SHTF scenario - what ONE longarm would you grab?

In a TRUE SHTF scenario, you would want to be armed with a weapon that is also carried by the military. In the civilian world that would be an AR15 platform in 5.56mm. I keep replaying this exchange between Sam Elliot and Mel Gibson:

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I think you oughta get yourself an M-16.

Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground.
 
jimmyj said:
BUG OUT:
Why am I leaving my house, neighbors that I know, an area that I am familiar with, most of my food, medicines, weapons, and ammo to go to a place that I am not familiar with, people I don't know, that the supposed danger is going to follow ??
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Not going to do the Jeremiah Johnson bit. And some of the best gear out there is best humped by the young bucks.

Age and treachery; age and treachery.
 
since it is the ONLY long arm and its the only gun that i own currently i would grab my grandpa's 12 gauge shotgun its only a single shot breech loader but it was his emergency gun.

it was good enough for him its certainly good enough for me his favorite grandson.
 
Woe is me! I'm in Florida and there ain't no hills to head for.

Plus, like several other posters, my body won't run or hump heavy gear any longer.

Another problem, if they (whoever "they" may be) nuke McDill AFB and all the Special Units and snake eaters there, I'll be fried too, since it's just across the relatively small Tampa Bay.

Live off the land? Mostly dogs and cats here. An occasional black snake (we call the big one in our back yard Sam) some birds and one or two small rabbits.

Sam! Put that frog down! It may be my supper tomorrow!

And my meds? Assuming my heart is still beating after whatever happens, my meds are the most important thing I'll need. I can go a long time without food (I often make it from lunch to supper without a snack-though sometimes I don't) but the meds keep me going.

I'll fort up here at the house, and I have enough rifles, shotguns and handguns to at least make the zombies rethink my place (plus I'll post a big sign with an arrow saying soft, tasty, unarmed neighbors next door).

But, you got me thinking. Coke Zero is on sale now, 4 six packs for $11.00, so I think I'll hoard a few six packs tomorrow, just in case.

Bob
 
My custom 12ga pump, 200 rounds of mixed ammo in bandoliers thrown around me and I'm gone.

DR
 
walnutred said:
During the Y2K non event I kept my Garand and a couple web belts of ammo handy. Now what is behind the door is a Mosin Nagant M44 with a couple belts of ammo. However while my every intent is to stay home if we did bug out someone in the family would be carrying our High Point 995 carbine. Handy size, reliable and 9mm ammo will probably be common.
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I'm thinking 9mm carbine too but in my case it would be my Beretta CX4 carbine.
 
feralmerril said:
We have been lucky in this country. We have never really seen fighting or a SHTF scenario since the civil war or in relatively isolated cases in the Indian wars. Poncho hitting Columbus New Mexico in 1916 would be the last anyone ever seen it. Yet in a lot of foreign countrys it go`s on regularly.
Kind of like when everyone else is broke its a recession, when we are broke its a depression. We all have had ancestors that have experienced it.
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Tell that to the Korean Shop owners during the L.A. riots. Or the African Amercians in Miss in the 60s (the ones that stood against gun control last year) the GIs in Tennessee who revolted against corrupt local Goverements or the Miners in West Va who fought it out against strike breaks backed by Government Officials.
 
Lot of good choices there but if SHTF I'd prefer a 40mm M79. I carried one of these when I was enlisted and you ain't going to hide from this, it will drop small trees with no problem.
 
The Free world's right arm.........FN/FAL

Weighs a tad more than an AR15 and is a touch longer, but is a more universal weapon.

Big enuf to take down big game and strong enuf to penetrate what a 5.56 won't.

.308/7.62x51 will do almost anything. Reaching out to 600 yds with iron sights or popping a squirrel! 20 rd mags are not expensive, reliable and the FAL takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'!

Remember the lessons learned in Mogadishu....a 5.56 won't shoot through an adobe or concrete block wall! A .308/7.62 can and will take out what's behind it!
 
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My grandmother came to this country as a widow with a small boy in 1912. She came over with a brother that had just got out of the russian army. She had family still in Europe. I dont remember which war, war 1 or war 2, but I remember her telling me about some of the family writing her that they survived by picking oats out of horse apples while running for their lives between fighting armys.
 
Sorry Redneck emt, Forgot about the L. A. riots and I was there to see some of it. I was a lockheed guard at burbank. I hired in april 65. The riot started up I think in august. We werent armed when I hired in but they armed us when the riot started and we stayed armed at least until I retired in 2,000.
I had friends on various departments that later worked with me and they said the published news figures were a lot lower than they belived. Thats kind of what I meant when I wrote its a recession when everyone else is out of work, when you are out of work its a depression. Its a riot when its over the hill but if you were one of those korean shop owners, it was a war.
 
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I only have one long gun to choose from that I would take, my Ithaca Deerslayer. I have a couple hundred rounds of 16 gauge slugs and a couple hundred more in birdshot from #4's up to #8's. Backing it up would be my Ruger Blackhawk with the over 1,000 rounds of .357 and .38-44 loads. I would be fairly well stocked for the start of the end of the world.
 
Only reason I'd be bugging out would be because something happened to my house like it burning down or something. If that were the case I'd likely grab my Bushmaster Patrolman with fixed carry handle and no frills and leave the fancier ones at home. I'd grab the ready 20 and 30 round mags as I could and hopefully leave the rest secure in my safe to retrieve at a later time.
I've always wanted to build a small self contained cabin in back of my property to hunt out of and to have as a backup plan. Camping out in the woods especially winter time wouldn't be my first choice either.
 
RonJ said:
So, what do we do with the guy who wants us to fall in for short arm inspection?
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Ah HEM..........he'd be point man of a one man assault on a Zombie stronghold. :eek:Soon to be, no more worries. :cool::rolleyes:
 
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