Sunday, January 31, 2010

Bug-Out Bag Guns

The Survivalist Blog offers a selection. [Read]
Posted by David Codrea at 1/31/2010 10:26:00 AM

4 comments:

Sean said...

Link no good, boss. Went to your left sidebar link list and hit The Survivalist. Good to go.

1/31/2010 11:03 AM
W W Woodward said...

link works for me.

Good discussion but I don't think it's a good idea to list the guns one owns or has access to in an open forum.

One might have his bug-out bag emptied before he has an opportunity to use it.

[W-III]

1/31/2010 1:43 PM
straightarrow said...

WWW are you sure you were a cop? You sure have a liberty tilted outlook to have been. Oh, that's a good thing.

1/31/2010 2:17 PM
Pat H said...

That was a somewhat interesting discussion on Survival Blog, after you weed out the personal arguments.

As Boston T. Party said years ago, a pistol is a weapon you use to fight your way to your rifle. So, that's out as a "go to weapon" for a Bug Out Bag (BOB).

While a .22 rimfire is a cost effective "meat getter", it's too light for any game larger than a rabbit or squirrel.

For years I resisted acquiring an AR-15 because the 5.56 caliber is too light for a resistance force weapon.

That was then, this is now.

There are two commercial cartridges available now for the AR-15 form factor, that is, the same size as the rifle chambered for the 5.56/.223 cartridge. Those are the 6.5 Grendel and the 6.8SPC rounds.

Both the 6.5G and the 6.8S have about three times the power of the 5.56/.223 round with about two times the recoil force. The magazines for both hold 25 rounds in the same space occupied by 30 rounds of 5.56, a neglible difference considering the power difference.

All of this power in a 7.5 pound rifle is pretty nice. It's even possible to build a rifle as light as 6 pounds if one is diligent and stays with iron sights only.

I don't think, at this point in time, that one can or should consider any rifle other than an AR-15 in one of these modern calibers. If you do, you're leaving too much on the table.

1/31/2010 7:06 PM

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