One year alone in the remote wilderness...

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If you had to spend one year in the remote wilderness of Northern BC and could take ONE gun and all the ammo you can carry what gun would you take? Remember the gun has to serve as a protector and hunting gun so it’s going to get fired quite a bit………ammo is heavy. Big bullets don’t leave much meat on small game and small bullets don’t stop a pissed off Grizzly.
 
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Why are you shouting? :confused: ....easy, my .375 H&H after all, it's about surviving. One year in northern BC is likely to bring an encounter of the furry kind. Where do you get this idea that big bullets don't leave much meat on small game? The difference between .375 and .270 is 0.105, double it for expansion and that is .210...now that's a lot of meat loss. On the other hand, think of the worse case scenario....what would you prefer having at that single moment when you feel a warm wet spot in the seat of your pants?
 
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Actually the 22 is not that bad a choice in a survival situation you are gonna eat anything you can get. Squirrels, small game what ever. I would choose a 12 ga sxs with 20 inch barrels though. Slugs and shot
 
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Up until about sixty years ago, the wilderness of northern BC was crawling with prospectors all through the snow free months, plus all the trappers.
The prospectors were usually at temporary camps and travelled around quite a bit. Their rifle was almost invariably a light, single shot 22. And their ammunition was shorts! If they had a cabin, or trappers with a cabin, they likely also had a 30-30.
 
In the late 1960's I spent a few years living on a 160 acre land pre-emption claim (homestead) deep in the bush of North-Eastern BC.
I carried and used a #5 Jungle Carbine, generally with the mag full of the old Dominion 215 gr. round nose loads.
Not very fancy. but all I had for a big rifle.
It certainly did the job on everything I encountered from big bears to big moose and lesser game.
with a pocketful of light 100 gr. handloads at about 1200fps or so for small game.

I also had an Armalite AR7 which when it functioned, was inaccurate. Mostly did not use it.

Last but not least. A Ruger Blackhawk in .41 Mag.
The Ruger was usually carried everywhere I went on my homestead, including the outhouse where it had it's own peg.

I never considered myself under-gunned, Although had I been rich, I might have made other choices.:)
 
A Winchester 1892 in 32-20, and I'll have to rely on a brain shot if I am so unfortunate as to meet an angry Grizz.
 
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