Here is a real survival tip along those lines that could help make someone the last one standing in a long term survival situation...
Along with your regular guns/ammo, everyone should have a cap-lock muzzle loader.
When all the brass, bullets, primers, powder, are long gone, a muzzlelloader can still work.
Crude black-powder can be made with nothing more than pig manure and charcoal.
The primer caps can be made with small pieces of an aluminum soda can formed with a nail/punch, and primed with the white tips on those “strike anywhere” kitchen matches.
Just another use for those wax sealed kitchen matches that you mentioned.
Well, you’re starting to lose me now with the muzzle loader. LOL! Seriously, if it gets to that...there will be safety in numbers.
“strike anywhere” kitchen matches”
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I have a few boxes of these stashed.
They are getting VERY hard to find.