During Doomsday You’ll Eventually Run Out of Ammo. Here’s How to Make Gunpowder the Old Fashioned Way.

Gunpowder

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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408 Comments

  3. Darla Robinson said:

    Go to YouTube, there are instructions for rebuilding primers. Stock up now

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  13. Max Tbird Wolters said:

    What a pain in the$#%&!@*. I’m pretty sure it’s easier to make a sling shot or bow .

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  17. Mike McDonald said:

    This is black powder, which will only help those with a black powder gun. Anyone who tries this in a rifle cartridge is hosed.

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  19. Don Jones said:

    An 9vot spark, or can easy make a patch lite with a fuel match, sparkler, think dude..

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  20. William H Lee said:

    Don Jones : I was referring to gun powder. as in ammo. I do know how to make gun powder and fulminated mercury. I wouldn’t need 9vot spark, fuel match, sparkler. Thank you. 🙂

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  21. Joe Knor said:

    “ammo will run out” HAHAHAHAHAHA fukin idiots – then you bastards are dead

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  22. Danny Crumpton said:

    But this is black powder. Making smokeless powder takes $$$$$.

    Can the black powder you make be used in say a 3006 casing?

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  24. Scott Stevens said:

    Black powder buck shot. Cast in brass like back in the day. Or a blunder bust for EDC.. weighs a ton and takes 15 minutes to reload but you can guarantee they’d be dead and a half

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  27. Kerry Eaton said:

    Yep get a pound of Antimony and you can make your own primer powder too.1 pound can be enough for several 100,000 rounds.

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  28. Kerry Eaton said:

    Anyou can make your own primer powder with Antimony and powdered glass and powdered aluminum. 1 pound can make several 100,000 rounds..and not classified explosive.

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  30. B.J. Whitney said:

    Pick up a chemistry book…
    Theres so much of the elements for gunpowder around its to funny…
    Another hype story

    Get a life…

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  36. Brandon Bartley said:

    Yep. By the time the person figures out what happened and where the shot came from, if they’re still alive, you can reposition and have another one in them. Or if it’s a group of people and they split up, you can take them out one at a time without giving away your position with a gunshot

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  39. Joseph Germany said:

    Black powder will ruin guns that are designed to operate using modern powder. Make a$#%&!@*ton of nitrocellulose while the ingredients are available now, and store it in small quantities separately. That way if there’s a fire, you won’t lose all of it

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  40. Joseph Germany said:

    Primers can be remade using phosphorus. There’s YouTube videos showing how

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  41. Doug Forkapa said:

    We used to make it when we were kids in the 70s. After constantly going back to the local pharmacy the pharmacist finally told us we needed a note from our parents to buy more.

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  42. Grey Scars said:

    What’s black powder not gun powder, major difference between the two. If you use black powder as a replacement for gunpowder weapons your going to destroy your firearm.

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