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Bigslug
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Previews for NBC's "Revolution"
Bigslug
Posts: 9,858 Senior Member
Fifteen years after the meltdown of civilization and they seem to be out of functioning guns and ammo already.
Anybody else find this greatly amusing?
Anybody else find this greatly amusing?
WWJMBD?
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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Jerry
Or know the joys of shooting a traditional flintlock rifle.... dueling pistols.....
I thought it was the steel that sparked, not the rocks.
In a flintlock, the flint shaved bits off the frizzen...this is why flints need to be kept sharp and properly shaped...also this is why you find frizzens that have been re-soled, or re-faced...
the "flint" you're talking about in a torch lighter isn't the same thing...
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Snake
Anybody with a basic knowledge of chemistry- - - -it's simpler than cooking methamphetamine, and there's a lot of mental giants doing that!
Jerry
I really want a traditional flintlock smoke pole...... and a brace of flintlock pistols........
BP is indeed loads of fun...
A SxS flintlock shotgun would be great too....
Jerry
It appears to be set in a dystopian future, except not as far and a lot more dystopian in the future as in "The Hunger Games."
My point too
Snake
Research a little Confederate history- - - - -a lot of the powder made by the south in the latter part of the war used a nitrate base made from evaporating "night water" contributed by the ladies of the big southern cities. When a rebel soldier sniffed the muzzle of his rifle, he was thinking about where the smell came from!
Jerry
In all fairness Gene, The Hunger Games is a direct rip of a japanese tale called "Battle Royale"
As far as the show goes, IMO looks like they are trying to combine and rip off "Jericho" and "Falling Skies"
Even Captain Kirk was able to improvise black powder when he was fighting that alligator guy...
Like Teach said, the nitrates can be obtained from urine. If you've ever mucked out a few barn stalls, you probably noticed a yellowish white powder substance low on the walls. That's nitrates from the urine of the animals that splashed on the walls and was left when the liquid dried.
Charcoal making is a no brainer.
Gunpowder can also be made from sugar, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.
I think the premise of the show is pretty much out there in La La Land. The only way to efficiently disable all the electrical devices on the planet would be a huge EMP across the whole planet. At present, that could only be caused by detonation of a huge amount of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere; that would be kind of noticeable. D/C auto generators could still be used to provide D/C current, and auto alternators could provide A/C if the diode bridge was removed. Water and wind power could be used to provide power for machinery, and steam engines aren't all that hard to make from internal combustion engines. Makes me think all those peeps were kind of stoopid.
― Douglas Adams
You have GOT to be kidding Alpha...As long as you have animals, and as long as they (and you) urinate...you have the nitrates to make black powder...
:spittingcoffee: Nah, you aren't. I'm just old and cursed with an insatiable curiosity. And a good memory.
'Nother thing I just remembered. A direct injection diesel engine requires no electrical power to start or run. Just need an efficient means to crank it over to start it. Run it on corn or soybean oil. But the steam engines would be easier to build/maintain.
― Douglas Adams
Jerry
If one had basic knowledge of firearms maintenance, building, and some handloading and bullet casting abilities, they could be well set as an important person in this post-apocalyptic landscape?
possibly but you forget.. if everyones "stoopid" and no macherinery is running and almost no one has a gun, any shot is going to instantly make you a target because everyone who hears it will want to kill you for what you've got. Granted that'd be pretty hard considering you've got the gun and they don't but you'll run outa ammo some time and you've gotta sleep at some point.
Be careful how loud you say that Jay - Sarah Brady will try to make it illegal to pee!
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I'm figuring that the rural Midwest areas that are filled with "Shootin' Folk" would be better supplied and less likely to need to tap deeply into that supply than the urban folks would. A lot of these folks have ammo supplies for years of normal playing around - in crisis mode, they'd be set for decades.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee