Survival S&W Parts (Mod 10) and 36 rounds ammo

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Smith & Wesson revolvers are pretty durable, provided we don't shoot overloaded ammunition in them. In a survival situation...where your goal is avoiding gunfights and gettin' the helloutta Dodge...you won't be actually using a handgun that much anyway. You'll have far more use for a good knife and a .22 rifle.

A reasonable ammunition supply...say 50-100 rounds for the sidearm...will probably do for the duration...going on the assumption that nothing lasts forever...and you'll either find a better situation, or you'll be dead. If you have to leave your home territory and head for the hills, your survival provisions will be limited to what you can carry with you...and you'll be better off taking other essentials like food, water, medical/first-aid supplies, and fuel than loading yourself down with ammunition that you probably won't use.
 
I agree that the reloading equipment and spare parts are not needed in your BOB. If the guns are reliable and proven before storage no reason to believe that they will not work when you need them. I believe in keeping it simple. Store the reloading equipment and parts at your ultimate destination and carry only what you need to get there. Weight is very important for traveling.

As far as the ammo is concerned find out what standard pressure .38 shoots the best and carry that on a few speedloaders in addition to your ammo wallet. A few shot shells would not hurt but beyond that I think you are unnecessarily complicating things. How are you going to remember the POA/POI of all those different rounds with a fixed sight revolver. Accuracy trumps all.

A good holster is important if you are going to be on foot. Add more food, water and clothing to your bag. I know the Lee Loader is light but it is just not worth the weight.

Hope this helps. Bill
 
First, you have to consider that you will have to carry all this stuff plus all your other survival gear.
Second, you will have to keep it with you where ever you go because you never know when the "brown stuff will hit the rotating blades". You might not be at home when it happens.

There is a difference in being prepared and being paranoid. A lot of the above is paranoia.

KosmicKrunch...You say you have a bit of a twitch in your left eye?:D
 
There is a difference in being prepared and being paranoid.
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Yep. On the question of spare parts for a sidearm, it would probably be a smarter approach to simply have an identical spare gun, and then if one breaks, use that one for spare parts. As the old saying goes: "Two is one and one is none."
 
I like your set up.I have both the Lee Hand Press and various and sundry Lee Loaders.I have a Victory in .38, and a 1917 S&W in .45acp.While I probably would carry more ammo on my person, in an emergency some form of reloader is going in the jeep to stash at the retreat, lineman's shack or cabin...ammo could be the currency of the future.
 
Yeah it kinda does a little.

Anyhow the whole bug out situation is always gun focused when in reality a gun is probably way down on the list of useful things.

Its comforting to think about having a gun, but FOOD and WATER will be the most important thing to have. AND no your gun probably will not provide food for you unless you live away from large cities.

For me in San Diego a fishing rod would be way more useful than a gun as far as food goes.

Nothing wrong with having a gun of course but you should probably make it a rifle.

So once you have the food/ water situation figured out THEN think about how much gun you think you can carry.
 
again folks.... the loader and parts are not in the Bug Out Bag, they are in the base kit at the cabin. The 36 rounds are with me.

The bag is limited to 25 pounds, when ever I go hiking I load a bag and hike with it to get used to it. On the 90 mile trek to the cabin, I have mapped out on the topo map sources of water and potential food sources and back up plans to those. I also have buried between here and there 7 PVC stashes with full basics and those mapped on the topo.

Mall Ninja, I do not even know what that is, please excuse me for being safe and ready. You can cry Mall Ninja all you want, but when the SHTF and you are outside and I am inside....you will be allowed to cry.......OUTSIDE.

I love it when people do not read the whole set of threads and pipe in on something already covered.
 
Ahh I see.... in the middle of post 21 you mention you have a cabin you plan to aim for.

Well I think keeping all the repair stuff or a second gun at the cabin would be the way to go along with a couple .22lr rifles and a few thousand rounds of ammo for them. :D
 
I don't have time to go into details at the moment, but be aware the many parts in a 1920's Military & Police .38 are not the same as those in the later post-1957 model 10. Hammer assemblies are a good example, as are hammer safety blocks, and the threads on the respective mainspring strain screws are different, so are the cylinder stops.

One size do not fit all... :uhoh:
 
And when the "brown stuff hits the rotating blades" and you are "90 miles" away from your cabin. Do you think that someone else doesn't know about that cabin or did you paint it cammo. To leave firearms in a vacant cabin could be your undoing. There are sooo many senarios to acount for that it isn't funny. Every thing I need to survive is in or around my home. Including the horses and a good dog. I'll colect what I need when I have an idea what I will need for that particular senario...Until then.......................
 
Seems the consensus is to have just one type of ammo & I agree. It's a WHOLE lot easier to hit what your aiming at when the results are consistent.

I too have stocked up, but fervently pray I never have need for any of it.
I'd just prefer to use it all to rid the world of those dastardly evil paper targets! :D
 
Bushmaster, you assume too much. My cousin and his wife and kid live at the cabin right now. It is stocked for SHTF. He works for a metal fab near there. I just needed a bug out bag to get me from here to there. I plan on using an 175 Enduro and also planned for walking backwoods streams and woods for the 90 miles. There is one horse at the cabin, livestock, some poultry...the lake is stocked over the years. In a few years I will retire to the land in PA and no need for the bug out travel. The cabin is far enough in the boonies and set up for no visual give away like smoke (redirected into an old sistern) and/or generator noise. Nice and hidden in the woods in the center of 50 acres of land. Unless you are flying direct overhead, you just would not even know it is there.
 
I'm curious about this, and I'll bet many others are as well, if the mods will allow a little leeway....

What is the most likely sequence of events that you think will lead to your needing to use your bug-out plan? How likely and how soon?

(I'm asking seriously, not to ridicule. Three years ago would have been a different attitude. Howsoever, in the past 3 years I've seen things I never thought possilbe. I still don't believe such will occur but I'm less sure than before.)

BTW, to answer the original question I'm in the identical gun camp when that becomes possible.
 
Well... various scenarios... rail train disasters, water plant issues, economy aka Greece meltdown, gas explosions, civil unrest, race riots. I have three Nuke plants within 25 miles of me. The town I live in is on the edge anyways, would not take much to get it to topple over. I live in the downtown city area and the infrastructure here is sad to say the least. Gas, electric, sewer, buildings and roads are all failing and with no money to fix them, it will only get worse.

With the advent of current events, a prudent man would be safe rather than sorry. It does not take much to plan for the worse and hope for the best. I am just in the final detailed stages. I worried about the major few issues rather than the minor many at first. Now am just fine tuning it all to include back up to back up plans.

What some say can't happen often does and on a daily basis. My biggest worry is a bug out in winter and traveling in some of the worse lake effect snows around.

Making plans to carry weapons and ammo and maintenance for them is only part of the overall plan. If I survive the initial event, my chances for being ready is greatly enhanced by planning, preparidness and education/training.
 
Zombiepocalypse.

Seriously, for me to need to bug out one of the following scenarios would have occurred:
Dam failure for my cities water supply, leaving four million people without water. Of course, 1500 gigaliters of water surging down stream would probably take out the bridges I need to cross, along with all available boats.
Long term electricity grid failure - not a black out, but the powerplants being destroyed. This would kill the water supply and petrol supply, which would kill the food supply.
Destruction of the only oil refinery in my country, leading to a shutdown of transportation.

In the event of a major, lethal and fast spreading disease outbreak, bugging in would be preferable. I don't have the right to be a potential vector.

As for natural disasters, the area I live in is tectonically stable and outside the climate band for cyclones.

So the zombiepocalypse is the most likely scenario. Their scouts are already active, surveying us from TV. Talking heads on network news. They have no soul and the crap they talk is designed to dissolve out brains. Ahem. I for one welcome our new zombie overlords!
 
It sounds like the spare parts area is already covered. I personally would skip the reloading equipment and throw in a small rod and reel setup, with some lures and spare line. Besides, monofilament fishing line can be used for many other things besides fishing. You can secure tarps and rain flys, use for sutures, use for temporary repairs of gear, etc, etc.
I once used some to hold together my glasses (before I had lasik)when I broke them while hunting. It was not the best, or even pretty, but it allowed me to continue my trip.
 
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