Its like made of foam rubber, so you cant even use it on the homeless. He goes to the trouble of providing a wooden box, but yes, a rubber stake. Has any of the Belmonts ever even used wooden stakes in any of the games? I always thought they used daggers, axe, holy water, bible and boomerang cross thing as an optional weapon. I cant recall a wooden stake ever being used. Its just strange to me, but whatever.