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@@mattjack3983I think he means that it’s just a great alternative to using a bow and arrow, rather than like the one tool you need in a survival situation. it’s almost wasteful of the animal and your arrows as well, if you were to shoot every little squirrel snack. Think about how much arrows you’d need to be making. I did mention in another comment though, a slingshot would be better in every single aspect.
@@jhtsurvivalThat's what she said. To like Mc Carnivores, for deer nuggets, salmon fries and honey shakes. Bear-grrr king. International house of predators? Then you get paw'sy.
@@asdads3948 depends on where it hits you. If it hits you on the temple then your knocked out. Unconscious and alone in the woods... do I even need to say that you do not want to be knocked out on the ground with rabbit stick boomerang, waiting for society to breakdown guy
@@grnsouth1204 Maybe if you can throw. Id starve with a lump on my head after beaning myself. Also, most of the rabbits ive shot were in bushes or other hard to reach spots. I started wrapping my rabbit arrows with orange duct tape to prevent loses or litter from breakage then gave up and bought a pellet rifle for them.
YA but its super heavy and took him minutes to make in a jiffy. Its not supposed to be the best. Its just supposed to be able to split your skull open. Which, it EASILY can do ^_^
@@CrunchyPudding101 Those require a ton of training to use well; boomerangs and throwing sticks are easier to use and require less accuracy and materials to make since you have to kill something and prep it properly to make a sling.
Nah you're crazy, i'd take a bow over this all day. limited to only hunting rabbits and small game in open fields, slow travel time making it so much harder to hit and just the fact that the concentrated force is so much lower than the tip of an arrow.
Yeah it's a really cool and interesting idea but if I had people coming to kill me the last thing on my mind would be "oooh I better get the rabbit stick ready".
@@maxpowers4436 let's do a competition. You with a boomerang, someone with a slingshot. Someone with a bow. Someone with a gun. Let me bet on the results.
@@michaelfranciotti3900 maybe, but one bullet (depending on the caliber) can take down a fully grown deer, which will feed you for months if you ration. With this stick you would be spending all day (possibly days) trying to kill a rodent with it, for a days worth of food at best.
Short barrel semiautomatic carbine in a moderate caliber like .223, .243 or .22-250 with 2 MOA accuracy or better and effective range 300 yards minimum, (magnified and etched holographic sights so it still works if the battery dies).
@@hdjono3351 I bet more people have 243 in their home... America is a hunting nation, not everyone has a 223 but if they do they have easily 1000 rounds but I know everyone has a hunting rifle, 30-06 243, 270 hell I sold my AR-15 for a ar10 with 2 uppers in different calibers that use the same mag
@@cadmus204 i can almost guarantee you they didn't rely on these, and quickly moved on to spears and arrows like the rest of history, put any armor on and this is nothing more then a hard thud, and thats IF it lands clean
Sorry chief but in this house we believe in bow supremacy. It just has so much utility there's a reason it was used around the world until firearms became specialized
Variety is the spice of life. Choose all the tools and all the weapons. Each are made for a specific task, and the loss of one may be greater or lesser than another.
@@TropaSoy_ I mean its at least an uncommon hobby, I agree it's not weird by any means but its certainly not wholesome lol. This guy could shoot up heroin and go buy a prostitute after the video cuts for all we know.
I’m not sure how injuring yourself every time you turn around is going to help you in a long term survival situation but if I’m wrong evolution will weed me out. Good luck with that.
lol...when it's over & you're run out of ammo and the cannibals have eaten your type then starved themselve $ this guys silent hunting techniquic will reign...
@@mtman2Mfw when I pull out my homemade 19th century black powder cannon filled with nuts, glass shards, nails, bbs, bearings, rocks and other miscellaneous objects I find shred anything in front of me
You will if u manage to make it two years into the apocalypse and realize you shot off all your bullets and ate all your Vienna sausages and pets. You’ll be lucky to join him and even luckier if he allows you conjugal time with one of his many thousands of concubines.
Him: "this is a projectile weapon much like a boomerang." Me: "I can't believe I'm watching this at 1:30 in the morning on a compact device much like a phone."
So they knew Bernoulli’s Principle 20,000 years ago! The ancients were a lot smarter than they get credit for. “Flat on the bottom, more rounded on the top”, the same conclusion the Wright Brothers came to when designing their wing.
Not every boomerang is designed to come back. In fact a majority of the indigenous Australian tribes had their own designs and traded with other tribes for theirs. Some were massive and were made specifically to break a kangaroos leg while hunting. The returning boomerang was actually made by a specific tribe who would hunt birds in a water environment. This was made specifically because they would get sick of losing boomerangs in the water after throwing. So it was designed so if they threw it and it missed it would return and they could throw again. Of course it takes more than just throwing it to make it return. The Indigenous Australian people truly were ingenious with their hunting techniques
actually, and this may be rather pedantic so I'll instead say "AKSHUWALLY", what's shown being used to refine this stick into a Rabbitstick is technically a hatchet, which is more of a tool. A tomahawk, however, is a refined hatchet, specifically to be used as a tool of WAR. And yes, I would take the rabbitstick over the tomahawk or hatchet any day to dispatch small game at a distance. Hatchets' usefulness stems from their ability to make other, more useful or specified tools, as it is a tool that can kind of do it all, but not really one thing great, except split wood, and even then, we made splitting mauls that are basically just bigger hatchets with a more serious wedge of metal on the end for better splitting. Also, if you throw your tomahawk or hatchet at something and miss, you run the risk of losing an extremely valuable stone or metal tool that can be used to make other tools. If I throw Curved Stick™️ and miss, I just...go pick up another suitable stick.
@@BrickRoscoCDC No, tomahawks are weapons designed with multiple functions, such as a claw on the opposite side, it's also lighter as are all weapon counterparts. A hatchet only has the axe head and it's specially for cutting wood.
Technically he used a knife to do the fine work too which is also undeniable a tool and a weapon simultaneously… the line between the two is often drawn by intention (function) rather than form that’s why in almost any country in the world a person can be charged with using even something as simple as a rock they found on the ground as a weapon … also I would line to posit that all hatchets can be used as tomahawks since a tomahawk literally means a hatchet used for fighting
@CharnHorpee Lol yeah, it does provide a good example of human diversity & how our subjective experience & perspectives affect our personal preferences & choices.
as i get older, im quickly starting to realize that semi-hard wood of moderate density is better than no wood at all, and it should not be taken for granted.
The rabbit stick has a lot more force to the shot due to it slightly speeding up in flight because of the shape… but yeah i know the throw didnt sell it for me either lolz
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"If I could choose one weapon in a long-term survival situation." for me, it would be a 12ga or a 22wmr rifle. For obvious choices these are better than a boomerang. If I couldn't use a firearm then it would be a crossbow.
Ya something tells me this is totally bullshit. If he didn't have the athleticism of a whole grain noodle he would use a sling, even the guys that do that i still view as very dorky but its dangerous.
@@Dez_MMA It really isn’t. The rabbit stick was used by Indians and such to hunt small game like rabbits and occasionally deer. This is pretty easy to look up.
Yes. That's the point. It is specifically for taking out smaller, faster animals that you can't get close to. The video literally lists it as a hunting boomerang. It's literally called a rabbit stick because of this.
Ya know what I think he's confident enough that he could maybe get a hit or 2 in if it was like a zombie apocalypse and even tho he would probably die right after he would have atleast one cool moment before he goes out.
@@holben27 well technically modern ammunition is actually easier to produce than traditional black powder in an apocalyptic scenario. The problem is it is about 10 times more explosive in the process of making it so you probably shouldn’t make it.
I can throw a parafoil plane for 30 seconds, or throw up for 30 seconds, or throw anything off of a skyscraper for 30 seconds, or throw a helium balloon for HOURS before it comes back down. You have got ZERO imagination...
When I was a kid, around 12yo (1991), I was chucking dry, dead branches out of a tree that my friends and I were making a tree house in. One branch happened to be a little bit flatter, thinner and tough and dry. As I threw it down to the ground I was amazed to see that the smallish branch started spinning and turning, and actually made a full 180° and almost made it back to me. It wasn't even a carved flat piece of wood. It was just slightly thinner and less rounded than usual sticks, and naturally had a curve to it... and somehow, that was enough for it to act like a boomerang! 🪃 Pure chance that it wasn't actually *_'made',_* it basically, roughly *_grew_* into the (almost) perfect shape. I'd just broken the branch in the right place, the bark had flaked off and the wood underneath was totally dry and smooth. A sort of "Eureka!" moment for me as I thought of the human/s who had discovered the boomerang 🪃 in a similar fashion as I just had! Still makes me smile 😊 when I think back to that day
@@ChadMeme69the rabbit sticks are hunting weapons, not meant for human on human at least historically. Rabbit sticks (or the Native American versions from tribes in my area) were the hunting versions of other bladed throwing weapons, because it was easier to hit a small target with a big stick than a small target with a little stick. It was called a rabbit stick because it was made to snap the spine of wild rabbits and hares from a long distance. It was not necessarily made for people, so when he says he wants a survival weapon, it’s the most sustainable for food, and perhaps any small scuffle where you have the bigger firepower.
don’t necessarily disagree but the “survival” part is for food/hunting not being attacked by a lion… pretty sure that’s where the name “rabbit stick” comes from… throw it at a rabbit and you have a day or two of food
