pick one gun for the rest of your life.

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I would also keep my Garand. Powerful enough to take down pretty much anything, easy and quick reloading of the rifle to compensate for the 8 rd clips, no need to buy and keep magazines for the rifle.
 
easy, sort of

Ruger M77/22 all-weather .22 bolt gun. Stainless is an advantage.

Alternatively, Classic
Arms has some hard-chromed AKs that look pretty interesting.
 
Nematocyst

Check out Graybear Outdoors, there is enough Handi Rifle info on there to either keep you reading for day or put you to sleep. I need to hit the road because I'm about to pick up my first (.308 in a Survivor stock) and head out to the range.
 
I would also keep my Garand. Powerful enough to take down pretty much anything, easy and quick reloading of the rifle to compensate for the 8 rd clips, no need to buy and keep magazines for the rifle.
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I agree, maby even an M14.
 
Only one gun,Well long gun's would be out because of ccw purposes,so I would probably go with one of my glocks,23 or 20.I feel comfortable in town with the 23 and even more comfy out in the woods with the g20 10mm.But if it was a shtf deal I would take a long gun any day.Starting from the top would be my ak47 or ar15.Any kinda hunting rifle would also be a good choice imo.
 
DM1333, that's Graybeard Outdoors, right? With a "d"?

Thnx for that tip. Will check it out more when I learn how to search it.
(First search there on "handi" generated some strange results.)

I'll also search THR's rifle country. Haven't done that yet ...
 
I'd take a Garand.
Wife would take an AR
Youngest son would take a 10/22
Oldest son would take an 870.
 
Remington 870 12 guage - can do most anything with this gun.

I'm tempted by the .22 as an option simply because you can stockpile tons of ammo for it. Hard to say if I'd go for a semi-auto rifle or revolver (maybe single-six). But, I'd rather have something more robust for defensive purposes.
 
Long gun: Mossberg 500A 12 ga. "Persuader". The best ergonomics/controls in the 12 gauge pump world and reliability on par with any of them! What an awesome firearm!

Short gun: Much as I love my 1911's, S&W revos, etc. I will have to go with Glock 23 with fourteen hot .40 cal. rounds on tap. Great balance of reliability, capacity, potency, and economy in a relatively compact pistol.
 
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AR-15 with the XM-26 LSS shotgun attachment.

I pick this one or the M107
 
hmm... I think I would go for a M203... yeah... 5.56 with 40mm multi-purpose Bang-o-Rang on the bottom. I know... I know... 40mm ammo would be hard to come by. But this is a hypothetical and not a realistic question.

Come on... If we were being realistic the question would be more like... If you only had one dump truck to carry all of your weapons and ammo, which ones would you choose???
 
Just one? Just one gun for the rest of my life? I could never have or use another gun for anything? Well, I'll stick with my .44 Walker. I can always build a trap and catch a rabbit or possum or coon or field rat or something if I'm starving to death I guess. That Walker, given half a chance, will protect me and feed me. You can also fire it into the ground right next to a pile of twigs sprinkled liberally with Triple Seven and start a fire when your hands are so near frozen you can't even dig out a match or cigarette lighter and fumble it into a flame. (been there done that) I'm gonna go ahead and say this although many people who read it may laugh and call me an idiot even though they have no right to, but I KNOW for a fact why so many people carried their revolvers with the hammer on an empty chamber and it WASN'T because they were worried about blowing their foot off. And the chamber was not completely empty. With the cap and ball, if you were out in rough desolate country you kept a live cap on the nipple of the empty chamber. That way, if you ran into a bad problem you could dump some powder into that chamber, wad up a piece of grass or one of your cigarette papers or whatever and stick in there in place of a ball to keep the powder from falling out and get a damn fire going. With the "modern' blackpowder revolvers that came along later, you could simply remove the slug and then proceed in the same manner. These little Bic lighters and everything they have available today are wonderful if your hands are not too cold to use one of them. Likewise, these magnesian fire starters that you scrape and get sparks that heat up to around 2500 or 5000 degrees are fine, yes indeed, until you find your ass up there in the Crazy Woman Mountains, or the Tetons, or further up on the Yukon and you're trying to build a fire in a 60 mile an hour wind surrounded by 6 feet of powder snow and your hands are so numb and stiff you can't even hardly hold the tool much less do any scraping with it. You'll build a fire or you'll die and a bic lighter just ain't gonna make it all the time. Today, blackpowder revolvers are used mostly for sport, Little get togethers. Even when most people kill a deer or hog or whatever with them it's not like they're starving to death. Hell, they've got food at home and they can always go to Winn Dixie. Well, there ain't no Winn Dixie's in some parts of this country. You root hog or die. Well, anyway, I love blackpowder revolvers and rifles too. I'vd never even had my hands on a blackpowder shotgun. It just always seemed to me that for all the shot and powder you would have to pack along that the weight just wouldn't be worth it. I retired out of the Marines. I've shot and/or carried all the standard issue, and I've owned several modern firearms. Well, a few anyway, not near as many as a lot of people on this site own. I don't have any of them now. I'll stick with blackpowder, ALTHOUGH even while I call it blackpowder I have never shot any real honest to God blackpowder in my life. Black Mag and Triple Seven fffg is all I'vd ever shot and I probably won't ever shoot anything but Triple Seven now for the rest of my life.Well, anyway...Okay...
 
Any functional pistol would be sufficient to secure other weapons from agents of the state, since such a scenario meant a legal ban.
 
One gun

870 Super mag. I have one and i have a slug bbl for it w/ a cant. scope mount. I hunt birds w/ the 28" bbl, pheasants, geese, and could even knock a squirrel out of a tree. and i slap on the slug bbl for deer out to 150yards. and if laws didn't matter anymore, i'd have a short 16"er to go with the collection, and to beat to death anyone who tries to take my gun. So, 1 gun 1 gauge, 3 barrels, and it'd handle any 12 gauge ammo out there. ALSO 12 gauge because it's sooooo easy to reload, and you don't need to trim the casings.
 
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Quote: pick one gun for the rest of your life. Why ?
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I agree. This comes up all the time. I think the reasons are primordal, like, if you could only carry one spear, from which wood would you make it? Sort of a survival mindset, or, and I just finished watching Jeremiah Johnson (again), the question would be, if you only had so much money and just one pack animal, which weapon would you choose as your primary all-around gun?

Does that make it more palatable? Y'see, City Slickers, myself included for the reality check, have seperate needs or mindsets than our Rural brothers and Sisters.
Those that live in dense populations as opposed to those that have to be more self reliant.
Kinda reminds me of the thread we had going last week on whether a Rifle or Shotgun were the ultimate home defense weapon.
When I were a young squirt, we'd pass a pretty thing passing by, and one of the fella's would say "That was a 6.5", and someone else would say, "Nah, maybe a Four." So to each his own for there is no arguing taste buds and smells, to each their own.
But I guess its the grownup way of measuring Penises without being too conspicuous.
How 'bout, which one handgun would you pick if thats all one could afford? My all around answer would be the strongest action, heaviest hitter and easiest packer concealed as possible. Strangely enough, that would force me to choose the GP-100 with a rounded butt and 3" barrel. :)
 
Here's the tally so far, only specific answers were tallied, not those that specified more than one choice (too much time on my hands).

AR 6
AK 4
M1 Garand 2
M1A 2
10/22 3
458 Unspecified 1
22 bolt Unspecified 1
Marlin 7
CZ 452 1
Hi-Point 995C 9mm carbine 1
Walker 1
Python 1
1911 (All) 4
Delta Elite 1
Ruger SRH/RH 2
GP-100 5
Blackhawk 1
S&W Revolvers(357)2
S&W Revolvers(44) 1
S&W Pistols 1
Glock 5
P226 2
870 14
590 2
Shotgun 12 ga unspecified 5
Shotgun 20 ga unspecified 1
flintlock 1
Thompson 1
drilling 2
1878 sharps 1
 
I'd go with a TC contender. Or in a pinch one of the NEF handi-rifles that you can have multiple barrels fitted to.
 
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