8 Industry Experts Pick Their Must-Have SHTF Gun: Having A Gun For Defense Is The Best Option

Yeah, a gun with lots of moving parts that needs to be maintained.

Not to smart.

High caliber revolver with low maintenance is all you need.

There is a reason they won the west.

Wow , most 5.56 and even a 308? Wtf are you going to do with a .308? Thats some retad shit. Are you hunting bear and feeding a .20 person caravan per day? Or are you dragging a freezer with you?


Id want a .22lr you can carry 2k rds no problem , in a semi auto would lay down 2-3 man patrols. Small and slow enough where it wont totally destroy rabbits and squirrels which are better for single meal servings.

Keep in mind shtf your not going to be fighting a war. You may get in small skirmishes but a smart survivalist is going to move slow. And stay out of sight.


If you run into an enclave you have to fight? Observe for a day or two . Learn patrol movements routes and schedules and then engage in guerilla warfare hit and run on outermost patrol points and then have cover ready and whittle their numbers down. Until you can ambush them.

But thats only if you HAVE to get through them otherwise take the long way around. No worries. Be silent. Slow and ateady wins the race in shtf

Yeah, the reason is because that's all they had, dipshit.

For actual SHTF situation, and you can take a single firearm, there is obviously only one choice.

They left out a close combat weapon...my choice, the Kel-Tec KSG.

short answer: AR

Are you guys going to try and fight a war?


I mean cqb? Lol shtf is going to be a game of survival. All the idiots who go all rambo in the first 3 weeks are gonna be dead.

Move to secure bugout location. With supplies for 3 weeks. Then go on scouting missions. And assess your next move. Plan a route and move slow.


Just doing 55mph without knowing what youre driving into will get you ambushed.

I think the 3rd dude made a lot of sense, he chose the bolt action in .223, he chose a Savage, I have an Ruger American, mine was super accurate out of the box, I can shoot sub 1/2 MOA @ 200 yards with it, I put Primary Arms ACSS glass on it, it has built in (etched) range finder, wind hold, the gun will out shoot me.


My AR is in 300 Blackout, this round was made for suppression


Good post OP, but it sucks, it makes me miss my weekly trips to the range, I had to stop in May, can't replace my shot ammo!

Tools
I have many tools.
Specialty tools some general purpose.
Do i get to bug in!
cus I reload all my own and can for thousands of rounds as we make our own bullets for all our calibers only limited by the quantity of primers, We have and have the materials to reload the primers themselves only spent a few hours on it and 6 out 10 work we will prefect it soon.

Did ya know that 380, 9mm, 38, 38 special and 357 all can use the same bullet, when reloading.

Well I live in LA with apx 10,000,000 people that have 0 preps. 10,000 are known gang members, with apx 100,000 known associates and they all have family and friends!

22 ain't going to be of much use, I will give it to my 3yr old! I will go with my HK 91 and 93s

Are we bugen out RV style or off road bikes or bike cycles on foot, than is the ARs, glocks with a combat load plus as many drop bags filled as we can carry.

Their will be nothing left living in LA or for a 100 miles around it after a month or so, not a tree bird or even rats.
These people will eat each other!

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You only use your handgun to shoot your
way to your rifle.

I've been saying this for years. Load a revolver, put it in a drawer, pull it out 40 years later and it will fire first pull.

And it won't jam, ever. Unlike a magazine, with a spring that relaxes over the years.

Davey Crockett

For the novice desiring personal protection I would recommend a shotgun as you first weapon.

Remember Y2K? These SHTF threads have been going on for over 20 years.

Yes

Damn OP, that is alot of "abusive posts".

.357 lever action

Learn kung fu

The shotgun is the most useful and diverse

Good choice, fast, holds a lot of rounds, and NOT on most "banned" lists.

308 rd will go through a sandbag and through you and kill the person behind you!!...M1A1 or M14 with a 20 rd mag!!!

12” pump shotgun for home defense and .40sw medium size pistol for concealed carry, that’s all I need.

Who the fuck only owns one firearm? Handgun to fight your way to your rifle. Rinse and repeat. And yes .22lr's are Great tools. They use the same boresnake to clean the barrel as your 5.56 or 5.45 rifle. Marlin 795 w/ Tech sights was the choice of Project Appleseed for training youth on the AR platform. Marlin 795's can still be had for under $200.

MAGA

You realize that battle rifles were typically 30 caliber before the development of the 5.56, right? I wouldn’t mind having a 308 tucked away.

But your post is dead on.

The key is to be silent and unseen. Avoid engagements.

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I have a Winchester 44.40 leaver action.

I'll be going western range style.

I don't care much for people, so I will be digging in hides along a rout to travel each night.

I know my rifle will make a loud noise when fired, I don't want to use it too much, one shot one kill, harvest the meat and move to the next hide.

laying traps if some one follows me.

one must go Rambo for ones self if the society is starving and looking like something from walking dead hoards.

then I'll hide and let it pass. I'll tap tree roots for water collection, knowing which trees give good sap for sugars and medicine to take down fevers.

you would be best to get the books of survival in the old times and study it and carry it, make it your book next to your bible.

120 smoothbore, on an Abrams. Should suffice.

I got the scorpion cz due to ammo issues. I couldn’t find any ammo but 9mm during the “lockdown” and wanted something that’s customizable and has high capacity magazines. My handgun is also 9mm so that comes in handy.