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’m pretty good at shooting a bow as well…. But I doubt I’ll get that far..
As they say 90% of the population will die off due to starvation and killing each other in first 30 to 90 days ,so it’s just a waiting game till the poor bastards die off leaving the 10% left to survive on their knowledge of what our ancestors been doing for thousands of years.Self sustainable life..
It can be done with tools you can get from harbor freight
Poor man’s James bond, vol 1. Vol 2 looks like a real bad photocopy job of vol 1.
Boil your urine completely down… works better if you’re dehydrated (dark yellow)
Scott Dawkins idk how real it is but it may help you out.
Same thing the Afghanistan people are doing. They brought down the Russians. Kinda doubtful the military will fire on us citizens.
You’ll run out of food and water long before ammo.
Uhm. Unless some of us go to war. We won’t run out of ammo.
Or you could learn to use a bow. Arrows are reusable.
Powder is easy what yall plan for primers 😉
William Schors
Lol.. You were the only one who caught it… Bonus point for you.
I’ll bow you with my arrow
Only if you promise?lol
I wouldn’t show anyone that
Former analyst here. FBI doesn’t care. Rednecks and explosives enthusiasts look this$#%&!@*up all the time. Now when you start buying compounds in mass quantities that produce high explosives and you have a history of questionable behavior, that’s when they notice. Making your own gun powder and the like is public info and it’s not illegal to seek out that information. What you do with that info is another story.
Jesse
I have been saying this for years now ,,, this page is old in my book lol…
Or get a sword , that doesn’t need salt Peter. You could f*** someone’s day up with one
Cuz that’s practical… Lol
I will never run out…..trust me.
Or learning to slit a jugular. Either way.
How do you out of pee?
Unless your the D.O.D with their 2.2billion rounds
With litteraly BILLIONS of rounds in the states I doubt u would run out
Ok so you can make powder…hope you have primers.
Buy a bow! Shoot your bow! Become proficient with your bow! Learn how to make arrows.
Get more life out of your brass by annealing the casings every few reloads… Keeps the brass from getting brittle and splitting… Good point though
105%?…. Your formula needs a revision….
Its fall in the mid west… Most walmarts clearance their stump remover down to about $1 for a 1# bottle….. That’s 99.9% potassium nitrate
Nope that’s right that’s why I said 3% of the total weight of the batch.
Jake Stokes, not if you can make a bow
Oops you are right. 71% potassium nitrate 29% charcoal my bad.
Dogwood Ash saltpeter and sulfur
Yea except there is enough ammo in the world to kill the whole population 1000 times over
Damion Meyers
Savage.
Generally, anything worth shooting in a defense scenario may have ammunition and matching weaponry of their own to take.
black powder is useless in modern firearms
very well said
Wikipedia has a LOT more holes than you think it does.
Tj Day
And what about primers? Lmao
Learn to farm. Farming can provide renewable sources of food. Using pretty much dirt and water.
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Brenden Casteel
Anthony Talley
You never completely run out of ammo. Your enemies will always bring you more.
Yea I planned on 10k per gun method.
Zombies not included because I feel during a confiscation, it may be needed to get out there and let some of my nasty ones rip a few times…
Never know.
10k
Per firearm.
Nothing less. Never know.