I hear all these people talk about all these skills
they've got to have when society crumbles and after the zombie apocalypse and all this crazy stuff
And one of the things they talk about is they talk about reloading ammo. I'm a big fan of reloading ammo
however
reloading ammo
accuracy versus a survival situation
there's a bit of a difference guys right now
accuracy all about it right for example,
I load 178 grain a maxes for shooting competition for 308 long-range
Me hand loading each individual bullet with a lot of love a lot of TLC. [I] can hand load
Ammo, that's more
It's much more accurate [than] what you can buy from the store even trying to buy the top-end stuff hand loaded ammo is just always
Going to be more accurate if you're taking your time, and giving it some TLC I then load 110 V maxes very very light
using [JP's] personal recipe for three gun matches it runs my
semi-Auto gas fed
at 308 gas gun
Very very smooth very very little recoil just enough to cycle the action it allows me to get that follow-up
Shot very very quick, so when I'm moving and I'm trying to double tap targets real real quick
Awesome. I can do it a lot of time almost as fast as the guys running those sissy little five five six guns
for
Let's say 300 blackout you want to hand load
Subsonic rounds for example so [that] just barely breaks the sound barrier
It's best to hand load because each gun each setup gas ports are different gas systems are different
barrel lengths are different and if you can if you tweak it hand loading it you can get just
Where you're just breaking that sound just under that sound barrier and you can make subsonic ammo
reliably cycle your gun if you're shooting a semi-auto and
Still stay right where you want it to be velocity wise
you don't want to be too low because then you're just lobbing a football softly you want it throw that football as
fast as possible without breaking that sound barrier so you don't get that supersonic crack alright, so
hand loading for
Accuracy all about it um the argument that your hand loading for expense
And it the excuse I used with my wife. Oh, honey
I'm gonna be able to hand load ammo a lot cheaper than I can buy it
9 Millimeter for example you can buy crap
9-Millimeter ammo for practicing on the range a much cheaper than you can hand load it, and it's a lot easier on your fingertips alright
Now the argument that it's a great skill to have [in] a survival situation. I'm all about having the skill
I'm all about having the knowledge
Okay, and if you want to go out and invest in the equipment to hand load
for the art
I'm all about it but for you to invest your money in it simply so that you can
Use it as a trade after the fact that when Society crumbles
One guy's going to be a blacksmith other people are [gonna] be farmers you say you're going to
Reload ammo and sell ammo. It just doesn't hold water and and here's why I'll show you real quick
Roughly a box of
100 rounds of 300 Blackout
okay um
bought it at the store so much money that
It box would be a little smaller than that now for me to reload [that] same box of 100
I would need primers. [I] would need the
220 grain slugs right and
Then I would need I like
To load my 300 blackout with 16 80 now it would take that now. I'm having to [real]
[reuse] all my brass
100 rounds of brass I'm reusing
space in my
shelter
For 100 rounds of blackout to reload it or space with 100 rounds that already exists
Okay, already done already ready to go it takes up
Actually less space right now
You've got to remember
Using these components to make ammo you're not really making it what you're doing is you're assembling it, right?
So once you run out of primers
which
Are sometimes hard to find I've heard the logic now people saying well
Ammo is getting so hard to find I'm gonna have to start reloading they haven't gone out and tried finding
Reloading components sometimes just finding primers is hard binding 1680 is hard sometimes
I still can't find trail boss to load my favorite recipe of 308 Subsonic
Right so sometimes it's hard to find the components right so in a survival situation or post
apocalyptic situation
You need to be able to make it not [just] assemble it because your once your components run out
You're screwed the farmer can still grow more stuff save his seeds, and he has it [so] [to] say I'm going to make ammo
Brother you're going to have to make like poor and cast slugs [now] our guys
I know guys [that] do that [for] bullets for like 45 pistols a lot of Cowboy action guys
They actually make the slugs we can reuse brass okay you ever try making primers. I want to see you
Do that one. Not easy.
Gunpowder are you going to go back to
crumbling up saltpeter and
sulfur from the drugstore?
Now it's it's just not realistic, right?
so if you want to learn how to reload by all means track down a local
Subject matter expert he'll gladly take you under his wing and he'll show you how to do this. I mean
It's best way to go for accuracy for expense
Actually, it is a little bit cheaper not much, but a little bit cheaper than just buying the ammo
Knowledge it's the best tool by far knowledge is going to be the best weapon
You ever have knowledge is power right, but as far as reloading in a survival situation
No, I look at some other trait really wait, and we that's my take on reloading