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.375 H&H loaded with either a 300 grain Nosler Partition or Swift A-Frame. Plus some 300 grain Woodleigh solids.

which gun would you pick, in which caliber, what load(s) how much ammo and why? I'd take an M4 in 223, with a $160, 3/4 lb .CMMG .22lr conversion unit. I'd mostly leave it in .22lr firing "mode", cause most shots are at small game. I'd want 1 in 9" twist rifling, for use with the 60 gr Subsonic Aquila .22 load and 60 gr Nosler Partition softpoints in the 223. I'd want a scope with a see thru mount, and luminous iron sights and a RRA drop in NM trigger job. Having both a centerfire and quiet rimfire is an advantage. Now and then, rapid fire is an advantage and it comes with a dark reflective finish, and can be had with a chromed bore and chamber. I can brain big critters with it to 100m or so, take deer, pronghorn, hogs to 150m with chest hits, too. On snow, 6" or less, in the early morning, or with a dog that would follow a trail., I'd risk a shot on such small "big game' to 200m, too, if needed the meat badly, as long as I could use a braced firing position, so as to put that bullet within 3" of where I wanted it. The caliber swap can be discretely done in 20 seconds, the .22 unit's POI is always less than 2" off of the 223 POI, at 50m. and some are much closer. Groups are always 2" or less at 50m, too, if you haven't chosen the 1 in 7" rifling twist.. I'd want 60 rds of 223 (2 lbs) and 500 rds of the Aquila 60 gr .22's (3 lbs) With the 7 lbs of scoped M4, the 14 lb total is feasible to lug around. You have to cover a lot of ground, nearly everywhere on earth to live by foraging. That much ammo, along with traps, snares, netting, trotlines, fish poison, bird lime, etc, should last me for at least 10 years.

.375 H&H loaded with either a 300 grain Nosler Partition or Swift A-Frame. Plus some 300 grain Woodleigh solids.

Couple of questions come to mind.
-Are you a marketing rep for CMMG?
-Are you gearing up for Hollywood or the real world?
-Do you have much experience in survival mode or just speculating?
-Ever had any success finding precision with .221-.222 lead bullets in a .224" groove barrel?

Curious minds...

Cause I like the .375 and it'll handle anything that walks the earth with no problems. If you only want answers that support yours you are going to be disappointed. Also you have deer,antelope and hogs in your OP,I did not see waterfowl or some such nonsense.

And a Webley-Fosbery .455 autoloading revolver for back up.

Over and under 12 gauge and 243 win.

who says you need precision on small game? The .22 units group 2" or better at 50m, which is 2x as good accuracy as is needed. I've taken a truckload of critters with handguns that didn't group half that well. The .22lr bullet is .223", and it easily obtures enough to seal the bore well and grip the rifling. I most certainly am talking about a real world preppper's rifle. I've done a helluva lot of poaching, trapping and netting over the years. I've lived out of a backpack for a couple of months in the woods once. It gets pretty lean in the winter, if you aint preserved 100's of lbs of food. Millions of small critters have fallen to arrows, throwing sticks, etc over the millennia. Anyone who's any good can get within 10m of lots of small critters, when you actually live out there with them, it's mostly just a case of always having the gun at hand. Any farmer or rancher knows this. As a kid, i killed several groundhogs and a couple of coons with clubs I killed one with a doubled over log-chain, one with an overshoe. :-) There was nothing else at hand, so I flailed him on the head until he looked dazed. Then I grabbed him by the tail and cracked his head on the pavement a few tiimes.

I killed a coral snake once with my flipflop, Clark!

I killed a coral snake once with my flipflop, Clark!