Hypothetical question, assuming it’s complete economic collapse, threat level: Red

You can take 2 long guns and 2 pistols out of your safe.

Everything else must stay behind.

Which guns are you taking and why?

I’d prob go with my 10/22 (for ammo sake) and 308 bolt gun for sniping.

Pistols would be a Glock 9mm and a cheapo Taurus 9mm for bartering.

What say ye?

I agree on the rifles. A 22 and a larger center fire for hunting big and small.

On the pistols I would have a dilemma. I’m love my 45s but that scenario calls for a 9mm and a 22 in my mind. Weight of ammo being a giant factor.

2 of my .22’s and two 9mm’s

No questions

I’m not sure where you will bug out too that will be safe. You’ll likely find yourself stuck on a clogged highway with everyone else trying to leave the city. Maybe you have military background on evasion and survival but most don’t and won’t survive the bug out situation. IMO it would be better to have extra food and water and work with your neighbors on how to protect each other.

I could arm my entire street.

I have studied up quite a bit on what a disaster scenario would look like. Likely there would be little time to prep and if communications were shut down you may or may not have mass exodus’s out of Urban and suburban areas immediately. That’s an unknown.

What is likely is there would be a run on supplies and groceries that would be exhausted in a day or three. Then everyone would hunker down and try to defend what they had against those who had not. This would include neighbors and friends. Which may or may not possible. Two weeks past as people start starving you will see large groups of gangs forming and moving out of urban areas and making their way out looting and pillaging what ever they can find.

Two schools of thought on numbers, some say it’s better to band up with a small number of people, others don’t advise it outside of your nuclear family unit.

Regardless, if you do decide to take flight, be prepared to literally walk out of your home and hoof it to your final destination. It would be an ugly scenario regardless. Everyone is a suspect and enemy. Being able to arm the street is a moot point when everyone is starving, it just makes for a better gunfight

People that live in rural areas to begin with will most likely fare better than those in dense urban regions.

Ive have never contemplated this scenario and dont plan to(any time soon.)

Long guns: .22 caliber being in AR platform. other self defense auto shotgun both with extended mags

Pistols …Semi auto .22 high capacity magazine same as 9mm.

Staying put. I know I won’t last long being urban, but I will be known to be one of the last places to “take” due to the body count in front of my home.

I have considered this sort of thing over the decades. The one conclusion I cannot get around is when it's time to bug out..... it's too late to bug out. But in respect to your question Dusty, I physically cannot bug out. But in the near rural area I call home, the major roads are jammed up much too often. It takes so very little to shut down Interstate 81 that bugging out would only get me stranded on the side of the road. I would suggest that if the roads would already be open where you live then you already live in your bug out location.

As for specific guns I prefer the ones I shoot the most, are stupid reliable and I am inherently the best with.

I already have quite a few guns stored down at the Ranch, so, it really wouldn't matter much what I took with me as long as it got me there. But, if I didn't have any at the ranch, I would take a .357 lever and Blackhawk in 357. Throw a lee classic loader, primers and a bottle or two of powder in the backpack with it. Also grab a 9mm pistol and either an AR or a bolt in .308.

For me, a S&W 15-22 and a Ruger LC Carbine in 5.7x28

Both work with my YHM suppressor, and ammo weight is minimal.

Handguns: Ruger 22/45 Lite and Glock 34

I sadly lost all of my guns in an unfortunate boating accident


But if I had any I would go with any 5.56 AR and any 9mm glock. Mags and ammo are abundance for both.

10/22 SBR, Volquartsen Mini Mamba 22/45, PS-90 and a Glock 19.

Glock 19 w/ 250 rounds of ammo
Wilson 1911 .45ACP...100 rounds of ammo
AR-15 (SBR w/ suppressor)...500 rounds of ammo
Ruger 10/22 (takedown)...250 rounds of ammo

Glock and AR are carried. 1911, 10/22 and ammo are in the go bag.

SUB2K
P95
Shield 9
22/45

If you relay on medication you'll only be as good as the supply you have.

Bug Out? Forget it!

15 years ago my wife and I left Charlotte, NC behind and had a new home built in the foothills. For 25 years we had planned for this land to be our BO location so we just got a head start on most people.
With that said, my main everyday weapons are an AR-15 in 300 HAM'R and a S&W M&P 2.0 9mm. Both of these weapons have a twin sitting here. Plus, there are also a variety of other firearms "just-in-case."

Being a reloader, I count my ammo by the thousands instead of by the box.

Grocery stores, pharmacies, gun shops and liquor stores are the first to be looted!

All I gotta do is stay home.

Just as important as the weapons you choose is a thermal scope. Much easier to kill deer at night to keep yourself fed.

In an end of the world as we know it situation, I wouldn't want to rely on anything battery powered. I'd rather have a scope that gathers light exceptionally well, and hunt by moonlight.

You have that one right Angus! One of the big issues is we assume the medications we are given are good for us. Maybe that was once the case but big pharma and modern docs are not so concerned about your health but pushing profitable drugs no matter the real need. Personally, I work to get off every drug I can. No, it's not all of them but most were prescribed without much thought about patient health. Some are only needed short term. Many are given because that is what docs get paid to do.

In other words... you'll live longer if you question everything.

This, where are you going to go to get away from anything.

Hunkering down and appearing to be suffering like everyone else is the only choice for me.

Remember that the more you carry, the more of a target you become. No backpack and empty hands are the only way you will not be a person of interest. The further you try to go, the faster your odds of failure increase, because it is impossible to defend yourself against someone hiding with a rifle. With all due respect, if you're serious about the subject, you already know this and have moved away from any metro areas that would force you to bug out.

Most people will run out of basic necessities much faster than they realize.

I stay away from the urban/metropolitan areas. I'm stocked up with food, ammo, and gasoline for generators. I grew up in Ft. Worth but left the metroplex in 1995 after a divorce. I go back a few times a year to visit my brothers.

Love it here in northeast TX. I was flat broke when I arrived. Got remarried here. We have since paid off a nice 2-story home, raised a daughter who is concluding her first year as a practicing veterinarian. I wouldn't go back and live in the metroplex for anything!

Same here.