If ammo and primers dried up completely

[SciFiJim]

stop shooting to save what you have
try making primers
buy a muzzleloader

How about A, B, & C? Conserve what I have, try to make more, and get a muzzleloader if B fails.

[rhead]

Way ahead of you! I just finished printing my out in Microsoft Publisher.

Sorry- you walked right into that one

Your diploma may be prettier, I don't even know where mine is. But my primers and powder will work and I can do it without losing my eyes or fingers. It isn't having a diploma that makes the difference, It is what you learn getting it and the experience you get after you get it.

[ronterry]

You forgot that some of the greatest minds this planet has ever seen are autodidact. I can read also btw, I just don't need a teacher to tell me what & when to read.

Don't worry rhead, your diploma is intact. I was just razzing you, and sometimes my form of humor is truly alien...Heck that goes for my English skills as well sometimes

[Catshooter]

How 'bout "E", None of the above, just keep shooting like I am now?


Cat

[Idaho_Elk_Huntr]

I have enough to last me and my son till they go bad

[mike in co]

how about judicious use of your existing primers to resolve the lack of primers.........

is the letter k or what

[phil218b]

Didn't David Kill Goliath with a sling and a stone?

[SciFiJim]

Phil, maybe so, but the smart bet was on the guy with the sword.

[Firebird]

Who says a flint-lock HAS to be a muzzle loader? Breech loading designs started appearing before percussion caps, it's just that none ever found wide-spread acceptance until after the percussion cap had also been accepted.

[delmar]

Who says a flint-lock HAS to be a muzzle loader? Breech loading designs started appearing before percussion caps, it's just that none ever found wide-spread acceptance until after the percussion cap had also been accepted.

I did not know that. How readily available is such a weapon?

[SciFiJim]

I did not know that. How readily available is such a weapon?

Or how could a modern weapon be adapted to something like that?

[ronterry]

I hope your thinking what I'm thinking? 10 megajoule phase pistol!!! Of course we need to be able to change the frequency and modulation after every shot! Never know when a Borg might show up!

or

M41A Pulse Rifle firing 10mm caseless APS rounds with an underslung 30mm pump-action grenade launcher.
M56A2 Smart Gun firing the 10mm caseless selectable fuse ammo (APS/SAPHE). 310 round ammo drum. 1200rpm. Mounted on an articulated operator's harness, slaved to an infrared tracking system.
Then we can follow that up with the M240A1 Incinerator Unit / ala Flame Thrower!!!

[Johnch]

I would just have to finish my rail gun

And start latheing off steel "slugs" for it

If my math is right
My 5000 watt generator should provide all the power I need

The guys at the range would sure look hard at it LOL

John

[dromia]

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

Thank you for now making you poll clearer.

In my day in school there was no multiple choice, everything had to writen, legibly and spelt correctly. The answer had to be well argued and reasoned. If not you got the tawse, a two or three fingered leather strap about two feet long and three inches wide. Usually administered to your hand which you held in front of you.

Assumption is one of the great weakness of boards like these, assuming that someone knows what you do in the same way as you do leads to confusion. I could have assumed that poll choices two and three was what you were trying to say in choice four, but from your poll I would not have known that with any certainty.

We are all ignorant just about different things.

[Jim]

There's a grove of hickory behind the house and I think I got an old glove and a useless bicycle tube somewhere around here.

[dromia]

There's a grove of hickory behind the house and I think I got an old glove and a useless bicycle tube somewhere around here.

Good thought there Jim, and you could still cast up lead ball for the "catty"

[TAWILDCATT]

I dont care what you do but making compound for primers could get you in heap of dodo.ie making explosives.but if you make percusion caps and load with 2 capgun caps thats legal.
even in factories primers blow and people get hurt and killed.
I would drop the subject.if your going to do it just do it and dont publish the fact.
I have always told youth if there are three people doing drugs one is a narc.
you dont have to be paranoid if its true.

[delmar]

I dont care what you do but making compound for primers could get you in heap of dodo.ie making explosives.but if you make percusion caps and load with 2 capgun caps thats legal.
even in factories primers blow and people get hurt and killed.
I would drop the subject.if your going to do it just do it and dont publish the fact.
I have always told youth if there are three people doing drugs one is a narc.
you dont have to be paranoid if its true.

Not "making explosives" Just reloading primer cups with the tips of strike anywhere matches. There is a whole thread about it that has been up and running for a couple of months. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...1&postcount=95

[wallenba]

Oh great, now there will be a run on strike anywhere matches.

[Jon]

I'd probably shoot a whole lot less, but there are ways of rebuilding primers. I'm keeping my old ones just in case I ever need them. They don't take up much space, and could be invaluable later on.