easy desperation reloading?....... :(

[tombogan03884]

Also, being lower pressure BP is more forgiving if the charge is a little heavy, it may screw up accuracy, but is less likely to blow up the gun.

[Bic]

10-4, I knew I'd come to the right place. I'll grab a couple of pounds of ffg when I'm in The Big City and store it with the gasoline, propane & matches in the basement

[PegLeg45]

10-4, I knew I'd come to the right place. I'll grab a couple of pounds of ffg when I'm in The Big City and store it with the gasoline, propane & matches in the basement

Atta boy!!!!
    

[sledgemeister]

It's not about that stuff Sledge, I was envisioning an 'End of Civilisation' scenario where this might be a last, desperate resort for self defence and foraging, having run out of all other options.

Maybe I'd be better off just stocking up on a shootload more .22lr 
.

Ahhh I C, you talking about end of days scenarios, funnily enough a good friend of mine and I ordered some tech grade potassium nitrate other month, our plan is to see how closelfy we can come to making commercial grade BP for precisely that reason. We need to make up a ball mill yet and give it a whirl (taking into account all safety protocols of course). We figure we can make primers etc we may as well give this powder thing a whirl to see how good we can get it.

Its good fun to use but dirty shit, get a stainless revolver if you plan on using it and find a good bullet lube, that will be your key to success. Lubricant is everything when dealing with BP.

[billt]

 TEOTWAWKI ?

What does this stand for? I hear the mall ninja's use it a lot. I'm not up on my SHTF "lingo".  Bill T.

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[PegLeg45]

TEOTWAWKI ?

What does this stand for? I hear the mall ninja's use it a lot. I'm not up on my SHTF "lingo".  Bill T.

The
End
Of
The
World
As
We
Know
It

 

[billt]

The
End
Of
The
World
As
We
Know
It

 

What are they talking about? That has come and gone. Hussein was inaugurated a year and a half ago!  Bill T.

[TAB]

I'd say a shot gun with full brass shells would be the easyest thing to reload.  All you need is powder, primer, some thing to use as a wad, and something hard for shot.

[Solus]

Got me to thinking. 

What would it take to set up to be able to make modern ammunition after a "crash"?

It would be a great survival occupation for a group of folks, both for personal use and as barter.

Can smokeless powder be made with low tech means?

Manufacturing brass cases?  Gilding for jacketed bullets?

All this was done with 1900's technology. 

Finding and stockpiling the resources can start early.




 

[Bic]

Sledgemeister:  "Lubricant is everything when dealing with DP."   





My editing - sorry Sledge, couldn't resist