In all honesty, despite how I start drooling and hop all over any thread with "zombie" in the title, I don't buy guns with "SHTF" in mind. I buy guns because I love shooting them, for historical interest, because they're normal, because they're wierd, because they're a particularly good or bad design, etc, etc... Suitability for TEOTEWAKI, when you've got multiple safes full, is at best a half hearted justification for some of them.
I deplyed for Katrina/Rita relief, and spent over a month hauling all over east Texas and western Louisiana armed with nothing but my swiss army knife and gerber multitool. There were times when I was deeply unhappy with that, and I did see firearms come into play in both good and bad situations. I saw plenty of ugly things that changed the way I look at "SHTF" scenarios.
The major pearl of wisdom I took away from it... it made me want to get training, like EMT or Wilderness EMT, because there is nothing worse than being totally helpless while someone you care about is down with an injury. Not even being Sean Penn on the loose with a shotgun.
I deplyed for Katrina/Rita relief, and spent over a month hauling all over east Texas and western Louisiana armed with nothing but my swiss army knife and gerber multitool. There were times when I was deeply unhappy with that, and I did see firearms come into play in both good and bad situations. I saw plenty of ugly things that changed the way I look at "SHTF" scenarios.
The major pearl of wisdom I took away from it... it made me want to get training, like EMT or Wilderness EMT, because there is nothing worse than being totally helpless while someone you care about is down with an injury. Not even being Sean Penn on the loose with a shotgun.