One Long Gun And One Handgun

[PathfinderNC]

.62 Fusil de Chasse and my .62 French Dragoon pistol.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

If you had to choose one muzzleloading long gun and one handgun for all of your firearms needs, including hunting and defense, what would they be? Thanks

AH resurrection of an old thread..., well if one was talking of a dystopian future.... The major problem would be by the time it was down to BP muzzleloaders, putting calories on the table.

My .75 SLP Bess, because it doesn't need caps, it's robust and durable, it takes a bayonet which I also have, has a metal ramrod, and is large enough bore to take geese, as well as big game...,

And a 20 gauge Howda SxS pistol, as I can cover the caps on the nipples with beeswax so it effectively is good in wet weather, and a 20 gauge short shotgun with #4 buckshot is rather formidable up close and personal.

ACTUALLY..., I'd more likely carry my Browning recurve bow with several different tips for different game (quiet and works in the rain), and would've stockpiled a cattleman carbine with a cylinder that takes fixed BP metallic cartridge ammo in .45 Colt which I also stockpiled, (plus the original cap-n-ball cylinder). So I wouldn't be out of modern ammo when everybody else was.....

WHICH is what I'd like to see on Netflicks, btw. A show set in dystopian future, with decent writing, where the folks have modern stuff, but they horde it only for defending the town, and they use bows and flintlocks for hunting and such, and use a LOT of 18th century tech because it was sustainable, to use an overused term. I'd like to see a character dressed like an F&I Trekker, but has a small PDW also slung across his back, in case of two-footed predators....

LD

 

[Jim in San Diego]

If I had to use BP weapons for defense, it would be my double coach gun loaded with buck and ball, plus one of my revolvers.

I’d also keep my short sword handy.

 

[Edm]

This is one of those questions that has contengencies. Not that that’s bad, but it affects my choices. If I was transported somewhere like Robinson Carouso, I would pick a sxs flintlock and a flint pistol. If all guns besides BP just vanished and there was a limit of 2 I’d go Fowler and 1860 Army.

Wait…a cannon is a long gun..right? Can I have a Napoleon? And a smoothbore pistol.

 

[BlazingIron]

I’d start with this

Where did you get that gun case? I love it!

 

[Relic shooter]

For backup if my lack unmentionables run out of fuel

 

[fireman1]

My 2 Band Enfield and a My 2nd Generation Colt's Dragoon....iffin I got a horse. If not Enfield musketoon and an 1860 Army.

 

[fireman1]

I see there are a few guys in this thread that are no fun at parties.

 

[Rob M.]

NW trade gun ,20 ga. ....and one cut down to a pistol , blanket gun 20 ga.