Which of your guns are really most important?

[jbfurr]

We had so much fun with the 5 gun thread lets play a new game. Here are the rules: You have a safe full of guns, and not a single round of ammo. You have plenty of bullets, powder, cases, and 1000 each of LRM, LR, SR, 209 and LP primers in your stash. The problem is Society has broken down overnight and you are unsafe at home. You will have to bug out to a remote location with your family in tow. You very well may have to walk a big part of the way with everything you need on both your and your wife's back. You have a wife and two small children that you will have to both protect and provide for. What do you load for and how much? Remember all the other stuff you will have to carry so what is really important to you? I would first choose a 22RF but that's against the rules, you have to load them and you don't have a lot of time.

 

[Tex_Hunter]

I am loading 5.56 on the dillon press at 800 rds/hr 62gr hpbt. while I am doing that my wife is going to be saddling the horses and putting the packs on the mules. The kids can ride double on one horse, my wife and I get our own and I will pony the 2 pack mules.

I feel like if you live where you have horses and mules... you dont really need to bug out to anywhere.

Im a little jealous

 

[Brad7348]

If we are limited to what we have on hand, I would have to go with 6.8SPC. Light rifle, with 95gr pills, the ammo is not too heavy, kill worthy out to 200-300 yards. Can use it to hunt hogs, deer and pretty much anything up to mule deer size. When I am done loading what we can comfortably carry, I am packing up the remaining primers (since they are light) so I can use them to barter for other stuff.

 

[idcwby]

Yes they do

Than you could take a precision bolt and a shotgun. This would allow you to cover all your bases.

 

[basinman]

My Windham Weaponry CF 556 AR. It has a 1-6 illuminated scope and is very light (6.5 lbs. unloaded). My wife can carry her compact 40 S&W. I would load and pack 3- 30 round magazines plus another 200 or 300 rounds. And my wife can pack 200 rounds of 40 cal. I would carry my 40 S&W as well.

 

[jbfurr]

Stay at home, contact all my shooting neighbors ( we have plenty, ex cops, ex military, most of whom I have taken shooting) and curse myself for letting me run out of loaded ammo. Starting loading .223 for the AR's, then 9mm for pistols and carbine. Find stash of .22. If time allows a a bunch of 300 Win Mag for my FBI HRT rifle and some Match grade .308 for the sniper rifles. Contact Ham radio group to see what is going on in their neighborhood and see if they need any help. Set up watch positions in our gated community with handheld radios and wait. Even in my wildest dreams would I let my stash of self-defense ammo decline to zero. Ya I know, I don't play well with others.

 

[Woodstuff]

We had so much fun with the 5 gun thread lets play a new game. Here are the rules: You have a safe full of guns, and not a single round of ammo. You have plenty of bullets, powder, cases, and 1000 each of LRM, LR, SR, 209 and LP primers in your stash. The problem is Society has broken down overnight and you are unsafe at home. You will have to bug out to a remote location with your family in tow. You very well may have to walk a big part of the way with everything you need on both your and your wife's back. You have a wife and two small children that you will have to both protect and provide for. What do you load for and how much? Remember all the other stuff you will have to carry so what is really important to you? I would first choose a 22RF but that's against the rules, you have to load them and you don't have a lot of time.

My 50 cal savage muzzleloader. I shoot 43 grains of 5744 at 2100fps with hot Adt 458dia and 300 grain bullets with the orange mmp sabot . It will take any thing in North America . I routinely shoot it to 300 yards and have never missed with it . It will do everything I need it to do . The one pound of powder will net me 300 shots so carrying the ammo powder and primers and sobots weigh in at a whopping 6 pounds .

 

[Deleted member 115751]

We had so much fun with the 5 gun thread lets play a new game. Here are the rules: You have a safe full of guns, and not a single round of ammo. You have plenty of bullets, powder, cases, and 1000 each of LRM, LR, SR, 209 and LP primers in your stash. The problem is Society has broken down overnight and you are unsafe at home. You will have to bug out to a remote location with your family in tow. You very well may have to walk a big part of the way with everything you need on both your and your wife's back. You have a wife and two small children that you will have to both protect and provide for. What do you load for and how much? Remember all the other stuff you will have to carry so what is really important to you? I would first choose a 22RF but that's against the rules, you have to load them and you don't have a lot of time.

I don't do any handloading yet but for purposes of this thought experiment I will just ignore that inconvenient fact and say that assuming I could only take one rifle on my back it would be my Tikka T3x Camo Veil Alpine chambered in 300 win mag. But given how light these rifles are maybe I can get by with taking the Tikka T3x Camo Veil Wideland chambered in 7mm Rem Mag also! If I was forced to choose only one it would be the 300 win mag because it is so flexible in terms of bullet weight choices and powder charges.

 

[PredatorSlayer45]

We had so much fun with the 5 gun thread lets play a new game. Here are the rules: You have a safe full of guns, and not a single round of ammo. You have plenty of bullets, powder, cases, and 1000 each of LRM, LR, SR, 209 and LP primers in your stash. The problem is Society has broken down overnight and you are unsafe at home. You will have to bug out to a remote location with your family in tow. You very well may have to walk a big part of the way with everything you need on both your and your wife's back. You have a wife and two small children that you will have to both protect and provide for. What do you load for and how much? Remember all the other stuff you will have to carry so what is really important to you? I would first choose a 22RF but that's against the rules, you have to load them and you don't have a lot of time.

7mm-08 with 140 grain Nosler Partition. I've killed just about every North American game with it

 

[Priley]

We had so much fun with the 5 gun thread lets play a new game. Here are the rules: You have a safe full of guns, and not a single round of ammo. You have plenty of bullets, powder, cases, and 1000 each of LRM, LR, SR, 209 and LP primers in your stash. The problem is Society has broken down overnight and you are unsafe at home. You will have to bug out to a remote location with your family in tow. You very well may have to walk a big part of the way with everything you need on both your and your wife's back. You have a wife and two small children that you will have to both protect and provide for. What do you load for and how much? Remember all the other stuff you will have to carry so what is really important to you? I would first choose a 22RF but that's against the rules, you have to load them and you don't have a lot of time.

If you are older or in poor health you cannot bug out. You have to face whatever comes your way. This being said you would need whatever guns and ammo you have on hand and load more if you have the components. Leaving home in bad weather could cause more harm then good. All breaks down to what you have. Food, shelter, water, fuel, will all be needed.

 

[Tom Wright]

The one aspect of a slug is the threat is stopped IMMEDIATELY so the amount of ammo is reduced. Plus even if body armor, a slug will take the person off their feet easily from the energy. Slugs are overlooked as being archaic but when you need absolute self defense they give you the "one and done" fast. Not to mention, wicked on radiators and engines. Understand I am talking about full bore slugs and not some wimpy saboted bullet. A .729 full bore slug is nothing to be messed with with amount of energy and frontal area. The Sabot technologies slug will group inside an honest 2" at 100 yards with right barrel twist.

 

[Mt_Medic31]

Use the dillon to load a bunch of 556, and 7.62x39. Take a 10" barrel Ar, and my wife carries the Howa Mini Action in 7.62x39. Both rifles in very common calibers, so should be easy to "Acquire" more.

 

[Orange Dust]

Is this a secret ATF survey?

No way brother. But it does show what we will be losing if we let the commies get their way.

 

[Tom Wright]

I agree about slugs, but if you are old enough you might have some old flaschet rounds (spelling?) that I would pull out any add to the pile. Not certain if anyone would have any but us Viet Nam era guys who squirrel some away. Nothing like a 12ga. shell filled with ss arrows to clear out a room.