best SHTF handguns or rifles

[NCW_Robert]

Reliability: pistol = Glock = rifle colt AR
Most common: 9mm - .223/556.
Knives, something quality made and super sharp.

Glock is simply an example of reliability along with the colt AR, but what ever high quality gun you got will probably be fine as long as when the time comes, it shoots, and you shoot it well.

I stash a 2 boxes of 9mm in my trunk of both cars. 100 rounds in each car well hidden under the spare. I try and rotate that out once per yr. If I am carrying [CC], it is a nine so if I am caught out and SHTF, likely I will have access to at least 100 rounds.

Home, 10k rounds of 9mm and .223/556 each. I rotate it on a constant basis. Buy new, place it into stock and shoot out of the stock on hand, oldest first. Each new box gets dated on the ends then placed with similar date ammo in boxes & shelves.

 

[Vendor Hidden]

Gerber knives makes a good survival knife. I wasn't going to get it because it's branded with Bear Grylls' name and logo (I don't watch his show), but it is actually a very good knife for under $80. Full tang, and a 4.8" drop point blade. Solid pommel for pounding stakes etc. It comes with a firestarter (I haven't tested it yet because wildfires) and built-in field sharpener. Some other well-thought out features. It feels very solid in my hand.

I also have a Ka-Bar 7" USMC model (NOTE: I have always been a fat-assed civilian, never a Marine). Everyone should have one of these.

Now I just need a good pocket knife to complete the set.

EDIT TO ADD: As for guns, I've only got my Colt 1911 .45 at the moment. That seems sufficient for the time being. I might have to snag an AR15 before they make 'em illegal to purchase here.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

No, the Walking Dead are already here. They are amongst us.
I see dead people!

 

[StacattoP]

What if you have no license and no car and can't carry a rifle and a ton of ammo

 

[pdxRealtor]

Practice your people skills?

 

[StacattoP]

Practice your people skills?

Explain if you could?

 

[Medic!]

What if you have no license and no car and can't carry a rifle and a ton of ammo

Then you may be so poor, you can't even afford a period at the end of your sentence.

 

[Quartermaster]

Then you may be so poor, you can't even afford a period at the end of your sentence.

You should have writen him a prescription for 200mg of DAAAAAAAAMN twice daily for that third degree burn.

 

[StacattoP]

I am actually really poor it's kind of actually Sad.

 

[coop44]

Zombies are here, I ran off six today. Ashtray scroungers

 

[Pandaz3]

Well I have a lot of choices but Handgun wise I have a PMR-30 with four magazines and two 100 round boxes of CCI 22 Mag I would naturally have my EDC Glock 33 and in that bugout pack I have an extra 120 rounds of 357 Sig. I also carry 200 extra 9MM for the wife's G-17. I have thought about putting my GP100 in the pack or my 629, but with the extra ammo they would need the weight adds up, so I nixed that. I have a Henry AR-7 survival rifle with three loaded eight round magazines in the Pack. A brick plus of 22LR. I need to add her 22LR LCR, it is light and accurate.
The pack itself is a USMC surplus that I got from Midway a few years back, just for this purpose. I have a Gerber Bear Gryll's knife with a Para cord handle, it could easily be transformed into a spear. The knife was about $12, so not one of Gerber's premier offerings but it will work as a camp knife too and has a Kydex sheath. I have my carry knives a Zero tolerance 350 and a Cold Steel 4" Stiletto. I have two Emerson Folders that could or should go in there too.
I have in the Pickup, a Gerber Machete, SOG entrenching tool and a small camp axe, 16" handle. (Also a twelve pack of toilet paper...Angel Soft I think)
I would grab the wife's 10-22 Takedown with 3 little magazines and six 25 round magazines and two AR's one with a Leopold scout scope and the other with a Leopold Reflex. Both have Irons. I have a lot of loaded magazine with 55 grain and a few with 62 grain, I would have at least 800 extra 62 Grain.
I need camping gear, tent, sleeping mats and bags, cooking stuff, and food, and water....just haven't gotten that far.
It is actually unrealistic medically for me to consider past five minutes and seventeen seconds... well not that bad, but a person only has so much medicine, so a month or two....

 

[No_Regerts]

The power went out at 11 PM while I was on the toilet. My Streamlight PolyTac saved me from having to use the scratch and sniff wiping confirmation method.

No gun needed.

 

[Doc In UPlace]

No, the Walking Dead are already here. They are amongst us.
I see dead people!

They drive cars, too. I seen 'em!!!!!

 

[No_Regerts]

They drive cars, too. I seen 'em!!!!!

Sounds like junkies and tweekers.

 

[boogerhook]

Ruger 10-22 takedown or Ruger MK3 Hunter and plenty of CCI minimags/stingers/velocitors. Both guns are easy to throw in a backpack, and ammo is light weight.