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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Wouldn’t be bad to know, but you would need a flintlock or similar firearm if you are using black powder. I think you may be better off practicing with a bow.
Gary Bustance
I known this since 6 grade
Taylor Slimmer Ryan Smith Justin Thielen Sammy Johnson
flint lock /// bow and arrow
Ya get good with a bow lol
I think most guys that cashed all that .22 are going to be slowly watching it turn green
I’M COUNTING ON YOU!
Serves them right IMO. I just want to play with my 22 WMR and now they have driven the price of 22WMR up to the same price as my .223
Main ingredients -scrapings from strike any where matches, and dust from ground self lighting charcoal,
Make blackpowder weapons from local hardware stores, very simple
I knew wood ash was important to make powder, but I was unaware it took so long.i guess it’s time to start tossing all the ash I’ve been hording.
You can google it, but the FBI is going to put your file into a special file. Just saying.
I’m glad you added that last bit about the faraday cage….
Bow and arrows kill very well in the right hand so something to think about.
You will be much happier with .38 /.357 caliber. Works well with black powder, uses small primers and not very picky with cast bullets. Something that most Auto loaders have issues with. A sturdy revolver and a lever gun chambered for .357 will take care of basic defense and food. .38 is also much easier to Suppress.
Primers can be rebuilt, amazingly with Matches. The Strike Anywhere kind.
http://www.starlinebrass.com/articles/Shooting-Black-Powder-Cartridge-Firearms/
Chicken poop can be used in place of bat guano. It is not as good but will work with the traditional process.
Mitch Seveer, if or when it is a SHTF situation, the learning curve for everyone that survives will be very sharp.
He would only run out of ammo if he is a bad shot. You replenish by taking the spoils.
Unfortunately, you’ll be shooting more at looters and killers more than at deer. You will be trying to protect your family and stockpiles from those who have not prepared or just figure it’s easier to take yours.
The FBI can waste their time however they want. I don’t care or have anything to hide. If I want to make bombs to prepare for the end of the world, they can’t do anything about it.
Not if you can make your own..! I can make my own knives bows and arrows.. So have fun people..!
Actually, they can.
Durp
Flint lock
Stash powder and primers and reload
You don’t need gunpowder if you have matches.
https://youtu.be/HFDeh9QsbTI
I will be like Rommel. If you want ammo , fuel, water, food then go take it from the enemy.
Black powder is helpful but primers will still be needed. Better to learn some primitive merhods.
Why not just buy a few 8 lb jugs of powder and a few thousand primers right now?
Ammo is literally never going to run out, the human race will be extinct, and in a few million years, a species of highly intelligent cockroaches will emerge who will be digging up connex containers of 7.52x54r and 5.56×45 and wondering where it all came from.
Not really,u pick up ammo and arms on the battlefield after an ambush.
This is like a run on link…
I already have enough ammo loaded to outlast me when SHTF…
4 ingredients easy to make but have to use the right kind of wood to burn to make the proper charcoal
I get having it.. but why advertise it online?
Thermite is also easy to make 🙂
are you including dextrin? or do you have another formula?
already make my own
Lol ancient fomula bro
What about a bow or crossbow? S will probably htf for longer than a few months to a year… Just a thought!
A black powder revolver and rifle will do you well – if you can make powder, and smelt bullets (tire balancing weights are a decent substitute for actual bullet lead) – percussion caps are all you would need. Not to mention that a spring powered .177 rifle can help you silently take a variety of small game. Since the caps and .177 pellets take up almost zero space, you can stockpile a ton of them too!
Rozy is quite correct . Ive shot black powder in .38s and .357 for many years , since the early 90s. Obviously completely safe as BP does not develop the pressures that smokeless does so … modern gun steel will be over kill in the safe department so … no fear . BP works great in any manually operated weapon
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Other things other than guns. 😉
I agree. It still leaves the primer issue of course. However .38/.357 or the .44 mag/. 44special or .41 magnum will work perfectly well. I’m unsure about suppressers with black powder. It will ,Ithink, clog them up in short order. Especially if one is using home made powder. Also cleaning of the gun becomes a major issue with black powder.It is intensly hygroscopic and corrosionwill develop with great speed if left untreated. I have been told that the residue from black powder must be cleaned from the entire gun, not just the chamber/barrel but stripping down to the action also.
As a correction, the original .303 British military round was black powder, compressed powder load,(the bullet pushed it down a little). a 220 grain round nosed projectile at about 1800 fps. So black powder should work in a bottle nosed cartridge.
What difference does it make Kris Gibeau,when TSHTF they may as well come after this infidel first so I can thin the heard before they can go to the next American. You’ll find me behind the pile of other bodies surrounded by Hot Brass and blood.
Save me a click?
Brenda Bruce Sowers