SHTF gun whats your ideal gun?

I feel if I had only one it would be a short barreled 870 with a set of screw in chokes. Good for defese and game getter for all size animals.

 

Here's your winner! And in all honesty and truth, the decayed cranium of your garden variety zombie is perfect for letting a 22lr bullet in so having a wall of 14 chipmunks taking on the zombie hoards is a no brainer! No overheating, easy transport of the 10 million rounds and when you're done taking out the zombies, the cricket double's as a back scratcher!

 

I have used the M1A against the 4 legged critters and the M14 on SKTs hunting the 2 legged critters.



Admittedly, I am planning to get rid of the M1A. Nothing against it. I have owned 3... 22" Loaded Model, 18" Scout, 16" SOCOM. The SOCOM is the last remaining one. The reason is simple... weight. I obtained an AR10 Carbine that will save me some weight next hunting season in the mountains. I enjoyed shooting all my M1As. They were all accurate. When you squeeze the trigger on a life, there is no doubt that the 7.62 will do it's part. They are reliable as long as you know how to take care of them. Remember when the M14 was adopted, rifle grease was in wide spread use. It likes a more vicsous lubricant.

 

Yeah, that buck was a pretty good one. I had to work for that one. A long story for another day.

I had 2 experiences with FALs. One hit and one miss. I traded for a CAI FAL around 2002. It was a POS. Couldn't get it sighted due to improper front sight height. Eventually traded it off. My next experience was with a CAI that my buddy bought. This was last spring right before I deployed. We took it to an indoor range. It was a pleasure to shoot. Sighted in perfect. No issues with function.

The only downsides I can think of are length and weight. Length mostly. There are shorter barreled ones now. They are a lot pricer than the CAI variants I am familir with.

Maybe someone with a DSA experience will chime in on one of those beauties.

 

i will go with a remington 870 with 20" & 26" bbl and a sks

 

I'd have to go with the Saiga-12 with a few of them 20 round drums loaded with buck for mowing down the zombie hordes. imagine 240 .33 cal projectiles going down range in a few seconds.

yeah and maybe a few mags with slug or breneke specials.

 

Have to be something I bought in a private sale, government knows about the rest of 'em.

They're coming to take 'em away. They'll be coming for all veterans guns first, then everyone else's.

They'll never get 'em all.

I got some choices, but aren't going to say what they are.

 

How'd the private sale thing go for you?

I gave up on the notion since it seems that anyone who's legit will keep records on the sale. In that case you are only one or two degrees of separation away from being identified.

And BTW, I don't blame anyone for keeping records. I might do the same since the "decent guy" I sell it to could sell it to a schmuck who gets it stolen and doesn't report it. Then a trace comes to me first.

 

Bought several that way, not saying what. No record of sale. Depends on what state you live in if private sales are legal. Bought 'em at gun shows.

 

All the talk earlier about caliber compatablity with uniformed enemys misses one point.. if you can get his ammo, chances are you can get his weapon to shoot it out of too. So you could use about anything to get that... then your set regardless.

 

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It all depends on the Scenario. Mutant zombie hordes. Long time civil unrest. Read FerFals "Surviving Argentina". Many urban scenarios make it next to impossible to carry a long gun openly in public. You will lose it either by authorities or by perps. Pistols CC all the way in public, shotgun or rifle in car, ditto at home. Of course open civil war can change that in a hurry.

 

I love my rim fires.but
PLEASE....
I know I've been gone long and should be on my best behavior; but:

No Gun ever became omnipotent because of all the really cool looking black **** you can hang off the 3 rails tacticool system. the .22rf certainly has its place and may well be the only option years down the the road.

Its certainly not the right tool for gun fighting. "lethal" and "stopping power" are two different things. No question: I can kill an assailant with my10/22. He may survive long enough to beat me to death with it and die hours later or simply turn, call me a "sumbitch" , train his cf battle rifle on me and turn my head into a redmist..before he loses conciousness. An exactly perfect shot to the brain stem through the facial "tzone " may shut him down reliably, a close shot anywhere to the head with a center fire rifle will deposit it some distance away from its original owner.( Perhaps that's exaggerated but you get my point).

Cold, tired, hungry and scared is no time to count on fractions of an inch.

 

I'm gonna apologize for the above reactionary post, that's the kind of judgemental stuff made want to take a break to begin with.
of course "shtf" means alot of different things to everyone.We have generally agreed "civilian Survival" should not entail running gun battles with a well equipped and trained force. We all know:If its all you have the.22rf is far better defense than a sharp stick.and I do havefar,more rimfire in the can than 7.62x39,and .303
combined..

Aliensinvading shtf ne of these : YouTube- High Impulse Weapon System

 

Now from my understanding it's (1) one gun. For me it would be an M16 or a variant. Because of ammo mags spare parts availability. A (30) cal. would be nice but lack of mags and high price is problem.