldn’t consider it as a means of attack or self-defense - imagine yourself holding a tube with one hand, a ring with the other, the tube pointed at your opponent’s face. Yes, the shot has high energy (up to 1000 J), but the prospects are very vague and depend on the specific situation.
There are less common signaling devices of larger caliber, for example ROPDD (from 50 mm in diameter), but they are launched from a stop and they can kill or severely injure both the opponent and you - due to age, the star may fly out of the pipe and to the side at 90 degrees, depending on your luck.
How signaling and lighting the space in front of a protected object can and will be suitable for a survivalist. Will they be able to illuminate the enemy night vision devices at night? We need to experiment. According to the regulations, flares must be launched towards the enemy’s front line.
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Pyrotechnics can also include smoke grenades - for smoking an opponent out of a confined space or camouflaging your waste.
All this is sold on VKontakte, Avito, Yula and the same bag.
Let's move on. Let's consider a signal weapon - a rocket launcher for 4 caliber 26 mm. There are Soviet rocket launchers SPSh-44, OSP-30, SP-81, German ones - LP-34 ERMA, Luftwaffe Flieger-Leuchtpistole, LP-42, LP-57.
First, as I wrote above, 4-caliber signal cartridges are very weak to harm a person. The stars just bounce off. If you try to remake the cartridge by increasing the weight of gunpowder and adding shot (which in itself is Article 223 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the rocket launcher can simply be torn apart with the limbs torn off and the hand burned (German rocket launchers are made of aluminum, unlike domestic ones). Long time to recharge.
The result is a smooth-bore short-barreled weapon, which is primarily dangerous for the shooter. Another interesting fact is that such rocket launchers are sometimes registered with the LRO, and sometimes are on the market. You can also buy deactivated rocket launchers for zhevelo capsules - a plate with a hole for the capsule is welded into the barrel bore; they are sold officially, for example PO-524, VPO-524-1 (OSH-30 rocket launcher) from Molot Oruzhie.
Below is a video of a shot from a 4 caliber 26 mm rocket launcher into the naked body of a man. In this caliber, damage can only be caused by inert cartridges from police pump-action shotguns - but getting such cartridges is something from the “science fiction” section. Converting rocket launchers is not worth the money.
Prepper's Illegal Firearms
We come to the most interesting part, the conversion of signal PMoids into rubber and firearms. 223 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. There are many PM-shaped pistols on the Internet, such as pneumatic, signal, and SHP.
The modification using the MP 371 as an example is carried out by knocking out the old barrel and purchasing a new barrel, since there are offers for barrels for 11 and 13 earrings. What is an earring in MP 371? Roughly speaking, this is the diameter of the mounting hole for the barrel (when the old barrel is knocked out, where the barrel is inserted - the diameter of the holder (earring) can be either 11 mm or 13 mm). All this is illegal and punishable by law.
The earring, this is the place where the barrel is installed on the MP 371, has a diameter of 11 mm. P411 has 13 mm. The latter, by the way, is considered the best option, because... its diameter is equal to the diameter of the real PM trunk.
The cartridges are taken by converting them from blanks - a self-tapping screw is screwed into the plug and pulled out of the cartridge case. Gunpowder is added and a new ball is inserted with a press. Both balls and blank cartridges are freely available. You can get confused and buy dies for loading rubber cartridges.
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The result is a rubber spit (with a live cartridge, such a pistol will simply tear apart due to the weakness of the walls). Ammo misalignment and criminal cases are the reality of such pistols.
From three years in a penal colony, if you cooperate with the investigation, you can get off with a suspended sentence, but again, provided that no other crime was committed with this weapon.
One day it will happen
It’s hard to believe in the possibility of hunger and food shortages now, but it’s better to stock up now than to blame yourself later for carelessness and lost time. When all production in a country stops, agricultural enterprises go bankrupt, and food shortages usually do not take long to appear. Along with home storage, which you are able to regularly check and update stocks, it is also recommended to create remote strategic stocks - in disguised cellars or caches called caches and hiding places.
The garage and country cellar should be partially used (adjusted for possible looting). However, this is not enough. A necessary component of reserves are caches (aka caches, hiding places, hidden cellars). There may be several reasons for creating a cache: a) the need for additional storage space, b) a reasonable desire to disperse resources, c) creating conditions for instant escape from a populated area, without preliminary fees (the cache location will be the first point of your arrival after urgent self-evacuation). The cache is a hiding place, located in a place remote from populated areas and roadways, and outwardly does not stand out in any way. It can be arranged in an inconspicuous niche in the rock or simply buried in the ground in the form of a treasure. The technology for creating a cache is similar to the technology for equipping cellars, with the only difference being that the cache should not be noticeable from the outside. When creating a cache, the main attention should be paid to disinfected cereals (heat-treated to prevent mold, bugs, etc.), sugar and salt. You should also stock up on vinegar (for quickly making marinades that prolong the life of the product) and tea (in factory-made foil packages). In addition to food, the cache must contain: a minimum of medicines, syringes and bandages, a bottle of medical alcohol, matches or a wooden chair, a roll of thick polyethylene, a blanket (in a sealed package), rope or wire, an ax and a saw (lubricated with grease), lighter fluid fire, paper, knife, some disposable tableware, soap. Also, if you are driving: a can of gasoline, a set of keys. Two methods of storing food in the cache are recommended. The first is a regular stowage, in which each product is stored in its own container (for example: a bag of sugar, 2 boxes of stew, 4 4 bottles of cereal, a canister of water, etc.) - of course, everything should be stored in waterproof packaging - i.e. at least wrapped in polyethylene and carefully closed. The second is extreme, when stocks are stored in whole sets, which contain a minimum of necessary products (each set contains 3-5 kg of sugar, 10-15 kg of cereals of various types, 3-5 kg of milk powder, 1-2 liters of vegetable oil, 3-5 kg of dried fruits, 1 kg of salt, 200-300 g of spices, several cans of stew, a bottle of water, a bottle of vinegar, medicine, bandages, soap, an ax, something else). This method allows you to quickly remove supplies from the cache without attracting unnecessary attention - after all, there may not be time for that. To store sets, it is recommended to use polyethylene tanks with a wide neck with a capacity of 40-60 liters (1 tank = 1 set). The tank is easily and quickly removed, is not subject to erosion, and is resistant to pests. If the cache is small, it is better to store only 2-3 sets and a roll of polyethylene. If it’s large, you can add another container of sugar (40-60 liters), a couple of boxes of stew, a canister of water, a canister of alcohol, and some tools (see above). You can also attach a simple battery-powered radio (it is possible that one of the radio stations will start broadcasting). Make sure your supplies are protected from mice, moles and rats. The tanks should be wrapped in fine metal mesh. The joints of the mesh pieces should be securely fastened with wire. The cache must be securely hidden from the human eye, camouflaged. It is better if it is a thicket of forest, an island in a labyrinth of swamps, a crevice or a mini-grotto in the rock. You can arrange caches in the roots of trees, under old stumps, under large boulders. The distance from the cache to the nearest populated area should be at least 3-4 km near the city and 5-6 km in rural areas (villagers know the surroundings better - and can easily locate the cache or notice you during the storage and retrieval of reserves). You should not equip a cache near military bases or large industrial enterprises, railway and boat stations (even if they are located far from the city). You need to be prepared for the fact that at the moment of removing supplies from the cache, someone outside will want to appropriate part of your valuables for themselves. Or some people may, threatening with weapons, demand that you give them your cache. For this purpose, protective equipment must be provided in the cache. It is better if the approach to the cache is such that only one or two people can pass through (a narrow passage in the rock or a rocky platform taller than human height, where only one person can climb, is especially convenient). If the cache is located in a forest, then there should be impassable thickets around it (raspberries, hazel, other shrubs, windbreaks), into which a person will not climb of his own free will. And the approach to the cache is only one and very narrow. In the cache itself, it is advisable to have a loaded weapon (a pistol, a sawn-off shotgun loaded with shot, a hand grenade). In case your hands are tied, you can secure a knife blade or a circular saw blade (wrapped in cellophane) in the immediate vicinity of the cache. At a critical moment, you will be able to cut the rope unnoticed. In these same cases, children should not know about the existence of the cache. Or there should be several caches - only you know about one, you + children know about the other, only your wife and children know about the third. In order to minimize the likelihood of your cache being discovered, planting should be done at night. To do this, you can camp not far from the intended location of the cache - under the guise of vacationers (it’s not bad if there is a river or other body of water nearby). And at night or at dawn, quietly equip the cache. It is better not to light lanterns; it is preferable to go on a moonlit night. and the point is not so much that someone will notice and THEN rob the cache. They can notice it right away and plunder it purely out of sporting interest. Also, destroyed man-made structures, such as mines, workings, old military installations, old military installations, remote industrial sites and buildings, abandoned villages, towns, etc., may be suitable for creating a cache. Of course, you shouldn’t leave anything in a visible place, but a big advantage of such a cache will also be that in such a place you can not only store supplies, but also live for some time, practically without any additional equipment. preparation. Sometimes it makes sense to make a city cache (especially if you live in a large metropolis and it is not always possible to leave it very quickly.) When creating such a shelter, you should first of all make it invisible, and the creation of the cache itself should be as discreet as possible. You can try to organize caches under (your) garage on the street, Arranging a hidden volume in the basement of a house or in the attic. use an abandoned bomb shelter, a section of underground communications (heating mains, heating wells, unused collectors, etc.). You can arrange a cache by deepening the basement, constructing a second bottom. The main thing is not to violate the integrity of the foundation. Make sure that there are no signs of homeless people nearby. A separate point may be to create a hiding place in the house where you live, but still this is not very relevant, because... a hiding place is needed just outside the house. But if such a need arises, then it is most advisable to make a double bottom in the furniture, hiding places in the ventilation (from the inside there is a shelf or mount on which you can hang a bag, etc.).
Source
Something on the topic: • Cache in permafrost • How to skin a beast • The End of Darkness is Approaching • Sugar, matches, gun • My Secret Stash
Kidalovo
The black market is always a high chance for a prepper to lose his money. There are many scams operating on the market for such pseudo-legal toys - a few examples are a white elephant, three geese, scam stores, for example td-collectioner.com (successfully operating for more than 3 years!!!), scam nursery - auction bag. Even if the author has 1000 positive reviews, you may not receive your order.
Our law enforcement agencies catch fish there with live bait. To protect society from particularly passionate citizens.
Here is a video, the author of which was given 4 years in prison for ordering from the Hanseatic League .
The site of my father's toy is interesting - my eyes run wide from the components, but most likely these are provocateurs, such guys leak their orders to interested law enforcement agencies, place an order and in a couple of months you will sign a protocol, from my words it was written down correctly, I read it.
And yes, as a rule, people start reading reviews when they have already been scammed *sarcasm*.
