Handgun, A.k.a Survival Short Rifle

For compactness, many use a short rifle. Shorter yet, why not just go with a handgun? Survivalists should consider these as valid, useful tools for their preparations.

For small whitetail deer, they are great. Many use them on hogs and even large game.

 

Here's a video of a young man excited about his first deer-kill with a revolver:



West Virginia w/.357



Then theyz hawgs:


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Thompson vs. buck


Field-dressing and butchering the deer

 

Being a nostalgia nut, I've a penchant for revolvers. That said, I own several automatics (plus spare magazines for all of'em). When you need capacity and ready-reloadability, you'll want/need an automatic. Now that felons have stolen their way into having automatics, we need them also. Post SHTF, gangs of nationals and/or gangs of migrants will be out plundering -- once they get finished stealing everything they can in the urban areas. Even if we live in nowheresville, post-SHTF, many locals who we imagined were civilized will go decidedly uncivilized and begin stealing that for which they failed to store. Hunger is an unimaginably powerful motivator.

For preppers, concealability isn't the big reason for needing a handgun, maneuverability is. You are working the garden, or working in your cramped workshop (like me this weekend; got too much stuff jammed in there = no room for me), wherever/whatever, a rifle or shotgun just isn't handy. We need an instantly accessible weapon, i.e. a decently-powerful handgun to allow you to drive off / neutralize assailants long enough for you to get to your more powerful long arms. One of my great-grandfathers had to carry a rather heavy hogleg revolver while plowing his fields -- this, due to a feud.

Preppers need firearms in the categories of rifle, handgun, and shotgun. Post SHTF, people are going to go crazy and unfortunately, these aggressors are going to come in on us in plundering mode.

I found the following two videos. Thought I'd share.

 

by Olde Geezer...

I heard this basic outline from an Israeli on line who was at one time a policeman.

I asked him why the Israelis preferred the M1 Carbine. What he states was maneuverability..the ability to quickly get into and out of a vehicle with it.

Until the advent of these short barreled M4 carbines ...the M1 Carbine was the choice for Israeli policemen in their vehicles.

This also explains why Israel has so much M1 carbine ammo for sale.


I found that conversation Interesting and informative.

Oh...and I verily like my Thompson Contender pistol in 5 different barrel calibrations.

Watcherchris
Not an Ishmaelite.

 

Many deer hunters in the thick forests around here in the Southern Appalachian mountains hunt with handguns. They are handy and safe when climbing up into tree stands and climbing back down. Carbine-sized lever-action rifles are popular for the same reason. There are precious few long shots while hunting deer in these mountains. If you have a farmer's permission to hunt across pasture land, maybe you'll get a longer shot. Good luck with getting that permission ... they and their cousins might hunt that pasture; but hey, you're an outsider. Ranchers have both long rifles and carbines. The carbines and magnum handguns are for traveling on horses, off-road motorcycles, and off-road contraptions of every ilk (I've seen some bazaar welded-up vehicles).

Here's a commercially available off-road vehicle. However, these are too expensive, so the locals cut-up existing old vehicles and weld something together for farm use and for getting back up in the mountains. If you are navigating in these mountains even valley forests, you'll need a roll cage. Flip and you're crushed without roll bars. Had a cousin have a tractor flip over on him. Didn't kill him. He was one BIG fellow, though -- difficult to kill. (I've lost touch with my kin. I wonder if he's still alive. Those with whom I was close, are all dead now, only graves to visit.)