6 Badass Improvised Weapons in Battle

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 10/31/2017 | T Pilgrim

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War is hell and sometimes you have to take the life of your fellow man in the most brutal and extravagant ways…and you just don’t have a good enough weapon to do it as hard as you want. That’s when you start strapping every weapon you have to every other weapon you have, and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let you fire knives out of your machine gun. Like these guys:

Anti-Tank Sniper Rifle

The Red Army’s elite sniper teams, when not busy killing Nazis, used their spare time to think up new and interesting methods of killing Nazis. In one of these epic brainstorming sessions, Zaitsev, probably after frantically sketching something in his notebook while making explosion noises with his mouth, came up with the idea to take a scope from a Sniper Rifle and attach it to a giant 14.5 mm PTRS-41 Anti-Tank Rifle. He wanted to use it to blow up bunkers.

The Drip Rifle

As a general rule, when an army tries to leave the battlefield, the enemy is obliged to inflict as much damage as possible, to make sure they don’t come back. This is called the Where The Good Lord Split Ya maneuver, and the Allies knew full well that it was about to be used against them.

So ANZAC Troopers William Scurry and Buntie Lawrence took a break from performing the juggling Vaudeville routine their names suggest they toured with, and instead built what they called ‘Ottoman Bafflers.’ Using bits of string and old ration tins, Scurry and Lawrence MacGyvered up a gun that fired all by itself, using drips of water falling between two cans, or taut strings being burnt through by candles.

Everyone had expected appalling casualties in the withdrawal from the aforementioned kick in the ass on the way out, but due to the Drip Rifle, the whole army managed to escape with only a dozen or so killed or wounded.

HomeMade Peace Keeper Vehicle


Don’t have a Peace Keeper vehicle or an APC, no problem we’ll make a “Sham2“.(named after ancient Syria) A Syrian rebel uses a video game controller to activate the machine gun of "Sham 2," a homemade armored vehicle made by the rebels al-Ansar brigade, in Bishqatin.

DIY Grenade Launcher

Most rebels do not have access to an M-203 grenade launcher, so they improvise like this modified shotgun/grenade launcher. See the rest and full description of the 6 badass improvised weapons in battle here.

[huldah1776]

bazaar, except for the drip rifle. THAT is wonderful.