How to Use a [BUSTED] Cell Phone to Meet 5 Basic Survival Needs

The Art of Manliness ^ | June 14, 2012 | Manly Guest Contributor

[GonzoII]

Great arrowhead tip! -Mike

[P.O.E.]

Ingenious - thanks!

[GonzoII]

No problem..

[Lazamataz]

This is one of the most useful SHTF posts I’ve seen in a while. No offense to Kaslin, but this one just struck me as neat. THANKS!

[Former Proud Canadian]

mark

[marvlus]

ping

[eartick]

outstanding, thanks

[BobL]

You know, only a small handful of people have a brain as powerful as this writer. Thankfully the Web lets us see their work.

[Dusty Road]

With all the interest in survival skills I'm curious how many have taken up flint knapping? I've been doing it for 40 years never thinking of it as a survival skill but just as a hobby that I love to do. For someone trying to develope or gain skills I would think that would be a must have. These were all made with stone, bone or antler all found on the ranch. Bone works well for pressure flaking but I prefer antler plus the base of the antler make great billets. Making bows arrows and atlatl's are pretty simple and all can be made using flint. Broken glass is another very usefull tool, it very knapable.

[Riley]

Nothing says ‘post apocalyptic’ quite like making arrowheads out of printed circuit board. :-)

[Dusty Road]

For those that are interested theres a friend of mine that has a series of video’s on Youtube, he’s one of the best knappers I’ve ever met and the best teacher. But I will caution y’all, it’s very addictive.

http://www.youtube.com/user/paleomanjim

[X-spurt]

NICE!

[VRW Conspirator]

bfl

[quintr]

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[bcsco]

That’s some pretty darned good reasoning...

[bcsco]

That looks a lot like the Hawken hanging on my office wall. The lock is a little different, but otherwise very similar.

[bgill]

Yes, flint knapping is a great survial skill and have had it marked for SHTF. Nothing fancy but I’ve taught it to a few youth groups.

Never thought about putting my stained glass into that category until now, so thanks.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Simply hold up your peace sign and place your target (the rescue crew) in-between your fingers*****

That is a VICTORY SIGN! The hippies hijacked that years ago to mean something it does not!

[Kirkwood]

I used to do that when I was a kid and had a local source of material. I got pretty good at it, but you are a master.

[Dusty Road]

Thank you, I’ve been at it along time.