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I've spent a fair amount of time doing trail maintenance on the PCT through the angeles and cleveland national forests. The biggest issue we ever had was running into some cartel people either going to, or coming from a grow site, it wasn't any kind of conflict, but they saw us and bolted. Since a good chunk of the group were USFS (and in uniform) they called it in. Usually when doing trail maintenance I would carry, usually because we were stirring up all kinds of chaos that would usually piss off the local rattle snake population. Back in those days I carried my kimber 1911, with the first two rounds as snake shot, 3 rounds of hollow point, and the rest were hardball. I usually had my mossberg 500 rigged up cruiser style attached to my pack in case something came after us in camp, but never had need to pull it out except for a few times where it happened to be dove season and took some upland game for the stew pot. However, this was on USFS property, not national park.
I think if you are going to carry a long gun, a lightweight shotgun is going to be more useful than a high capacity carbine. If you're going to need to defend yourself it's going to be from critters, not zombies.
In general, I don't think you really need a long gun. I think a larger hunting caliber handgun with a short barrel is a better tool for the job.
I think if you are going to carry a long gun, a lightweight shotgun is going to be more useful than a high capacity carbine. If you're going to need to defend yourself it's going to be from critters, not zombies.
In general, I don't think you really need a long gun. I think a larger hunting caliber handgun with a short barrel is a better tool for the job.