Remember, eventually, all but the most prepared survivalists will run out of manufactured ammunition and knowing how to make your own gunpowder goes a long way towards ensuring you can get the game you need. Learn how to make gunpowder now so that you'll already know what to do during a long-term survival situation. This is just another survival skill to learn to ensure your survival when doomsday arrives.
A more modern method involves a metal drum with a drainage valve near the bottom. A screen mesh is placed inside, and manure, water, and urine is dumped in and mixed on top of the mesh.
You seal it up tight and let it sit outside for 10 months. Then you drain the liquid into a wood ash filter, and let it set in a shallow, wooden or plastic container to dry. Once the water dries, potassium nitrate crystals will remain.
These aren’t the only methods though. There are countless more, so it would be a good idea to do some research and find something that works best for you. The Army’s Improvised Munitions Handbook has a recipe for making potassium nitrate that is a lot faster than what I explained above, and it also contains its own procedure for making black powder.
Making your own gunpowder is not something most of us will ever have to do.
In a prolonged survival situation, though, we may have no choice if we want to eat game, so knowing how is one skill that might very well come in handy.
For more information on gunpowder, please visit Ready Nutrition.
Featured Image via Wikipedia
Ok
Sites with all the info on one page get about 10 times more clicks than click through web site pages y’all are posting…… try it watch the page views go up.
Patriotic Clothing Shop Now
Prices $23.99 – $26.50
FreedomDoesNotComeFree.com
Discount code:Freedom22 for 10% off
Ronald Collyer
Wade Connelly
thanks, I was wondering what to do once the ammo ran out
Jame VanDewalker – Myers
Everyone should know! Saltpeter, start peeing on manure!
Ate you shure u want to educate the wrong people about this??
That is hardly a picture of homemade gun powder.
I’m wondering if this isn’t a fishing expedition?
By the time you make potassium nitrate your screwed anyway not worth the trouble
Start making it long before you need it
Craig Shipes
Useless without Primers.