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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And you can also learn other forms of combat.
What you gonna use the gun powder for when you run out of ammo?
If you could eat dumb$#%&!@*comments I’d be set for a hundred years
Melissa Mossa
Interesting!
You can get potassium nitrate at lowes it’s sold as spectacide stump remover.
Black powder is only good for muzzle loaders smokeless is way harder to make
How do you download all of wiki?
Now just a lesson plan on how to make primers.
A good bow and learning to fashion arrows is better
Learn to shoot a bow….problems solved.
Michael Rupinski as long as we’re learning how to make fire with a drill and a bow we might as well work on this LOL
KNO3, charcoal and a pinch of saw dust… next.
Hahaha if you think you’re going to survive one or more gun battles you’re high. All these people think they are gonna hold up in their bunker and fight off an entire country. Good luck with that. Keep stockpiling thousands of rounds. Espc you fat ones who can’t even hump a damn ruck sack with essential gear more than a few hundred yards without killing over.
This is a good way to destroy a firearm and hurt yourself. Black powder can not be used in place of smokeless powder. The burn rate of smokeless is far slower that that of black powder. Black powder is classified as an explosive and smokeless is classified as a propellant.
Fahim Ahmed
Y’all preppers just keep posting where you live and keep doing TV shows about it. I don’t need to prep, I just need to know where you live…. May the odds be ever in your favor.
He’ll yea
The department of homeland security alone has has enough hollow point handgun ammunition to shoot Everyman woman and child on earth 20 times. This is just one department of one government. Mankind isn’t going to run out of ammo anytime soon if ever.
This post would be even more informative if it told people where they could find these specific ingredients in every day objects.
Michael Murphy
Billy, with the thought you’ve put into this, you could always try model railroading as a hobby.
(I’m being serious, not sarcastic)
Flintlock…works great,never run out of primers ether. would be a good skill to make your own powder.
Sue N Vic Varon
Hah William, seriously I have plenty of hobbies. For instance is that an old Yaesu MD1-B desk mic on your profile pic. I just retired my fav ft 900 CAT about to get my new FT 897 OTA.
The real question. How well will my 5.56 shoot with black powder….
Benjamin I agree knowledge is king. And my whole point was stockpiling ammo was a good idea and that in fact one could easily tuck away enough ammo to last a lifetime. Not saying I have “enough” but I don’t see myself needing to make black powder. I do have a 70lb bow or 2. But your right it would be a cool skill to make a bow and arrows. Had a Native American friend growing up. Watched his dad build a few wish I had paid closer attention.
I barely survived reading the first page
Do you know how many rounds are in the world? To run out is almost unfathomable.
Loaded .357 with black powder, just dip the case full and put the bullet in, smokey but it works alright.
Ryan Lotz
No and no u can reuse primers with strike any where matches and black powder will work in modern guns the fouling is the problem area just clean it.u can also add powders aluminum to bp to increase its burn rate bp has less pressure than ur nitro cellulose based powders which u can make also
Primers are easy,strike any where matches the tips and remove anvil from primer,improvised munitions handbook
Finally someone who reads
Improvised munitions handbook
Thank you school these morons
No it’s not read other comments remove anvil from primers and take tips of strike anywhere matches to replace the mercury fulminate
That’s why I read the comment section most people are armchair professors and if they would actually crack a book open they would have 99% of their questions answered,half of these prepped fb sites are done by people who don’t know what the hell there doin
Kurt Saxon is another good set of books,i also wrote a revised improvised munitions handbook that I put in a 3- ring binder for my kids,
It was out of date anyway
Any way to get a copy of that?
Fireworks??????
Jerry Mooneyham
Here’s a few tid bits of information then hit the next button, oh hey and then just two more bits of information and now hit next again…. O yeah? Smells like bullshit click bait, “unlike page” time
Justin Grande
I hate your links due to check out the next page not….next page not…..next page not
Too many making their own reloads… duh
Callum Stewart
Yea bullshit aaaaa. I always stop after 2nd page even don’t look after 1 st page
Easier to stick up on ammo now. Also cross bow with lots of bolts.