SHTF normally mainly focuses on short-term survival situations where after you're done feeling shocked, it's usually only days or hours before the before the situation is over.
However, not all collapses are temporary. How can a prepper know for certain that when the collapse takes place that it isn't permanent? You never know, a man-made or natural disaster could wipe out everything except for the people who have survived it thanks to their sturdy bunkers.
The potential of a long-term bug out situation is why preppers believe it's so important to understand the skills on how to make essential items such as weapons and specifically, gunpowder.
If a prepper is wise, they will have already been stocking up food to last them a while, however, when it's all used it they will need weapons to help them catch food. When ammunition is gone it's important to know how to make more of it.
On the next page, check out step-by-step instructions on how to make gunpowder for a long-term SHTF situation and add this essential skill to your survival expertise.
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Problem A: i doubt anyone will be willing to take 10- 12 months to make this, or possibly survive long enough to render if your actually desperate enougn to consider this. Problem B: most people dont have black powder weapons. I for one would never consider using black power in a smokless powder cartridge nor would i recomemd anyone attempt it, there is a reason load data exists
I would consider black powder for revolvers, shotguns, lever actions, and bolt guns only. There is load data out there for conversion from smokeless to black powder in those types of weapons, thanks in part to cowboy action shooters. Never semi autos or full autos, to much fouling..
At that point, it is bows, crossbows, and time to go medieval…
Interesting, i was not aware of conversion data avilible. I’ll have to check that out, thanks for the input James
Kade Michael Olson
Many modern cartridges have their roots in black powder. I load .45LC with BP for fun, works great in my ruger revolver. Lee Enfield .303 was originally a BP cartridge. You can find those rifles everywhere.
Hope Walker
Many cowboy action shooters wishing to go “authentic” have developed loads for common rounds such as .38, .44 russian, .45 long colt and brass hulled shotgun rounds.. some using old style paper and then the common plastic hull also. I’ll have to see if I can still pull some data up for you. It has been years since I compeated.
Nick Q I have black powder guns. One of them is a Flint lock .
Right on, i know they are arround amd of course people hunt muzzle loading season, i was just saying they arent common, most people only have modern smokless pistols and rifles. Though i have considered getting one of those black powder pisyol kits for a neat and useful project
The are very accurate
That’s not gun powder or lead coming at you some sand some metals and so on
This are deadly accurate
That’s why you train with blades. Knives and swords are the best fall back weapons around, and I know a really good blacksmith that can teach me if I ever find the time.
Black powder may have other uses as well though, from warning signals, to IEDs, to fishing when they just won’t bite a hook. Lol
Loren W Mitchell
Ok say u can make it. Where u getting the bullets that go in brass plus primers ?
Bet some of some of us won’t run out…
Out of ammo? Ha. Haha. Hahaha. Bwahahahahahahaha! Sooooo. That’s a good one. Oh man. My side’s are hurting. That’s pretty funny, right Greg Cooper, Mist’r Krabs, Chris Titchenell
If you run out you are not a prepared prepper
coool
Eric Schmitt
Everyone would run out of ammo eventualy in our favorite fictional apocalypse scenarios , but the good news is you can make explosives out of urine, bones, and lots of other things.:) Those who championed Freedom should arm themselves with knowledge too.
How about primers?
Allen B Hardy
45/70 lever gun, and 45 colt (just a few examples) can and do run black powder cartridges on a regular basis. There is load data out there for this.
Back to the old school .38s&w
Its going old school muzzle loader style, or “muskets”
If u are good, u can reload a muzzle loader in under a minute
With about 1 Trillion rounds of ammo in the U.S….that should be good for awhile.
Desmond James Jackson
This is why I own a flintlock and round ball dies.
Black powder, will convert and work with some more modern calibers, as they were transformed from black powder to the modern. As for primers they can also be reused but only two to three times and the chemical components are easily obtained , or with some if you are proficient can be set with a nitro jel that is very easy to make just a little touchy to handle.
David Bowman Jr.
learn to make a bow and arrows, not super hard, totally sustainable.
Have you ever played video games? Unless you have a vault, 2 weeks after doomsday a nuclear rain will fall for 40 and saturate the earth in strontium . Enjoy looking for ammo.
Check out Blue Lakes Brass! Great ammunition at a great price!
Not if I take yours
Lead will be easy to scavenge. Car batteries, wheel weights, fish sinkers under 1/2 ounce just to name a few. Primers can be made too.
Just now gotting into bp guns. This is my first. A hawken rifle is next then I’ve got my eye on an awesome blunderbuss kit.
Good with your hands and learn how to use combative weapons
Katana
Knives
Etc
David Martinez
Bow and arrow
Modern air rifles are more powerful now then the Christmas story “you will shoot your eye out …kid” The Airforce Texan can shoot .45 slug (black powder round) and there are hunting pics of it taking down Elk..Moose…Buffalo and hogs. Not a replacement for gun powder but it could fill the hunting nitch and make it so you can save the powder rounds. Also if it can take down a moose then a smaller 2 legged vermin is no problem.
Ben Gardner
i wonder if some genius could create a flintlock revolver. that would relieve us from the task of making or finding primers/brass/ caps. just a thot. any way, add a few .22’s to your collection and store 1000’s of rounds. a few .22 magnums would also be good. hey-i’m no prepper just thinking out loud.
I’d like to think so, but I’m sure people would go trigger happy instantaneously, and whatever gun you have, ammo supply will dry up eventually.
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.
True but who wants to carry a big air compressor that runs on fuel?
Load up on your guns and ammo. I will own them later. I have what you need and you will trade for it or die without it or trying to get it.. Lol