6 months in the wilderness; what rifle would you take ? ...
Many yeas ago, sometime in the sixties, I read an article I think in the
American Rifleman about a small group of Men who had the time and
ability to go off into the wild for a six month period - singly, not together
they did not know each other. It struck me as funny that each said the
rifle they took was a powerful one, 30-06, 338. 308. Now if I had not
read that article and I was asked what I would favor I'd have said a 22.
Plus a magnum revolver, but the food getter would be a 22. I would
reason that there is a lot more small game to be had, rabbit. squirrel,
hare, racoon, groundhog etc than big game. Plus I wouldn't want to
lug around a leftover deer carcass, especially in the hot sun.
But, what do I know ? Never done that and too old now to do that.
What think you ?