Gridlessness: We Made 10,000 Rounds in 24 Hours! DIY Ammo Factory

The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, we look at some handloading Canadian homesteaders.

Reloading: Homesteaders Going Full Dillon

Over at the always entertaining Canadian homesteading Gridlessness vlog: We Made 10,000 Rounds in 24 Hours! DIY Ammo Factory. JWR’s Comments: “Always keep plenty of spare de-priming (a.k.a. “de-capping”) pins on hand. You never know when you’ll run into Berdan-primed brass that you missed, during your initial brass inspection. By the way, that family lives near Williams Lake, British Columbia, which is in the same region where I set part of my novel Liberators.

US Could Expend Ammo in ‘As Few as 3 to 4 Weeks’ in a China War

Reader C.B. sent this: Wargames show the US could burn through its ammo in ‘as few as 3 to 4 weeks’ in a war with China, commission warns. A pericope:

“A new high-profile report on US national defense acknowledged that the Pentagon could deplete its munitions within “three to four weeks” in a protracted war with China.

The 114-page report, published on Monday by a bipartisan commission appointed by Congress, warned urgently that the US is unprepared for a sustained conflict with China or Russia, much less both at the same time.

Many of its assessments were based on previously reported material. Still, the review concentrates a slew of recent findings and dozens of officials’ testimonies into a formal and dire recommendation for the US to increase defense spending and streamline its forces.”