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 The Pitchfork’s survival projects, Survival Firearms Choices

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Do not foresee a moment, a battling; foresee two years and more, a
warring.  Pitchfork

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Introduction

Pitchfork's approach to survival firearms inventory choices assumes among other matters that you already haven't strong emotional or other attachments to a rifle and its round.  Plenty have. 

Pitchfork's approach to close security protection firearms in troubled times is still without emotion and with some senses of practicality and tolerance.

How'd Pitchfork get this far?

• Started with 'everyone' assumptions as to whom he was addressing - essentially, most of us who had better things to do than face up to survival by security until what hit the fan hit them

• Added a firearms analytical hierarchy of survival needs that split choices into 4 distinct cells = urban & rural vs. social & cultural

• That led to conversations mostly based on the firearms analytical hierarchy, extending it to survival ammo stash, ammo weight implications (or their seeming lack), and survival ammo choices, which ammo choices will guide firearms choices for your own firearm inventory

And then . . . and then . . .

Further to what's important and what's not in Pitchfork's survival firearms choices, survival ammo considerations prevail into choosing survival management tools.  Pitchfork's house protection long gun choices predominate in .22 and 12Ga, and, secondarily, 7.62x39 or x51/.308 Winchester.

• You need commodity arms - abundance signals:  commodity market pricing; more readily acquired – store-bought or in the field; demonstrated, generalizable utility and functionality - user-appreciation, if you will

Other key points for survival arms according to Pitchfork . . . 

• No bank-breaking prices, in order to emphasize commodity market pricing focus

• Common makers (though not necessarily only common in America)

• Ease and simplicity of field stripping

• Track-record durable

• Not picky about ammo maker or model

• Not pages of blog-bitching - not common, but notable

Pitchfork's survival firearms inventory choices

Note:  'Fork reckons that the best option to work any of the .308s with facility, encouraged by others way more in the know than 'Fork, is a muzzle brake to significantly limit muzzle rise, e.g., the Surefire MB556K or PWS FSC556 or AAC 51T Brake

Pitchfork will address each of these choices briefly in subsequent webpages.

You may have other close personal survival firearms inventory preferences based on personal experience.

Handguns

Several years ago, a fellow who knew better up-front and personal explained to the 'fork about handguns. 

It's not the caliber, it's the shot placement.

So, do what works for you and handguns.  Size, weight, ease of draw, balance, whatever.  Just don't talk about 'pretty'.  Oh, yes, another thing about handguns: carry two in the same caliber.  Why?

• Lose one in a fight

• Fire until one's empty

• Your buddy isn't armed and oughta

• Your handgun does not work - jam, part break, whatever

• Position is important and yours is not so much for getting to one of 'em

• Your one arm or hand all of a sudden doesn't work well . . . at all

• More than one putter uponer, each in about the same state of readiness to dust you