Posted on 12/16/2012 2:11:22 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There are, in my opinion, three kinds of people in the world with regards to guns. There are people that hate guns. They think that guns are inherently evil and that the world would be a better place if there were no guns at all. Then there are people that love guns. They collect guns, they clean guns, they read about guns, they go to gun shows, they just generally enjoy everything about guns. Some of these people, I have noticed, enjoy having guns more than they enjoy shooting guns; but hey, to each his own. The third kind of people are folks that see guns as being tools that are useful to perform specific tasks. These people have a chainsaw to cut firewood, they have garden tools to raise food with, they have hand tools to build things with, and they have guns to hunt with and to protect their families.
If you tend to be a no gun type person you’re probably not reading this anyway, and if you are a gun lover you already know more about this stuff than I could every tell you; but if you are a guns-as-tools kind of person then this post is for you.
It is my belief that the average American homestead only needs five guns to handle any possible situation. So I am going to outline what my choices are, why I have selected these particular guns, and the circumstances under which each of these guns would be useful.
First on my list is a good Shotgun. The shotgun is like the multi-tool of the gun world. Depending on the ammo that you use the shotgun can be a small game hunter, a medium size (deer) game hunter, or a home defense weapon...
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Crossbow would probably be a better choice for most, faster and far more accurate than I am with a recurve at the same distance. While I like old military firearms they would not even be on my list and especially in the calibers you describe. Several rifle makers offer good bolt action at a relativly cheap price. Remington, Savage and Ruger offer fair guality rifles in the less than 400 dollar range and the 308 is a very common caliber.
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Why swap a .40 for 9 mm ?
World wide availability of ammo is one plausible answer.
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That was my first guess.
If it’s for home protection then a shotgun is the only choice.
If you also need to put meat on the table then get a 22.
Anything more than that is a personal choice.
Just my opinion, of course, but a little variety of weapons with commonly available ammo and spare gun parts is preferable and can be used in any plausible situation for anything.
That would be a pallet, hopefully any would be thieves don’t have his address and a pallet jack.
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Are those still being made I saw one the other day that looked brand new. I have seen 1000s that have been re blued restocked this one looked brand new even the bore looked pristine. I have searched the net and found nothing but if this was a re build it was the best I ever saw!
2.) Browning A-bolt .30-06 with BOSS
3.) M4gery .223/556
4.) Beretta 92FS 9mm
5.) Browning Buckmark .22
Keeping the list to five is difficult. I'd switch out the 9mm for a M1911 if the military had more .45 APC ammo than 9 mm. (Think picking ammo off the ground, same goes for the M4.) I might switch out the .30-06 with a M24gery in .300 Win Mag that I am going to build next year if Santa is nice to me, but it will be much heavier than the .03-06. Either is good for big game, but the .300 Win Mag can reach out and touch someone at 800+ meters. I'd really like a .22 rifle (have several) on the list for small game hunting, but the Buckmark would suffice, although it is illegal to hunt with a semi automatic pistol in PA. One of these days I will get around to putting a breach barrel on a Mossberg 500, that could potentially replace the 11-87, but I would lose all my choke tubes and versatility for hunting.
My 5 choices:
12 gauge pump or auto
scoped .308 bolt action rifle.
AR-15 in 5.56 mm
scoped .22 semi-automatic rifle
Defenive semiautomatic pistol in a caliber beginning with a 4.
Coincidentally, I have one, or more, of each.
As much ammo for each as you can afford to buy and store.
Bad times are coming. It’s no longer a question of IF but WHEN. You will need to protect what’s yours.
1) Pistol, with largest caliber that you will reliably carry on your person, this weapon is used to buy time to get to your 2) shotgun, pump or semi, or your 3) semi auto rifle. To round out your weapons are a 4) .22 rifle, for small game and a 5) bolt action scoped rifle for large game.
I would recommend that the two rifles be in the same caliber and the shot gun be 12 gauge.
Since there is a push to ban weapons as we speak, I would recommend not limiting yourself to 5. I would like a carbine that fires the chosen pistol ammo. I would also like a backup weapon for each of the 5 above.
The gray is the floor under the pallet, or at least that’s what it looks like to me.
My gun safe and everything in it fell out of my canoe and sunk like a steel safe to the bottom of the lake just yesterday afternoon. I had left my gps on the dock with the little lady so I have no idea where to even start looking.
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The only argument I have with this guy’s picks is the shotgun. IMO The Mossberg 500 is a better choice than the Remington. The survivability test by the USMC showed that the 870 failed before the Mossberg 500. If anybody can stress out a piece of equipment its a US Marine.
Add to that a Windham AR 15 and a Springfield Armory XDM .40 or .45 ACP and you are good to go.
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