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Good old times
Jul 10th, 2017 at 5:32pm
 
I have been cleaning out a little bit and throwing away old things. But guess what I found: One of the very first "functional" primitive weapons that I ever made!
It still shoots well up to ~20 meters.

What was your first functional primitive weapon that you made? Do you have any good memories to share?
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Reply #1 - Jul 10th, 2017 at 5:41pm
 
Very probably a blowgun as well. I think it was at a birthday party of mine. We had these little pipes (small thin cylindrical metal pipes) that were used for some piece of furniture or who knows what. Well we found out some pieces from a board game fit in the pipes perfectly and would fly out at high speed when used as a blow gun. I think we spent much of that party inflicting painful welts on each other. To this day Im not sure how I made it through my childhood with both eyes intact.

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Reply #2 - Jul 12th, 2017 at 1:54pm
 
Using broken sickle bar teeth as DIY shuriken with a little grinder profiling ... then my first sling (pouch too small)
which kept dropping my ammo (Too large a stone)
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Reply #3 - Jul 26th, 2017 at 12:00pm
 
I used to steal my mom's heavy wire cloths hangers, break them into 8 - 9 inch lengths. Then I would hammer the ends flat; one would be shaped and sharpened (sometimes with barbs!) into a point. The other would get a notch for a nock. Add three paper fletches, waterproofed with nail polish. A yard stick and a rubberband for propulsion. Range comfortably over 150 feet. The second story bedroom window of a hated bully across the alley was festooned with darts.
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Reply #4 - Jul 26th, 2017 at 12:28pm
 
A stick. 

Specifically, an ash, one end about as big as my three fingers,  stripped of bark and sharpened by a beaver on both ends, about a meter and a half long.  I could use it as a spear, dig with it, poke stuff with it, use it as a walking stick, a tent pole, a planting stick for punching holes in the ground for seeds and anything else I needed.  I kept that stick for years. Eventually, I went off and left it on a river bank.
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Reply #5 - Aug 15th, 2017 at 6:34am
 
I once made a chakram/throwing star thingie  from the sprocket wheel of a bike. I sharpened the cogs , and then sent the thing into a tree.
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Reply #6 - Aug 15th, 2017 at 8:08am
 
got a 3 foot length of seriously seasoned cherry that's at least 30 years old.

I mean define primitive weapon ?
I've been making dangerous things for as long as I can remember.
And hitting things with clubs for even longer Smiley

First complex things were probably the folding shuriken.
Catapults, been making them since I was  a very wee sprog.

My dad and I were always making something fairly lethal.
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