|
Forum Rules | Firearms Safety | Firearms Photos | Links | Library | Lost Password | Email Changes |
Register | FAQ | Calendar | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
July 8, 2013, 11:24 PM | #26 |
Member
Join Date: January 24, 2013
Posts: 51
|
Sks baby
|
July 9, 2013, 06:55 AM | #27 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 8, 2013
Posts: 251
|
Not my intent to limit it to rimfires of any type, that's up to you. However, it is a general "rifle" forum...
M-6 anyone? AR-7 or whatever they are called today!? BTW, Teddy used to hunt big cats in Africa w/buckshot... |
July 9, 2013, 03:49 PM | #28 |
Member
Join Date: June 13, 2013
Posts: 49
|
Re: Let's See Your "Survival" Rifle
I don't have one but I would have an H&R single shot 12ga with a shortened barrel and a rifled gun adapter for 22lr. I'm not sure if I would keep the wood stock and store ammo and the adapter in it or get an adjustable stock. I just love the idea of using the caliber adapters in a shotgun. If you have to scavenge ammo and have a bunch of adapters it makes it easier to find compatible ammo and increases the defensive/hunting capabilities of a single gun. I also saw someone who cut a groove in the wood fore end and glued in a firestarter strip.
|
July 9, 2013, 03:57 PM | #29 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 24, 2008
Location: Orange, TX
Posts: 3,078
|
i always find survival scenarios humorous. Each of us thinks when everything breaks down, that we're going to feed ourselves with the little critters. Yet that's what each of your neighbors is thinking as well. There's not going to be a hare, squirrel, groundhog or any other four-legged protein source left anywhere once all this survivaling begins.
|
July 9, 2013, 04:12 PM | #30 | |
Member
Join Date: June 13, 2013
Posts: 49
|
Re: Let's See Your "Survival" Rifle
Quote:
|
|
July 9, 2013, 04:28 PM | #31 |
Member
Join Date: November 5, 2012
Posts: 28
|
definitely my tikka t3 lite SS .270 win and my 44 mag Virginian Dragoon for protection
|
July 10, 2013, 12:06 AM | #32 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 12, 2011
Location: Top of the Baltic stack
Posts: 6,079
|
I made a bolt on stock for my Ruger MkIII 512. Not a rifle, per se, but I'd probably take that. I need more training with it and re-work the cheek weld and I'd like some sort of optic, but that would work for me.
__________________
When the right to effective self-defence is denied, that right to self-defence which remains is essentially symbolic. Freedom: Please enjoy responsibly.
|
July 10, 2013, 06:33 PM | #33 |
Senior Member
Join Date: September 28, 2008
Posts: 10,442
|
That would be an illegal firearm, without special paperwork, here.
In addition to the AR7 and bow and arrow that I previously mentioned, I will also include a good rod and reel. And a tomahawk.
__________________
Walt Kelly, alias Pogo, sez: “Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.” |
July 10, 2013, 07:10 PM | #34 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 30, 2011
Location: Savannah TN
Posts: 1,217
|
Sticking to the OP's concept of a light rifle that folds or breaks down for ease of storage/transport I have the choice of two different rifles.
#1 would be this Browning SA22: Or this 10-22: Of the two the SA22 is by far the most accurate with the broadest range of ammo types and brands. |
July 10, 2013, 09:33 PM | #35 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 2, 2012
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 3,876
|
No rifle. Just a simple cross-bow and a sharp machete is all I think I'll ever need. I see no need for in your face confrontations with anything that's left breathing. I'm not apposed to bushwhacking or booby traps. In order to promote me and my family's longevity under such bizarre circumstances.
S/S |
July 10, 2013, 10:21 PM | #36 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 22, 2007
Location: Arizona
Posts: 5,292
|
|
July 11, 2013, 02:02 AM | #37 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 12, 2011
Location: Top of the Baltic stack
Posts: 6,079
|
Quote:
Over here it is illegal to make an existing firearm shorter beyond a minimum length, but it is not illegal to make a firearm longer, so those Glock stocks and carbine conversions where you sort of bolt your G17 into a picatinny'ed frame are all OK to own.
__________________
When the right to effective self-defence is denied, that right to self-defence which remains is essentially symbolic. Freedom: Please enjoy responsibly.
|
|
July 11, 2013, 12:01 PM | #38 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 22, 2013
Posts: 102
|
I love the .22 round and have several to choose from- a old single shot marlin bolt, a sig522 and a .22 6 shooter pistol. But if i had to choose a single survival gun i choose my glock .40 sub2k like 6lbs maybe with 30 round clip- plus clips are interchangeable with glock 22,23 and 27's. and it folds in half
|
September 1, 2013, 08:29 AM | #39 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 7, 2012
Location: Sweden
Posts: 1,000
|
If I was stranded in some sort of survival situation I wouldn't want some takedown rifle, I may be hurt, disorientated (and if there are two pieces required then one is missing, I am already unlucky if the plane has crashed so...)
Guess I take my savage mkII |
September 1, 2013, 09:07 AM | #40 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 8, 2013
Posts: 251
|
Someone should make a movie like that! And in the end the guy looking for the other half of his gun is eaten by wolves. Whaddya think?
|
September 1, 2013, 09:37 AM | #41 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 16, 2008
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 11,061
|
I'm not in to survival scenarios. I have a gun safe full of guns which I don't plan on getting rid of whether I had to survive or not.
But in the spirit of the topic, I'll chime in. I want to Alaska in '72 working on the Rail Road, I was sent to Healy where there was no place to live but a hotel, but no place for a family, I had a wife and two small kids. So I squatted on RR land and built a little log cabin. I live there two years. In the winter I got laid off and there was zero jobs. I had to feed my family any way I could. Then I had several guns, but used one to feed my family through the winter, that was a Savage Model D, 22/410 over and under. It worked, we survived on rabbits, ptarmigan, and fish. So if I was to have to do it again, (which I wont) I'd pick the same gun, even though I have a gun safe containing just about any firearm style you can imagine. Not all situations are the same. Later in my 22 years in Alaska I spent a great deal of time living with the Alaska Natives on the Bering Sea. (I was a company commander of a Native Alaskan NG Company). These people had a different requirement for a "survival gun", that being what they could get ammo for, because like Healy, there are few jobs, no jobs means no money (except for their monthly guard check). They survived by hunting, to hunt marine animals you can't get by with a 22/410, but you shoot what you could get ammo for. The Guard had lots of ammo, so these guys picked a gun that would shoot Guard ammo, started with an '06, 308 and now 223s. Now with the cheap surplus rifles and ammo, a lot of these guys have went to the Mosin.
__________________
Kraig Stuart CPT USAR Ret USAMU Sniper School Distinguished Rifle Badge 1071 |
September 1, 2013, 09:57 PM | #42 |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 27, 2001
Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 787
|
Here is my Topper 30-30. The barrel has been cut to 16.5 inches and weights about 5 pounds.
I reload 113 Lee cast bullets at 800 fps for small game, it's functionally my .22 rf at a time when .22s are hard to come by. With 165 cast loads at 1,800, I have killed lots of deer and feral pigs. And in the event of need, factory .30-30 is easy to come by. For a true 'survival rifle' I would install iron sights to back up the Bushnell TRS-25. |
September 2, 2013, 09:55 AM | #43 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 12, 2005
Location: Georgia, USA
Posts: 3,336
|
I don't own a .22, but my dad owns this .22 Magnum rifle that he purchased in 1960.
I installed a nice Leupold on it this year for his 81st birthday. My personal survival rifles are 5.56 NATO and larger calibers.
__________________
The History and Development of the M14 EBR Last edited by SR420; September 2, 2013 at 10:12 AM. |
September 2, 2013, 01:46 PM | #44 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 25, 2000
Location: Central TX
Posts: 1,503
|
Yes, it's heavy, but hard to beat the functionality of a .22mag/20 gauge combo. Capable of taking game birds and everything from squirrel to whitetail. Iron sights are still in place, too, if the scope got dinged and needed to be pulled.
__________________
Cogito, ergo armatus sum. |
September 2, 2013, 02:07 PM | #45 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 22, 2007
Location: Arizona
Posts: 5,292
|
Buddy of mine has a Savage .410/22lr combo he is very proud of, and he should be - he's taken dove on the wing and rabbit on the run with it. Nothing wrong with a good combo gun...unless it's one of those Crossfire monstrosities of the 90s. Gah.
If I ran out the door right now, (hobble slowly, actually), it would be this setup, ...with chest pouch of ammo. However, I don't foresee this happening any time soon. |
September 2, 2013, 04:03 PM | #46 |
Senior Member
Join Date: November 7, 2011
Location: Earth
Posts: 446
|
I have my dads old AR-7, he kept it in the Cessna 210 as a survival rifle. very accurate and fun to shoot.
file photos,
__________________
...They have the internet on computers now....-Homer Simpson- |
September 3, 2013, 10:25 AM | #47 |
Senior Member
Join Date: September 28, 2008
Posts: 10,442
|
Nice.
Is that an original Armalite?
__________________
Walt Kelly, alias Pogo, sez: “Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.” |
September 3, 2013, 08:06 PM | #48 |
Senior Member
Join Date: November 7, 2011
Location: Earth
Posts: 446
|
Let's See Your "Survival" Rifle
Yes. Original AR-7. Not a Henry. Super accurate. Rebuilt it after 15years of use. Still good to go.
|
September 4, 2013, 12:11 AM | #49 |
Senior Member
Join Date: March 20, 2011
Location: Willamina, OR
Posts: 1,908
|
For me a survival rifle is something to get small game with if I'm lost out in the wilderness. The only activity that would get me out in there in the first place is hunting.
So what I have is survival rounds rather than a survival rifle. I make up cast bullet loads with small amounts of fast burning powder for whatever rifle I'm carrying so that I could pop a rabbit or other small game that a full power rifle round would blow all to hell. I also practice with these low power rounds not just to be good with them but because it's fun. I find the point where they shoot to aim with my sights and get to where I can judge that distance. With the low power loads I'm usually shooting them on the way up rather than the way down like on full power rounds. If I could still hike, I'd carry something like a Cricket single shot handgun. I'm thinking about getting one for no particular reason anyway... My concealed carry gun is either my Colt detective special or my M1911a1. I hope to never need to use any of my survival tools... Tony |
September 4, 2013, 01:45 AM | #50 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 6, 2010
Posts: 379
|
Well, if using home cast bullets with fast burning (for rifle) powders is your criterion, then I'll keep my "Appalachian AR" Marlin 336 in 30-30.
With a Lyman 311041 mold and hollow pointed version of the same mold...it can be pushed with a max load of Varget or Leverevolution powder for speeds up to 2400fps and is great on Boar/bear/deer/coyote out to 200 yards, or the bullet can be downloaded and hollow pointed for use with Alliant 2400 powder down in the 1000fps range for things like rabbits or chupacabra or whatever small game you have in mind. Hell on squirrels, though it saves time if you are trying to make an aerobatic dish of carnage asada: |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|