So What's Your Go-to-Caliber for SHTF?

Sisco · September 2, 2021

4 hours ago, Armed Eye Doc said:

That's got to be harder to find ammo than a 6.5 Grendel. I applaud you on originality.

2 hours ago, Belt Fed said:

Lol.

Oops wrong number

You’re talking to yourself out loud again.

Belt Fed · September 2, 2021

22 minutes ago, Sisco said:

You’re talking to yourself out loud again.

At my age that happens a lot.

Lonewolf McQuade · September 2, 2021

4 minutes ago, Belt Fed said:

At my age that happens a lot.

You tell'em, Adam....

Belt Fed · September 2, 2021

7 minutes ago, Lonewolf McQuade said:

You tell'em, Adam....

😡

Sisco · September 3, 2021

2 hours ago, Belt Fed said:

At my age that happens a lot.

One nice thing about talking and arguing with myself is I am always right.

Lonewolf McQuade · September 3, 2021

2 minutes ago, Sisco said:

One nice thing about talking and arguing with myself is I am always right.

& all is forgotten about the next day......literally

Cliff R · September 4, 2021

"my age that happens a lot."

I've developed two things in recent years, and man do both of them make life a LOT easier. First I developed CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t), then more recently I developed an even WORSE case of DGS (Don't Give a Sh*t).

Now, no matter what happens every thing is fine at the end of the day and I sleep like a baby!.......LOL....

Edited September 4, 2021 by Cliff R

shaffe48 · September 8, 2021

For a rifle I'll take the .308. I've shot it in a bolt action hunting rifle for a while now and bought the ar just for this purpose.

But I'm not sure how much ammo of any kind you will find if shtf as even after covid all ammo disappeared and if you did find something it was an oddball like .300 savage or 35 whelen. So having a variety might just be the smartest choice of all.

98Z5V · September 9, 2021

11 hours ago, shaffe48 said:

But I'm not sure how much ammo of any kind you will find if shtf as even after covid all ammo disappeared and if you did find something it was an oddball like .300 savage or 35 whelen. So having a variety might just be the smartest choice of all.

That's why I have 12 different calibers for ARs. Might be 13 now, have to go back through the list again, with semi-annual inventory coming up fast... Then pistols, then bolt guns, then shotguns...

I'll find something that I can shoot, somewhere in that hardware pile... :thumbup:

sketch · September 10, 2021

I will have the biggest unobtainable mfer. Some day!! 🍻🍻🇺🇸

98Z5V · September 10, 2021

23 minutes ago, sketch said:

I will have the biggest unobtainable mfer. Some day!! 🍻🍻🇺🇸

I'm fighting with the ammo for it right now. Just had to buy a Hornady 50 BMG press, just to load this stuff up. That's not a cheap press. Only 2 companies make (made) one, and RCBS discontinued the one that they made, BITD. Finding this fucker was no easy task. With that in mind - when you find it - you pay what they're asking for it, when they have it in stock. FML.

sketch · September 10, 2021

3 minutes ago, 98Z5V said:

I'm fighting with the ammo for it right now. Just had to buy a Hornady 50 BMG press, just to load this stuff up. That's not a cheap press. Only 2 companies make (made) one, and RCBS discontinued the one that they made, BITD. Finding this fucker was no easy task. With that in mind - when you find it - you pay what they're asking for it, when they have it in stock. FML.

Grassy ass!🍻🍻🇺🇸

98Z5V · September 10, 2021

When this is all said and done, with this ammo - I know a certain guy that needs to run downtown and grab two blowjobs.

And he needs to bring one back for me.

sketch · September 10, 2021

7 minutes ago, 98Z5V said:

When this is all said and done, with this ammo - I know a certain guy that needs to run downtown and grab two blowjobs.

And he needs to bring one back for me.

Who's your buddy... who,s your pal?

BigNate · September 10, 2021

On 9/8/2021 at 11:26 AM, shaffe48 said:

But I'm not sure how much ammo of any kind you will find if shtf as even after covid all ammo disappeared and if you did find something it was an oddball like .300 savage or 35 whelen. So having a variety might just be the smartest choice of all.

That is my reasoning behind choosing .308 / 7.62X51 as my "if you can only take one..." cartridge. 5.56X45, 7.62X51 are probably the most plentiful rifle cartridges in the western world... If you are scrounging / bartering for rounds - you'll be more likely to find these than others. Given that there are a lot more folks who will be competing for the 5.56... and that IMHO the 7.62 is a much more versatile cartridge - I choose 7.62... 🙂

I have to admit - when I see the odd-ball cartridge on the shelf at Walmart (they've had something - I think maybe .350 win - through the entire ammo crisis) I've thought about buying it, and buying a gun that chambers it. However, I already have a few of those sorts of things that I could probably find ammo for if I wanted... thinking .303 British for the Lee Enfield...

Just my two cents.

Sisco · September 10, 2021

The moral of the story: When you buy a gun, mentally double the price, and use the extra money to purchase ammo for it right away. Then replace what you shoot religiously.

BigNate · September 10, 2021

12 minutes ago, Sisco said:

The moral of the story: When you buy a gun, mentally double the price, and use the extra money to purchase ammo for it right away. Then replace what you shoot religiously.

Great advice... although I'd say "multiply by 2.25" then, buy the gun, buy a gun's worth of ammo, and bank 1/4 of a gun's worth of money towards the next gun safe... 😁

Sisco · September 10, 2021

1 hour ago, BigNate said:

Great advice... although I'd say "multiply by 2.25" then, buy the gun, buy a gun's worth of ammo, and bank 1/4 of a gun's worth of money towards the next gun safe... 😁

Safe or sale? Either way nota bad idea.👍🏻

BigNate · September 10, 2021

2 hours ago, Sisco said:

Safe or sale? Either way nota bad idea.👍🏻

Yes

😁

Although when I wrote it I did mean "safe" - in that when you run out of room in the current safe it could potentially stifle good gun purchasing habits... while you save up for a new safe...

Edited September 10, 2021 by BigNate

Belt Fed · September 11, 2021

Would i be wrong if i wanted a high point carbine in either 45 auto or 40 cal?

Matt.Cross · September 11, 2021

On 9/10/2021 at 9:14 PM, Belt Fed said:

Would i be wrong if i wanted a high point carbine in either 45 auto or 40 cal?

Not at all. Now if you go BUYING a Hi-Point Carbine....

You may or may not be laughed to scorn for all of time and eternity. There's only one way to find out.

Belt Fed · September 11, 2021

:laffs: well...i uhhh...🙁

98Z5V · September 11, 2021

Those things run, man. They run. They look like the warts on a fat chick's ass, at the bar at 2am.

But at 2am, does it matter?... :popcorn:

bubbas4570 · September 13, 2021

On 9/10/2021 at 9:27 PM, 98Z5V said:

Those things run, man. They run. They look like the warts on a fat chick's ass, at the bar at 2am.

But at 2am, does it matter?...

Only if you actually care by that point or can see straight by that point.......

Madhouse · September 13, 2021

A while back I did some caliber consolidation, sold weapons and ammo of the lesser-needed varieties and kept mostly only what I consider to be in my primary weapons systems. I eliminated .40 S&W (ammo and four pistols), 7.62x39 (ammo and one rifle), 4.6x30 (ammo and one rifle), others that I can't even remember.

But back to the original question, if the world went to smoldering shit and I would be doing one-day scouting trips, I would probably bring 5.7x28mm along - I'd have my PS90, Five-seveN, and shorty AR, and a bunch of rounds. But if I were busting out with a doubt as to whether I'd ever make it back to home, it would be my standards of 22lr, 9mm, 45ACP and 5.56.