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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joegrizzy" data-source="post: 3912243" data-attributes="member: 45524">i'm sure someone has. people here can be crotchety lol they are old.i've read about the "scrape the stuff from the old snap caps" or using random household things for primer compound. i would like to think IF i needed to do it, it's one of those things where it being my first attempt wouldn't bother me. stuff would be SERIOUSLY f'd if i'm making primer compound and can't just raid for ammo and/or acquire fully loaded rounds easily in another manner.there's a LOT of ammo out there. everyone has some. if i'm to the point of needing to reload my own primers, i'm probably done for anyway lol because i'm assuming i wouldn't have enough to defend myself. surely i would have made better decisions with the ammo i currently have or have at the time (assuming my cache grows) in order to either secure more or get myself to a position wherein i wouldn't need to exhaust my cache, thus the need for making my own primer compound when i can just get fully loaded bullets that exist.like for instance, realize there are still rounds *that were produced during pretty much any war in modern history*. so even during a time when ammo wasn't being produced in the numbers it is today (there's just way more people now, more factories, etc etc), there was still so much ammo produced there is STILL plenty of it that is unfired, loaded, ready for you to find and load up and fire. i suspect there's still crates of certain surplus rounds that claim to be virtually all sold out from the major ammo retailers and warehousers. i HIGHLY doubt they sold ALL of it. even if for personal stock of the company owner, etc etc. they didn't sell literally EVERY crate of 7n6 5.45 or greek surplus .30-06 etc etc.the hunting of components would be even more difficult in a SHTF situation, wherein again i believe my having a gun in virtually every caliber is beneficial because virtually anything i stumbled upon or raided i would be able to use in *something*.</blockquote>

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