In an average year of subsistence (food) hunting for a family of 9, (without counting kids 'learning/hunting' along side with their rifles), and catching 'Fur', in Northern Alaska, I used to get at least 1,000 rds of .22lr, 200rds 7.62x54r and at least 250 shotgun shells. Theres some left over, but that was what I started the Winter Trapping season ( I used to hit the preXmas Bullet sales in fall
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That dosent include "goofing off" and training/learning for the kids and some self practice.
There are mostly solid hits, but , for sure, there are misses, follow up shots, "finishers', bad hits ,duds, dropped shells, etc.
The .22lr and 12 gauge are mostly for small game and birds, thats almost 1/2 of the diet.
If cartridges/primers/caps ran out I do feel my Fusil deChase smoothbore could do it all, but a lance or Bow/arrows would definitely be along as well. Traps/snares for big and small game, game drives and clubbings, netting fish and birds/small game as well.
I have always taken a spare gun along on the camping , as many of my guns over the years have broken with use, and a spare in camp saves everything, while the parts are gotten or repaired.
Im not sure of the projectiles, but old dogyards would fetch up some Nitrates, Sulfur springs to our south, and Willows for charcoal abound. The creek to our south is litterally called "iqnikvik" "place to get fire" with all the pyrites that associate with gold, and as we walk the Candle airport, you can see sparks in the evening as we kick the rocks around. Besides that I know the sources that oldtimes went to for Jasper/Agget /Flint as their knapping scraps , broken, unfinnished blades and cores litter the places these are at.
, Then theres whats laying around the sandbars, as firearms in the Alaskan Arctic have been in general use for more than 200 years. Flintlocks untill the 1850's, cartridge rifles from the late 1860's onward.The market and demand for improved firearms was met with Furs and Baleen, and the most modern firearms were brought by the cases with ammunition by Whalers seeking high profits in trade and Whaling.
Ive found Musket balls, Mini balls, 50/70 , .45/70 and may unidentifiable cartridges orf copper and/or brass, shot, flints, BP gunparts and once, what was left of a brass framed Henry in the river muck (in wretched condition), so this idea isnt new, at one time it was "The latest" and better than archery for those who's lives depended on it.