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The thought experiment assumes you have no other choice. So, the apocalypse happened. You're unarmed. You find an abandoned farm house, and inside there's an extensive collection of bolt guns, along with appropriate ammo. Which one?

Dude!
8mm way over penetrates...Germans proved it.

Whaat? gremcat and his Rooger American..... crap, and I thought Tikkers were bad... those Roogers are junk, barely reliable enough for varmints.... Mouser for the win!

I wouldn't quote JeffO if I was you.....

In that scenario, you pick the most accurate rifle, which means a Remington or a Savage. Hopefully, they have a Remington. It's not like you're gonna impress the enemy with novel bullshit.

OUch...That hurt!

Like the characters in Cormac McCarthy's book THE ROAD?

All variables being equal, I'd pick the rifle that had the most ammo that was powerful enough to kill whatever I might need to kill.

Sorry buddy.... this place can get a little rough at times.... now atone and admit Mouser is best!

Whichever rifle can get me better stuff for fighting.

Never underestimate battlefield recovery.

WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!

303 lee Enfield

I'm starting my shrine to Peter Paul von Mauser as I type this.

Shrine or not, you are correct though. The M98 be the ticket.
Hell, I'd even take m96/m38 if set up to my liking and enough 6.5 swede 140 gr.s for the duration.

OK OK

I an all out, full retard, Red Dawn scenario.

Small, light, suppressed 22 rifle.

You can feed yourself and procure more appropriate weapons, demo, comms, transport etc. and remain "discreet".

Think of it as an expanded version of the WWII Liberator pistol. The gun to get a gun.

Well, overlooked for five pages?

Something that keeps the fight a thousand yards away.

Pick your brand & caliber.

I actually watched 7 Ghille suits get grabbed of the shelf at Sportsmans Warehouse during the first day of one of the Obama panics.

If the Germans weren't such evil fuucktards they would have won the war with that rifle....

Oh mine, the Ruger GSR gets the nod.

The shooter did good work with a bolt .22 lr.

Good Indians just need arrows. Any decent arrow will do.

Obviously using abolt gun for a short range fire fight against opponents armed with semi-auto cnterfires is generalyy a losing proposition. I f you are running more power than the opponents that can help but not much.

Of the bolt guns I own at the moment, the likely candidate would be my Ruger Gunsite Scout. I have several magazines and that woul be useful in maintaining a volume of fire for a time. Enough for say a 180 round loadout would be burdensome though.

That said, magazines are bulky and eventually need filled. Therein lies a rub. Filling the metal GSR mags is tedious at best, the plastic ones are much easier. If I had a setup where I could use stripper clps with my GSR (and there may be one) it would be helpful in maintaining avolume of fire.

It is much easier to carry stripper clips to refill firearms than loose ammo, they take relatively little space and are very light weight.

While I don't have a Springfield '03 I do have a prewar M70 Standard Grade that has the clip slot and receiver sights. It could be used as well. I actually shoot it a good bit better than the GSR with iron sights.

Thanks for the fun.
This is kind of like a discussion like: Which can you fire the most aimed rounds (12 in bull at 25 yards. only bullseyes count). out of in thirty minutes? - A semi auto 9mm with three 15 round magazines andthe remainder loose. OR a 7 shot .357 mag revolver (loaded with .38 Special +P starting with three 7 shot speedloaders speedloaders, three ten round speed dtrips and the remaining ammo loose. That is to say, something to pass the time.

The model 721 Remington also had the stripper clip provision. They actually came with a low comb stock that works very well with open sights. This is interesting to talk about.

Hah! You will change your tune when the G-cat shows up w/ his brother...and the hammer. He'll knock your chainsaw 100', w/ you attached.


mike r