Choosing To Specialize In (Mostly) One Caliber. Which One?

[Netpackrat]

Get an AK and a few cases of 7.62x39, then call it a day. For SHTF you will want a rifle with the ability to turn cover into concealment. Let your pistol be a pistol and your rifle a rifle.

[Greg]

Get an AK and a few cases of 7.62x39, then call it a day. For SHTF you will want a rifle with the ability to turn cover into concealment. Let your pistol be a pistol and your rifle a rifle.

Something very like that will be part of the diversification plan after I get out of this current open air asylum.

[Weetabix]

Greg if you ever plan on selling that carbine, you got a buyer. I will include a full frontal...

Are you trying to lure him into some kind of .... trafficking?

[Greg]

Greg if you ever plan on selling that carbine, you got a buyer. I will include a full frontal...

Are you trying to lure him into some kind of .... trafficking?

Consenting adults.

[Yogimus]

I'm not cheap! Just a good value.

[Darrell]

There was an article by a coroner making the rounds a few years ago--he said that bodies he'd examined with lots of bullet holes in them tended to be 9mm and .380. Single shot fatalities tended to be .357 and .45.

As for carbines--I have JRs in 9mm and .45. The 9mm has run like a clock from day one. The .45 has been a problem child. I wouldn't want to be shot with either.

As mentioned in the levergun thread, hard to go wrong with a lever/revolver combo in .357.

[arctictom]

7.62x39 is a good choise , I have chosen the 7.62 x 51 ,although the ak is in my view a better economical choise and all round more use full cartridge . And I tend to get attached to things

[HTRN]

There was an article by a coroner making the rounds a few years ago--he said that bodies he'd examined with lots of bullet holes in them tended to be 9mm and .380. Single shot fatalities tended to be .357 and .45.

I notice he didn't mention 10mm. Probably because there was nothing left for him to examine..

[Yogimus]

There was an article by a coroner making the rounds a few years ago--he said that bodies he'd examined with lots of bullet holes in them tended to be 9mm and .380. Single shot fatalities tended to be .357 and .45.

As for carbines--I have JRs in 9mm and .45. The 9mm has run like a clock from day one. The .45 has been a problem child. I wouldn't want to be shot with either.

As mentioned in the levergun thread, hard to go wrong with a lever/revolver combo in .357.

Check the spring in the .45, some are out of factory specs, namely too light.

[PawPaw]

As for carbines--I have JRs in 9mm and .45. The 9mm has run like a clock from day one. The .45 has been a problem child. I wouldn't want to be shot with either.

As mentioned in the levergun thread, hard to go wrong with a lever/revolver combo in .357.

In my limited experience, problematic .45s generally fall into one of two categores; magazines or springs. A faulty magazine will cause more grief than you can imagine. My general practice is to isolate the magazine, then dispose of it by crushing it in a vise and dropping it in the trash bin. Life is too short for bad magazines. Many times I'll save the follower, just as a spare, but if a magazine is bad, it gets crushed.

Many folks recommend changing the springs o a 1911, but I've never been burdened by a 1911 that refuses to run with good magazines. I imagine that the springs might need changing, but I run a 230 grain bullet at 800 fps through a full-size gun, and springs have never been an issue. YMMV, of course, and Wolf has made a good living over the years selling springs, so take my experience with a grain of salt.

And, for general use, it's hard to beat a .357 revolver/levergun combo.