Listverse: In 1862, a South Carolina College professor published a manual for the manufacture of gunpowder. He detailed several different methods, but all of them had a very important ingredient—saltpeter. Saltpeter (potassium nitrate) can be found in nature, usually scraped out of caves, but the Civil War demand for gunpowder far outstripped the amount of readily available saltpeter, so people had to manufacture it. more
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Good information to have as times get more…spicy…
“…when some unlucky sap had the task of stirring the pile of manure, compost, and urine to make sure the soaking was complete.”
…ask the guys detailed to burn barrels of shit in Afghanistan whether the luck of the soldier has changed in this regard or not…
ht tps://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/10/burn-pits-iraq-vets-military-waste-toxic/
This is black powder they are talking about and the manufacturer of black powder is extremely dangerous. It is not a progressive burning propellant like modern smokeless powder, it is an explosive. It’s also unsuitable for use in many types of firearms and even then it’s difficult to get off very many accurate shots before cleaning is necessary. The exception being muzzle loaded, breach seated cartridge rifles.
Not breach seated, muzzle loaded cartridge rifles of the type used in schutzen matches.
Just sweep the streets of San Francisco and mix with charcoal and sulfur.
So that is what street people are doing.
Arming themselves for their ANTIFA uprising.
The 38 Special started off as a black powder round. I have a recipe to make black powder for it. I also have a recipe to repime a spent primer. And I have the tools and material to cast my own 155 grain semi-wadcutters. I can shoot about 48 bullets of my concocted ammo before I have to pull out the Hoppes #9 and a couple of brushes where it takes about 15 minutes to get it to where I can fire another 48 rounds or I can hit it with brake cleaner and some gun oil to have it ready to shoot in less than 2 minutes.
Chinwester Shit Piss and Corruption rounds…
or Jeremy’s… I’d love to see those ads!
You can also get phosphorous from urine, but you need to boil down a LOT of it – supposedly it can get pretty nasty. Plus it’s dangerous as all getout.
All preppers know this.
During war time it was always the home-front women’s duty to collect their urine for gunpowder production.