Deserted Island Handgun

[Travis McGee]

You guys are all wet.

What Hanks could have used the most would have been a SPEARGUN, for fish, lobsters, etc.

(Yes, there are pistol spearguns.)

 

[Blueduck]

As the learning curve on a spear-gun might be a bit steep for 50 shots, I'll take a 6" Model 617.

 

[JeepDriver]

Ruger P95 (Stainless)

or

Glock 17

2 of the toughest handguns made

 

[CWL]

Glock, yeah. Real useful for a deserted island. 9mms and .40S&Ws are not primary hunting rounds. .357magnum is overkill. Angry natives & cannibals only inhabit Gilligan's Island reruns.

Survival is eating. Small birds, rodents, turtles, iguanas, perhaps even fish can be shot with a .22LR without destroying too much meat. Even pigs can be taken with one.

Animals don't naturally populate islands. They must fly or swim there. The only reason there are pigs/boars, monkeys and rodents on islands is because Polynesians & western sailors brought them along.

 

[makdaddy03]

anything 22lr and a bulk box of Federal ammo.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

A stainless steel Ruger Super Single Six with a 6.5" barrel.

 

[brian0128]

Stainless steel revolver with a six inch barrel. Nothing bigger than a .357......and a nice scope that was premounted and zeroed.

 

[Newton]

Something with a hi cap magazine, say a Glock 17.

It's not for shooting, it's so I can piss off the antis when I'm rescued by saying I owed my life to that 17 round magazine when I had to defend myself from a raiding party of locals - I would make sure I told them I needed ALL 17 shots to stay alive.

Ammo - well it would have to be Ranger T 127 grain +P+, but it wouldn't really matter.

Newton

 

[Blueduck]

As the learning curve on a spear-gun might be a bit steep for 50 shots, I'll take a 6" Model 617.-Blueduck

Check that- Just got done with several e-mail exchanges with Kate Fredette of S/W's "Service" Department. I'll go with Frodo and the Ruger Single Six...

 

[FROCKDUTCH1]

Forget the speargun. Get a glock with marine springcups and fire it underwater. Combo fish getter, boar shooter and cannibal killer. What do you need your hearing for, nobody to talk to on the island anyway hAHAHAHAHA...

 

[j45m16]

glock 20 10mm

 

[Skofnung]

Probably a S&W K22 in stainless if possible. Or anything in .22 cal.

That said, I would rather have a proper axe or a good machette on a Pacific Island than a firearm.

YMMV

 

[Dr.Rob]

Ever see the skit where they open the package at the end?

"I have to know after all these years...what's in this package?"

"oh nothing special just a satellite phone, a GPS unit, water proof matches, a first aid kit, compass, and water purification tablets"

Tom sure could have used a swiss army knife.

As far as a firearm, anything stainless with few moving parts (will coconut oil prevent rust?)

 

[Mike Irwin]

An S&W Model 18 .22 LR.

And lots of ammo.

 

[MCNETT]

Glock 20 w/ 15rd mags.
-Mike

 

[krept]

686

 

[s&w 24]

ruger vequero 5 1/2" SST in 44 mag with a box of 44 special 240 gr +p loads. A SA revolver is the only gun I know of that will still work with missing and broken parts and as far as the ammo look up what Elmer Keith did with them on sharks in gun notes vol 1.

 

[BerettaNut92]

 

[Blueduck]

Skunk,

I think you misread the question, it's "What pistol do you want with you on a deserted island?" NOT What pistol should we leave on a deserted island.

 

[clown714]

T\C contender(any caliber)

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[Rick Blaine]

Taurus Silhouette Model: 66SS12, .357 MAG, Capacity: 7, Barrel Length: 12'' Vent Rib, stainless steel. Maybe a box of 38 Special +P, 130 gr. Winchester Supreme SXT - nothing fancy, and Winchester makes a reliable round. I like 130 grain for small game. The 12" barrel Taurus should cruise through 50 rounds, and after that you can use it as a club.

 

[DesertRat]

T/C Contender in 30-06 and ONE round.

 

[bad_dad_brad]

A Glock G17. Same pistol I would take back into the stone age. Least maintenance. Highest reliability. Virtually corrosion free.

 

[daniel (australia)]

IIRC there wasn't really anything much to shoot at on the island Tom Hanks was stranded on. Therefore, if I couldn't have a speargun I think I'd hope for a big, shiny long-barreled stainless revolver, in .454 or .44 Mag. I'd want ammo in nickel-plated cases, with cast lead projectiles. Why?

The revolver would make a handy club or mallet, for such things as construction of shelter and fish traps, subduing reluctant food, cracking shellfish and coconuts etc. The long barrel would also come in handy as a poker, or for lifting stuff off the fire. The piece could also be stripped for springs (fishooks) screws (spear or arrow barbs) and other useful stuff, and a shiny sideplate would make a signalling mirror.

The shiny nickel cases could make fishing lures, as well as containing propellant for starting fires, and the bullets would make sinkers or weight a throw net.

A terrible way to treat a handgun, but I'd rather live.

 

[Glamdring]

Wouldn't need a pistol for anything on that island. So to take advantage of the gun being free, I would like a Ruger Bisley (stainless) in 45 LC that had been improved by Bowen. NP3 on all the metal.

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I might add that when I leave home every day I am better equipped than Hanks was, I have a Spyderco & a cig lighter & at least one handgun. I have a BOB in the car. In winter I have my coat (gortex) with me everywhere that has a leatherman, matches, two flashlights (mini mag light and a surefire, have spare set of batteries for the maglight), firstaid kit, spaceblanket, gloves.

And I know how to make fish traps. Scurvy would be my biggest concern until I found something to eat that had Vit C (I haven't studied tropical survival much, I know what to eat in northern climates to avoid scurvy, but unless there were citrus fruits around I would have to guess blind on seaweed).