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In Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road", a man and his young son are travelling through a post apocalyptic countryside, scrounging food where they can find it and trying to head south toward warmer climes for the winter, all the while hiding out and occasionally having violent encounters with some of the other inhabitants of this scorched Earth.
The man is armed with what is described as a six shot, small nickel plated revolver of unmentioned make and caliber (but which in my head I've turned into a Colt Detective Special) for which he has only two rounds left at the start of the book (later on he finds ammuntion ,.45 ACP and .30/30 shells, but no gun to shoot these rounds from).
Being a gun person, this got me to thinking. If I (God forbid) had to make a similar journey with a loved one, which one handgun would I choose to take along (being, for the purposes of this exercise, limited to one)?
Let's be generous to ourselves and allow us any make and model of handgun, along with two magazines (if it is an autoloader), and fifty rounds of ammunition.
What is the one handgun you would choose to take along if you had to make a trip like this in a world "...largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes...."? The gun will be strictly for defense; it is not needed for hunting, for in this barren, charred world there is nothing to hunt.
I think I would have to pick my Glock 22. Sixteen rounds in the gun and another fifteen in a spare mag would be comforting, as would my load of choice, the Winchester Ranger 155 grain JHP.
Which handgun and load would you choose?
The man is armed with what is described as a six shot, small nickel plated revolver of unmentioned make and caliber (but which in my head I've turned into a Colt Detective Special) for which he has only two rounds left at the start of the book (later on he finds ammuntion ,.45 ACP and .30/30 shells, but no gun to shoot these rounds from).
Being a gun person, this got me to thinking. If I (God forbid) had to make a similar journey with a loved one, which one handgun would I choose to take along (being, for the purposes of this exercise, limited to one)?
Let's be generous to ourselves and allow us any make and model of handgun, along with two magazines (if it is an autoloader), and fifty rounds of ammunition.
What is the one handgun you would choose to take along if you had to make a trip like this in a world "...largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes...."? The gun will be strictly for defense; it is not needed for hunting, for in this barren, charred world there is nothing to hunt.
I think I would have to pick my Glock 22. Sixteen rounds in the gun and another fifteen in a spare mag would be comforting, as would my load of choice, the Winchester Ranger 155 grain JHP.
Which handgun and load would you choose?
