I hunt extensively with my M6 in .22H over a .410, not because it is so easy to get game with small calibers and awkward, industrial looking guns, but because it is so challenging (I need sporting, fair chase, etc. in a hunt).
If you are actually trying to survive, and a missed shot means starvation, you prolly don't want this gun. I consider it a very interesting (almost a toy) object for expert shots who are bored with the ease of getting animals, with the regular, highly effective hunting weapons. This gun is for enthusiasts who will practice a lot, not desperate, ordinary people who are up against it.
To me, Survival with a capital S means that you are "not playing" anymore, and want every edible animal within eyesight, dead, and stuffed into your daypack. Failure could mean starvation and death, for you and yours. For small game and birds, this means a 12 gauge that is fitted to you, firing a premium 1 oz of 6's (for me). Small game rifle shooters might have a highly accurate .22 with d@mn good glass. Big game shooters would probably have a scoped .308, again wearing good glass. And a good laser range finder.
To go along with this (
Survival), you should further stop beating around the bush and get professional instruction in rifle and shotgun shooting. Then, burn up tons of ammo in focused marksmanship training. Follow this up with unknown distance/ bad shooting stance practice on paper targets under time pressures. This will begin to simulate the difficulties of actual marksmanship problems one encounters in the hunting fields.
Paper doesn't lie. If you can't group well on paper, how will you hunt successfully? Not consistently well, that's how.
Go hunting with the conventional, accepted hunting weapons of your geographical region. Then, go hunting with the funky little survival weapons we all like, and then tell me which one you hunt better with.
