guys for this video I’m going to show
you a cool little survival hack you can
use to make an emergency survival
whistle out of an empty bullet casing so
let’s imagine you’re stranded in the
forest and you need some way to signal
for help when you glance down at the
forest floor and you just happen to
notice one of these cartridge casings
sitting under the branch this shell is
from a two to three cartridge but any
long narrow casing like this should work
now the first thing we need to do is
actually shave off the tip of this
cartridge casing so we’re just left with
this fat part at the bottom you can
easily do that with some concrete or a
rock like this and we’re going to use
that almost as improvised sandpaper
because what we need to do is sand the
brass all the way back to this bigger
casing back here it’s going to take a
little bit of work but it is very
possible to do now if you’re somewhere
closer to civilization you could use
concrete to curb on your road or even a
paver stone or if you even have some
metal files that will work better but
the essential idea is we need to shave
this back until it gets to about there
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it’s going to take a few minutes but
eventually you can see we actually get
the cartridge casing ground down and
there are some little bits inside where
you can take a sharp Rock now and just
kind of dig those out to clean it up we
want the inside of that to be as smooth
as possible you can see they’re like
little flakes of brass in there that
need to come off that’s what we’re
looking for right there the next thing
we need to do is come back about half to
three quarters of an inch and grind a
small hole in the top in a way that
there’s a flat side on the mouth and and
then a gradual sloping side toward the
back take your casing with the open end
overlapping the edge a little bit and
then tilt it a little bit and at that
angle we’re just gonna run this back and
forth and it’s good to take a few
minutes but we want to keep doing this
until we dig a hole right through that
side of the casing this is going to be
the whistle part of our whistle
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already starting to get a hole through
there you can see it’s already starting
to take the whistle shape this edge
could be a little bit flatter so I’m
going to just adjust my angle a little
bit there we go
now all this brass in here we can just
carve that out with a rock or a knife or
a file or whatever the case may be but
we just want to clean up that hole and
open it up alright so that actually went
a lot faster than I thought maybe about
two minutes and we got this thing ground
down if you look at the profile of this
casing though you can see that there’s a
vertical line near the mouthpiece and
then a sloping line for at the back of
the bullet that’s exactly what we’re
looking for and there’s still a piece on
the inside there but I can use a stick
to go down there and yeah look there’s
the whole flap right there you might
just want to rub it back and forth a few
times to clean out some of those brass
burrs but essentially that is our
whistle what I need to do now is find
some kind of a stick that will fit
perfectly into the front piece here with
just enough of a gap on the top to allow
air to flow in and split over that
whistle on the back all we have to do is
a little bit of trial and error until we
find a nice tight fit and then take a
little bit off the top now we can use
the rock to grind this down to make a
flat surface as well but essentially
we’re looking for something that will
just fit very snugly inside of that
casing the last thing to do is just to
trim a little bit of the stick off the
tops that we have an air gap for our air
to flow through and split on the whistle
so let’s mark that piece right there and
then either file or carve with a knife a
little bit off the top just a sliver and
that looks good so now we have to do is
break the stick off file it down and we
got ourselves a whistle mm fiber hey
that sounds amazing so look at the
positioning of that see how the wood is
actually right on the indent where it
starts sloping upward so right there is
a perfect bullet shell whistle that we
made with stuff we found right here in
the forest how cool is that guys
actually hurts my ears and definitely
loud enough to find some help when
you’re in need in the woods so there you
have a guy is a cool little trick for
turning scrap bullet casings into
emergency survival whistles thanks so
much for joining me for this project and
I’ll be looking for you the next video
talk to you then
you
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you a cool little survival hack you can
use to make an emergency survival
whistle out of an empty bullet casing so
let’s imagine you’re stranded in the
forest and you need some way to signal
for help when you glance down at the
forest floor and you just happen to
notice one of these cartridge casings
sitting under the branch this shell is
from a two to three cartridge but any
long narrow casing like this should work
now the first thing we need to do is
actually shave off the tip of this
cartridge casing so we’re just left with
this fat part at the bottom you can
easily do that with some concrete or a
rock like this and we’re going to use
that almost as improvised sandpaper
because what we need to do is sand the
brass all the way back to this bigger
casing back here it’s going to take a
little bit of work but it is very
possible to do now if you’re somewhere
closer to civilization you could use
concrete to curb on your road or even a
paver stone or if you even have some
metal files that will work better but
the essential idea is we need to shave
this back until it gets to about there
[Music]
it’s going to take a few minutes but
eventually you can see we actually get
the cartridge casing ground down and
there are some little bits inside where
you can take a sharp Rock now and just
kind of dig those out to clean it up we
want the inside of that to be as smooth
as possible you can see they’re like
little flakes of brass in there that
need to come off that’s what we’re
looking for right there the next thing
we need to do is come back about half to
three quarters of an inch and grind a
small hole in the top in a way that
there’s a flat side on the mouth and and
then a gradual sloping side toward the
back take your casing with the open end
overlapping the edge a little bit and
then tilt it a little bit and at that
angle we’re just gonna run this back and
forth and it’s good to take a few
minutes but we want to keep doing this
until we dig a hole right through that
side of the casing this is going to be
the whistle part of our whistle
[Music]
already starting to get a hole through
there you can see it’s already starting
to take the whistle shape this edge
could be a little bit flatter so I’m
going to just adjust my angle a little
bit there we go
now all this brass in here we can just
carve that out with a rock or a knife or
a file or whatever the case may be but
we just want to clean up that hole and
open it up alright so that actually went
a lot faster than I thought maybe about
two minutes and we got this thing ground
down if you look at the profile of this
casing though you can see that there’s a
vertical line near the mouthpiece and
then a sloping line for at the back of
the bullet that’s exactly what we’re
looking for and there’s still a piece on
the inside there but I can use a stick
to go down there and yeah look there’s
the whole flap right there you might
just want to rub it back and forth a few
times to clean out some of those brass
burrs but essentially that is our
whistle what I need to do now is find
some kind of a stick that will fit
perfectly into the front piece here with
just enough of a gap on the top to allow
air to flow in and split over that
whistle on the back all we have to do is
a little bit of trial and error until we
find a nice tight fit and then take a
little bit off the top now we can use
the rock to grind this down to make a
flat surface as well but essentially
we’re looking for something that will
just fit very snugly inside of that
casing the last thing to do is just to
trim a little bit of the stick off the
tops that we have an air gap for our air
to flow through and split on the whistle
so let’s mark that piece right there and
then either file or carve with a knife a
little bit off the top just a sliver and
that looks good so now we have to do is
break the stick off file it down and we
got ourselves a whistle mm fiber hey
that sounds amazing so look at the
positioning of that see how the wood is
actually right on the indent where it
starts sloping upward so right there is
a perfect bullet shell whistle that we
made with stuff we found right here in
the forest how cool is that guys
actually hurts my ears and definitely
loud enough to find some help when
you’re in need in the woods so there you
have a guy is a cool little trick for
turning scrap bullet casings into
emergency survival whistles thanks so
much for joining me for this project and
I’ll be looking for you the next video
talk to you then
you
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