Guns that last

[John Y Cannuck]

If production of all small arms were to cease. Cukier wins
What rifles/cartridges will still be shooting come 3000?

 

[dumbdawg]

bow & arrow if these crooks get their own way

 

[madtrapper143]

I can make my own black powder and scrounge lead anywhere for projectiles. I think my legally unregistered .50 flinter would still be around. Unless they read this post and decide to regulate that too.
cheers Darryl

 

[Sharptail]

The gun has not been with us for a thousand years yet, so to predict what will be functioning a thousand years hence is a little iffy. One safe bet would be the black powder cannon. As far as cartridge rifles go, I would put my money on the .22 rim fire, just out of sheer numbers. Second guesses would include popular military cartridges (it's going to be hard to get rid of the 30-06).

Sharptail

 

[rottenfuher]

Sound like Canada heading towards Mad Max.

 

[savagefan]

For hunting there is snare wire for everything else there are ieds.

 

[Pure Energy]

.30-30 out of a model 94 winchester

 

[Suputin]

I can make my own black powder

Just so you know, making blackpowder without an explosives manufacturing licence is illegal.

 

[John Y Cannuck]

Just so you know, making blackpowder without an explosives manufacturing licence is illegal.

Well, we certainly wouldn't do anything illegal like continuing our sport regardless of Liberal ramblings would we?

 

[Suputin]

If you look, you can find potassium nitrate for sale on ebay.ca. The other components are pretty easy to find or make.

Miniature flour mills can be used to grind the components into powder.

 

[BruderShweigen]

Just so you know, making blackpowder without an explosives manufacturing licence is illegal.

Thank god the american minutemen and french resistance followed the law! Where would be we today if they haden't?

 

[John Y Cannuck]

Making gunpowder yourself, is easy, making gunpowder that is effective enough to work in small arms is NOT.
It's also a very dangerous procedure.
Now how about we get back on topic?

I think the SMLE will still be found. Hell, the Muslim terrorists have been making the things with hand tools.
Some of the Mausers, if Bubba doesn't claim them.
The '94 Winchester will live forever.
Some of the big old cartridge guns may also live, by virtue of their easy use of Black stuff.

 

[BruderShweigen]

The AK will live forever. It just never wears out and it's cheap to make. Talking about cheap, i think we will see the STEN make a come back due to it's cheap and easy construction (Nevermind the fact that blueprints are availiable on every site on the net).

 

[sPuTnik]

.30-06 'Nuff Said!

 

[woodchopper]

electromagnetic rail guns and I'm going to build a huge tesla coil and fry things with lightning bolts.

Hard to say whats going to last, but I would be betting on bolt action rifles, 300WinMag, 7mmRemMag, 30-06, as the most popular hunting rounds.

 

[RUPZUK]

In a thousand years , ummm
a sharp pointy stick .

 

[huntinstuff]

In the year 3000, when the ozone is gone and the world is a mass wasteland, somewhere there will be a mint condition winchester model 70 30-06 leaning against something...........................