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Three guns!!! I guess for my place and skill set I would go with my Winchester 94 trapper in 357mag, a Ruger 357 mag revolver and a Ruger 10-22. If I could add another it would be my Mossberg 500 with a slug barrel and a regular barrel with adjustable chokes. Where I live about the biggest animals to hunt are white tail deer and hogs and in the heavy forest here you will get most shots at ranges that a 357 rifle can handle. I like the old school idea of having a rifle and handgun in the same caliber. With a few supplies, I can reload my ammo and not have to carry as much. A Lee loader, a bullet mold and sizer, a coupe thousand primers, and a couple of pounds of Unique powder can keep me in ammo for a long time. I can cast bullets from wheel weights. The 12 ga shotgun is so handy and a great stopper for defense but the ammo weighs too much if I am on the move.It is for sure a bad trade-off shooting small game with a 12 gauge. I can kill more birds with a pellet rifle or 22 that you will ever get with a shotgun. You have heard the expression about sitting ducks? There is a reason it more or less means helpless and vulnerable. I am not going to hunt if things get messed up. Hunting is a sport with too many rules. I will harvest game using techniques that are very illegal now but will make the harvest of game more of a sure thing than sport hunting can ever be. That is why I passed on the high powered rifle. If I am on the move it would be a waste to kill a deer. When I start to harvest deer I will already have a smokehouse built and ready. The choice of guns is very much dependent on where you live and what your skill set is. I have no bears or mountain lions to worry about. We also have no real winter here. There is no day in a year when the temperature stays below freezing and no day when it couldn’t get hot. I have gone swimming in the first week of the new year before and it was nice. Anything that i can’t eat or cure in a day will probably start to rot. that means that I will be killing a lot more small animals than deer. We don’t even have very big deer here. I will snare them more than shoot them anyway and then dispatch them with a spear. I have no use for an AR or AK. i will instead be sneaky and if I ever need one…well there will be a lot of people wandering around with them and acting like just having it makes them safe. I will do everything in my power to avoid shoot outs. Any wound other than a superficial flesh wound will probably get infected and kill you. No, No No I’m not going to be GI Joe.  Guns are tools and first you need to think hard and decide what you want to do and then pick the tools that allow you to do that. If you plan on spending a lot of time attacking people or being attacked by people them maybe assault weapons have a place. The thing to remember is that the old saying (If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword!” is not just a silly old saying. If a gun makes you feel safe and bad to the bone it will get you killed. There are always a lot more rabbits in the world than there are wolves.

Welcome to a new hobby that can easily be converted into a wonderful survival resource but is a lot of fun even if you never have to do it to survive. I’m going to try and offer you a slightly different line of advice. As far as a rod and reel I recommend a Zebco 33 on a 6′ Medium action rod. You can buy a complete set up for under 40 dollars. This is a good starting set up that will catch a lot of fish easily with a very short learning curve. I have hundreds of reels and collect ambassador reels. I have about 50 spinning reels. All that said I still carry a Zebco 33 in my truck and fish with it often and use it almost exclusively for live bait fishing for crappie and smaller bass. I have caught catfish that were over 10 pounds with those little reels so it isn’t like you can’t handle a pretty good size fish with one. You might pick up a few 1/8 oz grub heads and a few colors of grubs to put on them. I like grubs that have three colors. Two on the body and a red or chartreuse tail. You want the fish to see it above anything else. If you don’t want to invest much money and want to catch a lot of fish get a cane pole. put some good line on it, Use a bobber with split shot and a small hook. For bait you can dig up some worms or buy a few fresh shrimp at a store. Pinch off little bits of the shrimp or little worms and just set it around anything that is sticking in the water. when the bobber goes under pull your fish out by lifting the pole straight up. In a survival situation, remember to first hunt or fish at the BOTTOM of the food chain. There are a LOT more small fish than large fish in any body of water and when you are fishing for food start small. Once you have enough small fish to make a good meal out of you can go for bigger prey.  There is a thing called a Cuban Yo-yo. It is basically just a spool that you wrap line on and can cast by pointing it at the deepwater and throwing the weight and bait by spinning it with the other hand and letting it fly. They come in sizes  4″, 6″, 9″. I like the smaller sizes because they are easier to carry but the bigger ones make winding in the line faster. You can also make them. I’ve made several.  Put a heavy line on these and use either one of the smaller fish you caught or the innards and heads from the bigger ones. This is your big fish rig. You want to use a thicker heavy line so that it won’t cut you if you hang a big one and have to bight it hard. Catfish are not at all worried by heavy line and that is what I mostly use these for. https://www.bing.com/search?q=cuban+yoyo+reel&qs=SC&pq=cubanyoyo&sk=SC1&sc=7-9&cvid=C77C5DF019B74AE7A0CB4D89F6656E17&FORM=QBLH&sp=2 If you start with bait and bobbers you will have better immediate success. Once you have some success with that then you can get a few simple lures and use those. Once you are a lot more experienced you will catch more fish with lures than natural baits for most of the predatory species. Bait only catches the hungry feeding fish while lures can catch fish that are neither hungry nor actively feeding. I love to fish ultralight. That is my favorite kind of fishing. I love to fish for fish, depending on the species, with a line that is at most half the pound test of the fish weight that I am catching. that is sportfishing and for fun. Survival fishing is for FOOD and you don’t give the fish any advantages. for now, the most important thing is to have fun.

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Three guns!!! I guess for my place and skill set I would go with my Winchester 94 trapper in 357mag, a Ruger 357 mag revolver and a Ruger 10-22. If I could add another it would be my Mossberg 500 with a slug barrel and a regular barrel with adjustable chokes. Where I live about the biggest animals to hunt are white tail deer and hogs and in the heavy forest here you will get most shots at ranges that a 357 rifle can handle. I like the old school idea of having a rifle and handgun in the same caliber. With a few supplies, I can reload my ammo and not have to carry as much. A Lee loader, a bullet mold and sizer, a coupe thousand primers, and a couple of pounds of Unique powder can keep me in ammo for a long time. I can cast bullets from wheel weights. The 12 ga shotgun is so handy and a great stopper for defense but the ammo weighs too much if I am on the move.It is for sure a bad trade-off shooting small game with a 12 gauge. I can kill more birds with a pellet rifle or 22 that you will ever get with a shotgun. You have heard the expression about sitting ducks? There is a reason it more or less means helpless and vulnerable. I am not going to hunt if things get messed up. Hunting is a sport with too many rules. I will harvest game using techniques that are very illegal now but will make the harvest of game more of a sure thing than sport hunting can ever be. That is why I passed on the high powered rifle. If I am on the move it would be a waste to kill a deer. When I start to harvest deer I will already have a smokehouse built and ready. The choice of guns is very much dependent on where you live and what your skill set is. I have no bears or mountain lions to worry about. We also have no real winter here. There is no day in a year when the temperature stays below freezing and no day when it couldn’t get hot. I have gone swimming in the first week of the new year before and it was nice. Anything that i can’t eat or cure in a day will probably start to rot. that means that I will be killing a lot more small animals than deer. We don’t even have very big deer here. I will snare them more than shoot them anyway and then dispatch them with a spear. I have no use for an AR or AK. i will instead be sneaky and if I ever need one…well there will be a lot of people wandering around with them and acting like just having it makes them safe. I will do everything in my power to avoid shoot outs. Any wound other than a superficial flesh wound will probably get infected and kill you. No, No No I’m not going to be GI Joe.  Guns are tools and first you need to think hard and decide what you want to do and then pick the tools that allow you to do that. If you plan on spending a lot of time attacking people or being attacked by people them maybe assault weapons have a place. The thing to remember is that the old saying (If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword!” is not just a silly old saying. If a gun makes you feel safe and bad to the bone it will get you killed. There are always a lot more rabbits in the world than there are wolves.

Welcome to a new hobby that can easily be converted into a wonderful survival resource but is a lot of fun even if you never have to do it to survive. I’m going to try and offer you a slightly different line of advice. As far as a rod and reel I recommend a Zebco 33 on a 6′ Medium action rod. You can buy a complete set up for under 40 dollars. This is a good starting set up that will catch a lot of fish easily with a very short learning curve. I have hundreds of reels and collect ambassador reels. I have about 50 spinning reels. All that said I still carry a Zebco 33 in my truck and fish with it often and use it almost exclusively for live bait fishing for crappie and smaller bass. I have caught catfish that were over 10 pounds with those little reels so it isn’t like you can’t handle a pretty good size fish with one. You might pick up a few 1/8 oz grub heads and a few colors of grubs to put on them. I like grubs that have three colors. Two on the body and a red or chartreuse tail. You want the fish to see it above anything else. If you don’t want to invest much money and want to catch a lot of fish get a cane pole. put some good line on it, Use a bobber with split shot and a small hook. For bait you can dig up some worms or buy a few fresh shrimp at a store. Pinch off little bits of the shrimp or little worms and just set it around anything that is sticking in the water. when the bobber goes under pull your fish out by lifting the pole straight up. In a survival situation, remember to first hunt or fish at the BOTTOM of the food chain. There are a LOT more small fish than large fish in any body of water and when you are fishing for food start small. Once you have enough small fish to make a good meal out of you can go for bigger prey.  There is a thing called a Cuban Yo-yo. It is basically just a spool that you wrap line on and can cast by pointing it at the deepwater and throwing the weight and bait by spinning it with the other hand and letting it fly. They come in sizes  4″, 6″, 9″. I like the smaller sizes because they are easier to carry but the bigger ones make winding in the line faster. You can also make them. I’ve made several.  Put a heavy line on these and use either one of the smaller fish you caught or the innards and heads from the bigger ones. This is your big fish rig. You want to use a thicker heavy line so that it won’t cut you if you hang a big one and have to bight it hard. Catfish are not at all worried by heavy line and that is what I mostly use these for. https://www.bing.com/search?q=cuban+yoyo+reel&qs=SC&pq=cubanyoyo&sk=SC1&sc=7-9&cvid=C77C5DF019B74AE7A0CB4D89F6656E17&FORM=QBLH&sp=2 If you start with bait and bobbers you will have better immediate success. Once you have some success with that then you can get a few simple lures and use those. Once you are a lot more experienced you will catch more fish with lures than natural baits for most of the predatory species. Bait only catches the hungry feeding fish while lures can catch fish that are neither hungry nor actively feeding. I love to fish ultralight. That is my favorite kind of fishing. I love to fish for fish, depending on the species, with a line that is at most half the pound test of the fish weight that I am catching. that is sportfishing and for fun. Survival fishing is for FOOD and you don’t give the fish any advantages. for now, the most important thing is to have fun.