If you could have only one gun...

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I think these “One Gun” type threads show up on every forum every few months. I like them. They make you think and I love some of the answers. Especially Troy Fairweather’s “drilling” answer. Hadn’t thought about a drilling in ages.

For me...I’m showering in a gun store and calamity occurs...I can pick any one gun in the store...

Smith & Wesson 327 TRR8
A holster (hey, it’s my fantasy) a belt and a backpack. Snatch the moon clips from the other 12 model 327’s in stock (like I said, fantasy) and a few boxes of decent ammo.
 
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.
A fifty will definitely put the hurt on something.

Those early round ball .32's and .36's were really squirrel rifles. They'd do the job on something larger if you put the bullet in exactly the right place and they made lead go a long way if you had to carry it for months, but you had to be awful careful about placement.

A favorite story about a fifty is a man who planned to stay on Banks Island in the Canadian archipelago for a year. He got iced in and they couldn't pick him up in the first year. His rifle, a Sharps .50. Near the end of the second year, he was so short of lead that he waited until two caribou lined up, shot them both, cut the slug out of the second caribou, and re-melted it. That wouldn't work with my 45-70, even with the light 325 grain cast. It'd go through both. I've had that happen twice on deer, and I don't think a caribou is that much bigger.
 
A fifty will definitely put the hurt on something.

Those early round ball .32's and .36's were really squirrel rifles. They'd do the job on something larger if you put the bullet in exactly the right place and they made lead go a long way if you had to carry it for months, but you had to be awful careful about placement.

A favorite story about a fifty is a man who planned to stay on Banks Island in the Canadian archipelago for a year. He got iced in and they couldn't pick him up in the first year. His rifle, a Sharps .50. Near the end of the second year, he was so short of lead that he waited until two caribou lined up, shot them both, cut the slug out of the second caribou, and re-melted it. That wouldn't work with my 45-70, even with the light 325 grain cast. It'd go through both. I've had that happen twice on deer, and I don't think a caribou is that much bigger.
Always thought you be out of powder first. Cool old storys, id like to see a movie about that. Ya I've done the same with my 45/70. I even shot thru a 6 or 7 inch tree in front of the deer. Never have recovered a bullet from my 45/70s.
 
(insert your favourite SHTF scenario) and you had time to grab pants and ONE gun

Clothes? Ive spent 20 years in the gym for just such an occasion, I'm forgoing the clothes and taking a Glock/Sig/Hk or Beretta full size, either/or, and an M4

I just watched "range 15". If you haven't watched it.... don't, its terrible, but it meant to be terrible so.... But it stars mostly real special forces guys, pretty much mocking themselves , (many you have heard of) whose dream of a Zombie apocalypse comes true. This thread reminded me of it.
 
Always thought you be out of powder first. Cool old storys, id like to see a movie about that. Ya I've done the same with my 45/70. I even shot thru a 6 or 7 inch tree in front of the deer. Never have recovered a bullet from my 45/70s.
Only once have I recovered a cast bullet from a 45-70 from a deer. It was a facing shot on a little doe. I was using an RCBS 420 grain mold. The bullet shattered on the hip bone, and I recovered the two pieces. Instant kill. What I think happened was that I heat treated the bullet probably bringing the hardness up to a Brinell 30 or so. I think the heat treating caused the bullet to shatter on heavy bone. I didn't really need a heat treated bullet at the about 1450 fps I was pushing it. After that, I quit using heat treated bullets on game. Especially, after I learned I could often get velocities up to 2200 fps in other calibers with excellent accuracy without heat treating. I kind of want to have a pretty good idea of what the bullet is going to do, and I quickly learned that a heat treated bullet on bone is a recipe for failure.
 
For me it would be a .22 LR revolver (6 or 8 shot) with a 3 or 4 inch barrel. Most likely on a Chief's Special Frame.

Wouldn't need to worry about losing a magazine.
 
If I could only have one gun, it would be a Wishahada. As in, "a Wishahada 'nuther gun!"
 
I'll keep mine simple, Glock 17. Only because I have one and the circumstances where I'd be stuck with just one means it's a get out of Dodge scenario. Ammo, magazines, and spare parts readily available, I can conceal it pretty well on my ample frame, and in a pinch I can harvest game up to Eastern whitetail size if need be.
 
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