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If everything could stay the way it is, and I just had to pick 1 gun, it would be one of my 12 Gauges. Of what I currently own, I'd probably pick the REM 1100 with 4 different barrels. Propped up next to the bed, it'd sport the deer barrel with the rifle sights. Turkey season, it'd wear the trap barrel. For squirrel I'd use the Mod-choke. The skeet barrel would take all the rest.

I don't think one needs to go further than this. ^^^

I'm not much of a shotgun kind of guy,..but if it ever really came down to it and I could only have *one* gun, it would be a very sturdy 12 gauge pump gun with a 20" modified barrel.

Class "A" defensive weapon and hunt everything from mice to moose with it,..depending on the software.

You forgot the rest.






A.I.

Five of the reasons why I'm attached to that little Mod 24; everyone in this pic (two months back), just some of my crop of nephews up in New York State, were introduced to shooting on it when they were little....



A big part of me having "coolest uncle" status doubtless is due to the fact that I am the only shooter in the family, and every time I go up there I make sure that they get a chance too.

That Mod 24 ain't by any means the ONLY gun of mine they've shot, but it is still is a favorite. Here we are across the state line in Pennsylvania, where they have public ranges on state lands...











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Birdwatcher

Only 1 gun and they are Shiloh 74's.

If we're talking strictly BG hunting (like these sorts of threads usually do), iffn I was in Alaska I'd possibly choose a magnum like a .338 (7mmRM if I could get by with 175 Partitions? in big bear country?).

But in the contiguous-48 flatlands would either choose the .280 or .30/06 for everything in a LA bolt, or .308 in a SA bolt or other action.

Once upon a time when I was first starting a family, I was down to just an 870 with a bird barrel and a smoothbore slug barrel. It worked for my hunting in Va, and I didn't feel undergunned for deer in the national forest and killed a couple at woods ranges. Sure did want a rifle at the time, though.

Really tempted to go along with Biden and ltppowell on this. For years, both as a kid and as an adult, 1 SxS was all I had--1 gun. My present shotgun I've had for many years, an Abercrombie & Fitch by Zoli Rizzini in 12-ga, found in a San Francisco gun shop. Like a double rifle, complete redundancy for dependability; dual barrels/chambers, triggers, firing pins, (2 different) chokes. Simple. EZ maintenance. EZ transport. Peace of mind. Makes me smile.



But, if I really could only ever have one gun, just to go along with your premise, a drilling or change-barrel firearm would be a serious consideration, to get around the "rules".

One gun = a '98 Mauser in 7X57 which screams Africa!

Family heirloom . . .


or an Atkinson Custom Mauser in 6.5x55 . . . another African legend . . .

It'll get it done, from crackheads 0 out to 150 yards with slugs and deer, turkeys and upland birds out to 45 yards with the assorted chokes.

Gunner