If you could have only one gun...

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Didn't we just go thru this on Febor Mar?

For most of the US I think a 4'' 357 magnum revolver would be the most versatile handgun, and a 12 gauge pump shotgun would win for long guns, especially if a second barrel was allowed.

I'd probably choose the shotgun since I could continue to hunt both large and small game, defend my home, and shoot trap. It's hard to beat something that shoots birdshot, buckshot, and slugs.

If both were allowed I think I could definitely get by with those two.

Super Blackhawk.

troy fairweather said:

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Sell it and buy a bunch of other guns. Or is that cheating.

Only one: 12 gauge shotgun.

You can hunt anything from doves to Grizzlies, perform home defense and it is easily portable in a vehicle. If things go Mad Max then you can easily sling it and it will function in any weather condition. Modern slugs allows an effective range of 100 yards. Most combat is well below this.

Ammo for everything. Buck shot, dove loads, pheasants, slugs, sabot slugs, flares, flame thrower, bolos, flechettes, door breach, incendiary, whistles, rock salt, rubber balls, pepper, Koosh balls, party popper confetti... you name it.

Then there are the sub-calibre adapters allowing you to fire just about any rifle/handgun ammo out there.

Someone out there is probably working on a infrared guided 12 ga anti-drone load.

XDm 4.5" in 10mm. Enough knock down power to take a deer with a well placed shot... so I can feed my family... but still concealable. Sure, it is not a long range battle rifle... but 15 rounds of 10mm gives me a lot of flexibility and there is a lot to be said for having a gun when people do not know you have a gun. At the very least it is a gun to get the battle rifle. Anything larger, like an AR pistol, and you loose concealability.

If I could only have 1 gun it would be a XDm 4.5" in 10mm... and no, I do not own one currently. I love my XD mod 2 3.3" in .45acp though... it is universal enough and nicely compliments my several semi auto rifles, long range target rifles, full sized hand guns and subcompact handguns. If I had to grab one bug out gun from the safe... or night stand... it would be my XD mod 2 3.3" in 45acp.

12ga HD gun with 2&1/4" 00 Buck loads plus hunting loads.

I think it’s dependent on where you live. For me it would be a 20 or 12 gauge. Most likely 20. And yes, we have these threads fairly often.

A fine 28gauge over/under, lots of engraving and gold inlays, finest black walnut wood, too!

Depression. Angst. Sorrow. That's what I'd have.

"One gun" would be a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, preferably with the following barrels, in order of priority:
28-inch vent rib with removable chokes
24-inch rifled slug with cantilever scope mount
18-inch cylinder with a front bead

Usable for small game, big game, home defense. Jack-of-all trades.

Add one handgun: 4-inch revolver in .357 magnum.

My battered old Super Blackhawk.

I am more of a handgun person so I would go with the 357 magnum that a few others have mentioned.

McMillan Tac 50 ... just because

I might have a different answer every time this is asked.

Probably a Glock 20.

Maybe a G19.

A P210 or Hi-Power is also a possibility - if you can only have one, why not one of the best ones?

What I wouldn't choose for a one gun scenario is a long gun.

Wisco said:

What I wouldn't choose for a one gun scenario is a long gun.

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I like guns for lots of purposes, but at my core, I am a hunter. Hence my preference for a do all shotgun.

MihiT said:

Hah. Not even cheating. I like the way you think...

Did we? I didn't.
I'm not even on Febor Mar... is that where hobbits live?

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troy fairweather said:

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I was about to say cheap 12 gauge pump with a lot of barrels, but your answer is just better. One caveat, if I lived in the city and hunting weren't an option, and the only use I had for a gun was self-defense, sometimes out in public where a drilling slung over the shoulder might cause comment I couldn't afford, I'd go with a 1911 .45 with lots of spare magazines.

As it is, I'd be happier if every time I stepped into a restaurant in a city, or anyplace else, if I could have a shotgun in reach. The world is just a better place with a shotgun in reach, but it would upset too many people. I could just see every time I sat down to a plate of spaghetti being interrupted by other patrons first and finally a policeman asking me why I had the shotgun.

They'd never understand, "Because it makes me happy."

Well, since the lower receiver is legally the "gun," I think I could go with one AR lower and 4 uppers- 16" .22, 10" suppressed 9mm, and two .223, one scoped 20" HB and one 14" with a red dot.

DDDWho said:

McMillan Tac 50 ... just because

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This is nice. "I always wanted me a fifty." Have you ever seen the movie Jerimiah Johnson? Jerimiah wanted a Hawken fifty, but he had to leave St. Louis without one. He finally found Hatchet Jack, frozen to death, his last act, a note attached to his body. "I will my Hawken fifty to whosoever may find it, and pray God he be a . . .
Out of common decency, whenever you carry this big fifty, you ought to have a note in your pocket willing it to whosoever may find it after it's no longer of use to you.

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This is nice. "I always wanted me a fifty." Have you ever seen the movie Jerimiah Johnson? Jerimiah wanted a Hawken fifty, but he had to leave St. Louis without one. He finally found Hatchet Jack, frozen to death, his last act, a note attached to his body. "I will my Hawken fifty to whosoever may find it, and pray God he be a . . .
Out of common decency, whenever you carry this big fifty, you ought to have a note in your pocket willing it to whosoever may find it after it's no longer of use to you.

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I like in the movie when he got the 32 or 36, can't remember the. He could not hit/ kill anything. The when he got the 50, the Montague of him killing with it was funny to me.