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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I learned how to make black powder from the Britannica Encyclopedia in the mid 70s. The info is out there.
John Merchant Eric Powers
Not that I would ever store large amounts of anything, but in theory mind you, 10,000 rounds of ammo , thousands of primers, brass, powder and lead should last a couple lifetimes. If a person got into a$#%&!@*hot battle and went through 1000 rounds, chances are you are severely outnumbered and your tactics suck/failed.
About 25 years late.
Paladin Press used to have an extensive offering; that was mail order, with cash or money orders, and came in hard cover.
Loooong before in depth cyber tracking.
Yeah. Sure. It took 3-6 weeks. But what would you give up today for that kind of anonymity?
It called make a bow and arrows any survivalist should know how
“There’s about 10 billion bullets manufactured in the United States every year”
Don’t plan on people running out anytime soon.
i laughed pretty hard..yes i use black powder in several modern guns because its cheap and available..i see lots of people saying ohhhh i have enuff to hunt until the next coming…unfortunately if everyone is hunting the available game to survive it will be gone in a hurry in most areas..so it will get down to protecting your area from other hunters..hence the need for more ammo because there will be firefights..if you are a survivalist you have literally thousands upon thousands of rounds for your weapons of choice…if you are burning thru those available rounds quickly you are either in the wrong area or a very poor shot…also if youre a prepper/survivalist you have started already making black powder or stockpile it as well…there are also airguns for hunting that dont require powder…save the ammo for hostiles and hunt with bows and arrows or airguns to reduce noise and bringing attention to yourself
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Yeah eventually. As for me not a long long time the you move to traps bows spears whatever else you can make
He’s talking about nitrates from the pee and dirt mixture, and glycerin from bones. Nitroglycerin. You can Google this.
Me again….One big advantage an air rifle can give you is lots of target practice you can shoot all day with out breaking the budget and I can be said if you can’t hit what you are shooting at you loose. Dam I am starting to sound like a sales man for air rifles.
Austin Himes
Well if it happens the wild game will be wiped out pretty quickly cause everyone will be hunting
I’m a big airgunner, the market is crazy good these days because I can get a .45(which thy use to take down a Cape buffalo) that I am pump with a special compressor or and pump, and a lead pellet is easy to cast. Plus it’s much quieter so you scare less game in your area.
KNowledge is the best prep… get a copy of all of wikipedia (almost all human knowledge) on a external hard drive with a cheap tablet or two with a solor or wind charger to read it, and put that$#%&!@*in a faraday cage. Congrats you just won the Apocalypse.
exactly 1000 people take all the game for a 20 mile radius in a couple days… game cannot support but a very small fraction of the population and only for a short period.
Most guns these days will not function very well with BlackPowder. You’d have to make a smokeless powder in order to have something that will function in all guns. In order to make smokeless powder you’ll need to know rudimentary chemistry, and if you don’t do actual pressure tests with any powders you do make, you’re going to have a bad time blowing up guns.
Some will be hunting…some will be protesting the hunting lol
Run out of ammo? Challenge accepted.
Johnnie Van Der Walt
Exactly!! Look at what happened in rural areas during The Great Depression. The entire deer heard here in Alabama was wiped out within 3 years.
Mitchell Jay III Sayre
Dave Barr
Black Power rifles
You take the ammo from those you kill
Sure, and how are you going to power you wonderful devices to make blackpowder?
Bola Isijola
Nicholas Eadler
Susan Cooper
I do not know a singe prepper that plans on surviving off of hunting for game. Most are relying on long term food storage , green houses and large gardens. Of course most are fairly well armed to protect their food and supplies.
This whole story is retarded.. How do you run out of ammo for swords and spears and shields?
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A lot of assumptions of running out of ammo or Powder.. Really how much do you need…
I get my stockpile off dead bodies.
John Robert
Well in a survival situation you are going to be a little more conservative.. You get 800-1500 rds per pound of powder on .45acp depending on how hot you want your load.. Many reloaders buy in 8lb jugs so not hard to store enough for a long period..
well, I wont have a weapon until I take one off a body, anything that uses powder anyway. Who is going to make that much noise in a survival situation anyway?
I’m just as lethal with the bow,, we be ok
I’ll just stick josh an Billy,an take they stuff
Buy a crossbow problem solved
Making its not that huge what is hard is making it consitant enuff to be worth reloading.
Making powder to go boom fine making it accurate enuff for repeatable accuracy have to see it to believe it.
Food supplies are finite and man can’t survive on potatoes and ammo alone. Not sure the hunting thing was my point at all. My point was you can indeed stockpile enough ammo for life. Albeit life will be harder.
Paul Clark
Ones biggest concerns would involve securing food and water on a daily basis. Ammunition would be the least thing to worry about
Which is why I have a Dozen Bows and about 40 Bow strings and 250 Arrows…
There is so much ammo out there…
What? You think I ain’t got no guns? What you think I sold them all? But I have something much better then your guns.
Why the$#%&!@*do I have to click through a series of “NEXT PAGE” links???$#%&!@*your website and your high school web developer running it.
Black powder is easy. Smokeless powder is an entirely different matter.
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