#4372760 - 08/04/17 04:17 PM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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I would want it to be a BLR in .243. But since I can only have one it would have to be a shotgun, for birds and small game. Slugs for threats and big game. Gotta eat right? So a nice Browning pump. 12 gauge I guess it has to be for stopping power. Although I don't know what I would have to stop? Charging grizzlies? Make it 20 gauge then, so there's actually something left on the bones
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#4372763 - 08/04/17 04:25 PM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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Mag capacity in the event the sh!t hits the fan.
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#4372768 - 08/04/17 04:46 PM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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12 ga. Good for anything from small game with shot to deer with slugs or buckshot. Short range, but with shot marksmanship is a little less important in case your freezing or shivering. Packs a major punch so it stuns fish if you shoot the water to get food or bait. Any gun can do that, but a shottie covers more area. In a pinch you can blow out small tree trunks up close for help making a quick shelter or fire wood.
Of course, my uncle had an over,/under that had a shotgun on top and rifle on bottom. That might be nice.
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#4372951 - 08/06/17 12:57 AM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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Plasma rifle in the 40watt range... along with an AMT Harballer with lazzzzer sighting!
Help you survive??
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I mean really, some survival scenarios the best gun would be an accurate .22 rimfire and a lifetime supply of little stubbies. For instance, food supplies get major disruptions, and now critters look awfully tasty.
In other survival scenarios, maybe you need a .50bmg HMG mounted on every vehicle. Like Route Irish, surviving the trip from the Green Zone to Saddam Intl airport.
Getting chased around LA all night long by some big dude wearing punk clothing, maybe you need the plasma rifle.
Sooooo... kinda depends on the scenario. Shotguns do have a fair bit of versatility, sure. But I guess my point is that the term 'survival' is rather large and open ended.
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#4372953 - 08/06/17 01:07 AM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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I mean really, some survival scenarios the best gun would be an accurate .22 rimfire and a lifetime supply of little stubbies. Probably my pick. But a fishing rod and tackle is also a tempting armament. However, since I'm lost without chance of rescue, that must mean I also have no chance of ever rediscovering civilization. So I'd have ample years to carve my own fishing rod and lures from wood.
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#4372958 - 08/06/17 01:53 AM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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yep, a takedown .22 semi auto that fits in a pack
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#4372980 - 08/06/17 08:23 AM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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Crossbow and bolts. Why use something that says, "Hey, Dinner's here" to every predator and ugly things within 30 miles. +1 Well, in terms of crossbow and bolts. Gunfire isn't going to ATTRACT animals toward your position... But actually (we're talking alone in the WILDERNESS here, right?) I think I'd go for a good slingshot with plenty of elastic. We're probably talking about surviving off of squirrels/other rodents, and birds (in terms of meat). Fish would be desirable if there's water but that's off topic. ROCKS can be ammo with a slingshot - I've never killed an animal that way, but I've sure killed a lot of bottles, cans, etc from 100+ feet... I guess if it's major deer country maybe a "low" tension recurve bow and as many arrows as possible. No compound, keep the complexity down. Keep the "somewhat" possibility of using handmade "cord" open on the bow (even if it breaks every three shots)... Doubt it'd down a deer in one shot, but if you can make it bleed......
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#4372986 - 08/06/17 10:49 AM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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Federation Type-1 phaser, because you'd generally want to travel light, especially when hiking in the mountains. Figures that on the one hand, hard-core hikers saw off the stems of their toothbrushes and rip out already read pages from books to save weight, but then slug around a big-arse shotgun....and ammo! "The type 1 has eight adjustable settings, ranging from stun to heat through disruption to disintegration". And fits neatly in your shirt pocket. Sounds about right to me.
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#4373075 - 08/07/17 01:16 AM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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I'm surprised at the 22cal suggestions - it would be very useful for small game hunting, that's for sure, but the firing mechanisms are a lot less robust and prone to breakage. And if you've got a grizzly bear starting towards you I wouldn't want to be stuck with that..!
Bows and arrows are fantastic too but require a huge amount of skill to use. I bow hunt occasionally (Wild boar) but I don't think I would want to be stuck with it in a place like Alaska or the mountains of British Columbia. It certainly works but I'd still like to have something that can put down a bear.
I wonder what people's gun of choice was in 1800's Africa - they must have had to deal with this kind of situation a lot - far from any modern facilities, limited amount of ammo but endless supply of dangerous animals around them. A lever action .22 LR more than fits the bill. .22 ammo is light, plentiful, and up to the task at hand - surviving. Lever actions are famously robust in operation. Now, then, I live in Alabama. There are a few black bears if one really, really wants to go looking for them, but really the largest animal outside of a deer is a boar. And no, I'm not going to hunt boar with a rifle. I'm going to hunt him with a trap. In true survival, small game is King. Birds, rabbits, squirrels, coons, armadillos, dogs, cats, and yes, small deer are the real goals. And for a lot of them, firearms aren't needed. Hell, it's all about snares, fish traps, and weaving a basket to carry what one forages to keep a body alive. If you want to know what they carried in Africa in the 1800's, the answer is that it was the same thing carried in Europe and the Americas. It's not like they invented rifles just for use there. So figure they had a lot of muzzle loaders in .50 caliber, bullet molds, and chunks of lead, along with barrels of gunpowder split down to paper loads, eventually giving way to breach loading cartridge rifles. We think of the diversity of firearms we enjoy today as a given, but that's a relatively new thing in the history of production rifles.
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#4373102 - 08/07/17 04:03 AM
Re: You're in the wilderness alone with no chance of rescue - what gun and ammunition would you choose?
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A lot of prepper/survivor channels on You-tube seem to favor a single shot 20 gauge or .410 shotgun. Another good thing about those is that they're easy to clean, fewer moving parts.
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