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BL-22, a Buckmark or Ruger Mk11. Last two w can and red dot sight n laser

Any of those. Rifle maybe w peeps.

I have it already,a Ruger 22/45 Lite with a supressor. Very accurate and all you really need.

Likely my 12 bore Ugartechea SxS slug gun.

Hell of an idea there, had not thought that one through.

Wonder why no one has done a shotgun upper for it. Ability to have anything about from a 22lr to a 50 bmg or crossbow on top.

Probably not considered one gun though. Grins.

You said "only one gun", not "only one barrel".

Get yourself a rifled slug barrel with iron sights, a shorty barrel with cylinder bore and a 30" barrel with about a half-dozen screw-in chokes, and you're still in the game.

I'd like you to look at my AR one of these days to see what you honestly think. It's pretty functional for a $400.00 rig (that's before the aftermarket trigger and Eotech holo site).
I've shot some fairly good groups with it.

My Cape Gun. 9,3x72x12 gauge

Covers any bets for most places

OMG, bring that to next year's boar hunt for show and tell!

I killed my FIRST wild boar at Careyonah Tennerrsee with that gun back in 2010.

This guy

I could likely get by with my 870 Express Magnum with the short (23"?) turkey barrel with it's assortment of choke tubes and my smooth bore rifle sighted slug barrel, but I'm just not much of a shot gun guy.

I really like Plinker's suggestion of a .357 Magnum carbine of some sort. Loaded with light 38s it could take small game without scattering edible bits across the landscape and with heavier loads it would fill the freezer with venison and maybe an occasional black bear, too.

I also have a CZ 527 in 7.62x39 that would cover most of what I need a gun for. Not as handy or quick to reload as a pump shot gun or lever action carbine, but it' such darned handy package that I hate the thought of being without it.

Dang - beheaded him - what a gun! Congrats!

Old Savage w/ 30-30 over 12ga.

Mossberg 500 w/ 28" vent rib & accu-choke, rifled slug barrel w/ cantilevered scope mount, and .50 cal ML barrel.

I live in the "shotgun only" section of Michigan, but even in the rifle zone shots are short enough that an ML or rifles slug barrel is no handicap.

I've had a similar combo since I bought the smooth bore/open sight slug barrel & 28" VR accu combo w/ paper route money in 8th grade! Sld those barrels and just have 24" vented accu tube for it today. Only shotgun I've ever had and done an awful lot with it!

It would be one of my Model 87 Ithaca's. Either 20 or 12 gauge.

Probably the 12 gauge. I have extra barrels and chokes that allow its use in a number of ways.

This one: .22LR or 22 Mag

dang it Pat, if yer gonna be that way about it, I'll pick my S&W Model 19.

I would really hate to be limited to just ONE GUN TOTAL!
But for where I live and my age if I could find one
a Stainless Marlin 1894 44 magnum.
A little more knockdown than a 357 magnum.
Those shotshell loads for snakes and rabbits.
44 SPECIAL loads for home defense.
Plus if I went to Idaho to hunt with my brother
If I get close enuff I could bust a Elk or other big critter
with some of those Buffalo Bore loads.

I hate this game but if I had to pick, it'd be my 9422Mag Win.

My 1187. 26" barrel for smallgame/birds 21in smoothbore w/ rifle sights for deffense and itd handle 75% of my deer hunting. Id sure miss my pistol though