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survival guns?
- Thread starter nate1714
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If I was going to take a .22 for survival, I think I would look at one of the target pistols with a good scope or aimpoint on it. With a low ride tactial type holster it would not interfer with your backpack, be a way to carry it where it would be easily available and leave your hands free. Most of those guns are very accurate and seem reliable for what I would need. The old woodsman, huntsman, and Ruger Marks would also be something to look at.
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A .22 handgun makes alot of sense especially when your longarm is something else like a high powered rifle or shotgun.
You might spend all day glassing for big game and come up dry yet on the hike out you'll spot or spook all sorts of small game.
My dad once took a ruffed grouse with a 30-06 shot to the head. He used what he had. In a survival situation it is small game that will feed you in between the occasional big game kill, if you get a shot at something large at all.
By using passive food gathering means, trotline, traps, snares etc. You can go about doing active things like improving your shelter, foraging, collecting firewood etc. There's so much stuff you have to get done in a day that you have to "multi-task" as much as possible. A .22 handgun turns these other "hands-on" activities into hunting trips as well. Mac
You might spend all day glassing for big game and come up dry yet on the hike out you'll spot or spook all sorts of small game.
My dad once took a ruffed grouse with a 30-06 shot to the head. He used what he had. In a survival situation it is small game that will feed you in between the occasional big game kill, if you get a shot at something large at all.
By using passive food gathering means, trotline, traps, snares etc. You can go about doing active things like improving your shelter, foraging, collecting firewood etc. There's so much stuff you have to get done in a day that you have to "multi-task" as much as possible. A .22 handgun turns these other "hands-on" activities into hunting trips as well. Mac
light survival situations I'd be all in favor of a .22 handgun. I have a Browning Buckmark field model and love it. It would be great for getting small game and ammo weighs next to nothing.
In a heavier situation (longer time, more remote, larger animals) I'd rather have a 1911 on my hip that the .22 pistol, and one of the 20 guage .22 combo guns for longer range work. Gets you more rabbits and squirrels plus offers the chance at grouse, phesant, chukar, whatever's around.
In a heavier situation (longer time, more remote, larger animals) I'd rather have a 1911 on my hip that the .22 pistol, and one of the 20 guage .22 combo guns for longer range work. Gets you more rabbits and squirrels plus offers the chance at grouse, phesant, chukar, whatever's around.
I asked my gunsmith once what centerfire rifle he would feel comfortable depending on long term living in the woods. He picked a Remington Rolling Block or Mauser 98- easy to keep working with very basic tools and few moving parts to lose/break. To feed myself, I took a 65.00 Romanian military .22lr training rifle and cut barrel down to 17", new front sight, coated in Brownells Alumahyde. Removed from stock it is nice and packable.
Bill
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