Hi lads, I don't consider myself a prepper, but I like to have some canned food and a few gadgets, like emergency radio receiver, solar powered battery charger and so.
I know that this topic may not apply on the EEUU where firearms and ammo are common and widespread available, but here in old Europe (the continent that once ruled the world), I think that ammo will ran off pretty quick, on a SHTF situation like the one described by Selco Begovic and his experience on a sieged city with no basic supplies for a year, or a more drastic pandemic, or maybe a carrington effect provoqued by a solar flare or just the gradual turdholation of our countries reaching a social collapse with basic supply chain interruptions.
Well... few civilians posess firearms here, plus the amount of ammo you can store is also limited and controlled, but with airguns, at least for the moment, they are generally more tolerant and a good alternative, not that much for self defense, but for hunting.
You can store much more pellets, but eventually they may ran off as well... so 1rst question:
What are the alternatives? Clay pellets? Compacted aluminium foil pellet somehow midly casted with a ligther? melted bottle plastic with also a lighter? Carved playwood pellets with a nail? soldering tin pellets? Asuming you don't have lead or ways to cast metal into pellets, just junk, what will you use to feed your airgun, not ruin too much the barrel and put a stable flight and impact?
The other problem is the regular degradation of the o-rings and that other white plastic thingy that seals the valve that if you dare to take it out and watch it in a way that he felt unconfortable, will lead to permanent leakage, the more complex and sensible mechanism of an airgun compared to a regular firearm is a big handicap for the apocalypse.
A posible solution is to just have many spares, how will you store them to last for forever? I have a stupid o-ring spare that I never used, and the other day it start spilling ''something'' on its own, I don't think it's even usable anymore. Can you cast O-ring and valve seals subtitutes out of junk? Cause I tried once to repair the white thingy that seals the pp800, rotating it against the seal to take ''perfect shape'', try to shape it myself with a machine, hottening it and it was no use... I just have to purchase a pack of aliexpress spares and out of 5, only 1 worked, so, this is a problem.
I watch a crappy Van Damme movie where future people shoot each other with airguns made out of junk and I thoug... Hm... this may not be unrealistic in Europe, but how do they made the O-rings and seals? uh?
I know that this topic may not apply on the EEUU where firearms and ammo are common and widespread available, but here in old Europe (the continent that once ruled the world), I think that ammo will ran off pretty quick, on a SHTF situation like the one described by Selco Begovic and his experience on a sieged city with no basic supplies for a year, or a more drastic pandemic, or maybe a carrington effect provoqued by a solar flare or just the gradual turdholation of our countries reaching a social collapse with basic supply chain interruptions.
Well... few civilians posess firearms here, plus the amount of ammo you can store is also limited and controlled, but with airguns, at least for the moment, they are generally more tolerant and a good alternative, not that much for self defense, but for hunting.
You can store much more pellets, but eventually they may ran off as well... so 1rst question:
What are the alternatives? Clay pellets? Compacted aluminium foil pellet somehow midly casted with a ligther? melted bottle plastic with also a lighter? Carved playwood pellets with a nail? soldering tin pellets? Asuming you don't have lead or ways to cast metal into pellets, just junk, what will you use to feed your airgun, not ruin too much the barrel and put a stable flight and impact?
The other problem is the regular degradation of the o-rings and that other white plastic thingy that seals the valve that if you dare to take it out and watch it in a way that he felt unconfortable, will lead to permanent leakage, the more complex and sensible mechanism of an airgun compared to a regular firearm is a big handicap for the apocalypse.
A posible solution is to just have many spares, how will you store them to last for forever? I have a stupid o-ring spare that I never used, and the other day it start spilling ''something'' on its own, I don't think it's even usable anymore. Can you cast O-ring and valve seals subtitutes out of junk? Cause I tried once to repair the white thingy that seals the pp800, rotating it against the seal to take ''perfect shape'', try to shape it myself with a machine, hottening it and it was no use... I just have to purchase a pack of aliexpress spares and out of 5, only 1 worked, so, this is a problem.
I watch a crappy Van Damme movie where future people shoot each other with airguns made out of junk and I thoug... Hm... this may not be unrealistic in Europe, but how do they made the O-rings and seals? uh?
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As soon as I posted my reply I thought of those as well.
