I've been wanting to do this build for a long time but I've never got around to it. I want to make the ultimate survivalist build by totally living of my own skills. I have given myself some rules to follow to try make my experience as hardcoe as possible. No looting dead people, no picking up caps and limiting my self to carrying a realistic amount of weapons, equipment and food. The thing is I have never really crafted ammo and want to know how plausible it is to play the whole game this way?

Don't see why not, I think a survivalist would loot whatever he could find though, so food, clothes, weapons etc from dead people would be fine