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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No real prepper is gonna run out of ammo , only an idiot doesn’t have enough stored and wastes it
Stock up on ammo….if u survive long enough get more ammo and guns from your dead enemies!
.308 with a thicker wall, and a smaller powder charge would help too.
Mark Corgey what was the book title? I’d like to check that out.
Better to escape notice while being able to observe others. Reduced contact, reduced opportunity fir a fight, reduced need for shooting and giving away your position.
That’s why one should learn sward play!!
Aaron Baltosser yup. Stay away from everyone. Out of sight out of mind.
https://www.amazon.com/No-Surrender-My-Thirty-Year-War/dp/1557506639#
No Surrender. My Thirty Year War. It is in Amazon Books.
I’ll check that out today.
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Heaven forbid we ever really need to know these things. But if we ever do, Stainless Revolvers, and modern Lever Guns are far more useful than Auto Loaders. Salvaged ammo powders or homemade black powder will run in them. Black Powder will not cycle most Automatic Weapons.
Yeah. Enough to make an Alamo type stand. I think all that is so overblown, it’s become embedded into people’s thought without regard to the immensity of the problems they’ve just inherited. By creating a battlefield scenario as the number one threat, they also set their course as a scrounging forager with a halfassed escape plan to nowhere.
Agreed. It’s self destruction in fantasyland.
Or even bows and arrows, gardening, trapping and raising livestock. Plan for things that have settled down enough that a pattern of daily life can be acquired. Prepping for a fight, seems to become that message, that they are looking for a fight.
Jonathan Herrod
Fantasy dreamland that gun writers have been talking about for years. Mel Tappin created a paranoic fringe of gun aficionados that have fixated on the “enevitable” heroic fight which is their actual life plan. Lol
Great idea if you own a flint lock. were are you going to get PRIMERS for your cartridges. I know how to make fulminated mercury but most folks don’t.
If the world collapses I’m not sure I’d want to survive long enough to burn through every bullet in the county. There will be some crazies and looters to defend yourself against, but most of the population would just be trying to survive. Don’t need to go around busting caps at everyone.
Bullets too
If I run out of mine…..there will be plenty on the ground around me!
Depends on what people are prepping for. Martial law, nuclear/chemical warfare, “zombies” , rounding up of citezens for fema camps ….etcetcetc
Dangerous to do if you don’t know chemistry
So how do you make bullets and the primer?
That’s why you need to find the government stockpiles so you can raid them
Yes the old man with one gun is to be respected as he is probably smart since he survived long enough to get old and really familiar with his weapon.
But there are so many liberals out there though…..
Michelle Casey
nailed it. I always say you don’t even need a stock pile really. You need 100~ for your big bore hunting rifles, a couple boxes of 22 and/12g, and for the combat rig you don’t need more than a combat load out (7 mags generally) because either you’ll win and you can take their ammo, or you’re dead and it doesn’t matter
https://youtu.be/t_7LWCFH5Gc
I didn’t bother to read the article, but do they tell you how to make bullets and primers too?
Don’t forget the brass and lead.
Richard Bailey
That’s what I was thinking but I appreciate you doing all that math for me.
Get and become proficient with an old fashion recurve bow — problem solved! If a collapse comes, the less dependent you are on any type of modern technology the better off you will be.
If it get to that point, this will make a come back. So will small communal life centered around hunting, gathering and transient agriculture (planting & leaving crops to grow and harvesting latter). Charcoal will be in vouge more as a fuel and writhing implement. Sulfur, if you can find it will be of more use medically as a chemical carterizing agent and anti biotic. Nitrates will be more practical as a preservative than a propellant.
The people that lone wolf it, will be gone. Tribal societies will make a come back.
Kyle
Kyle Axley Anderson
Why not learn the skills of No Report? Much more effective and will have less chance of attracting attention.
Ryan Woodson
Solution = bows.
Jeff Rocha
Fine if you have a flintlock. What are you going to do for primers? I buy them by the 1000s for reloading. I stockpile smokless powders of different types, and an ample supply of black powder. I also know where there are saltpeter caves and how to leach it. I figure a million rounds and the ability to load a million more should last me.
How does one make primer caps?
A blade is quiet and draws little attention a reasonable supply of ammo would last years the time should be spent on suppressors to avoid the unnecessary contact.
Dennis Willis figured you might read this
It takes more then gunpowder to make ammo. Like primers and lead. And I wouldn’t recommend using black powder in a modern cartridge. Also in a shtf situation I would assume the ingredients to make powder would be hard to find, and if you are going to stockpile these ingredients why not just stockpile powder and more ammo?
I’ve got about 200 lbs of powder 30 thousand primers, 100 pounds of brass and bullets, not to mention bullet molds and loaded ammo. I’m 58 and at age 13…I had 13 guns. I live in the country and hunt and fish on a regular basis. The problem is as I see it is guarding my stuff while I’m in the field. I’m not a prepper, I am a gun shooter/ collector, Hunter but not a sportsman. I think I can hold out a while before I need to worry about making black powder like I did as a kid.
Ill be in my 70’s before I run out of gunpowder
I’m sure every real prepped has a nice bow of some sort with plenty of arrows , and arrows can be made easily if in fact you break or loose all that you have