I saw a thread on another forum that got me thinking about this. I've heard many times that when doing firearms planning for a SHTF scenario you should plan to have a weapon that can be fired by either hand in case one of your arms/hands is injured. Examples would be revolvers and semi-auto handguns with ambidextrous safeties. Well, when ever I look through threads showing pics of peoples SHTF guns the one that is posted more than any other I can see is a 12g pump action shotgun.
A pump shotgun can be fired with either hand, true but if you only had one good hand/arm available to hold the weapon with it would make operating the pump action pretty darn difficult. For this reason it doesn't seem to me to be the ideal choice. I guess you could pump the gun on a corner or a tree or something (like you can rack the slide on a 1911 with a Govt. length guide rod with one hand) but that doesn't seem ideal either.
Maybe a good semi-automatic shotgun and a small gun cleaning kit would better serve for dirty fan scenarios.
I'm usually not one to get real into the SHTF stuff but I thought this was an interesting thing I've never seen talked about before. My SHTF gear is a S&W 642 and an old M1 Carbine LOL
A pump shotgun can be fired with either hand, true but if you only had one good hand/arm available to hold the weapon with it would make operating the pump action pretty darn difficult. For this reason it doesn't seem to me to be the ideal choice. I guess you could pump the gun on a corner or a tree or something (like you can rack the slide on a 1911 with a Govt. length guide rod with one hand) but that doesn't seem ideal either.
Maybe a good semi-automatic shotgun and a small gun cleaning kit would better serve for dirty fan scenarios.
I'm usually not one to get real into the SHTF stuff but I thought this was an interesting thing I've never seen talked about before. My SHTF gear is a S&W 642 and an old M1 Carbine LOL