A simple homemade weapon. Homemade weapons (93264)

Thanks to the great power of cinema, even a person who has never held a firearm in his life has a clear understanding of what it is to shoot a pistol, machine gun, machine gun and grenade launcher, how all these weapons work and what can be done with it.

But in reality everything turns out completely differently. It’s a pity that this simple truth is revealed only to those who have forced themselves to go to the shooting range at least once to check whether they can shoot as smartly as the battle heroes Vikov.

Shooting sport is one of the oldest. It all started with a bow and crossbow, and in 1896 competitions in rifle and pistol shooting were included in the program of the first Olympic Games. However, ideas about bullet shooting are full of illusions. Let's try to debunk at least some of them.

1. Only lazy people engage in shooting

This is what some mothers think, who unsuccessfully tried to instill in their child a love of hockey, volleyball, and football, but for some reason he became better at shooting. Actually, to each his own. And laziness has nothing to do with it.

Classic shooting creates a very heavy static load on the musculoskeletal system, so it is better for the frail and weak to first strengthen their muscles, and only then sign up for James Bond. By the way, this is why it is not recommended to engage in this sport until the age of 12–13.

2. Shooting will miraculously turn a hyperactive child into a calm yogi, so it is useful for fidgets

It is interesting that coaches and experts advise calm and balanced children to engage in this sport, while shooting statics that are too active will seem like a difficult challenge.

Shooting teaches you to control emotions, helps you become more attentive, balanced, and develops self-control. Some athletes, they say, can, like yogis, lower their heart rate so that it does not interfere with shooting. Really?

3. This is one of the easiest sports in which physical effort is kept to a minimum.

Some people imagine it this way: know, pull the trigger - only accuracy is needed. In reality, everything looks different: for 5-6 hours in a row, the shooter repeatedly lifts a rifle that weighs about 8 kg. An athlete loses 2–3 kg in one outing! Who there wanted to lose weight?

4. Is this a sport?

Shooting classes also include general physical training. The guys run, do pull-ups, and do push-ups. Shooting will not harm only a strong body. Remember the shooter's stance? The arch of the back is quite strong. Imagine the load on the spine if the position does not change for an hour and a half. Exercises from other sports, swimming, and yoga will help you stay healthy. So the activities are not limited to the shooting range, and the athlete develops harmoniously.

5. No need to think: bang-bang - and you’re done.

But abroad, shooting is classified as psychological types sports Much depends on the athlete’s internal state, on self-control. A shooter with a weapon is the finest system. Just like in chess, thinking ahead is very important. This programs attention directed both to one’s internal state (muscle tone, stability of the stance, state of readiness) and to an external goal (position of the front sight relative to the aiming point).

The theoretical foundations are easy to understand; it is difficult to work on yourself. It’s also easy to aim accurately, but it’s incredibly difficult to sort out your thoughts. The point is not to hit the bull's eye, but to repeat this result forty times in a row, and for this you need to control the smallest movement of the body and everything that happens in the head.

6. Anyone can do it if they want to.

However, like any other sport, bullet shooting has contraindications. These are diseases of the nervous, muscular and endocrine systems, mental illnesses, epilepsy, deformities of bones and joints, heart defects and hypertension, blood diseases and some vision defects.

7. Bullet shooting is the most dangerous sport

Although the weapon itself is very dangerous, accidents are practically excluded due to the trainer's continuous work on safety precautions. For example, here are some rules: always treat the weapon as if it were loaded and do not point it where you are not going to shoot, do not put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot. Compliance with them allows you to compare shooting with chess in terms of safety.

8. There will always be enough cartridges

Almost all famous action films are guilty of this - endless cartridges. Sometimes the main character can fire a pistol without reloading for 2-3 minutes. For information, the most “voluminous” pistol magazine can hold up to 33 rounds of cartridges, at an average rate of fire this will be enough for 30 seconds.

In addition, “sniper” shooting, when one shot - one corpse, is nothing more than an unattainable ideal. The cartridges will fly away much faster than you would like. And if you remember that in some countries, by law, a pistol cannot be loaded with more than 10 rounds, then it becomes not at all interesting. Until you acquire the useful habit of carrying a couple of spare magazines with you and technically changing them. But you will have to learn this too. And keep in mind that you will have to act in very extreme conditions.

By the way, it’s better not to carry more than three stores with you - it’s useless. If you haven’t laid down an aggressor during all this time, then you have problems with your hands. And if there are too many of them, then the problems are already from a different category of complexity, in which a gun can only prolong the agony.

9. Shooting a pistol at limbs

As movies teach us, a bullet in the knee will reliably calm the enemy. You just need to hit this knee. Shooting a pistol in a stressful situation is difficult in itself. Multiply it by the difficulty of shooting at a moving target, and then increase it by another 10 times, since you need to hit a fairly small point. This is really difficult, although it is possible. But even specialists study this for quite a long time, but it’s still not a fact that they can then apply it in real combat conditions. So, alas, shooting at the limbs is not a solution to all problems.

10. Pistols with a polymer body are not scanned by security scanners

What can I say, “polymer weapons” are really worse visible on X-rays than weapons with a metal body. But you can still see them! The outline of the pistol (characteristic, to put it mildly) is still visible.

In addition, even polymer pistols have metal parts: drum, bolt, trigger. So how can you not detect them? So what if they have lightweight polymer bodies. The contours and metal parts are here to stay.

Talks about the features of shooting as a sportDARIA ZAKHAROVA (analytical chemist, 23 years old):

“I came to this sport quite recently: I’ve only been doing it for two months. I got there by accident. We were walking with a friend, she suggested that we “go shoot” at a competition. Performed - received good results. The coach advised me to go to the section. I was excited - it was very interesting to try. And here I am.

The theoretical foundations are easy to understand; it is difficult to work on yourself. It’s also easy to aim accurately, but it’s incredibly difficult to sort out your thoughts. The point is not to hit the bull's eye, but to repeat this result forty times in a row, and for this you need to control the smallest movement of the body and everything that happens in the head. Can you imagine how you can achieve such a sustainable, predictable result?

Only with total self-control. So I took aim and inhaled at the wrong time - and that’s it, the result was not the same. Or she didn’t pull the trigger straight, but slightly to the right. Or she moved her jaw a little - but the rifle was pressed to her cheek. And before the shot itself it starts to twitch. The shooter needs to keep all these moments under control and work with his nervous system.

Muscles must be developed to be obedient. And a static pose, when you do not have the right to even the slightest movement... Not everyone can stand this. It is no coincidence that Olympic shooting champions swam, ran, did pull-ups - physical training was the strongest.

After training, the shooter must analyze what went wrong and why the result was lower than expected. Without this, you will not be able to improve your performance. Amazing view sport".

On forums Experienced shooters share their insights the advantages of this particular sport.

• There is no age limit. A seventy-year-old shooter won the gold medal at a competition a hundred years ago. A lot here is determined by endurance and patience, and teenagers often lack these qualities. When learning to shoot, it doesn't matter whether a person learns quickly, it all depends on the ability to concentrate.
• This olympic event sports, you can conquer Olympus - there is something to strive for.
• Shooting teaches you to control emotions, helps you become more attentive, balanced, and develops self-control. Some athletes, they say, can, like yogis, lower their heart rate so that it does not interfere with shooting. Really?
• Like any other sport, shooting develops character, strengthens willpower, endurance, disciplines. Teaches responsibility: lack of composure can cost the life of another person.
• Working with weapons develops the eye, A makes your hand hard.
• Shooting lessons give experience that may be in demand, if not in an emergency (we hope this doesn’t happen), then for fun, for example while hunting.
• This interesting hobby with an aura of detective romance. It’s especially cool if a girl does the shooting.

It seems like the fun in shooting happens on the inside, not on the outside. This mental training creates the most accurate mechanism out of the athlete, producing the most accurate shot at any time, anywhere, in any condition. You can't say more precisely.

Today, toy stores offer such a large and colorful selection that parents are clutching their heads and children are drooling. Unfortunately, the economic situation and one’s own capabilities do not always allow one to have enough income to please one’s own child with a good gift. Hands and head help us! You can always make some of the toys yourself. Many craftsmen cut cars, horses, whatever they want out of wood and sell them.

Wood is a very convenient material, with minimal skill in handling it and necessary tools, a lot can be done. For girls, you can cut out dolls, furniture, dishes from it, and for boys - a car, a pistol, a sword. The question of how to make weapons from wood is of great interest to them!

Wooden weapon options

In fact, you can do a lot, the main thing is, why do you need a specific thing? For a child who will play in the yard, for using weapons for their intended purpose, for role-playing games, for hunting, or maybe for a costume? Homemade weapons made of wood will take the shape and appearance that you desire.

If the main purpose is a game, then the main thing in this case is durability. All paint and thin fragile parts will fall off in a few days, if not immediately. When schools hold military training camps, and schoolchildren are given wooden Kalashnikov assault rifles, 50% of the guys tear off magazines on the first or second day. But these machines are made in bulk, not really caring about beauty, painting them in one color and trying to make them stronger. How to make a weapon out of wood that won't break, you ask? No way, the item will remain intact only if you do not use your product.

For roleplayers, the situation is much more complicated; they need weapons that are both beautiful and durable, so they often use other materials. If it is wood, then they make two swords or knives, one beautiful, the other durable.

Material selection and processing

The choice of material determines how much processing time will be required. Birch is a very strong and unyielding tree; it is good for making a club; without special treatment the product will be heavy. Aspen, poplar, and pine are softer and easy and pleasant to work with. Oak is rare in many regions of Russia, but if you decide to make a weapon with your own hands from wood, you are unlikely to find better material. It is easier to process than birch, lighter in weight and stronger than pine, and retains its quality well over time.

The wood for products must be free of knots, wood holes, rot, with a uniform direction of fibers, and without curvature. It is necessary to dry it, preferably in a dry room or under a canopy. It is necessary that the wood dries evenly without direct impact sun rays, otherwise it will begin to crack and bend later.

Making a Club

The simplest wooden weapon is a club or stick. What could be simpler, break off a branch - and you're done. But if you suddenly decide to take this issue seriously, you want to make a durable, light, comfortable product, then you are faced with the question “how”. Making a weapon out of wood according to all the rules is not easy.

For the club they choose young tree suitable sizes. They cut down closer to the root, since at the butt the fibers begin to intertwine, making the material even more durable. Next, carefully, so as not to damage the top layers, remove the bark, cut off the knots, and add the required form handle, if necessary, soak the workpiece in water or special brines for a day. Then the drying begins, a fire is lit and, using the smoke, protecting the future club from the flames, it is dried. As soon as the tree has turned black, the blackness is removed with fine sand or hard grass. This is repeated six times, the surface becomes smooth and dry. Even if birch was chosen, the final product will be light and durable. Such wood does not rot.

Using the same principle, our ancestors made strong arrows and spears without steel tips.

Shield and sword

How to make weapons from wood for role-playing games and historical reconstructions? If for beauty and ambience, then it is very convenient to cut out a shape from plywood with a jigsaw, smooth the edge, varnish, paint, and insert decorations. If the paint is good, without holding the item in your hands, it will be difficult to determine what material it is made of. For combat, it is worth making weapons from thick durable wood, with a comfortable handle so that the vibration from the impact is less transferred to the hand, otherwise you can damage the hand or simply drop the object during the first hard collision.

The shield can be made perfectly from plywood, but for combat it is better to use iron-bound or steel versions with a shock-absorbing lining. During reconstructions they usually show a wall-to-wall battle, in which it is extremely difficult to strike a strong blow to the shield. A good and durable one is needed for individual combat; for all other cases, plywood is suitable.

Firearms mockups

No matter how much you would like to, it is impossible to make a homemade firearm out of wood that will shoot. Maybe for one or two shots, and it’s not a fact that the weapon won’t explode when the gunpowder explodes.

All self-propelled schemes come down to one algorithm. The tree is a frame to which the barrel is attached, a trigger with a striker, and sometimes a magazine is added. Inconvenient, short-lived, but cheap and cheerful.

Hunting weapon

Do you remember running around the yards with slingshots as a child? If you haven't run, be sure to try it, you will like it. Modern elastic materials impart such striking power to a small metal ball or pebble that, with proper skill, you can knock down targets from thirty paces. But the frame of a slingshot can be easily made of wood.

Drawings of weapons made of wood for hunting are quite common. This is how crossbows and bows are made. It's not that difficult to make a wooden frame; it requires sleight of hand and no magic. But there is an important detail that is needed to make weapon lethal and effective over long distances. For this you need shoulders that are flexible and strong, as well as a bowstring. There are old technologies for making shoulders, but nowadays it is too labor-intensive and difficult to implement at home. It is easier to use modern materials such as plastic.

It is best to make the main frame from wood, and the shoulders from flexible, rot-resistant plastic; a synthetic cord will go to the bowstring. A little decoration and paint, and you’ll get a very attractive and effective bow.

Weapons in the Philippines

In the Philippines, this place is called the “city of weapons.” For more than a century, Danaoans have made their living by manufacturing weapons. These people know how to assemble pistols, revolvers and machine guns by hand. The authorities created a cooperative in order to legalize the production of weapons. But instead of making money through legal means, most collaborate with the local mafia.

Jose takes the gun in his hands and looks into the sight. He thinks for a moment, and then places the mold in a vice, which is on this moment is nothing more than a semblance of a future pistol, a piece of metal. José Arnescar will have to spend many days at work before this form finds its firepower. This muscular 33-year-old worker puts all his strength into working on the bolt. “This is the hardest part,” he says breathlessly. “It will take at least a week to complete the work.” This is the most important part of the weapon, so Jose will only use a file in his work.

We are located in the world's largest gun manufacturing cooperative, located in Danao on Cebu Island in the heart of the Philippines. This organization is unique in its essence; it is here that 38 and 45 caliber weapons, pump-action shotguns and even some models of machine guns are produced. 90% of the total production volume is produced manually.

In this huge old room there are only a few machines, its roof is leaky and does not protect from rain, which is why fabric is hung on top to protect the electrical wiring. There is such noise in the dimly lit room that you feel like you are in a mountain tunnel.

About 30 workers can work and modify their weapons on 2 main machines. Using a drill, each item is engraved with “WORLD” and serial number. There is another large machine, which is considered the most important in the work; it produces drums. “This is the most important machine,” says June, watching his colleague finish his part of the job. “Thanks to it, we can do work that would be very difficult to do by hand.” “We don’t have many tools,” the worker says with regret in his voice.

In this production, each worker independently creates a weapon from start to finish, and after the sale receives almost the full cost in hand. Mostly 38 and 45 caliber weapons are produced here, as well as pump-action shotguns. It takes a week to make a 38 caliber pistol that can be sold for 30 euros; a 45 caliber pistol takes twice as long to produce, but its price also increases. The workers of this cooperative receive an average of 70 euros per month, which is the minimum wages in the Philippines. Nearly 100 guns come out of these workshops every month, most of them ordered by police and soldiers who are not issued weapons on the job and for whom this is the cheapest way to get one. This weapon is also in demand among store and bank security guards.

Weapon making is considered an old tradition in Danao. They say that even under the Spaniards, arquebuses were made here. But the main production was formed at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Philippines was an American colony. During the Second World War, the Americans used the skills of the Danaans to remake captured Japanese weapons for your caliber. It is from those times that hand-made weapons have been produced here.

As a result, in 1996, the authorities organized a legal cooperative for the production of weapons. But, despite all the efforts of the authorities, the majority of workers produce weapons illegally, not obeying the cooperative.

Finding such illegal production is not difficult. In the city center you can find the small house of Renato Gonzalez. Its entire production consists of a simple vice and a set of tools. In his workshop you can see the mold for the KG-9, a lightweight machine gun similar to the Israeli-made UZI. It took Renato 2 weeks to produce it, and he received 100 euros for the work. The 52-year-old worker learned his skills from his grandfather and father, who were also involved in the production of weapons. “I was 8 years old when I started helping them,” recalls Renato. - I was returning from school and learning to work with a file. I'm doing this now so my kids can go to college."

According to Nestor Sabaiton, who led the cooperative until 2007, at least 5,000 people produce weapons illegally in Danao.

Naturally, there must be a person who would supervise these illegal workers. In Danao, this man is called "Rio Shark", he is one of the the most experienced manufacturers weapons. In his workshop you can see a finished AR-15 automatic rifle, which is very reminiscent American rifle M-16. This weapon, worth 500 euros, was ordered by the mayor of a large neighboring city. “This is the second time I have received an order to make something like this,” says Rio. His son adds: “We had a lot of orders just before the election. A lot of politicians wanted pistols or rifles like this.”

Local elections in the Philippines have a bad reputation. For example, in 2007 during election campaign 114 candidates and party members were killed. In addition, bank robberies are often accompanied by murders. In May 2008, there was a high-profile robbery during which the perpetrator shot and killed 10 people. There are believed to be more than a million firearms in circulation in the Philippines, with a third unlicensed.

Despite the similar situation in the country, everything is calm in the Danao police stations. In 2007, only 2 people were detained for illegal production and 18 for illegal possession of weapons. “We know that there are several illegal gun manufacturers in the city,” says Lt. Lacson Dehino, “but when we find them, we try to encourage them to join the cooperative, and if they refuse, they will be arrested.”

The illegal arms business does not seem to disturb the tranquility of Danao, where 120,000 residents lead a normal life. So a resident of Danao says with humor: “If you hear shots on the streets of Danao, it’s okay, it’s just one of the masters testing his new weapon in action.”

Every self-respecting country that wants to have weight on the world stage spends almost the lion's share of its budget on the development of the military-industrial complex. Target factories are being built, new ultra-modern types of weapons are being developed. However, it is effective to destroy fighting forces the enemy can be attacked in another way - using homemade weapons. This, of course, is not as effective, but it works great in conditions guerrilla warfare. And exactly about homemade weapons we'll talk today.

1. Pit trap

Perhaps the most primitive example of a homemade weapon. The soldier does not see the hole, falls into it, runs into stakes or spikes, and loses his combat effectiveness. What could be simpler? Even ancient and primitive hunters used pit traps for hunting wild and large animals. But people are much smarter than animals, so main problem is an effective camouflage of such pits. Best example tactics for using this homemade weapons demonstrated to us.

For those who don't know - Vietnam War, in which licensed peddlers of democracy massively sucked in the semi-savage Vietnamese people, partially sponsored Soviet Union. The very conditions of Vietnam completely neutralized the fierce superiority of the democratizers in armored vehicles and aviation, and the American infantry, as we know, sucks without support. And then she sucked especially hard - the jungle, high humidity, regular flooding of the territory, tropical diseases, mosquitoes, poor mobility - all this played against them. And then there are the evil Vietnamese, for whom “democracy” did not give in at all and who made life difficult with all their might American army. And it's not even about classic guerrilla tactics, speech and “quiet” war.

The fact is that digging holes in the ground, sticking them with stakes smeared with, excuse me, shit, and waiting for the water to fill them itself is as easy as shelling pears. And a soldier who is blindly wandering along a half-flooded path discovered with such difficulty will obviously not be happy to fail and run into these surprises with all his weight. There is also a more complicated version - in addition to the stakes at the bottom, spikes were installed on the sides, directed diagonally downward. If a soldier tried to pull his leg out, he also ran into these spikes. And a very difficult option - two logs studded with nails. The soldier steps on their joint, falls down, the drums rotate, the nails stick in...

2. Molotov cocktail

This homemade weapon has already become a classic for most modern riots. And all because it is extremely simple.

The hot Finnish guys were the first to come up with such an effective means of destroying manpower and armored vehicles during Soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940. And it was they who called these cute bottles “Cocktail for Molotov”, since Comrade Molotov was at that time the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and was, in principle, responsible for starting the war.

However, this one has homemade weapons and obvious shortcomings. The first and main thing is that a set fire to a rag unmasks a fighter, putting his life at risk. The solution was found using chemistry - a mixture of some chemical substances ignite upon contact with air, so the ampoule with reagents began to simply be placed in bottles with Molotov cocktail.

3. Samopal

Or in other words - homemade firearms. Honestly, it is worthy of a separate article - so many different options were invented, created and tested by local “Kulibins” of various nationalities. So for now we will stop at the actual simple version— self-propelled gun of the “arson” type.

According to modern weapons classification, this is a single-shot ramrod-type pistol. That is, the charge and bullet are placed from the muzzle opening. IN opposite side, accordingly, there is an igniter hole. The barrel is a metal tube that is attached to an improvised butt. The charge is directly ignited either manually or using a trigger mechanism.

Despite the extremely simple principle, this homemade weapon quite effective. It can even kill at close range, especially if you hit something vital organ.

4. Kassam missile

This homemade weapon- in fact solid fuel unguided rocket ground-to-ground class. It is still being actively carried out in the Gaza Strip with the aim of shelling Israeli territory.

The point is simple. The simplest and most accessible ingredients are taken, which we will not list here, but which can be found in any agricultural or hardware store. All this is combined in the correct proportions, and then the homemade rocket is installed on launcher and is launched towards the enemy.

Between 2001 and 2012, 27 people were officially killed and another 700 were injured. varying degrees gravity. Actually, this is not an offensive weapon - low accuracy, low explosive power and heavy weight make it ineffective in active combat operations. But as a weapon of terror, it’s just right. Produced literally on the knee, inexpensive, unnoticeable. And not so long ago, a Palestinian garbage truck converted into a system was detained in the Gaza Strip volley fire with the help of the Kassams. No, this is truly brilliant - you can move around the territory unnoticed, in a matter of minutes prepare a salvo, shoot and hide just as unnoticed. In short, simple and effective in its own way homemade weapon.

5. “Shushpanzers”

Under this funny name, which originated in 2007 on thematic forums dedicated to military equipment, hides any modern vehicle, covered with improvised armor. Wherever it was not used - both during the Second World War, when the USSR had huge problems with armored vehicles, so armor and weapons were even installed on tractors, and during the first Arab-Israeli conflict, when the Jews did not yet have their own Merkavas, and on eastern Ukraine, and from both sides of the conflict.

And all because this homemade weapons an extremely simple principle. A powerful wheelbase is taken (truck, tractor, anything that can pull a lot of weight) and sheathed with thick metal sheets. The thicker it is, the more reliable it is. Actually, that's all. From shrapnel and bullets it homemade weapon will protect, deliver the soldier to his destination. And if you install a machine gun, it will cover you with fire. In a word, simple and effective.