We’ve talked about missiles, fighter jets, nukes, spy satellites, and score of guns. That’s all fine and dandy if you’ve got a budget and an arms supplier. But let’s talk about The People’s Weapon. Cheap, simple, accessible, works when waterlogged, works when coated in mud, never jams, and able to repel aliens. Fat Boy and Little Man may have ended the War, but this thing saved the Earth from Kang and Kodos. So be a responsible human and make sure you’re ready to defend our blue marble from the inevitable. We must go forward, not back! Up, not down! And always twirling, twirling!
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Mossburg 500. Simple, effective, works at various lengths… not that I'd know much about that
The 500 makes me question at which point a shotgun is no longer a shotgun. I mean, a 24 inch rifled barrel and a sabot slug, far from normal definition of a shotgun.
Well as it could be considered a rifle, it is easily the worst at any substancial distance.
I've never shot a 'rifled shotgun' before. How are they for accuracy? Why would you use one for hunting instead of,say, a .30-06?
Deer.
Basically any time you would like to punch a big hole in something at short range.
A lot of states/counties don't allow you to hunt with anything but a shotgun. The argument is that slugs won't carry as far as a round from a cartridged rifle, so they're less dangerous in more populated areas.
I'd venture a guess that a lot of the recent development in the rifled shotguns and improvements in slug designs are specifically to fill this niche.
They sell the 535 on Cabela's with a 24 inch rifled deer barrel and a 28 inch smooth bore. As far as how they shoot, I have no idea, but hunting, much like motorcycles is a constant "I'll buy this when I want to get into that" scenario. The 500 is on top of the list because you aren't allowed to hunt with rifles in my county. Probably why they had so many doe tags left over this year.
https://www2.pa.wildlifelicense.com/deeravail.php
(Eastern most county between 5C and 5D)
At about 300 yds. a .30-06 has a few inches of drop, at the same distance a rifled 12ga slug has a few feet of drop. Less worry about hitting something way beyond the target in semi-populated areas. As GlassOnion point out some states or areas of states require shotgun only, they usually don't specify smooth bore.
Yeah, mine just specifies a shotgun. Although odd, because semi-auto rifles aren't allowed in the surrounding area, hunting deer with a semi auto shotgun is fine in my county. I think there is a three shell limit though.
Sounds like you described an AK-47.
I was worried for a minute that I was being too subtle.
Not yer strong suit, boyo.
I suppose the Mosin Nagant might also qualify.
Not pretty, not especially 'nice' but it always fires. Also, $100
I don't think the Nagants were quit as widely distributed. It seems most of those were squirreled away in warehouses in the 1950s and have been sent to the US in the last 20 years or so.
Agreed. I actually know very little about the service history of the Nagant. My point was simply that it is a cheap rifle that will fire after some serious abuse.
Lee Enfield SMLE 95$
but if you can swing it, look
for the "Ishapore" variant-
rebarreled for 308(7.62)
and mag holds 12 vs 10
rounds. .303 British ain't
cheap….
More like the Saiga shotgun derivative
That's why I always keep a crowbar handy, just incase an interdimesional portal is ripped open allowing creatures of unimaginable appearance to be allowed through.
I keep a Club in my car.
I keep a 16in combat baton in the Explorer,
and a "pickle fork" (ball joint removal tool)
in the Datsun. Always available.
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Huh? That doesn't look at them at all.
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This is why I keep a wooden or aluminum Hockey stick handy. You can use them for sport, as a weapon or even as a weapon during sport. They can reach anything under a vehicle or even in your garage rafters. My parents would use them in their garden to stake vegetables.
I got a free golf putter years ago as part of some sort of sales promotion. I've never played golf, so it sits on the floor of my back seat of the Town Cow, just in case. It has a carbon fiber shaft, so it should hold up through at least a couple of good, hard swinging whacks.
And afterward I won't have work terribly hard to explain to the cops why I had a golf putter in my car. Unlike a board with nails in one end.
The club may have demonstrated that the lights were on, but it was the atlatl that really elevated us beyond chimp status.
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Twirling towards freedom!
Something about grabbing a two by four and hitting the ground with it, hard, gets a misbehavor's attention, fast. Once, a nasty chained up pit bull ripped my pants leg just about off (I even knew the damn dog, and the owner. I was looking for a forklift part in the junkpile the dog was guarding). I was pissed. I grabbed a broken two by four, slammed it onto the ground, and the dog shut up and laid down. No, I didn't hurt him. The same tactic worked when a drunk cowboy tried to pick a fight with me a year or so ago. Make sure the board is at least four and a half feet long, works just fine.
Nailbat FTW
Also, large knives.
A 4cell Maglite and a can of hornet spray for starters..
Oh my, I'm spoiled for choices here. Do I want to kill, or merely maim? If I want to maim, how badly to I want to damage the body? Burns? Disarticulation of the limbs? Shredding? Or if I want to kill, do a want a body to remain? Should I use a laser or a disintegrator?
Decisions, Decisions…
If I want to reach out and touch someone in a cheap way I tend to think RPG-7. I'm sure if I look for the right place in the right country i could get one for about $20 American
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"The enemy, of course, has gone largely to the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). Oddly enough the US ordnance people have never shown any interest in that device, despite its obvious advantages to an army of klutzes. The RPG is cheap, effective, universally obtainable, and you do not have to be any good to use it. It may be considered to be the ideal proletarian weapon."
- Jeff Cooper
Indeed. Our powers that be in the DoD
won't even let our boys have "bullet catcher"
rifle grenades anymore. They might hurt
themselves…
combatreform.org
*slow to load and look at. Think it's
based in Geocities or somesuch*
I remember reading sometime ago (6-7 years back?) about some Arab terrorists who had gotten caught attempting to smuggle an RPG-7 into the country. IIRC, their plan was to blow up a major building with a truck bomb, then use the RPG to hit the obligatory news chopper that was sure show up, while it was broadcasting a live feed…you know, for maximum media impact.
So they saw Die Hard and said to themselves "HEY! We can do that!"
Sock full of change. It is rather hard for a police officer to ask why you have a sock full of change.
"My other sock is full of hope."
I have kept one of these in every car that I have owned since I turned 18
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I keep a 24" machete in mine. Dates back to my bushwhacking surveyor days.
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mine dates back to a female friend asking me to scare her "date" (she couldn't find a way to say no to him… I guess…) to the point that he wouldn't come calling anymore… I always played "chauffeur" for a number of my friends… so I picked him up first one night, rang the bell at his parent's house and was told he'd be out in a few minutes. I returned to my land yacht of a buick and proceeded to sharpen my kukri until he could see what I was doing, at which point, I placed it back in the sheath, unlocked the passenger side rear door (I wired all of my power locks to individual switches, that car had all kinds of nifty electrical learning experiments for me in it) and we went to go pick up his date. It was a very, very quiet ride for the guy. the night only got more and more uncomfortable for him…
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