Best Welfare rifle?

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One of the funniest things I read on Gunnutz was a fellow responding to someone complaining about the high cost of .17HMR ammo. As I recall, his response was something like, "I admit its not the best caliber for someone on welfare".

And that got me thinking...what is the best rifle and best caliber to own (not borrow) for someone on welfare?

I was thinking that once upon a time it would likely be a chopped down Lee-Enfield, but then .303 ammo is getting expensive and if you reload you would need equipment...and I suppose a real cheap used .22 would be a candidate, but then you'd be restricted to small game...and I think the purpose of a rifle for a guy on welfare would be to put food on the table...I may be wrong about that...

....anyway, what is your candidate for best welfare rifle and best welfare caliber?
 
Deuce-deuce said:
Whilst I'd normally agree with you... It sounds like the op is talking about a tool not a luxury. I'd be all for welfare recipients being allowed to harvest food within the law.
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Whilst I don't know the situation that the OP describes, I do know that a lot of welfare recipients are too lazy to work and therefore would probably be too lazy to harvest food with a rifle.

Our country is in the midst of importing a slew of people from other contries to do the work that our own won't do because the gov't pays them to stay home. I say "No work = No eat". :mad:
 
justinb1981 said:
A shotgun. With a fixed income you wouldn't be doing a lot of recreational shooting. A shotgun can harvest pretty much every game species depending on the ammuntion used.
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Forgot about scatterguns...I think you may be on to something...12 gauge? Single shot? Probably get a working one for under $100? But ammo could get expensive if you wanted to shoot everything and anything.. slugs sure aren't cheap...
 
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Savage 24. Combination of rifle and shotgun for the best of both worlds.

Can usually find these used and affordable.

.22 or .223 + 20g or .223 or 30/30 + 12g based on budget and need. Could even do slugs if you needed to and
can add a scope (although they say not to, that is legal ass covering)
 
SuperCub said:
Whilst I don't know the situation that the OP describes, I do know that a lot of welfare recipients are too lazy to work and therefore would probably be too lazy to harvest food with a rifle.

Our country is in the midst of importing a slew of people from other contries to do the work that our own won't do because the gov't pays them to stay home. I say "No work = No eat". :mad:
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Ain't that the truth.... On any given weekday you can go to any Timmie's in town and see a good size gang of welfare recipients sipping coffee, eating donuts and whining about the government..... Usually about ten feet away from the help wanted sign.....
 
Superbrad said:
Ain't that the truth.... On any given weekday you can go to any Timmie's in town and see a good size gang of welfare recipients sipping coffee, eating donuts and whining about the government..... Usually about ten feet away from the help wanted sign.....
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Socialism at it's best.
 
Rob said:
Forgot about scatterguns...I think you may be on to something...12 gauge? Single shot? Probably get a working one for under $100? But ammo could get expensive if you wanted to shoot everything and anything.. slugs sure aren't cheap...
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but, but, those old single shots have a gawd awful amount of recoil to them!
 
By the way, I once met a guy on welfare who collected Husqvarnas...he had quite a few of them too...not that I would recommend HVAs as ideal "welfare guns".

Actually now that I think about it...I think he collected Brnos, not Husqvarnas..
 
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Used Baikal IZH-94 in 12ga over .308 to go out and put food on the table...

I once offered a Welfare recipient a term job at $24.00 an hour that could have become a $85,000 a year salary after a few years: they refused. They said they can do nothing and get paid to do it by Welfare, so why bother? Soon after they quickly moved to a small town where the lack of someone able to offer them such a job, and thus prevent their Welfare, was impossible.
 
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but, but, those old single shots have a gawd awful amount of recoil to them!
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Yes they do. I fired an old 12 gauge single shot my Uncle left me. It seemed to be a solid gun, but when it went off the forend went flying, the action opened up and the gun literally fell apart into three pieces. My son was watching and almost died laughing.

But are you saying a guy on welfare can't handle recoil?
 
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