Quote Originally Posted by KevDen2005 View Post
Everyone here seems to want to be prepared and are educating themselves with survival/gun knowledge, experience, and law. If something like Katrina happened here (any natural disaster) I am thinking that no one on this forum is going to stick around.
Rally at the north and south sites!

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This is a tough one for me as well... but I'm gonna go with my "boomstick."

Shotguns are very versatile. You can shoot lots of different types of ammo out to acceptable distances if need be. With my Mossberg 500A, I can be an aggressor, a defender, or a hunter. It has an 18in barrel, a tough black synthetic stock, and I have a pistol grip for it. With the pistol grip, it is semi-concealable under a long coat or in a backpack. If the sh*t REALLY hit the fan, I don't think I'd be worried about NFA rules anyway, so I'd probably cut that barrel down to 12 or 14 inches if I really had to. I have a few hundred shotgun shells lying around (unfortunately, most of them are steel shot for shooting clays) and I could easily fit a few hundred shells in my BoB.

Reasons for not bringing an AR: Lots of work to clean (compared to a shotgun). Pretty hard to conceal. I think there are more people with shotguns/ammo/accessories than with AR-15s/ammo/accessories. I have more shotgun trigger time than AR trigger time. And... shotguns are better at taking care of zombies.

Reasons for not bringing a handgun: Simple: I don't have one.

If you are in an urban or suburban environment, then I think a concealable handgun with as much ammo as you can reasonably carry (60-80rds at a minimum) would be the best bet. In a more rural environment, a solid AR10 or .308 bolt rifle would probably be the best way to go. I am in more of a suburban environment, but I have a very limited weapon selection... (I don't have an armory in my basement like some of you folks... hahaha) so I would have to choose my shotgun.

Okay... I'm young. I might be a little naive. I'm definitely less experienced than a lot of you guys... so please tell me what I'm doing wrong.