they can smell a pile of guts or fish/bird heads for miles. they can easily be paw-snared to a drag log, or brained from a baited tree stand, at 20 yds. The 223 sp to their skull makes their eyeballs pop out and it also fractures their skull, from the hydraulic forces unleashed inside the sealed container of the cranium.
Elk and moose are easily foot snared to drag logs too, in winter, if you've got a few bales of alfalpha hay to use as bait. Guns and hunting are not the only way to gather meat, guys. IF, that is, shtf leaves any animals alive after the first month, which it probably will not.
But there's certainly no need, if shtf, of a larger rifle than 223. while there IS extreme likelihood of the need of the luminous sights, concealment, rapidfire, silencer, rust proofing, and .22 unit of the shorty AR.
Properly set up AR costs 2k. it's not a joke. But if you get rid of the extraneous guns, you can afford one, easily enough. Then, whatever you were doing (or planning to do) with those, do it with the AR. The gun is very capable of handling anything (except ccw in your pocket, ready to fire) You cover that need with your micro 9, which you need anyway, for EDC. the front pants pocket rig is out of sight, out of the elements, accessible all the time, and out of the way of your rifle and your pack.
Have some empty drums buried, and know where to go get some calves, ducks, sheep. Pork requires way too much salt and time to cure, and it goes rancid too easily. Crisco will fulfill your need for fats, it's cheap, readily available, stores well, is a decent preservative on metal, and can be burned as lamp fuel.
Elk and moose are easily foot snared to drag logs too, in winter, if you've got a few bales of alfalpha hay to use as bait. Guns and hunting are not the only way to gather meat, guys. IF, that is, shtf leaves any animals alive after the first month, which it probably will not.
But there's certainly no need, if shtf, of a larger rifle than 223. while there IS extreme likelihood of the need of the luminous sights, concealment, rapidfire, silencer, rust proofing, and .22 unit of the shorty AR.
Properly set up AR costs 2k. it's not a joke. But if you get rid of the extraneous guns, you can afford one, easily enough. Then, whatever you were doing (or planning to do) with those, do it with the AR. The gun is very capable of handling anything (except ccw in your pocket, ready to fire) You cover that need with your micro 9, which you need anyway, for EDC. the front pants pocket rig is out of sight, out of the elements, accessible all the time, and out of the way of your rifle and your pack.
Have some empty drums buried, and know where to go get some calves, ducks, sheep. Pork requires way too much salt and time to cure, and it goes rancid too easily. Crisco will fulfill your need for fats, it's cheap, readily available, stores well, is a decent preservative on metal, and can be burned as lamp fuel.