Best Welfare rifle?

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K-Roc said:
Single shot shotgun for $150... with bird buck and slugs you can hunt anything.

Toss in a $150 single for shot .22 and you can even plink with dirt cheap ammo. Someone on welfare is in the game with $300 for two rifles and $100 worth of ammo. $400 total... how much is a welfare cheque?
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If you're on welfare and living in government housing you do a lot better than working. An adult with 3 kids get about $2000 a month, $1800 subsidized heat and lights per yr. Free rent, free daycare , free drugs, free dental, free taxis to drop and pickup their kids to the free daycare. So I think they can afford a half decent hunting rig. Better than some think. A used rem 700 would be a good welfare gun... Lol
 
Rob said:
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?
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if your going out hunting , a rifle and ammo are your smallest expenses .
 
lets look at this seriously ....

welfare pays out , what , 600ish a month , for a single person and 900 ish if your disabled.

your housing costs will eat that up completely ...... but lets pretend your living with someone who will "carry you " .

your costs for hydro and phone , fuel, insurance and maintenance for your vehicle will use this amount and then some .

then what about food? clothing ? shoes / boots? personnel care items ?

what i'm getting at is , there is NO extra money .

a person would be wasting valuable time and resources that could be used to find a job .

hunting in its self is a " luxury" now , unless your able to walk from your door step into a area your legally and safely able to discharge a firearm , that also happens to have edible forest critters running around .

then lets say you got something large ( deer , moose ect....) ... where do you put it ? freezers are expensive and use electricity . ( never mind butchering and wrapping , even done by yourself this costs more money that you don't have ).



picking bottles up on the side of the road would be more productive .

raising chickens would be more productive .

or how about using your free time to go learn something that would enable a person to get a job and better themselves.
 
Aniest said:
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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This makes me sick, but it is not the first time i heard it.
 
Welfare is about $500 bi weekly. Assume your in govt housing you pay no rent, 3 kids gets you $1300/month child tax, your kids can join dance or hockey free, you don't pay for daycare. . This is the equivalent lifestyle id someone making $60-$70k.
 
Welfare rifle is a poor term obviously...I'm not going to rant, it's very unbecoming.
But I did grow up poor, and our go-to guns were 22's and 12 Guage's.
I've not ever seen many folks in need of help actually. Some 'low rent folks' hang out in front of Timmies downtown, but I'd be skeptical if I saw them with a gun.
Personally I have heard of 1st generation immigrants catching and eating pigeons...now there is a plan right there. I would shake that individuals hand and buy him a coffee.
 
freezer filler said:
Getting meat at the grocery store is way cheaper than hunting when u consider the total expenses of hunting paraphernalia. Folks do it because they like to, and can afford it.
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exactly ...

as a example of this , recently , a local place here had pork at 2.00 a pound in 5 to 10 pound , boneless wet packs .

a couple months ago the same place had fresh whole turkey that worked out to .75 a pound .

I would say that it is next to impossible to get a legal meat source much cheaper than that while hunting .
 
barrett50cal said:
Able-bodied enough to hunt, then able-bodied enough to work and pull your own weight in society, IMO.
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Ever see how much effort is exerted in todays hunt. With all them 4X4 trucks, ATVs, motorboats, snowmobiles, etc, your typical hunter isn't any more than a stones throw away from a motorized vehicle.
If it wasn't for them newfangled ultra magnum sniper rifles with the super powered telescopic sights, which can pick off game a quarter mile away, they'd get no exercise at all!
 
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