Nice to see the 10/22 & 870s represented here - you guys got good taste, for the most part.
Anybody thinking you're goning to fight it out is nuts. Sorry to pop that balloon. You could/might do it for some time but the definition of a survivalist is to survive. That doesn't mean trying to be the badest SOB in the valley. That means being the _last_ SOB in the valley. If you have to fight, sure, do it - who wouldn't. But WANT to? Not a chance. Give me that hole while it all goes down.
I'll bite though. Reasoning behind my choices?
1. Supressed 10/22 = quiet/accurate for food (I'd bank on my freeze-dried stores first) & a brick would last for a long, long time.
2. BHP & just two mags = I shoot it well & would only use it for personal defense in a last ditch close encounter. Figured the two mags ought to last almost forever 'cause I'd never have to use it.
3. 870 for later after all you guys have shot it out.
Besides, after the fracus, I'd have my pick of all you dead guys' guns. No smiley face pointedly intended.
& again, that hole to hide in till it blows over. Nothing else, with all that shooting going on, should be not too much of a problem & sneak in on all the machos & just take 'em with a supressed head shot at under 50 yards & then just do a fade. The crows & magpies will surely show me where to pick up the weapons later.
Figure if I've got to head for the hills (I already live there) but had to take off with it all on my back, I'd be overloaded with more than 45 lbs total (perhaps I'd need 10lbs more in winter). In fact, listening to what I'm hearing here, I think I'll leave out the shotgun. There'll be plenty pickins.
As far as survival stuff, since we seem to be heading that way, I'd take a gill net (super efficient/quiet protein method for smooth water), a few drop lines (ditto for even fast water). An olive drab mosquito net 48X48" strung out would catch all kinds bugs (all but invisible & oh so efficient) = more free protein. Plants would provide the bulk of my diet. Don't forget that crawfish trap - all of which would be checked/harvested in the dead of night.
In fact, I just might go for a 14" bbl supressed 300 Whisper & ditto supressed .22LR on a Contender carbine frame - all camo'd, of course. Keep the .22 brick & perhaps 50 rounds for the Whisper. Figure I'd never have more than 10 rounds on me at any one time while "harvesting."
Dump the shotgun (& quite likely, the BHP)altogether & with the weight saved, go for night vision or better yet, thermal imagery for that nighttime fun & games. Not many would ever stand the slightest chance.
Fun to bluesky about how bad we would all be when TSHTF. Too bad it won't happen that way.
There's an old saying - old age & guile will beat youth & strength everytime.
Signed, most respectively,
the last SOB in the valley. May yours be as preordained as mine.
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we gladly feast on those who would subdue us