2 months in deep wilderness which rifle

[ras]

It's quite reliable. . . . Fun and fast to shoot.

Wildewinds,
Thanks, good info.
R

 

[udtjim]

My woods gun for Bear country. 44 Mag Ultra-Lite 26 OZ. Some SOG's, Seal Pup. My Northwest Ranger(maybe my favorite all around knife). The Twitch ll and the SOG Air weight.

 

[desmobob]

I would take my AR-15 mid-length (16" bbl) in 6.8 SPC caliber with an assortment of ammo ("varmint" and medium game bullets).

It's light, compact, accurate, reliable, and ammunition is fairly small and easy to carry in quantity. It is equipped with a 1.5-6x32 scope in a one-piece, quick-release mount and back-up iron sights.

I like to think of it as the Winchester Model 1894 with a hundred-plus years of evolution....

Stay sharp,
desmobob

 

[Pilot1]

Hi,

If you had a chance to go into the deep wilderness for 2 months, which rifle would you bring to help provide food? You can only bring the supplies you can carry on your back and one rifle.

It depends. Are you moving every day or just going to one spot and staying? If you are backpacking and moving daily or regularly, I'd take a pistol. Something that you could throw a .22 LR conversion unit onto, Like a CZ-75D PCR or P-01 and the CZ Kadet Kit. When hunting for small game switch to the .22. For self defense keep the 9MM slide and barrel on.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

Christopher McCandless proved the value of a .22 rifle even in the hands of the untrained.
He fed himself for 4 months with his and even took down a Moose cow.
In the end it was the "Rabbit Starvation" and eating the wrong wild plants that killed him.

The kid was crazy, but he did more before dying at 24 than most of us will in a much longer life.

the part about being poisoned by plants was fiction.

He was an idiot who never got the medication he badly needed, and died. Now worshiped by similar idiots to those who admire Timothy "Bear Poop" Treadwell.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

I think I would bring my SKS for a woods rifle. Power, reliable, and accurate enough. (assuming this is from the rifles we own)

 

[desmobob]

It depends. Are you moving every day or just going to one spot and staying? If you are backpacking and moving daily or regularly, I'd take a pistol. Something that you could throw a .22 LR conversion unit onto, Like a CZ-75D PCR or P-01 and the CZ Kadet Kit. When hunting for small game switch to the .22. For self defense keep the 9MM slide and barrel on.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to keep yourself fed with a pistol. I happen to own that combination of CZ-75 and Kadet conversion kit you mentioned and I really enjoy it. I have a great selection of handguns, but if I knew I had to keep myself well-fed for a couple of months in the wilderness, I would not depend on a pistol to do it. Two months is a long time, and I'd certainly want to be able to take medium/big game.

And besides, the OP wanted to know what rifle you'd pick....

Stay sharp,
desmobob

 

[Crow Butte]

For those of us who reload, a 30-30 case loaded down in power with a cast lead bullet will give us the versatility we need for big game and small game. It's too bad that some ammo manufacturer doesn't do the same for people who don't reload. There probably are better choices, but I do like the 94Winchester and the Marlin 336. I'm very comfortable with either one.

 

[cuphead]

mingun!:jerkit::jerkit:

 

[mckrob]

For a surival situation, which would most likely happen while I was working, I would want something a bit bigger, where these guys (and the bigger white variety) are my biggest concern:

I usually bring my Sako 75 in 30-06, this is the camp rifle, and a Winchester Defender 12Ga with a Butler Creek folding stock. The shotgun is usually loaded with bear deterrents with a couple of slugs at the bottom of the mag. I also have a Dan Wesson .357mag and a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44mag that I carry when I can (in Canada a special permit is needed to carry a handgun for defence against wild animal attacks, this is a region specific thing and can take some time to acquire so I don't always get the permit in time). The idea of having the rifle is that if we could not get our weekly food flight due to extended periods of bad weather (for example) we could take game if need be.

I guess if I was going to be mobile and not based out of a base camp, and this was mainly for food gathering, I would probably want my Ruger 10/22 with a folding Butler Creek stock; lightweight, compact, accurate, and lightweight ammo.