From one of Tam's comments:
From a vintage thread at TFL: "Reason To Own A Bunch Of Guns #8: Because if the balloon goes up and you run down to the gun shop and the last thing left on the shelf is a box of 6.5 Arisaka and you don't have anything to shoot it, well, aren't you going to feel pretty foolish?"
Yeah yeah. To stumble upon a crate of 7.62x54 Russian ammo during the zombocalypse and NOT having picked up a single $75 Mosin during the 'before time' would be the height of shadenfreude for the people in the theater watching the zombie movie of my life, wouldn't it? But that has to happen SOMEHOW in every Zombie flick, at any rate, as a major plot point. If it doesn't happen that way it will find some other way to Murphy-kick me in the proverbial groin.
But man it would be nice to have 4 boxes of ammo. One box says pistol and there is nothing but .45 in there, one says shotgun and there is nothing 12 gauge, and one said .22, and one said rifle and you knew there'd only be the one type of whatever it is you shoot. And you or I have more than just 4 guns. Too late now. I am already mixed. At least 8 'types' of ammo, though only a box or 2 for the little-used firearms.
I'm of the opinion to do the following:
ReplyDelete- Spread your arms so that you have a diversity of ammo using weapons.
- Ensure to own a few revolvers and bolt-action rifles. Because if home-grown ammo and power are necessary. Semi-autos may fade away. A revolver or bolt action will shoot both under and over-powered ammo. A semi-auto may not cycle under such conditions.
- Have a small quantity of ammo for all your arms. This is for maintenance, testing, etc.
- Decide what your favorite arms to train with. These "training" arms are what to stock up with. And should include at least one pistol, and one rifle. And at least one revolver/bolt-action unit.
But that's just my thoughts...
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That said, I am really daunted and ill-informed on these $75-$125 eastern-bloc rifles.
Are they reliable, safe, and moderately accurate? If so, then I'd buy one. But if they're just total junk that's more dangerous to use than not...I'll pass.
Is there a good resource for eastern bloc imports?
- N.U.G.U.N.
http://nugun.wordpress.com
Don't know any commie gun resources or much about them personally. What I do know is the general and what I've seen.
ReplyDeleteGet a gun without cosmoline on it if you can so you can see if the barrel is sound.
Mosin bolts seem to stick a lot. That may be the ammo.
SKS are generally very reliable. And you probably want to leave it stock as much as possible to avoid legal trouble and to not negatively impact function.