what do you calber rifle do you use and y ?....

[planedriver]

I am of the thought that hunting for food will not work. I store food or prep for when it isn't around to buy. When I hunt I hunt with a 358 Winchester most of the time on large game. Shotgun for small game. I don't see that changing if things go bad. I hunt on my land.

The same guns I hunt with can be used to protect our place. I live in the country and most of the people out here have guns and grow food. They also put food back so they have it till the next growing season. It has been dun this way before I was born and it will be dun the same way long after I am gone. They don't call it prepping they call it farming.

Also it is in bad taste to hunt on other peoples places with out asking. It can get you put in jail. With the lack of law I would say it could get you shot.

No way in hell do I want to go to a national forest and hunt for food. That is dangerous enough when things are good. I have no idea what it would be like if things went bad wrong.

Absolutely agree with you. I know guys who have hunted deer for many years without making a kill. They think if there is a shift situation they can provide by hunting! How? Are they going to become good hunters because they have no other options?

To your second point. As a farmer (the real kind. Not the kind with 5 acres, 6 chickens, and a goat named nanny) I take trespass seriously. In a lawless society the hunter could become the hunted. The best solution for the op is to learn how to garden and preserve. Then buy a 12 gauge to protect his food and home.

Don’t even get me started on bugging out. Lol

 

[model1994]

I picked up a special model 70 .270 recently. It's my first rifle outside .22s. I am still getting a good peep sight and such situated, refinishing the wood, etc. once finished, I plan to use it for basically everything shotguns can't handle.

for shtf purposes, k.i.s.s. principle. but honestly I'm not a prepper type. if sreallyhtf that's a world I don't care to be in and am not prepping for

 

[31ST MEUSOC]

Depending on the area you live like me PA not so much for big deer. I would concentrate on fishing with nets or freaking ground hogs their dumb and plentiful.

 

[longbow]

I was talking with my brother and we both have diffent ideas for what rifle wr are going to use for hunting when (shtf )
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7.5 swiss

 

[indiucky]

I live in the woods and have no plans to do any hunting other than animals very close to the house. A 22lr works just fine on most anything in that case.

And as an added bonus a Ruger 10 22 also makes a bang up zombie gun a year into the outbreak when the zombie skulls have softened up a wee bit....




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[Creedmoor]

And as an added bonus a Ruger 10 22 also makes a bang up zombie gun a year into the outbreak when the zombie skulls have softened up a wee bit....




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Geesh, you should just move to Cotton Plant, Mississippi. You would fit right in with some of my cousins.

 

[printcraft]

.88 Magnum, for schools.

 

[indiucky]

Geesh, you should just move to Cotton Plant, Mississippi. You would fit right in with some of my cousins.

TBF I did have a native Alabaman say, of my beloved southern Indiana.....

Alabaman: what's up Hoosier?

me: nothing much Johnny Reb

Alabaman: You realize I work for the railroad on the run between New Albany and Evansville and that southern Indiana is basically the Mississippi of the Midwest right???

me: I know that....quit acting like you think I ain't ever been to Tazwell afore....

 

[Creedmoor]

TBF I did have a native Alabaman say, of my beloved southern Indiana.....

Alabaman: what's up Hoosier?

me: nothing much Johnny Reb

Alabaman: You realize I work for the railroad on the run between New Albany and Evansville and that southern Indiana is basically Mississippi right???

me: I know that....quit acting like you think I ain't ever been to Tazwell afore....

You Yankees, but have you ever had breakfast at Rudy's in Bucksnort? Damn good food!

 

[indiucky]

You Yankees, but have you ever had breakfast at Rudy's in Bucksnort? Damn good food!

Yes it is lol....

actual quote was, in a Alabama drawl, "you do realize southern Indiana is the Mississippi of the Midwest?"

I was rolling...my brother and I started using it every time we'd head out to Jasper lmao.....

 

[Creedmoor]

So you dragged a school bus single wide into your cave and moved in?

 

[1nderbeard]

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those are freaking sweet.

 

[Leadeye]

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[Iroquois]

Everybody should have a battle rifle, 5.56 or 7.62... whatever you can handle.
Ammunition for both will get scarce, in my opinion, because jacketed bullets will be hard to find. I plan to keep a large frame revolver and carbine in .44 magnum or .45 LC. Lead bullets are easy to make.

 

[smokingman]

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Is the mares leg 10/22 considered a rifle(sbr) or pistol? I like it

 

[indiucky]

Everybody should have a battle rifle, 5.56 or 7.62... whatever you can handle.
Ammunition for both will get scarce, in my opinion, because jacketed bullets will be hard to find. I plan to keep a large frame revolver and carbine in .44 magnum or .45 LC. Lead bullets are easy to make.

Same...I keep a Marlin 1894/Ruger 77/44 with a S&W 29 and 629.....

along with a .62 caliber/20 gauge English officer's fusil in flintlock....

In case I live longer than my ammo lol....

 

[daddyusmaximus]

Well, if it's a SHTF deal where I haven't been driven from my home, I just hunt with my regular weapons.
That means .22LR for tree rat stew, .44 mag for venison, and so forth.

If it's bad, and I had to bug out... depending on how light I need to travel, I'll just have to hunt with my fighting gun then won't I... so, 5.56.