Which of your guns are really most important?

[Orange Dust]

We had so much fun with the 5 gun thread lets play a new game. Here are the rules: You have a safe full of guns, and not a single round of ammo. You have plenty of bullets, powder, cases, and 1000 each of LRM, LR, SR, 209 and LP primers in your stash. The problem is Society has broken down overnight and you are unsafe at home. You will have to bug out to a remote location with your family in tow. You very well may have to walk a big part of the way with everything you need on both your and your wife's back. You have a wife and two small children that you will have to both protect and provide for. What do you load for and how much? Remember all the other stuff you will have to carry so what is really important to you? I would first choose a 22RF but that's against the rules, you have to load them and you don't have a lot of time.

 

[Muddyboots]

EASY! 12 ga slugs loaded from Sabot Technology (Sabot technology). 1 1/4 oz slug @ 1450 fps will encourage anything to stop RIGHT NOW.

 

[Orange Dust]

EASY! 12 ga slugs loaded from Sabot Technology (Sabot technology). 1 1/4 oz slug @ 1450 fps will encourage anything to stop RIGHT NOW.

Awfully heavy to carry very many along with everything else for 4 people, but I like how you think. I'm still thinking about it. Hard game.

 

[cjuve]

I am loading 5.56 on the dillon press at 800 rds/hr 62gr hpbt. while I am doing that my wife is going to be saddling the horses and putting the packs on the mules. The kids can ride double on one horse, my wife and I get our own and I will pony the 2 pack mules.

 

[Orange Dust]

I am loading 5.56 on the dillon press at 800 rds/hr 62gr hpbt. while I am doing that my wife is going to be saddling the horses and putting the packs on the mules. The kids can ride double on one horse, my wife and I get our own and I will pony the 2 pack mules.

Not playing fair, you have to walk. I can't take my SxS either. I do think the 5.56 is one of the better choices. Will kill anything with a CNS hit. Ammo heavier than .22 Hornet, but not a lot.

 

[Muddyboots]

The one aspect of a slug is the threat is stopped IMMEDIATELY so the amount of ammo is reduced. Plus even if body armor, a slug will take the person off their feet easily from the energy. Slugs are overlooked as being archaic but when you need absolute self defense they give you the "one and done" fast. Not to mention, wicked on radiators and engines. Understand I am talking about full bore slugs and not some wimpy saboted bullet. A .729 full bore slug is nothing to be messed with with amount of energy and frontal area. The Sabot technologies slug will group inside an honest 2" at 100 yards with right barrel twist.

 

[Muddyboots]

This is what I would stake my sustainability on for myself and family. Anything I will hit with it is done. Period. You can take all sorts of cartridges but at the end of the day, what will stop the threat with less harm to yourself and family? Would you rather get hit by a 9MM or a .729 1 1/4 oz slug that will just stop anything? I like one shot one kill so I can move to next target acquisition.

 

[Mackinaw BOB]

I'm going AR-10 with 200 rounds of .308. I know 200 rounds of ammo is heavy. I would hate to think I didn't bring enough gun. To bad I don't have one of those NEMO arms 300 win mag. That would be ideal. I will pack all the kids clothes and they can carry ammo.

 

[ZSteinle]

12 gauge scatter gun. Mixed loads of slugs, buckshot, and #4

 

[QuietTexan]

If, for some unfathomable reason, I had literally nothing loaded, no factory boxes, no stack of ammo cans with dozens and dozens of pre-loaded 5.56 and 300 BLK PMAGs, five loaded Glocks stashed in random places, Ye Olde 30-30 had gone AWOL from my truck, and time was really that critical, I'm walking away with a bow and broadheads. I'm not wasting time at a loading press if it's time to leave, a broadhead will do someone just fine if it comes down to it, and the arrows are reusable.

If you decompress the timeline a bit to "things are going downhill, what do you make sure you have loaded to deal with a potential issue because you're capable of rational and critical forethought and can see the metaphorical excrement is hitting the hypothetical fan" things would change, but that's not the rules you wanted to play by. Your situation is lost from the get go.

 

[Bob Wright]

Model 7 youth 243 for wife, 12 Guage Remington Special Field for me. We'll have to borrow the neighbors kids though. (They will carry their own provisions in a school day pack.)

 

[Orange Dust]

If, for some unfathomable reason, I had literally nothing loaded, no factory boxes, no stack of ammo cans with dozens and dozens of pre-loaded 5.56 and 300 BLK PMAGs, five loaded Glocks stashed in random places, Ye Olde 30-30 had gone AWOL from my truck, and time was really that critical, I'm walking away with a bow and broadheads. I'm not wasting time at a loading press if it's time to leave, a broadhead will do someone just fine if it comes down to it, and the arrows are reusable.

If you decompress the timeline a bit to "things are going downhill, what do you make sure you have loaded to deal with a potential issue because you're capable of rational and critical forethought and can see the metaphorical excrement is hitting the hypothetical fan" things would change, but that's not the rules you wanted to play by. Your situation is lost from the get go.

You have time to load

 

[LVJ76]

I'd load a good 150 rounds for the 7mm-08 and a 150 for the 12 GA , some slugs, some buckshot and some 6 shot. Wife won't let go of her 7mm-08 so I'll take the 12 GA. Load up the backpacks with clothes and supplies and hit the road.

 

[JMW67]

I would load a 100 or so rounds for my 308 light pack rifle and we would head to the cabin in the river bottom we can walk there in an hour never crossing a road no need to carry water as there are plenty windmills , fish and game a plenty and If the boys have not raided it plenty jim beam There is little more dangerous than a redneck in the river bottom he grew up in