This is not a tactical shooting podcast. It's not a combat skills podcast. It's not even about prepping and survival,

although being prepared in the backcountry can often be critical to survival.

Point is, I'm not here to teach you why to fight or when to fight or how to fight,

or even what to fight with. However, sometimes all of those skills are necessary

to survive. And so I'm going to address the one part of this whole equation that I can with authority, and that is survival guns for fighting.

As we do so, let's keep in mind that survival is the dominant key word here.

Eating is still important.

So our fighting for survival guns should still be capable hunting guns. Actual fighting

requirements would of course depend on the type of threat we conceivably

could face. Spring boarding off the catch-all word we used in the last

episode, Apocalypse, we'll dive into this presuming that we really don't know what life-threatening challenges we could face.

That's pretty much always true, right?

It could be marauding bands of hungry, desperate thieves. It could be full-scale foreign

invasion. It could simply be a home invasion with deadly intent or a robbery turned to violent in some back alley somewhere.

Heck, it could be zombies or aliens, right?

Now, if you're a student of history, you're constrained to recognize that we could conceivably

end up fighting a corrupt government gone wrong.

Lord willing, it'll never come to that, but the fact is, our ancestors mounted a full-scale

revolution against their parent government, the English crown, right?

Because that governing body became unbearably oppressive.

I'm no conspiracy theorist, but history often repeats itself so I'm forced to admit that no matter how much I love this country,

our government, too, could conceivably someday become unbearably corrupt.

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