Survival Guns Part 1: For Hunting
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Survival guns! What could be more fun to talk about. This episode focuses on hardware, situations, and skills. It's not a prophecy. Outdoor people all have a little Boy Scout in them (motto: Be Prepared). We like to be ready for anything, and that's what this discussion is all about.
First, let's throw out that one word that suggests extreme survival: Apocalypse. All the really gnarly stuff. Super volcano. Solar flare. Gigantic earthquakes. Nuclear war. Foreign invasion. Runaway asteroid. Truly deadly disease.
Whatever your favorite fear is, it ain't a bad idea to prepare for it so you can sleep well at night.
Characteristics of a good survival/hunting gun:
- Reliable and easy to fix
- Well suited for locally available game
- Versatile for a broad spectrum of uses
- Capable of making challenging shots
Is just one gun enough?
Popular survival-gun types and models:
- Ruger 10/22
- Pump-action shotgun
- Bolt-action rifle chambered in either:
- .30-06
- 6.5 Creedmoor
- (Here's why)
- Lever-action rifle in .30-30
- Combination gun such as Savage's O/U shotgun/rifle
NEXT WEEK's TOPIC: Survival Guns, Part 2: For Fighting
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| 0:00.0 | What with politics, COVID, and the Russian-U-Kranian war currently in Europe, I don't know if there's ever been a time when more folks were prepping. |
| 0:13.0 | Food storage, fuel reserves, firearms and amel. |
| 0:18.0 | They're all flying off shelves, right? |
| 0:21.0 | Now, us Americans, well, being prepared is kind of bred into us. We've all got a little bit of |
| 0:28.5 | Boy Scout in us. And also, we're a nation of riflemen and women. |
| 0:35.0 | We won our independence by being better equipped and better shots |
| 0:40.0 | than the British long ago. |
| 0:43.0 | Flintlock long rifles had more precision and more reach than the English soldiers' smooth-bore muskets. |
| 0:51.0 | So from Nathaniel Bumpo, known as Hawkeye and James Fenmore Cooper's |
| 0:57.1 | legendary novels about the early American frontier, to Billy Dixon and his 1538 yard shot at the Battle of Adobe Walls to Medal |
| 1:09.6 | of Honor recipient Sergeant York's sniper exploits in World War I to Chris Kyle of |
| 1:16.6 | American sniper fame we Americans revere and emulate great rifleman. It's kind of part of our DNA. Now as the title of |
| 1:28.3 | this episode suggests our primary topic today is survival guns. |
| 1:35.0 | And we're going to divide this discussion into two categories, hunting guns for survival and fighting |
| 1:42.2 | guns for survival. |
| 1:45.0 | First, let's go to our upfront Q&A section. |
| 1:49.0 | By the way, please send questions for this section in on Patreon those get priority or via email |
| 1:57.7 | at Joseph at backcountry podcast dot com and I'll do my best to answer all of them individually if I've got the time and the really |
| 2:06.3 | interesting stuff will include here in our Q&A section or even make full episodes out of in the future. So this Q&A section today is brought to you by |
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