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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Definitely right about that.
TJ$#%&!@*to go with the generator
You speak as if from expierience yourself. Its a fuckin$#%&!@*show every time eh?
I caught the Dr dre reference faf. I was like what do you think my stables off….. Blah blah blahhhh I’m trynna get this damn label off.. Lmao…
Cause book are so prone to breaking and tablets arnt
Considering black powder doesn’t produce anywhere near a much pressure as modern smokeless powder, you should be fine
This is neat stuff. However, it would be a long time before I ran out of ammo, and then only because of fighting off attackers. In that instance, I would either replenish from the bodies of my foes (their kit), or I would have no need of ammo anymore (being dead)
I’ve always considered a high powered air rifle as a good prepper weapon, there are lots of sources of lead for pellets, other than lube you might need some orings to service the weapon.
To add to that, knowing how to reload ammo is cost effective as well as a marketable trade craft. To include making your own gun powder.
Jesus Christ did say we would need swords
Not really. 1,000 rounds can last years. Don’t be a bad shot. Practice now, and you will be proficient enough not to waste your ammo when it needs to be conserved. Or go to black powder muzzle loaders for hunting and cartridges for self defense. You can make endless lead or tin balls. You can also make black powder if you know what you’re doing. It’s nothing like making smokeless power, which has to be done in a strictly controlled process and environment.
What about primers
Sammy Sands
This is why the government wanted to put some ingredients on the high explosives list
I know this already, how do you make fulminate of mercury for percussion caps?
I’m a bit worried because it seems like most peppers just wanna shot everything. What if I was just passing by trying to stay alive and not causing any harm ? Y’all would prob blow me away for waving.. I Hope not.. I really do wonder how us as humans would take a major crisis in this nation.. do we come together as a race or do we kill each other off..
CLICKBAIT
Dude hell yeah I am going to put that in a notebook
There are several video’s on youtube showing how to re-use primers.
Basically punch it out, re-form the dimple and then match box ingredients to make the powder.
One example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5uYNHpmHAk
Matias Duran-servin
I haven’t seen anyone ask the obvious question. If you’re out of ammo, where will you get primers?
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Timothy Friday
Save ammo for when it is truly needed. In the meantime, get comfortable with a bow.
Alan Pautz
Good luck with primers.
Justin Huffman
This is why I own an axe..
You can order the potasium nitrate and sulfur from biodiesel suppliers like dudadiesel.com. Pure, refined and inexpensive. I have enough raw ingredients to make nearly 70 pounds of black powder, if I have to. Perfectly legal, too. And muzzle loaded weapons aren’t expensive.
I like how you ended it.
Cool! Thanks mate!
My point exactly. Instead why not “prep” by learning how to grow your own food and always keeping a rotating stock of consumables. Also maybe protect your assets because when the world gets back to normal, you probably will have lost all your wealth if it’s in fiat money (cash, banks, etc)
Mine some flint and stone. Grind them into sparkpowder using your mortal and pestle. Burn wood for charcoal and combine the two in your mortal and pestle. Grind them. Boom= Ark Gunpowder.
It may tell you exactly how to catch a fish but never doing it or not having the equipment could cause problems. Information is good but it isnt everything.
After about three weeks you’ll be able to go out and collect all you can carry as 75% of the population will have starved to death.
Better learn to shoot straight
Joshua Galick
s**t we gone be going tribal on they$#%&!@*anywho
☝️☝this
Fun fact the truly prepared prepper is prepared to take what he will need from where he needs to get it from.
Add all this up…no wonder the blm is taking more and back land..less game for us when shtf
He who controls the powder controls the future remember it’s is a skill to be taught and handed down also a resource to trade
Randy Power we’ll eventually you are going to lose! If you have one gun battle a week eventually you r going to catch a round
Agreed, it’s not everything but it’s a good start and should be on everyone’s prep list.
As I said knowledge is the best prep. Stored data is just that, it’s not your own knowledge, but a resource.
If tshtf it’s only going to last so long
YEP 🙂
Hector Sandoval
Michael Struminski but it can help. 😉
one of my cooler childhood memories was at 15 when I got 2 sunfish with 1 .223 round from a scoped AR-15; while drunk off moonshine- in a tree on the banks of Rappahannock river…
Still, learning how to make gun powder is pretty neat.