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Retirement Guns
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I've worked on a short list of guns I need to keep when I retire. I do hunt a variety of critters and may live/travel/hunt some time out of a 5th wheel trailer. Plug in what you would use, these are what I have.
Doc's post made me think about this again so I decided to post it.
1) Carry pistol (.38 spc J-frame S&W)
2) House/trailer pistol ( .357 4" Ruger g-100, has multiple uses, and can be carried if need be., the carry pistol of course is also a house weapon, as well as anything alse really.)
3) .22 rifle (Winchester 67A or Remington 552, or both, needs to handle shorts as well as LR, but I like to use cb's sometimes, so?????? I may change this to a bolt action repeater, or a pump.)
4) .22 pistol (Ruger MKIII, may change to a revolver so I don't have to travel with any magazines that could be illegal in an given area )
5) Deer, elk rifle (Tikka .300 WSM or the .375 H&H, depends on if I will be hunting Alaska for moose or brown bears, though either would work)
6) Small caliber CFR (.243 remington 700, can handle prairie dogs and other varmints but can step up to deer, even an elk if it has to)
7) Upland shotgun (Ithaca 37 with 26" barrel and choke tubes, also has 2 slug barrels, one open site and one cantilever, or Beretta white wing, though that would give up the slug barrels .)
8) Water fowl gun with some range (Have 3.5" chambered mossberg 935, could also double as a bird gun if needed, likewise the Ithaca or whitewing with 3" shells could reach most geese also. See a pattern? Overlap and back ups. Extra guns for a buddy etc.)
9) House long gun (see Ithaca 37, use open site slug barrel, also doubles for shotgun only season/areas or a back up bear gun.)
10) Hunting revolver (.357 will double for that but I really like the RSRH in .454, may keep both)
11) Smokeless muzzle loader (because I hate cleaning up after black powder or pyrodex and want more than 3-5 shots before accuracy falls below minute of deer)
12) Side lock .50 cal Thompson muzzle loader (because sometimes the law says you have to if you want to hunt, I like hunting more than I hate cleaning up after black powder or pyrodex. Open sites, no scope)
Or course there are guns I like and use for other things, but I don't see me traveling with 50 guns. I really like a 20ga for quail, but need a 12 so it will have to do. Would love a 22mag or .22 hornet as well as a .22-250, .22lr and .243 will have to do it. I may toss in a .410 single shot, because kids matter and you never know when you'll run into one that needs an opportunity to learn to shoot.
Doc's post made me think about this again so I decided to post it.
1) Carry pistol (.38 spc J-frame S&W)
2) House/trailer pistol ( .357 4" Ruger g-100, has multiple uses, and can be carried if need be., the carry pistol of course is also a house weapon, as well as anything alse really.)
3) .22 rifle (Winchester 67A or Remington 552, or both, needs to handle shorts as well as LR, but I like to use cb's sometimes, so?????? I may change this to a bolt action repeater, or a pump.)
4) .22 pistol (Ruger MKIII, may change to a revolver so I don't have to travel with any magazines that could be illegal in an given area )
5) Deer, elk rifle (Tikka .300 WSM or the .375 H&H, depends on if I will be hunting Alaska for moose or brown bears, though either would work)
6) Small caliber CFR (.243 remington 700, can handle prairie dogs and other varmints but can step up to deer, even an elk if it has to)
7) Upland shotgun (Ithaca 37 with 26" barrel and choke tubes, also has 2 slug barrels, one open site and one cantilever, or Beretta white wing, though that would give up the slug barrels .)
8) Water fowl gun with some range (Have 3.5" chambered mossberg 935, could also double as a bird gun if needed, likewise the Ithaca or whitewing with 3" shells could reach most geese also. See a pattern? Overlap and back ups. Extra guns for a buddy etc.)
9) House long gun (see Ithaca 37, use open site slug barrel, also doubles for shotgun only season/areas or a back up bear gun.)
10) Hunting revolver (.357 will double for that but I really like the RSRH in .454, may keep both)
11) Smokeless muzzle loader (because I hate cleaning up after black powder or pyrodex and want more than 3-5 shots before accuracy falls below minute of deer)
12) Side lock .50 cal Thompson muzzle loader (because sometimes the law says you have to if you want to hunt, I like hunting more than I hate cleaning up after black powder or pyrodex. Open sites, no scope)
Or course there are guns I like and use for other things, but I don't see me traveling with 50 guns. I really like a 20ga for quail, but need a 12 so it will have to do. Would love a 22mag or .22 hornet as well as a .22-250, .22lr and .243 will have to do it. I may toss in a .410 single shot, because kids matter and you never know when you'll run into one that needs an opportunity to learn to shoot.
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Everything from red squirrels, groundhogs, raccoons, to coyotes.
I have an encore frame and am probably going to order a smokeless muzzle loading set up for it. I could add a few extra rifle barrels for it, say a 22 center fire for example. But I'm not really interested in shotgun barrels for it.
A 20ga will do most of my shotgunning needs, and I like the 20. But I've found a 12ga with 3" chamber more useful all around. One reason is that is what most folks I hunt with use and it's easy to borrow or loan ammo when out hunting.
An example: I was in South Dakota a couple of years ago and got in the truck with another fellow and off we went. While out we decided to hunt some federal ground and it required a 3 round max and steel shot. Not being in my own truck all I had with me was 2 3/4" #4 lead and no plug. No problem, I just cut a magazine plug out of a bush and borrowed some of his 3" #2 steel loads. We shot our limit and went to the house. If I had a another gauge shotgun or just a 2 3/4" chamber we would have had to avoid that area or I would have had to watch him hunt.
Also when out we may find an opportunity to hunt something we didn't plan on. Say your out pheasant hunting but see geese flying over to a field to feed. With the right equipment your laying in a ditch or fence line shooting geese, without it your not. So it's good to be able to share equipment. Loan or bum the right shells and you're both hunting. I usually carry a plug in my hunting coat, but it's hard to carry 4 different kinds of ammo when you're swapping vehicles like that.