Timeline for Post-apocalypse ammo
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| Jun 30, 2018 at 22:37 | comment | added | KalleMP | Cody's Lab on YouTube got his first strike for his DIY video on refilling his own shotgun primer. The primer is the tricky part and making it safely is hard. The materials needed when in large amounts are a safety hazard and a public danger if not properly handled. Black powder is a well understood process and early 1900 chemistry books describe it in adequate detail to do safely. Raw materials will be harder to source but may be a task for nomadic sorts. Chemical manufacturing is not a very good nomadic activity. | |
| Jun 30, 2018 at 21:08 | comment | added | KalleMP | Yeah, guns are a side effect of resource shortages. After appocalypse there will be a population shortage and resources may actually be resonably freely available to the lay person. Everyone can pick nuts and berries, the fit can hunt and the farmer types grow eggs and bacon. Without population pressure there is room to get away from the greedy people. | |
| Jun 30, 2018 at 12:46 | comment | added | Sasha | Most of those old world guns will be on the hands of the three dominant societies. The common man is a nomadic hunter/gatherer, their muskets will probably be made out of scrap they scavenged or bartered for in some city. | |
| Jun 30, 2018 at 3:30 | comment | added | Ryan_L | My point is though, that black powder doesn't automatically mean muzzle-loading musket. You can cartridges or shotgun shells that use black powder. So pump action, lever action, and bolt action rifles and shotguns are all possible. You also don't need to worry about keeping your powder dry. | |
| Jun 30, 2018 at 3:07 | comment | added | Sasha | Yeah, the choice of keeping it black powder was in part to remove most automatic weapons from the story. | |
| Jun 30, 2018 at 0:50 | history | edited | Ryan_L | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2018 at 0:35 | history | answered | Ryan_L | CC BY-SA 4.0 |