Kenshin
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In A SHTF scenario, how hard do you think it'll be to find ammunition, spare magazines, and perhaps spare parts?
Why a flintlock musket? Making gunpowder isnt exactly easy. If you are really worried about super long term availability of ammo (such that your existing stockpiles run out), you might as well invest in a bow and lots of arrowheads. Besides a bow, there arent many ranged weapons that you can really make supplies for without a fairly significant expenditure of effort. Modern smokeless powder requires mass produced chemicals and expensive equipment to make.
And if you need to become a hunter-gatherer to survive, you might as well invest in wire to make snares from and 22LR for bird hunting.
It's faster and easier than just replacing the extractor.