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 am so old i remember making gun powder from a science kit my Parents bought me. I still think i remember, 75 % potassium nitrate , 15% sulfur and 10% coal and BOOM !!
It will be a loooooong time before I run out!
Running out wouldn’t be so bad it you are the last to run out 🙂
Learn archery, the arrow are often reusable. ………:)
I guarantee you people coming from the cities will starve. Hunting will not even be an option for them. If they can’t steal it they will die or die stealing it.
Making black powder is a good skill but if you use bows..crossbows and air guns for hunting needs you can save the ammo for other threats. (Airforce Texan shoot a .45 slug). Some will say we will never run out of ammo but if it goes on long enough and no one is making more it will be MAD MAX time with out the cars.
Fire one pick up ten.
I agree. I was just saying their numbers would be overwhelming and they would be desperate enough not to be deterred by weapons. I don’t think show up ten or twenty at a time like on disaster movies.
While agree that this article makes it out to be that making Black Powder (BP) will give you something you would be able to reload ammo with, and that should never be confused. However, I make BP all the time. I’m a reenactor who shoots BP a lot, and the comments about homemade BP not firing well, or not being able to fire some BP weapons with homemade BP, y’all do not know what you are talking about. The people who make homemade BP for use in their reenactor guns get much better results from homemade. Now some guy just experimenting with making it will probably not get the same results, as he is only playing around with making it, not someone who wants serious results.. My homemade BP fires faster, more consistently, and cleaner, then Goex fff.
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That’s why you stick with common caliber a that are virtually everywhere in the US. 7.62 NATO, 5,56, 9mm .45 .22 and other common types
Flintlocks will rule again! 😉
Kirk showed me how when he fought the Gorn.
if I’m killing you for your gunpowder .well$#%&!@*I’m killing you for everything you have
Coffee I want to stockpile coffee ammo got enough
Only if you’re using a flintlock. Otherwise you better figure out how to make nitric acid and a priming compound so you can also disassemble and reload the primers. Smokeless powder is nitrocellulose, There are some weapon/caliber combos (Like .30-30 in a lever action rifle) where it would still work passably, though with a big penalty in ballistic performance.
Collect ammo an weapons from the aggressors after they are taken out.
Randy Barr
Socialist make the best fascist.
Doesn’t it make more sense to stockpile ammunition? Even if you make black powder, you still need primers and bullets.
The millions of people from the cities will quickly die, the problem will be the ones who turn cannibal first.
You need to educate yourself if you think turmeric is a wild plant in the US .
You can’t put enough black powder in a cartridge for a modern firearm to blow it up.
Already know how.
I don’t believe they will even try to leave the cities they would be totally out of their element. If they have no transportation I doubt they would venture more than a day from the city.
And then what?
Assuming i didn’t somehow blow myself up trying to make gun powder out of$#%&!@*and piss, what do i do next with it?
In this scenario I’ve ran out of the basic things i need to make bullets, so how do i make working primers or casings if i need those too?
Is it time to go stockpile muzzle loaders again?
This seems like it’s incomplete in being a viable plan, solution or skill. Trapping and bushcraft would seem to be far a more reliable skills over making my own ammo from scratch.
In my own opinion, i feel like I’m seeing more and more click bait, than useful ideas and tips, from this page then in the past. Would love to see it come back around. Just my opinion though.
Andrew Grenawalt trust me, old school works
So dumb ammo will never run out in my lifetime if I live another fifty years
More like make sure you have LOTS of it, especially .22 rimfire. Then make EVERY shot count.
Read the Anarchists cookbook for more recipes , the updated 2000 version seems to be the best .
I’d rather use a bow, atlatl and spears
Being able to make gunpowder is fine. But where will you get the casings to fill or refill. The casings you have can be reused only so many times. What about the bullet it self? Being able to melt metal like lead or copper to pour your own bullets takes a lot of material may not always be available. Making ammo short term is ok but long term not so likely. The best thing is to by 2 thousand rounds per gun, a box or 2 a month the rotate out by using older ammo to target practice.
The whole recipe is worthless without some kind of primer, and it takes way too long to prepare. Manual weapons would be more effective than this recipe.
Muzzle loaders would be the only answer to your questions. Scatterguns in particular. You can load them with rocks, nails, ball bearings, broken glass, or whatever else you can stuff down the barrel.
And you can even make such guns fairly easy from metal pipes. Block one end and drill hole for short fuse or to use fire at hole to light powder.
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Matt Ryan Lawson
Better have a Flint lock handy at least you can still get one good shot
Just a friendly reminder… I can google this information without batlling all these ads and with half the clicks.
My plan B! I have Tomohawks, Axes and Spears as well hehehehe
Download the anarchist cookbook. Print it out. Get recipes for everything from black powder to thermite.
Why is this page a slideshow? It could be so much better if it wasn’t.
Oooh my holy .22s XD got 3,800 rds..gotta get more
I think I have 3,500 or 4,000, yeah, need more.
Of course, and pitchforks, traps, etc.
Get a bow and arrow
Your only gonna make it so long. Others shoot back too.Your gonna go? Your gonna go. Sooner or later We all do.By the time a few rounds are fired, the Law with the Bigger power will stop it!
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Lots of lead out there. Mainly car batteries.
The powder they talk about making is black powder it is not meant to be used in any firearm that uses a cartridge based round.
this is why most of us have at least one muzzleloader around. tho if you’re still scrabbling that badly after cases run out in America, and havent set aside a lathe or machine tools , whether motorized or spun with external means, then you’re pretty much screwed.
On top of the fact that it would be useless without a primer, the recipe is incomplete as well. It only tells you how to make a couple ingredients, and then tells you to just mix everything together. No measurements, no specific instructions, it doesn’t tell you how to seperate the ammonium nitrate crystals from the wood ash, nothing!