"Can you make one of these and post some pictures, I don't quite get it. Oh, and tell us how long it takes too."

"ohh those james bond things..."

"It's a ninja thing.

I would hate to step on one, it would hurt real bad. The blade would probably go right through your foot."

"ohh those james bond things..."

"You are missing the point about these.

they are an annoyance weapon. yeah a modern foot soldier could walk around them or kick them away. However you can't take a horse down that road, or a car. The concept of caltrops is like having marked minefields. Its to either severely slow down, or deter the enemy from taking that route. you don't litter a few feet of road, you litter like 30 yards of road with them. Place them far enough away from your base that if a raider tries to speed through them, their momentum won't carry them far enough forward, slowing them down enough for you to engage them from a distance."

"Weld a large nail to a fist sized metal sphere. Make it so that the nail is at laest 8" long and sticking out from the sphere at a 90* angle. One inch below the tip of the nail you file in a barb. Now burry the ball so that at least 2" of the nail are also under ground with the remaining 6" to include the barbed portion sticking straight up.

What good is this you may ask. Well do NOT do this in the middle of a road. Burry them in large numbers in overgrown grass surrounding your compound. Space them no more than 3' away from one another. You can also run fishing line between them that leads down into your compound's security room. Have them attatched to some empty soda cans with pebbles in them. That way when they shake they will make just enough noise for the sentry to hear.

Raiders and such will be screaming their heads off. I don't care if you have a steel shank in your boot. How many of you have actually tore one out and looked at it? The ones made now adays are cheap and thin. You come down on that sharp barb with 200+ pounds of pressure and I'll guarentee a puncture. No raider will be that close and trying to sneak up. By the time they are close enough to be in the effected area they will probably be doing fire team rushes if they have any military training. "I'm up, they see me I'm dow... AHHH! WTF is this sticking into my thigh and chest! Help, I can'y get u.." *BANG* One dead raider.

Zombies will just be stuck, or rip their foot off and then fall on more of the spikes thus enabling themselves totaly immobile. You can go out during the daylight hours and clean up. Just make sure you drag your feet and don't trip.

Just my .02 ont he subject. Enjoy.

~Ironback

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"True, But caltrops are meant to be used as a deterent. My method is for long term and meant to actually immobilize the enemy long enough for you to ventilate thier cranium.

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