6 Modified Baseball Bats for the Zombie Apocalypse

Creek has done it again! He created 6 awesome baseball bat weapons and to be completely honest, I want to make every single one of them. If I had to pick a favorite would have to say # 4 called The Shard!

Being able to think outside the box and improve anything you have on hand to protect yourself will be a great skill to have if SHTF. Ammo won’t last forever and guns degrade and fail. Having melee weapons that can cause a lot of damage will give you the edge over other folks in the apocalypse. Especially those slow moving zombies. 

Check out all 6 modifications and let me know which one is your favorite and why! Please note that these weapons are flat out dangerous and designed for entertainment and zombie killing purposes only.  Recreate at your own risk.

6 Modified Baseball Bats for the Zombie Apocalypse

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THE COMING PERSECUTION… WHAT’S A PATRIOT TO DO? (TEN STEPS)

Ahhh, that ‘moment.’ The moment when it all sunk in and you realized I wasn’t joking about the coming persecution of Christian patriots in America. And now the stage is set and ‘it’ is at the threshold.

I’ve received several emails and want to offer you some encouragement, which also ties in with the series I’m doing, titled ‘The Coming Underground.’ So, some action steps are in order. WHAT TO DO!

1a. PRAY. Stop! This isn’t a half-hearted, driving down the road to work or whistling while your doing laundry, thinking about God, kind of prayer. Lock yourself away, with no distractions, for an hour. Make a list so you know what to pray ABOUT.
A. Wisdom and Discernment and pray for a HUNGER for His word for
– You and your spouse and your children
– For your friends and family who are likeminded who you will all be leaning on in the future for encouragement and counsel
– For patriot leaders (Legislators, Clergy, Community Leaders, Patriot Leaders, Sheriff, other Officials, your Bible Study leader and group)
B. For courage to stand for truth no matter the cost, and to know how to tell the difference as deception rules the days ahead
C. For your church. For THE church, as items A & B above apply to them, especially for the Godly men, the pastors, and other decision makers.
D. Pray that He will strengthen your faith in Him. To give you the wisdom to prepare, and that He provide for your needs in those areas you are not able to physically prepare.

1b. Put on the full armor of God

2. PREPARE – Do not be a refugee.
A. Be self reliant and stock up enough food for at least one year. Have the ability to produce/capture/filter water. Have medicines and medical supplies.
B. Communications. Be able to at least receive communications locally (scanner) and long range (Shortwave radio with SSB). Then be able to communicate with everyone in your group (handheld or mobile/vehicle radios). Then invest in at least one person, preferably two, who will get their ham licenses in the next 6 weeks. AT LEAST one of them should quickly get his General class license and the group invest in getting at least one HF Radio and all the digital communications software for digital modes. And practice! Go to www.AmRRON.com for more info.

3. SAFE HOUSES – The decision of where and when to conduct underground church meetings can be done later, and will change often.  So don’t worry about that part right now.

Develop your home into a safe house where you could host someone who needs a place to go, such as someone in your church, your pastor, or some other leader who may be wanted for who-knows-what ‘crimes.’ Next, develop a secondary safe house that has no connection to you, such as the old man who was your Boy Scout leader when you were a child, or someone else you can trust and confide in.  There are plenty of elderly people who think they don’t have a role to play in the underground because they’re “no spring chicken anymore.”  Nonsense!  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  If they have their head and their heart in the right place, there’s a place for everyone.  Give them a role.

– Don’t tell ANYONE that you have developed a safehouse, and don’t tell anyone except your closest inner circle (the two guys who would take a bullet for you) about your preps. Don’t tell your children! They can be easily exploited and manipulated.
– Develop a safehouse for your immediate family. This is a place where they can be safely hidden for months or years if necessary. This SHOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT be a place with direct ties to you, such as yours or your spouse’s parents, your brother, your pastor, your vacation cabin, etc. Store everything they will need there for a year without having to leave.

4. NETWORK NOW – There are not special agents infiltrating home groups and home churches and Bible studies at this time. Begin discussing the potential future now while you can still trust people. Carefully vet those who you discuss this with (only like-minded people), and take your time broaching the topic. It won’t take long at all for you to realize who is ‘there’ mentally. Do NOT push the issue with those who need ‘convincing’.

Tell those who are of the proper mindset to begin items 1 – 3 above. Do not share each others’ secondary safehouse locations. All you need to know is how to link up with each other in the event it becomes necessary. Example: Develop dead drop locations where you can leave notes for each other with visual indicators to let the other parties know:
A. I have left a message for you
B. *Duress: I have been compromised, do not retrieve message, keep moving
*These can never be written down, but rather committed to memory. Quiz each other from time to time.

Or, Have a plan to be at milemarker xx on Hwy xxx on frequency xxx.xxx at xxxxhrs until you link up, should you become separated and need to link up.

5. Be prepared to defend yourself and others.  If you do not already have one, acquire a combat rifle and a handgun, thirteen 30-rd magazines for the rifle, three magazines for your pistol, and a harness or vest for carrying all of them. Become proficient with your rifle.

6. Get in shape NOW.  Stop stuffing your face, and start walking. Stop reading this and go do ten pushups and 20 situps, then come back and continue. Do that every hour you’re awake (Okay, so I’m not a hypocrite, I just went and did it. You can too!)

7. Protect your wealth.  Get your cash out of the bank and transfer it into liquidable, tangible assets (leave your next mortgage payment and car payment in there, and anything else you need for monthly expenses which come directly out of your bank account). You shouldn’t have more-than-necessary cash just sitting in your account. Convert it to cash, guns, silver, gold, food, garden seeds and ‘lead’ (copper jacketed type) that you can use or trade or barter with.

8. Read the following books, besides the Bible:
– Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand
– When the Almond Tree Blossoms by David Aikman
– Resilient Nations by Robert F. Dees (retired Army Major General)
– The 5000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen
– Knighthood of Christian Warriors by Dr. Donald Bell (retired Marine Major)
– Patriots: A Novel of the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles

9.  Come out of your hole!  You’re no good to anyone by hiding somewhere to save your own skin and never getting involved, waiting for SOMEBODY to do SOMETHING so you can crawl out to a new safe world that someone else fought for.  It’s not going to happen if you don’t get involved and start making connections now.  Join your local county assembly or committee of correspondence, your local Tea Party, or conservative action group.  Attend preparedness and patriot events and start meeting likeminded people like yourself.  Begin carefully vetting and making new relationships and building networks of others you can trust and count on when the world maxes out the insane meter.  These people (and you) will be needed in making it through, fighting through, and restoring and rebuilding after the collapse of our culture.  And it WILL have to be fought for.  Nothing of lasting value will come for free or without a fight.

10.  Identify and serve.  Identify proven leaders in your community and choose who you will support, protect, and join.   Many self-proclaimed leaders will surface in a time of crisis.  They will claim that they have the solutions and demand that everyone follow them.    There are patriots and there are loyalists and at times it will be hard to tell the difference.  How will you discern?  You judge by their track record.  Does this legislator or county commissioner have a proven track record of fighting for liberty and traditional American ideals, or does he/she have a reputation of compromising and appeasing the powers that be?  You need to know who they are as early on as possible.  NOW would be a good time to start.  Build relationships with them and support them now.

How do you build a relationship with a proven patriot leader now?  You serve!  How do you become ‘friends’ with a high profile leader in the patriot community?  You volunteer to help that pastor and tell him you have skills and would like to contribute to the ministry.  You volunteer to help on that legislator’s or commissioner’s reelection campaign.  You help that community leader who is a mover and shaker and is connected with all the ‘who’s who’ in your community, and you volunteer to help make signs, set up sound equipment at the next rally, lick envelopes.  YOU SPEND TIME AROUND THEM!  Buy them a cup of coffee and share your heart, but don’t chew their ear off ‘philosophizing’ to them.  They have a bazillion other people all vying for ‘just five minutes’ of their time who want to philosophize and give them some profound, soul-stirring insight to their ‘wisdom.’   But more than anything, just BE THERE, and you will get five minutes with them, and more.  That’s your calling and mission.  Stick to it and don’t get distracted.  THEN you will have some influence — The ‘king’s ear’, if you please.

In a crisis situation, he will be looking for, and needing, a support network.  He may need a safe place to go into hiding.  What you never told him is that there are four people you could send an encrypted text to RIGHT NOW who could get him or her into a safe house network.  Or put him in touch with other leadership your group has been developing.  Or a network of medical personnel who have been quietly developing an underground hospital at three potential locations.

Those leaders may be advocating for the patriots in the public arena.  One of the best ways for you to advocate for your group, church, family, militia, or community is to have a previously-established relationship with him.  He will be needed in the political arm of a movement to secure liberty, and you will be needed by him for support and security.

Now, you have a mission, and we’re on borrowed time.  So GO!

http://www.radiofreeredoubt.com/2015/06/29/the-coming-persecution-whats-a-patriot-to-do-ten-steps/

How To Make A PVC Slingshot

Growing up in the time period I did, most of us little boys had baseball cards in our bicycle spokes and a home made slingshot in our back pocket. The sling shots consisted of any Y shaped branch we could find, 2 rubber bands, and another baseball card. They had little to no power behind them, but you could become accurate at knocking over a pop can from about 10 feet away. They most certainly we not considered weapons as we were allowed to play with them during recess at school as long as we used the school shed as a backstop…my how times have changed.

Being the adult kid that I am, there is still something magical about making a slingshot. The one that I make now however have a ton of power and can do some real damage. They can also be used for hunting in a pinch for small game. We stumbled across a good video on how to make a gear slingshot out of PVC. We thought we would share it with you since, after all, PVC seems to be one of a preppers favorite things.

Survival Defense When Guns Are Not Allowed

In the time before a major crisis occurs, private ownership or use of firearms, bows and arrows, and crossbows may be illegal and banned. As the situation gets worse, the government will impose martial law and confiscate weapons no matter how well you may think they are hidden.
Here are a few weapons that may be overlooked and that can be used to protect your family and loved ones.

Edged Weapons

Edged weapons are the oldest implements used by man. Then, as now, you can make knives and other edged weapons from flint, obsidian, bronze, arsenic copper-bronze, tin-bronze, iron. Today, there are three kinds of steel that you may be interested in:

• Damascus steel – originated in India about the 5th century BC. The steel was heated to red hot, hammered, folded, and then quickly cooled in water. This process was repeated at least 500 times. This produced a better weapons grade steel.
• Carbon steel – will rust if exposed to air and moisture. The rust if heavy will flake off causing the steel to weaken and break.
• Stainless steel is an alloy with a minimum of 10% chromium by mass. Stainless steel does not rust or stain by water as ordinary steel does. When heated the chromium becomes chromium oxide that acts to form an air and water tight film that seals off the metal. This steel comes in many grades and finishes.

The following edged tools and weapons can be used as a substitute for firearms for protection. All of them can be dipped in poison so that even a single glancing blow can be a lethal one.

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• Farm Tools: Any of the metal farming or gardening tools can be used as weapons to protect yourself or the family. The spade, rake, pitchfork, pick, sickle, hand hoe, and garden claw all make excellent choices for either offensive or defensive weapons.
• Bayonets: Either spike or flat knife designs can be used as is or cut back to make push knives. You can also add a set of brass or other metal knuckles by welding it to the shortened bayonet.
• Daggers and Boot Knives: These double edged knives have a blade longer than 6 inches and are used to stick or slash. Most have a skull crusher at the back of the hilt.
• Small Knives: Usually the blades are shorter than 6 inches long and can be a folding or a non-folding version. These knives are good defensive or offensive weapons because they can be “palmed” and used without them being seen.
• Swords: There are two different edge designs for swords. The first is the single edge the other is the double edge. There are several lengths of swords. The first is the short sword which is 16 to 18 inches long, regular size sword which is 20 to 24 inches long, and the two handed sword that measures over four feet long. The short and the regular size swords can be used for protection and carried inconspicuously, but the long two handed sword is too large to be practical for anything other than staving off an attack on your home.
• Spears: Have a 4 to 6 foot shaft with a metal spear point at the top. These weapons are designed to be thrown or thrusted into a human target.
• Throwing Stars: Are metal shaped stars that have sharpened points that were designed to be thrown at a target and stick into it. In the hands of a trained individual they can kill or do great bodily harm.
• Axes or hatchets: Are used for chopping. Some axes have double or single edges. As a weapon it can be thrown and deliver a bloody crushing wound or blunt trauma if the back blunt end hits first.

Blunt Force Weapons

Blunt force weapons use weight instead of sharp edges to kill or do great bodily harm. Damage to the body is caused by crushing instead of cutting.

• Canes: originally used to steady and help a person in walking. A cane can be used as a nightstick type weapon and can deliver knockout or death blows to the head, break arms or legs, or cause deep blunt trauma wounds to the central body core. Historically the cane sword was a way to carry a sword concealed and at the ready if needed. This weapon is easy to carry in plain sight.
• Clubs: Usually made of heavy wood or metal scrap. These are crushing weapons that break bones or deliver deep trauma to inner organs.
• Bats: Wood or aluminum bats used to play baseball also make a good weapon. A bat can easily break bones or kill if they hit the right part of the body.
• Staffs or walking sticks: For thousands of years staffs were a defensive and sometimes offensive weapon for the poor or peasants. An individual who was good with a staff could disarm a person with a sword or a gun.
• Maces: Maces were a medieval blunt force weapon made of steel or other strong metals. It was designed to crush skulls and brake limbs with blunt force. Today it is still a good defensive weapon in times of major crisis.
• Chains: Chains made of steel or other heavy metals can be used as weapons in a defensive roll. They can be made to look like every day clothing accessories such as belts. They can deliver deadly crushing blows or break limbs.
• Slings (2 Cord Type): Is a very old weapon that goes back thousands of years. It is easy to hid or conceal. With a little bit of practice it is possible to hit or kill your target out to 200 feet or better with rocks or scrapes of metal. Slings can be either defensive or offensive weapons.
• Slingshots for stone, metal projectiles, or arrows: Slingshots are no longer a toy. They can be used to hunt small game by launching a ball bearing, rocks, and even arrows with deadly accuracy. This weapon can also be used defensively to protect your family in the absence of firearms.
• Hand to Hand Fighting techniques: There are many forms from boxing to martial arts. Choose the fighting technique that best meets your needs and start studying today. Do not wait until the last moment to start the training.

In a time when all private firearm ownership is banned or illegal, the above are a few alternatives for weapons that might be put into service to protect your family and loved ones. Almost anything can be used as a weapon regardless of the situation.

As with prisons and jails, you only need a creative mind and the will to have a weapon in order to get around any law or force used to try and take away your ability to defend yourself.

http://www.survivopedia.com/svp-survlgnsnotalwd/