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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Kevin Young pretty sure that counts as a parenting win! LMAO
Honestly in a grid-down mass hysteria scenario, the people casually walking down the street and waving will be bait for an ambush. Look into similar crisis situations in other countries and you’ll get a pretty good idea of what to expect.
Great, now make bullets…
No s**t
Best place for potassium nitrate is stump remover needs to be spectra side brand I put my charcoal in the wife’s blender gets it nice and fine you then need to wet in to a paste push through a screen and let dry bit more detailed but that’s the gist also check out codyslab on you tube on how to make potassium nitrate from urine
But you’ll need even more during the zombie apocalypse.
what if you have to bug out and can only carry a little ammo your screwed
How about bullets and primers ?
Black powder has less power than modern smokeless powder. So you could put it in any modern cartridge. You would just have under powered rounds so auto loading guns probably would cycle.
Randall I think it has been well documented that using firearms on zombies is a rookie move. It should be obvious to all of us$#%&!@*apocalypse warriors that the only safe way to dispatch real zombies is knives, katanas, axes, or blunt objects. Any report from a firearm has been proven time and time again to only draw the attention of more zombies. A few exceptions I will go ahead and state as to avoid being called out on. 1 Engaging a full horde. Obviously all noise discipline is dropped when confronted by a mass of real zombies. Open up the full autos and let the brass rain. 2. Suppressed subsonic ammo. By now all of us should have at least one suppressed .45 acp preferably a carbine along with enough ammo to last us untill the second coming. Booyah. If y’all would like I can start my own survival series right here from this post. Everyone stay frosty and keep making black powder.
Karl Daughenbaugh we must learn
5000 rounds is for beginners.
That’s some really small amounts of ammo …..
Ryan Edward at least that many!!
I know right?
Out of sight in out of mind, I wouldn’t go walking around looking for people
Linda Campbell
The only problem is getting the powder and the guns, and the right chemistry. Don’t want that$#%&!@*blowing up in your face
I know a guy who has around 3000 rnds of ammo stockpiled in a few different calibers, but eventually you get to the point where you have too much to transport. And unless you live out in the boondocks you are gonna have to leave the city limits or starve to death, and in a true SHTF/Martial Law situation, you would need to be as low profile as possible, and unfortunately vehicle transport is out of the question.
Lol
Agreed. I have tons of ammo but most will just be extra unneeded weight
Are they doubting how much we can hoard??
I wanna make black powder
Alex Crutchfield Ray Andrews
Finally Michael something worth while coming out of that pea brain! Jk
Practice with a sword, a bow, a staff, and a sling. You’ll never have to worry about ammo. Those who can survive the initial collapse and the short time after can survive with those implements.
Already ahead of you sir
MIke Warren Where do you live that the deer are already gone? The populations of white-tail alone in the U.S. is 20 – 30 Million.
I know your reasoning for this article is just ,and could save lives possibly. But do you think its a good idea to teach people on the internet how to make explosives, plus kids and teenagers? Adults and people who are ready already have blackpowder and bullets. All hunters could easily make blackpowder. I made my first when 9 years old. Seems dangerous and irresponsible to post this to me.
If you run out it’s because you didn’t buy enough:)
The problem with black powder and auto loaders is residue. You’d have to do a full strip clean after shooting. With a good possibility of a jam. The springs in auto loaders are calibrated to particular pressure curves within a load range, not just a power range but the curve that describes how that power acts.
For those that said wild game would run out, that Is a. There’s lots of critters also if it’s a total apocalypse type situation there’s millions of cows, pigs , chickens etc that would be around. Making gunpowder might be cool to learn but you are better off learning how to make a bow and fletch arrows. Alot quieter and it only takes a few days to a weak to make a good bow and arrows from scratch.
Well, it was already covered, but yeah my issue with this was modern semi-autos won’t work, at least not properly. 45LC, 30-30 and a few others would but that’d be about it, unless you went flintlock or had about a billion percussion caps
I’ve heard that before, with the primers supposedly it can be done even with a 22LR, albeit a bit trickier. Eventually though I could see them still wearing out. Best real long term bet is aquire the manufacturers tools and schematics
So essentially Dustin what you have is a modern version of the air gun Lewis and Clark took with them?
Jay Gibbs.. well there you go
Prepare for the worst hope for the best. I know how to get gun powder dirt and wood
In a way yes but those with an AR15 have a modern version of the Hawken rifle. Air Rifles give you a way to hunt game and defend your home (if needed) it can be placed in the same group as bows and crossbows. When you need to hunt and want to save ammo for more serious uses.
Wesley Stark
Or you can watch Aboriginal Britain on YouTube and learn how our ancestors made stone tools and weapons.
Mark Corgey you can do it on a 1911 frame. You just have to put in a 9mm spring to get it to cycle.
Also, books are a lot harder to move in a bug out. And EHD and a couple of tablets will be far easier to port. Motor transport or not, weight and volume are a factor.
I own black powder pistols and rifles for just these situations.
That, and also the island he was on while it wasn’t small it was not the biggest in the Chain. Onoda didn’t want to raise attention to his exact location.
Jake Masun
April Oldham I’ve placed multiple jars in the bathroom for us to start collecting urine.
Another factor. That said people weren’t exactly a problem for him. Whereas in a shtf situation that’s not going to be the case
Umm NO
The Island Population was a problem for them. One of his Troops was killed on a fire fight with police. The whole time he kept his location hidden. The rainy season was the only time they settled any lengthy of time. If you ever get a copy of his book I think you will enjoy it. I am no fan of the cause he fought for. But you have to admire how he survived for 30 years.
Bart Correll, carry the rest in your Jeep.