SHTF usually only focuses on short-term survival situations where after the initial shock wears off, it's usually only days or perhaps only hours before the situation has passed.
However, not all SHTF situations are temporary. How can you really know for certain that when the grid goes down, it won't be permanent? You never know, a natural or man-made disaster could completely wipe out everything except for the men and women who survived in their bunkers.
The possibility of a long-term bug out situation is why survivalists put emphasis on knowing the skills on how to make essentials such as weapons and more specifically, gunpowder.
If a survivalist is smart, they will have already been stocking enough food to last them a long period, however, when it's all gone you will need your weapons to help you catch game. And when your ammunition runs out you're going to need to know how to make more of it.
After the break, learn how you can make gunpowder for a long-term survival situation and add this imperative skill to your skillset.
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I’m down
The powder is easy, however liners are the difficult part
Primers
Isn’t this like when NASA developed a zero G pen and Russia just used pencils?
You should have a bow and arrows for hunting. Arrows will be much easier to make after any you have are broken. You could even buy and stockpile wooden dowels or aluminum tubes and other tubing or wire.
Traps and spears can feed you too. Bullets are best used against people for defense in a SHTF situation.
Thanks Samuel Adams and Steven M. Johnson.
I’ll just have trebuchet and launch rocks. Endless supply here in AZ
And If you want to look up the history of early cannons designs, Try finding a book called ‘Round Shots and Rammers by Harold L. Peterson’ it’s been out of Publication since 1969/70 so it’s a difficult book to find. But it goes from the 1300’s to the Neapolitan times
While the cannons were primitive, with a little ingenuity the old designs can be pretty effective against many things. They destroyed huge thick stone walls.
Really? I don’t think I’ll run out.
Hope it never comes to that!
Really? Now just how many millions of Germans stayed with and saluted their flag and continued to worship the government? There will be millions of the same brain washed people today. Example look how many today will get mad at any one putting down the American flag. Knowing the socialist, baby killing, anti christian and other things it represents today. What it stood for is one thing but what it stands for now is different. Now they have already brought in multi millions to take up arms in the military that do not care whether you live or die. I just do not see your theory working. And when this thing collapses there will never be a going back to what it wad. There are to many socialist in this nation today. We have had nothing but socialist being elected the past 8 years. And nothing but socialist in both parties this election.
So funny . Water . Now that’s some thing to think a bough
Gunpowder is easy, the caps… Not so much
I’m the hundred comment
Guns. Guns. I don’t need no stinking guns. Go ahead run out of ammo. Lol
Arrows,swords,stones..anything to preserve the USA Constitution..
Problem is that this is for black powder, which would blow the modern guns apart. Please do not assume this powder will just replace what was in your favorite modern gun. This powder is also highly corrosive, and modern guns will need everyday cleaning.
What will actually become scarce is lead for bullets.
Rodney D Johnson low information challenged! What does socialism have to do with a facist dictatorship?
saltpeter is also a good ingredient
Used black powder in a 45-70 for years..never blew it apart. Just clean it more often.
Used black powder for years in a 45-70. Never had any issue with it.
Better yet, learn to make and use your own primitively weapons. Bow and arrow, spear and atlatl, sling and bullet. In fact, probably the most effective and easiest to use of these is also the easiest to construct, the sling. With strong cordage one could easily construct an effective sling in less than an hour and ammunition is everywhere. Several small stones for birds and small prey, larger river pebbles or specially made led or clay bullets for larger game and men.
Older style rifles such as 45-70 were made for black powder loads as they came out when people were switching to modern smokeless powder. Modern rifles are now made for the same instant pressures. Smokeless powder burns, BP explodes.
Really…. A cross or compound bow with arrows don’t need gun powder or bullets. Its more quite and silent and if you do it right one can sneak up and still make a quick and clean kill. Even small game can be taken. Look at history…… Bow and arrows are much better use and lighter then a iron barrel and require great skill, if you don’t have that then you and your family will starve. Think about it. Duh!
and what to do about primmers dumbies
David Mangerson you got this I’m sure
Stump remover is potassium nitrate I believe.
I’ll die before I run out of rimfire ammo. I’m well supplied.
Make sure to post this on “SI Gun Training”!
It is only in the “Walking Dead” that they never run out of Ammo!
Potassium nitrate is more commonly known as “Salt Peter”, an was a extremely valuable “commodity” during our US War of Independence!
Our patriots were able to produce their own gunpowder, if they were able to get their hands on it!!
Andrew Misker! You brought a similar subject on Gun Training!
Nitrocellulose is a double base powder, there is also single base, which is nitroglycerin,essentially.
Most will starve or die of infections before ammo is depleted.
Really Santa Claus you think you’re going to come down my chimney and take my ammo good luck
Bahahaha you made a funny
Now it’s your turn to make a funny
When$#%&!@*hits the fan I’ll just kick the front doors of$#%&!@*s Sporting Goods open and load up a basket
No way can Black Powder ” blow modern guns apart”…it actually produces less pressure then modern smokeless powder. This is why with older guns and designs it is recommended that you stick to black powder.
I’ve reloaded black powder cartridges for bolt action and lever action rifles as well as many brass shotgun shells.
Clean your gun afterward with hot soapy water and no trouble.
With millions of cars out there with batteries in them that contain a few lbs of lead at least I don’t think getting lead will be a problem
Apparently someone doesn’t believe in Santa… He’s not gonna laugh when he gets a piece of coal in his ammo box. Lol
obama has made it impossible for me to get coal, he’ll probable get a cow pie, the epa is trying to get rid of those.
In the mean time as a prepper I make these for close quarters interaction with our MUSLUM brothers and big brother
I’m not saying you cant, but you don’t know the strength of your home made powder. I’m not talking your off the shelf bp but homemade. Too light and you squib the load and the next causes real problems. There’s not a lot of loading manuals for black powder in modern guns- specifically those the everyday prepper might have. Just having this article on how to make it without explaining the limitations and dangers the average prepper go boom and maybe his gun too.
I can see someone thinking I’ll just load this in grandpapy’s deer rifle without a second thought. Some early modern guns will not hold up to bp. Is this something the average prepper will test to find out? Probably not.
I’ll just keep stockpiling the proper powder. By the time 100 lbs runs out after shtf, I probably wouldn’t want to live much past that.
Stock up
Greg Loeser Jr.
It’s a long involved process if you do it the way it was done back in the mountains of Tennessee.
As for myself, I hunt with a muzzle loader that uses black powder. I do know how to make it in its several grades. I also use a crossbow, a longbow, an atlatl and darts and two types of slingshots to hunt with also.
Isn’t that what they used on the old destroyers for their big guns
It can be produced if you know the process