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View Poll Results: If the supply of ammo and primers dried up completely would you

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  • stop shooting to save what you have

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  • try making primers

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  • buy a muzzleloader

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Thread: If ammo and primers dried up completely

  1. 06-20-2009, 06:48 AM #1
    delmar
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    If ammo and primers dried up completely

    If the supply of ammo and primers dried up completely would you

    Stop shooting

    Try making your own primers
    Here is a thread about reloading primers for those of you that missed it.
    http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=50383

    or buy a muzzleloader?
    Last edited by delmar; 06-21-2009 at 02:15 PM.
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  2. 06-20-2009, 07:05 AM #2
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    Gentlemen,
    Believe what you want, the NSA can and DOES scan for key words. When their search engine "pings", they check into what pinged and where it came from. You can call me unrealistically paranoid if you want. I call it being cautious.
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  3. 06-20-2009, 07:30 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim View Post
    Gentlemen,
    Believe what you want, the NSA can and DOES scan for key words. When their search engine "pings", they check into what pinged and where it came from. You can call me unrealistically paranoid if you want. I call it being cautious.
    OK
    Is it your opinion that I am encouraging something illegal?
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  4. 06-20-2009, 07:47 AM #4
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    Already have MLer's, info on how to make BP and I can fashion flint locks given time. I also have info on priming compounds and lots of other neat stuff that's far more trouble than I really want.

    Let the FBI watch me. As I've said before, they can get bored watching me as well as anyone else. Nothing illegal here at all.
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  5. 06-20-2009, 08:42 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bret4207 View Post
    Already have MLer's, info on how to make BP and I can fashion flint locks given time. I also have info on priming compounds and lots of other neat stuff that's far more trouble than I really want.

    Let the FBI watch me. As I've said before, they can get bored watching me as well as anyone else. Nothing illegal here at all.
    Exactly, I share what I am doing openly, because I have no plans of doing anything criminal.

    Oh by the way, if tracking the people who watch my youtube videos leads the feds to people who are using what I teach them for evil, GOOD!
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  6. 06-20-2009, 01:07 PM #6
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    There's no trying about it! I would make my own primers...

    Oh- bomb bomb bomb baba bomb!!!
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  7. 06-20-2009, 01:46 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronterry View Post
    There's no trying about it! I would make my own primers...

    Oh- bomb bomb bomb baba bomb!!!
    Me too!
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  8. 06-20-2009, 01:49 PM #8
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    I'm sort of surprised that we have gotten 6 votes for "stop shooting"! I'm not calling you guys sissies or anything, but dang!
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  9. 06-20-2009, 02:02 PM #9
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    No point in wasting a degree in chemistry.
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  10. 06-20-2009, 02:10 PM #10
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    Making or rebuilding primers...........gotta do, what you gotta do.

    I've been looking at a Percussion rifle, and that too would be a case for rebuilding percussion caps if need be.
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  11. 06-20-2009, 02:11 PM #11
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    Cool

    What a great country we have become, guilty until proven innocent.
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  12. 06-20-2009, 02:11 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by rhead View Post
    No point in wasting a degree in chemistry.
    Way ahead of you! I just finished printing my out in Microsoft Publisher.

    Sorry- you walked right into that one
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  13. 06-20-2009, 02:25 PM #13
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    Whats B & C?


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  14. 06-20-2009, 02:28 PM #14
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    I agree, what's B & C?
    Give us this day our daily lead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by delmar View Post
    I'm sort of surprised that we have gotten 6 votes for "stop shooting"! I'm not calling you guys sissies or anything, but dang!
    Make it 7.

    "Stop shooting" doesn't exactly describe my approach; more like "severely curtail" anything done with ammunition and maintain skills with air-powered guns.

    I picked up a .177 single shot pistol a while back and set up a little target trap in my carport. Keeping tuned up with it (all one-handed) I have maintained, and even enhanced, trigger pull/sight alignment skills beyond what would have been convenient with even a .22. I've checked this to my satisfaction with a few of my centerfires and for me, it works.

    Also, again speaking from my own experience, careful one-handed shooting skills carry over extremely well to rifle shooting. (In the same way that weak hand shooting improves the strong hand; there may be a name for this but I don't know what it is.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by dromia View Post
    Whats B & C?

    Both Choice B and Choice C.
    Took a minute to get that one myself.
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    (If ammo and primers dried up completely

    I have shot flintlocks before and I only missed a few more doves than I do anyway.

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  18. 06-20-2009, 04:48 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by BarryinIN View Post
    Both Choice B and Choice C.
    Took a minute to get that one myself.
    Didn't you guys ever have a multiple choice quiz in school? It really didn't dawn on me that I would need to label the second choice B and the third choice C to get the point across
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    B&C,but I already have several muzzleloaders!
    The .30/06 Springfield,the ULTIMATE cartridge combat,hunting and target cartridge,a .45 single action and a good FLINTLOCK is all I need to be happy!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JW6108 View Post
    Make it 7.

    "Stop shooting" doesn't exactly describe my approach; more like "severely curtail" anything done with ammunition and maintain skills with air-powered guns.

    I picked up a .177 single shot pistol a while back and set up a little target trap in my carport. Keeping tuned up with it (all one-handed) I have maintained, and even enhanced, trigger pull/sight alignment skills beyond what would have been convenient with even a .22. I've checked this to my satisfaction with a few of my centerfires and for me, it works.

    Also, again speaking from my own experience, careful one-handed shooting skills carry over extremely well to rifle shooting. (In the same way that weak hand shooting improves the strong hand; there may be a name for this but I don't know what it is.)
    Very good points! I have been shooting far more with my airsoft gun than with my .45 not only because it is all but free, but because I can do it right there at home, without even going outside. I have a room that is 40' long so it makes a pretty good pistol range.
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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check