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Re: Best weapon to have incase of TEOTWAWKI
« Reply #15 on Nov 8, 2010, 2:22pm »

I have a Mosin-Nagant carbine, a couple SKS's, a couple AR-15's a CZ-52 and a 9mm SIG. I would like to have a couple BP firearms, but what's really got my panties in a twist lately is the new Kel-Tec PMR-30 pistol in .22 magnum. It uses 30 round magazines and weighs 19oz fully loaded. As a 'Get home from Los Angeles with nothing but a small pack' weapon, it'd be pretty hard to beat. Picture a synthetic version of an Automag II that actually works. (At least it supposedly does.) I am 'bugging in', but when the price comes down on these I think it'll make a damn near perfect survival/ emergency defensive arm. 30 rounds of .22 magnum would ruin anyone's day, and you could down a deer or other medium game with it in a pinch. Be good against feral dogs as well.

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Re: Best weapon to have incase of TEOTWAWKI
« Reply #16 on Nov 8, 2010, 4:57pm »

They are making a rifle that will use that guns clip as well from what I hear. The .22 will be pretty useful, does anyone know if a rifle chambered in .22 could pierce a human skull at 100 yards? Would be perfect for "zombies".

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Re: Best weapon to have incase of TEOTWAWKI
« Reply #17 on Jul 13, 2012, 3:59pm »

My choices would either be my mini 14, my sks, my Remington 870, my 10/22, with my backup being my p99.

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Re: Best weapon to have incase of TEOTWAWKI
« Reply #18 on Sept 30, 2012, 8:37am »

Well I live in Canada up in Northern Ontario. All I need is what i have, Savage mark II model BTVS .22lr and Barnett crossbow.

.22:
-I have thousands of rounds, and it barely costed me anything relative to their value.
-Good for squires, partridge, rabbit...
-I can shoot decently accurate to 200 yards with it.

crossbow:
Dependable and wont need to worry about running out of ammo
-Good for moose, bear, deer, caribou

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Re: Best weapon to have incase of TEOTWAWKI
« Reply #19 on Sept 30, 2012, 8:51am »

Nov 8, 2010, 4:57pm, King of the Wastes wrote:

They are making a rifle that will use that guns clip as well from what I hear. The .22 will be pretty useful, does anyone know if a rifle chambered in .22 could pierce a human skull at 100 yards? Would be perfect for "zombies".

A .22lr will do more damage than most people think. A .22lr typically wouldn't go right through a skull and out the other side, but they do damage by entering and then deflecting around in the brain. There isn't a big game animal in North America that hasn't at some point been taken down by a 22lr.

You may have people saying they would rather have a 308 for big game survival (or "zombies" i suppose), but you can fit thousands of rounds of 22lr in a very small space and it is very light. Carrying around an equal amount of large caliber rounds just wouldn't be realistic, even if people want to convince them selves it would be.

Small guns and good hunters = food , Not inexperienced people running around with rambo guns that don't know how to clean a kill even when they have it. Its easy to shoot a deer or moose when you see one, but cleaning and preserving the meat is not such an easy task.

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Re: Best weapon to have incase of TEOTWAWKI
« Reply #20 on Oct 6, 2012, 4:50pm »

Sept 30, 2012, 8:37am, dgabbs wrote:

Well I live in Canada up in Northern Ontario. All I need is what i have, Savage mark II model BTVS .22lr and Barnett crossbow.

.22:
-I have thousands of rounds, and it barely costed me anything relative to their value.
-Good for squires, partridge, rabbit...
-I can shoot decently accurate to 200 yards with it.

crossbow:
Dependable and wont need to worry about running out of ammo
-Good for moose, bear, deer, caribou

Hey! I have a Savage MkII as well. It's actually a Lakefield, but I know they were bought out by Savage some time between when I got the rifle and now. It's even got a Maple Leaf sticker just ahead of the trigger guard.

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Re: Best weapon to have incase of TEOTWAWKI
« Reply #21 on Oct 8, 2012, 3:31pm »

Oct 6, 2012, 4:50pm, Blacksheep wrote:

Sept 30, 2012, 8:37am, dgabbs wrote:

Well I live in Canada up in Northern Ontario. All I need is what i have, Savage mark II model BTVS .22lr and Barnett crossbow.

.22:
-I have thousands of rounds, and it barely costed me anything relative to their value.
-Good for squires, partridge, rabbit...
-I can shoot decently accurate to 200 yards with it.

crossbow:
Dependable and wont need to worry about running out of ammo
-Good for moose, bear, deer, caribou

Hey! I have a Savage MkII as well. It's actually a Lakefield, but I know they were bought out by Savage some time between when I got the rifle and now. It's even got a Maple Leaf sticker just ahead of the trigger guard.

Thats awesome! They are very accurate guns right out of the box. I'm guessing yours is pre-accutrigger, but their new accutriggers are really nice. They are good and dependable guns, and for the price you can't go wrong. I have family that live in Lakefield, Ontario where they are made.

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Re: Best weapon to have incase of TEOTWAWKI
« Reply #22 on Oct 8, 2012, 11:03pm »

Oct 8, 2012, 3:31pm, dgabbs wrote:

Oct 6, 2012, 4:50pm, Blacksheep wrote:

Hey! I have a Savage MkII as well. It's actually a Lakefield, but I know they were bought out by Savage some time between when I got the rifle and now. It's even got a Maple Leaf sticker just ahead of the trigger guard.

Thats awesome! They are very accurate guns right out of the box. I'm guessing yours is pre-accutrigger, but their new accutriggers are really nice. They are good and dependable guns, and for the price you can't go wrong. I have family that live in Lakefield, Ontario where they are made.

It was bought for me between '94 - '96, so I believe you are correct. I may buy a right handed model, should I ever come up with the spare cash for it. That is a really cool story, man.

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