Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles SHTF… grab only one rifle/ammo

If we're playing make-believe, I want a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

And every time you shoot, you're potentially drawing unwanted attention to yourself.

As you will w a rimfire just the same.

I didn't vote for any rifle for food.

I guess I should have reworded my answer.

Same as a person shooting a rimfire.

I’ll grab a light .22, and my wife will carry two handguns and the Mossberg pump…….

Lmao, loving infinite wisdom of fire bad asses.
Has No one ever thought about what rifle they’d grab if something did happened?
And are some of you really doubting 22LR capabilities on big game or incapacitating a human threat?

Didn't see anybody "doubting" a rimfire.

Every time I shoot, something or someone else will also be drawing some unwanted attention ! 😳 In this case, do I have to walk or can I take the truck? If I got wheels, I’m slippin in the Glock, a 12 gauge and a 308. If I gotta hoof it I’d choose an AR.

A realistic scenario might be to leave an urban dwelling with one vehicle full of stuff and not a lot of time to pack.
Maybe a storm, a fire or civil unrest. If so , more than one shooter goes with me!

I’ve been thinking about some kind of survival/backpack/camping rig that might let me hang out at a mountain lake for a couple of weeks without carrying in a pack full of food. Just some coffee, powdered milk and eggs, rice and beans, salt and pepper, butter buds, oil, maybe some tang and multi-vitamins.

I figure some kind of ultralight spinning gear and a lightweight high power pellet gun.
Of course I’d like a 9mm pistol or something just in case there was something there that might want to eat me.

I don’t doubt one at all. I do however, understand that under actual conditions something like a .410 may make securing food more certain than any single-projectile weapon. So the joke about what my wife would be carrying is only partly a joke. After futzing about with a .410 single for a few years, I’m very confident in its capabilities. Maybe the Savage 24 guys have the best idea.

Plus you could load some 45’s or slugs in a 410.

Your fairy tale aside, I prepare for a version of this every year before fire season...

I don't have the room to load the entire safe contents into my truck with all of the other necessaries, and probably wouldn't have enough time anyway.

Given time, I can grab all of my pistols as they don't take up much room. I'd also take my one Barrett Fieldcraft, and a couple of 22LR rifles. My very accurate Tikka T1X and my CZ 452 Trainer, because this could be long term and I enjoy shooting.

If time doesn't allow that, I'd grab my Colt Woodsman 22LR that I got for Christmas as a kid and my CZ 452 for the aforementioned fun (& distraction from the loss). The rest can be replaced and is insured.


For those of you who just say, get a fire safe, I've got one but...

After a fire swept through a local community, several homeowners went back to empty their safes and were pretty disappointed in what they found inside. Also know of a guy north of here who had three high end gun safes, his house burned to the ground, burned pretty hot... nothing was salvageable.

Jerry

I guess a Winchester 94 30-30. I don't know. I guess it should be a 22 so I can live off squirrels or whatever? But then what happens when I have to protect myself from people?

The OP has promised that no people will be harmed in this make believe scenario.

I didn't word very well either. I'd plan on acquiring food without having to shoot and risk drawing attention to myself.
I'd still have a firearm, but would avoid using it for food.
Snares, traps and/or a bow for food.

Yeah my first cousin has been a professional fireman for over 30 years and he told me not to waste my money on a "fire proof" safe, he said they have seen the aftermath from the inside of dozens of safes that have gone through house fires and said there is very little left besides maybe coins that come through OK.....Hb

But they do make it harder to steal the stuff inside.

Heck I’ll play.
My stainless 10/22 take down with the ammo and multiple magazines already in its bag. I’ll be throwing my rugged oculus suppressor in there with it as well😁.