rcmodel
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AH!
Homemade corrosive primers!!
rc
Homemade corrosive primers!!
rc
I agree completely.Truth be known, you would probably be better served in a hunter/gather SHTF situation with a few .50 cal ammo cans full of .22 LR rim-fire ammo.
It will kill anything you can eat, while not making enough noise to alert all the other scavengers & criminals within 2 miles of your location.
And .22 RF ammo will be worth it's weight in gold as trading material.
rc
Anyone willing to experiment with mass detonable compounds should have a will, self paid medical and a lot of land to work from. Lots of luck.
As long as it's just one. And as long as that's what we are talking about, and not mixing up a bucketful of Armstrong's mixture, mercury fulminate, or lead or silver azide.It's a handful of matches, not a brick of SEMTEX. If one DOES detonate on you, it just goes "pop", and you get mad you wasted 5 minutes of your life.
Among other nasty things, primers usually contain a significant amount of PETN, a HIGH explosive which REQUIRES a federal permit to even possess. Do yourself a BIG, BIG favor and don't even consider trying to make your own primers! I've read the manuals about mixing priming compound and loading primers. It's an incredibly difficult and dangerous job and accidents are common even with modern equipment. When priming compound ignites, it goes high order, in other words, it DETONATES. Even small amounts of priming compound can cause huge explosions and do a LOT of damage! If you concerned about future availability then save some money and lay in a stock of primers. Kept in a good, sealed container such as an ammo can they'll last very nearly forever.
Sitting on ~30,000 of the little suckers!