This is something I have been pondering for quite sometime. We can stock pile all the guns and ammo we want. Eventually it would run out in a long SHTF situation. Guns and bullets are a major target for baddies who want to steal your stuff. I foresee a time when big brother comes to round up all the guns and bullets(even without a SHTF), and that would be nasty. A near meaningless stick propped against the wall in your home would draw zero interest from someone looking for guns, until you quickly strung it and zipped a shaft through him!
I think the skills of building ones own archery tackle is invaluable. There are so many resources that could be turned into efficient weapons with the right know-how. Live trees and bushes, lumber, p.v.c. pipe, heck even garden stakes could be used as self bows or arrows. Broadheads made from zillions of piles of steel from cars, sea cans, stone, or bone. It reminds me of the Hunger Games, Katniss and Gale hiding there homemade archery tackle in the woods so they could hunt for food or barter, the knowledge of building the weapons safely stored inside their brains. As modern survivalists we learn so many skills for resilience, but how many of those skills directly translate into weapons we can hunt and defend with?
I feel like this skill is very important for ones resiliency, plus it is tons of fun. Compound Bows are amazing machines, but you break a string, your done. Most shooters can't replace a string on one. A longbow string goes, you can be back shooting in a minute because of a spare resting in your pocket for just a situation. Here is a hobby that draws no questions from authority, to build a silent guerilla weapon in the face of ever tightening gun legislation, maintaining ones own liberty in the face of ultimate tyranny.
What do you guys think?
