If you could only have ONE gun to cover all of YOUR needs, what would it be?

[albanian]

One gun only, that is the question. I know it isn't going to happen but indulge me. Also, make your choice based on what YOU need a gun for. This means that it doesn't have to be a survival gun or a SHTF sort of gun, just what you most need in a gun.

For me, it is hard to decide if it is going to be a a handgun or a shotgun. I am not much of a rifle guy because most of what I would use a rifle for could be done with either a shotgun or a handgun.

As I don't hunt much anymore and I keep a loaded handgun for a home defense gun, the shotgun is used mostly for clays. It could be used for just about anything and I would never argue with the man that takes a 12ga as his only gun but for me it would be a pistol. As a matter of fact, I would be a self defense pistol first and everything else second. Nothing is more important than a CCW.

I would pick my KAHR K-9.

I would miss my 12ga and Beretta 92fs and other guns but if I had to chose just one, it would be my Kahr.

 

[DelayedReaction]

I'm not really sure what you'd need it for, but versatility is always important.

 

[HungSquirrel]

By "all needs", target shooting, home defense, and concealed carry all come to mind. I would go with an M1911A1 in that case, simply because a shotgun isn't the most concealable of weapons. And, wouldn't you know it, I already own the weapon in question. Now all that's left is graduating, getting a job, and getting my own place so I have enough room and money so that I DON'T have to rely on my .45 for everything.

 

[BJPARKER]

I'd have to agree on your choice. In my case, it would be my Colt Govt.

 

[Daniel964]

I would use my Dan Wesson .357. I have the 6 inch and the 2inch barrel for it. (Barrel is removable.) I can use .38 and .357 rounds then. It's border line acceptable as a deer hunting gun. Good for self defence. Lots of ammo avaliable for it.

 

[threefeathers]

Like most of our great grandfathers on the frontier. It wold be a shotgun, Feed the family, defense, slugs will stop a bear if necessary.

 

[kikilee]

Threefeathers got it right.

 

[norman74]

Either a 1911 or a .38 special snubbie.

 

[DRZinn]

Need you even ask?

 

[homeka45]

AR15 w/ the flexibility of different caliber uppers, or is that cheating?

 

[Taurus 66]

If you could only have ONE gun to cover all of YOUR needs, what would it be?

As is the title:

One gun could never cover all one's needs, but perhaps two minimum could. Let's say for instance SHTF and WW3 is upon us as invaders come across the Bering Straits, pass through our National Guard and LEOs to our neighborhoods. I would have my trusty 357 revolver on me, a combat blade with finely tuned edge, but instead of a shotgun for what most would consider 'all purpose', I'd want a rifle for targeting accurately at distances beyond 300 yards. As the news was ongoing about the enemy's advances, I would be busy constructing EXTREMEMELY CRUDE dag nasty components (completely against federal regulations during peace time) known somewhat as "anti-personnel munitions". Some of the stuff I make would be off government charts altogether. The potential to do so is always there, but the current need is not present.

 

[Lonestar.45]

"This means that it doesn't have to be a survival gun or a SHTF sort of gun, just what you most need in a gun."

With that criteria in mind, I'd have to go with my Remington .270. Because before I got into cleaning up milsurps, target shooting, tinkering with 1911's, blackpowder, archery, and sporting clays, I was a dyed in the wool deer hunter. Still am at heart. I'd give up any and all of my other hobbies, guns, etc. long before I'd give up deer hunting or my deer rifle.

 

[Ivy Mike]

I'd have to go with a trusty 12ga shotgun.

Buckshot for bad guys
Birdshot for small stuff
Slugs for big game
Good sturdy wood stock for when someone gets too close to shoot.

Versatility at its best. It doesn't do anything better than specialized tools, but it does nearly everything well.

 

[Standing Wolf]

All of them. I'm not giving up any of my guns.

 

[Taurus 66]

If it could be other than a 'survival' or 'SHTF' gun, then I'd go buy a Daisy .177 pump action at my local Walmart. Done and done.

 

[Sir Aardvark]

This post does ask for ALL of your needs.

How about survival???.

My vote would be for something in 22LR

There is an amazing amount of game you can take with this cartridge!.

 

[DSRUPTV]

Tough One

I have to agree on the previously stated .357 mag. Good compromise of everything. It can get some hunting done, function in home defense/concealed carry, fun at the range. Jack of all trades, master of none. But if you can only choose one compromise and versatility would be key.

 

[Dionysusigma]

I'd say a really high-end AK. I don't hunt, I'm "too young" to buy/buy ammo for/carry a handgun, and I mostly shoot for fun. Ammo is cheap, and it could be used for other stuff if the need arose. Something like a milled-receiver Galil in 5.56 would be great. Select-fire, of course

 

[TarpleyG]

Out of the guns I currently have...I'd have to pick my Marlin 336SS in .30-30.

Greg

 

[woerm]

seconding feathers

12 ga pump 3" chamber

 

[bean357]

That's a tough one. I'd miss my handguns and rifles, but would have to say a shotgun-12 gauge Beretta - hunting deer (I'd have to learn to go w/o slug barrell) and birds, varmints and predators, shooting clays and home defense as well.

 

[2t2 crash]

i would have to go with my M1.
of course, that is out of what I have.

M1 Garand
K98k sniper in progress
.20g berretta semi auto
9mm SA XD

 

[junke]

My M1A bush rifle. good from 5' to 400yrds. good for putn food on the table. good for putn BG's in the ground. lots of ammo available

 

[Brian Williams]

I would go with this one.

I just got it back fro the smith and it will do 95% of my shooting
It is a 4" pencil barrel S&W 65 in 357 with a round grip frame and a Tyler T grip

 

[Wedge]

Hmm...if I could only have one gun then it would be my 12ga. Mossberg 500. It does everything I need it to do, has multiple barrels and can shoot everything from target loads to slugs.

Unfortunately I have found that specialized guns are much better than a one-size-fits all...so I would have to agree with Standing Wolf's response for no other reason than I wouldn't want to live where I could only have one gun.