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I'd be in for 2 if I could find 2000Gal cans of Hoppe's #9 to keep the bbl clean. Other than the Hoppe's I think I can manage the rest.

Handiness. I've got a 1:7 bbl on the way for a Kimber Montana that will become a 22Creed. It will be finished @ 22".

257STW worth a look too depending on what you can find for brass. Basically the same thing minus the double-radius shoulder.

Yep. The worst of the worst people that in the best of times have 0 regard for human life, become ruling warlords in very short order.

Your closest non-ash-buried next of kin would get the bill.

Doubtful, IRS is far enough away to remain operational. They wouldn’t let a little thing like a biblical proportion natural disaster stand between them and your money.

If Winchester had offered the 22 and 243 WSSMs w/1:8 twist we might not have a CreedMoor family….

25WSM?

I know a father/son duo who built .257STW’s in the late 90’s.

I've got 95gn Badlands BullDozer II's going 3750fps from a 25" 3-Groove Lilja chambered in 257Wby using Ramshot Magnum powder.

I honestly don't think all that hard about any of this. If one doesn't have a reasonably secret, defensible, adequate supply of potable water you're not going to make much more than 10-12 days anyway. In the event of full-on Armageddon, if you can make the 1st 6Mo or so, you're no longer doing...

Ruger 77/22 SS "Boat Paddle" in 22LR. Light, reliable, weatherproof, simple. You can have a whole bunch of ammo in nothing more than a small pocket and it doesn't make a bunch of racket when you fire it.

Pretty much. .284 or PRC case will also get you to roughly the same places necked to 6mm. Just more work and custom dies so more $$ and time. I suppose you could go 280AI necked down to 6MM to get the most capacity out of a 62-65MM case.

Easiest easy buttons in order of lowest to highest powder consumption: 22Creed 240Wby 257Wby The reason I call them the easiest is there's no necking up/down brass work involved and factory rifles are available. IIRC, the newest rifles from Weatherby in .240 are 1:7 or 1:8 so should you...

Be way further ahead chopping down an AL framed BLR Lightweight.