Hey, folks. Question man here again.
I've read over many of the posts on the Rifle forum today (I usually just hang out on the Handguns forum) and think I could get some good info from ya'll.
I have an old Marlin .30/30 lever action. I bought the gun basically from the desire to have a heavier carbine than my trusty 10/22. I've shot the gun enough to be pretty comfortable with it, but the steady diet of expensive ammo finally did lead me to put it away for now.
Now, my question is this; given some unlikely TEOTWAWKI situation, and given that I've already spent my gun money this year on my Kimber (happy, happy, happy) so I only have about $150-250 between now and the end of the year, would you suggest any or otherwise of the following:
1) Take the money, buy a bunch of ammo, and practice with half of it. Saving the other half for social situations)
2) Upgrade the beat-up Marlin with a new barrel from Gun Parts, Inc.
3) Try to get a used gun in .308 or .30-06 and try to learn to use it?
One part of this is that I'm so new to guns that I'm not sure if the .308 etc. would be _that_ much better than the .30/30 in suburban-woods fighting. I don't hunt, so you can assume all my gun purchases are for RKBA/self defense type uses, and general messing about at the range.
-Jorah
[This message has been edited by Jorah (edited August 24, 1999).]
I've read over many of the posts on the Rifle forum today (I usually just hang out on the Handguns forum) and think I could get some good info from ya'll.
I have an old Marlin .30/30 lever action. I bought the gun basically from the desire to have a heavier carbine than my trusty 10/22. I've shot the gun enough to be pretty comfortable with it, but the steady diet of expensive ammo finally did lead me to put it away for now.
Now, my question is this; given some unlikely TEOTWAWKI situation, and given that I've already spent my gun money this year on my Kimber (happy, happy, happy) so I only have about $150-250 between now and the end of the year, would you suggest any or otherwise of the following:
1) Take the money, buy a bunch of ammo, and practice with half of it. Saving the other half for social situations)
2) Upgrade the beat-up Marlin with a new barrel from Gun Parts, Inc.
3) Try to get a used gun in .308 or .30-06 and try to learn to use it?
One part of this is that I'm so new to guns that I'm not sure if the .308 etc. would be _that_ much better than the .30/30 in suburban-woods fighting. I don't hunt, so you can assume all my gun purchases are for RKBA/self defense type uses, and general messing about at the range.
-Jorah
[This message has been edited by Jorah (edited August 24, 1999).]