What caliber for a Pickup?

[thumper723]

My family has had a 1986 GMC K1500 Diesel since 1989. I most recently ended up with it 2 years ago.

My wife has a 2006 VW Jetta Diesel that is in the shop becasue some #&@)ss could not secure a mattress in their PU ($6K+ damage to car, and I have to pay deductible), but that is a different issue. I normally ride my Triumph to work, and use the truck for really bad weather, or when I need to pick up something.

Anyways, in the last 2 years, It has needed work other than oil changes and brakes once, when an injector line cracked. And it still started and made it home.

In the last two weeks that I have actually NEEDED it to work, while the VW is in the shop, it has broken:

Starter cable end broke. Replace that
Which while replacing that, the phenolic cap on the solenoid brakes. Replace that.
Which requires removal of the front driveshaft, whose U-joint cap bolts shear off in the yoke. Which required about 6 hours of Driling, Easy Out, Breaking said easy out, and having to replace said yoke because broken easy out will not come out.

Upon that fiasco, truck worked fine for 3 days.

Then the batteries, 2 months out of warranty. DIE.

Walk to 1 mile to auto zone, buy 2 batteries, and walk 1 mile home carrying said batteries. While it is 90 and raining. After a 11 hour day in a helicopter with no AC

Truck works for 5 days, and now the glow plug controller dies.


Which one?

30-06, out of an M1
7.62x39 Out of a SKS
45ACP out of a 1911

 

[Biker]

SKS.

Biker

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Use plenty of tannerite

 

[Smith357]

The 06 straight to the block.

 

[riverdog]

I use TLC and a good dose of PM

 

[thumper723]

It has had those. Now it gets holes.

 

[Zen21Tao]

Definitely a 30-06 for a Pick-Up Truck.

The 1911 goes great in the saddle bag of a Harley

The SKS goes great with a beat up low rider with gold spinners and fuzzy dice.

 

[CB900F]

Thumper;

One of the proper answers is not on the poll. The Jimmie is protesting the VW. You have a choice. Take the .30-06 & shoot the V-dub or get a Gewehr 98 in 8X57 & shoot the truck.

900F

 

[hirundo82]

Plenty of truck to go around. I vote for d) all of the above. Make it into Swiss cheese.

 

[Hogfan1911]

I'd have to go with the SKS simply because it's cheap & easy to replace if your truck gets broken into/stolen. I'd be sick if I lost a good Garand to some gangbanger punk. Of course, if you can easily afford to replace the M1, go for it.

 

[zoom6zoom]

Hogfan, you're not answering the question the OP asked...read it again.

 

[ReadyontheRight]

Name that Movie:

Travis Bickle: You got a .44 magnum?
Andy, Gun Salesman: It's an expensive weapon.
Travis Bickle: That's all right. I got money.
Andy, Gun Salesman: It's a real monster. It'll stop a car at a hundred yards. Put a round right through the engine block. *

*Sounds like this may be a good test for this common Hollywood theory.

 

[Bigjake]

why pick only 3? support diversity!

 

[warriorsociologist]

LOL....some folks need to re-read the original post before hiting "send".

I vote for the Garand....put her down hard.

 

[ReadyontheRight]

What caliber for a Pickup?

If it's a dangerous, or in this case, wounded...pickup, I'd have to add .50 BMG. With a 2nd shot capability. You'd probably need even more firepower if you suspect that it's a mama pickup protecting some little S10s or Rangers.

Hmmmm. .50 BMG side-by-side might be a good design for all those rogue SUVs and pickups the media tells us are out there.

 

[Dionysusigma]

.30-06, and black-tip if you have some.

Be humane... .45 will only anger it. The SKS will do the job, but it'll take longer.

 

[msb45]

There's something

logical in me that links a VW to a Garand.

 

[Selfdfenz]

Donate it to one of the local SWAT teams for experimentation with the understanding they let you do at least some of the wrap up work with the automatic punch(es) and they clean up the mess

On second thought, make that a double

Could you get a tax deduction too?

If so make that a triple

S-

 

[thumper723]

What kills me is that it has been stone cold reliable, save for the last couple weeks. Which is when I needed it most. Not that it has been used any more or less than it usually does, but just that I do not have a back up until the Jetta gets out of the shop.

 

[MSgt B]

Definitely the .45

 

[LoadedDrum]

You walked a mile with two batteries

That is honestly one of the most impressive accomplishments I have read on this forum. I say that as someone who is out of shape and had to walk a mile with just one battery. After I got it to my car I felt as close to death as I hope to ever feel until I am on my deathbed.

 

[thumper723]

They are about ~40 lbs each. My arms were killing me.

 

[Tim L]

I'm amazed you actually had a battery live to the end of it's warranty in FL. I usually change them every 2 years wether they need it or not, the heat kills them.

 

[Sheldon J]

actually

the judicious use of applied explosives some remote place where no one will notice the noise would likely be quite satisfying

 

[mp510]

7.62x39 AND .30-06