Posted: 2/11/2011 12:11:45 AM EDT
| Was watching the remake of Dawn Of The Dead tonight and "Andy" in the gunstore got me thinking. Lets say you have the reloading press and plenty of cases and primers and projectiles but you run dry on powder. When I was younger we would cut a slit in tennis balls and fill them with match heads from wooden matches, and throw them against solid surfaces to cook them off. You can find boxes and boxes of paper and wood matches all over the place. Could you scrap the heads from matches and load it into casings as powder? And if you can would it actually cycle a semi auto weapon? Or would it be better in bolt guns for taking game, it it works at all?? |
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Good Episode! |
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IIRC, I had on old SF from the early '60s. Improvised weapons\explosives. I believe there was a 'firearm' made from pipe and used the old Ohio Blue Tip matches as propellant. Yes. And during the 1990's when primers were scarce, people had experimented with using the tips of strike anywhere matches to "reload" the anvils and cups of spent primers. |
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Mythbusters has already proven this myth "busted". 
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A better question is, if you have such a stockpile of everything else, why don't you have the powder as well?
It's not the most expensive of components and you are always best served in buying large quantities of powder at once (to maintain utmost consistency by drawing from the same lot, plus of course it is much cheaper per-pound). Sure, it takes up some space, but really all that much. It's not really that bulky either. |
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Thats funny, I acutally remember that episode and as a young kid I remember thinking..."Yeah Right, like that would work" |
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Ha so I guess overall it was a pretty dumb question. Cheap beer and curiosity will do that though. I know zero about reloading as it is so I was just wondering. There's no such thing as a dumb question. You have just wandered into the asylum that is GD. 
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| anybody remember the thread from several years back where someone on here showed us how to make .223 bullets by putting wire into spent .22 cases and forming .223 projectiles with them?....was one hell of an interesting thread and I wish I had saved it for future reference..... |
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anybody remember the thread from several years back where someone on here showed us how to make .223 bullets by putting wire into spent .22 cases and forming .223 projectiles with them?....was one hell of an interesting thread and I wish I had saved it for future reference..... http://www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=408 http://www.shootingtimes.com/ammunition/st_223short_200711/index.html Links posted in here : http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=42&t=258520 ETA- Tons of great stuff in the Gateway thread. |
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anybody remember the thread from several years back where someone on here showed us how to make .223 bullets by putting wire into spent .22 cases and forming .223 projectiles with them?....was one hell of an interesting thread and I wish I had saved it for future reference..... http://www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=408 http://www.shootingtimes.com/ammunition/st_223short_200711/index.html Links posted in here : http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=42&t=258520 ETA- Tons of great stuff in the Gateway thread. thanks... |
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anybody remember the thread from several years back where someone on here showed us how to make .223 bullets by putting wire into spent .22 cases and forming .223 projectiles with them?....was one hell of an interesting thread and I wish I had saved it for future reference..... Saw that and remember it well... Very impressive indeed. 
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Quoted: +1Quoted: Ha so I guess overall it was a pretty dumb question. Cheap beer and curiosity will do that though. I know zero about reloading as it is so I was just wondering. There's no such thing as a dumb question. You have just wandered into the asylum that is GD. Let's look at it a bit more rationally (as much as possible considering the unlikelyhood of the situation). You would be better served trading the strike anywhere matches for smokeless powder. They would have at least equal value if not higher. Given that's not an option, you could make black powder, if you had the knowledge. I've done it, but have never made my own potassium nitrate. That would be the trick. Better yet, the question is: What in the hell did you shoot all your ammo at? Even if you only had a couple hundred rounds of center fire and a couple thousand of rimfire, you would not likely run out in a couple years. It is highly unlikely you would survive more than a few months unless you were much more prepared than this in every other area, anyway. In self defense, if you go through 200 rounds, you're likely dead, unless you're some tier 1 Navy seal green beret lrrp super sniper. Rimfire... hunting is a piss poor way of getting meat. If you are relying on that, you gonna starve. |