Have always liked your honest and inciteful comments. Interesting you choose basically the same type firearms as our grandparents / great-grandparents for the same practical reasons. Your heartfelt comments about honoring our veterans shows what a great person you are. Thanks. As a Canadian we stand arm in arm with our American friends and allies .

In. Skilled hands. A. 22. Long. Rifle. Will always. Feed. You. In tough. Times.

My father during the depression got meat for the family with a 22 and a 410 shotgun! They both served him well! He also grew up on a river that had plenty of fish which was not to far from where Zane Grey lived when writing some of his books! Good info as always Tom!

@ZommBleed

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I have my father's .22 single shot Winchester that his mom bought him when he was 7 during the Great Depression. I would never part with it; not because of its practicality, but because it belonged to my dad and has a history attached to it. Edit: He used to hunt small game for their meals with it. (I'd never turn a 7 year old loose with a gun in the 21 century.)

Thank you Tom for your inciteful video, and reminding all of us to reflect on the sacrifices by those that were intended to allow us release from tyranny. The fight goes on and truth will win in the end.

My extreme great depression hunting package is lead, a lee 50 cal mold, bunch of bees wax and 1k 209 primers and a bunch of stump remover.

@j.p.saverance8972

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Not a bad choice. A flintlock would further reduce your dependence upon outside supply, though at a cost of reliability and possibly accuracy.

Interesting video. I was born and raised in Cuba. I am EXTREMELY concerned with what has been going on in this great nation that I adopted as my motherland, especially during the last 3 years. We'd better wake up as it is getting late to save our country. GOD BLESS AMERICA! LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!!🇺🇸

That really puts things in perspective. we've been spoiled for a long time and didn't even realize it

I would add a PCP air rifle in .22 or .25 caliber to the mix. Along with a couple spare air pumps and a pile of O rings. Very effective on small critters and whisper quiet with a decent moderator. Easy to stock up 10k or more projectiles.

@BigT27295

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Yep..

That is probably the most sincere set of thoughts on depression survival ever, I reckon you are bang on even for me here in New Zealand only difference is it would be 22lr 12gauge and most likely a lee Enfield 303 with open sights and scope for same reasons

@bobbydazzler4141

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Agreed, It is impossible to go past 22LR. Period.

@j.p.saverance8972

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Good choices!

One aspect that effects choices would be ammo availability. 22LR, 9mm, 223/5.56, 7.62x39, 308Win and 12 gauge will be available as long as ammo is manufactured. As the economy collapses, we're going to see a huge consolidation in manufacturers' cartridge catalogs. Personally, I wish I had the money to buy SKS rifles when those guns could be purchased by the crate for around $500.

Another good rainy day gun video!

Hey Tom I'm Bill an older Kiwi hunter living in Australia I've been listening to and watching your videos a while now and you sir are a man I would do my best to make a friend. I know that means little to you but I'm very particular about my friends. I have 3 friends they're honest , loyal, steadfast. And like I've heard you say before they just do the right thing . Cheers mate Bill

@jackscott2594

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Spot on , I’m the same but in Queenstown New Zealand

@bobbydazzler4141

Жыл бұрын

Right on Clinton.......but I see you have 3 friends... I recon 7 is the perfect number in life - just sayin

Thanks Tom. Your choices make sense to me. Going back to some of your first videos 👍🏻🙏🏻

If you only could take one gun. All day, every day, 22LR. For too many reasons to list in a blog. Thanks Tom.

I had fun watching this. Its wisdom and common sense!

I’ve seen it in Iraq and Bosnia, their money was useless and they went to a barter system. We could use Things like ammo and reloading supplies along with food, basic medical supplies could be traded for goods and services needed. I grew up a dirt poor son of a farmer. Hunting season was year round and we ate a lot of mule deer does.

Thank you Tom!

Enjoyed your thoughts on this. Society does push us in directions that may not be conducive to the reality of our situation. I like best your approach of making decisions on what is in real time. I’ve always wanted to make sure that food was plenty to feed my sidekicks. So I stray away from harder to find ammo. Thank you for putting this out there. Calling it a depression may not happen, but economic hard times are hard times whatever they want to call it.

I would think that it would be better to keep the most common calibers. I don't know if they had supply chain issues back in the great depression. I'm almost certain that we would see them just look at what happened with COVID and the great toilet paper famine. Also I think learning to make your own primers would be a very good idea. Look up Aardvark reloading for more information. Also learn to make your own black powder which could be used for shotgun shells and any straight walled cartridges. Like 357mag and 45-70 or the newer 350 legend. I like the 38-55 wcf myself but once again good luck finding brass for the more obscure cartridges. Thank you to all that served to keep our freedoms. Land of the free because of the brave. God bless.

Thanks Tom! What a great line-up of depression guns. Thats a beautiful shotty. God bless

Excellent thoughts, thanks.

Wind and rain here in South Ga too!!!Love your vids!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏

Thanks Tom for providing us a useful video, even though we couldn’t go shooting with you cause of the poor weather. I think you made a decent choice on guns to keep, however I would have kept one of the higher capacity pistols. Take care and God bless my friend. ✌️😎👍

This was a very compelling subject to ponder. In pondering it, I determined that it would be desirable to have a battery of arms wherein each firearm within it is versatile, inexpensive to shoot, and easy for a young novice to deploy should necessity arise and I'm not present to do the deploying. With that in mind, here's my list: 1) AIR RIFLE Specifically, a .20 caliber Beeman R9. Being of the so-called "spring piston" type, it is a self-contained unit, providing its own compressed air via the spring-driven piston. Cocking effort is light enough for most female teens to handle. When I lived in California, where air rifles are a legal method of take for resident upland game birds, I used this for hunting quail, chukar partridges, and wild turkey, in addition to taking rabbits and squirrels. Where I live now, I use it for early-season squirrel hunting and general rabbit hunting, I also use it to keep raccoons, ground hogs, and skunks in check, as well as dealing with vicious stray dogs. It has an effective game-taking range of 50 yards or slightly more, but a limited maximum range less than 450 yards. That, coupled with near-silent operation, make it useful for critter-getting in the suburban / wilderness interface. No firearm is cheaper to shoot than this thing is. A tin of 250 pellets is about the size of a Copenhagen can. I have 10 tins of H&N Field Target Specials still having the factory sealing tape on them. That's 2,500 pellets that don't take up a lot of space. 2) CENTER-FIRE RIFLE Specifically, a Marlin 336 in .30-30 with a half-length magazine conversion, fitted with a Lyman 66 LA aperture sight that is equipped with a Merit adjustable iris sight disc. It is also fitted with a thin but effective recoil pad. The default load I use for this drives a 160 grain Hornady FTX bullet to an average MV of 2,380 fps. That's enough power to take everything from moose on down out to 300 yards. That comes with a recoil impulse so mild that my 11 year old self could shoot the thing for hours without getting sore and the report is as mild as the recoil is. Operation is fairly intuative. Kids have no trouble shooting it. Where ammo is concerned, I have over 2,000 rounds of the default ammo loaded and ready to shoot, plus another 120 rounds of Dominion 160 grain round-nose FMJ in case I need to prevent getting mauled by a bear or need to stop a Buick in its tracks. Game might become scarce. Wildlife management agencies might curtail sport hunting. But there is NO WAY my state is going to stop the hunting for feral swine. I've put at least 200 pigs in the freezer with this rifle. The "peep" sight is rugged and works as well in rain and blowing snow as it does on a clear and dry day. 3) SHOTGUN This was tough one. I picked 28 gauge because it is easy to shoot from fixed-breach arms and while it is expensive to buy, it is cheap to reload. It has effecient terminal ballistics, killing all out of proportion to its common 3/4 oz. load. My dilema was which gun would I keep? Would it be my A y A No. 2 side by side, or would it be my Yildiz Legacy HP over and under? I like both equally well, but I shoot the Yildiz better because it fits as if bespoke. The A y A is a non-ejector version with double triggers, straight grip, and splinter fore-end. The barrels are blued, the action and side plates are coin-finished. It was the first shotgun I ever fired, the first I ever broke clay with, and the first I ever killed a quail with. I inherited it from one of my two uncles who got me into upland game hunting. I loved it from the time I first shot it and it has a lot of sentimental value to me. It is not an intuitive gun to shoot. The correct way to shoot a gun like this is to have your non-trigger hand on the barrels ahead of the fore-end. It has two triggers, and while using a double-trigger gun is second-nature to me, it isn't to a novice shooter. My Yildiz Legacy HP has an aluminum receiver that is corrosion resistant. The action is the stupid-simple Brescia style, making it something I can change the firing pins in myself if I need to, given that I can detail-strip the receiver down to the bare action frame and put it back together again myself. The barrels are finished in satin-black chrome that resists scratches, rain, sleet, snow, and pointing Labrador slobber. They have extended choke tubes so you don't need tools to change them. The gun has a pistol grip stock making it easier for most shooters to control. The trigger is a single-selective unit that is "pure mechanical" and doesn't rely on inetia to reset for the second shot. It has selective ejectors, too, so it is fast to reload. I'd keep both but if I could only keep one in Great Depression 2.0, it would be the Yildiz that I would keep. I'd use them for small game, upland game birds, and home defense. 4) HANDGUN For me, the obvious choice was my c.1985 stainless steel, 6.5" barrel Ruger Single Six convertible in .22 LR and .22 WMR. Either way, recoil is well within a pre-teen child's capacity to handle and operating it is easy for a young novice to understand. It is accurate enough to reliably take game to 25 yards or more. It has enough power to kill 40 pound piglets stone-cold dead. I know, because I keep my freezer full of pork thanks to a "WMA" that is loaded with pigs but has a rimfire-only restriction for rifles and handguns. As a defensive arm, the human skull and the human heart are not bullet-proof against the .22 WMR. As a peace officer, I couldn't flee felons. As a civilian, I DO have that option, so I don't have the same demands for firepower and rapid reloading as a civilian that I had when in law enforcement. Is it ideal? No. But it is better than a sharp stick. The size isn't a problem, either, as open carry is legal in my state. I can still conceal it in a Bianchi fanny pack style thing I used to conceal a 92F Beretta in during my tenure in law enforcement. I'm much more likely to need my handgun as a critter-getter and I don't think there's much of an argument that a Single Six is better for that than a 9mm combat pistol would be. My wife can shoot it well. She cannot shoot a 9mm combat pistol well, or even deal with recking their slides or operating their slide releases. She can do everything needed to do to shoot the Single Six. I have 2,000 rounds of .22 LR CCI Mini Mag and 1,000 CCI Maxi Mags on hand as I write this. So, there you have it.......

You are absolutely correct !

Wow! Thanks Tom! Great words, great word. Lord have mercy.... Lord have mercy Jesus is King

Hey Tom, love your videos, totally agree, i probably would keep my ruger american rifle in 22lr and possibly keep my S&W 357 mag revolver.

Merry Christmas from Winston-Salem !! 🌲 🙏

A real good video. Thank You

My grandfather went through the Great Depression. His list was a shotgun, because it can take everything you could want depending on what you feed it. .22 rifle, because the ammo was inexpensive, and having a few thousand rounds set aside is not really a problem, and it can feed you, if you can place your shots. Some kind of handgun, because desperate people do desperate things, and you need something you can keep close to hand all the time. Bottom line, if it isn't a tool, if it doesn't feed you, it really doesn't matter when your belt starts running out of notches.

You are 100% right. Great video.

Best ending to the video. As a military brat and veteran, recognizing those who gave all for the preservation of our freedom is a must for me.

I remember Grampa had an old 1903 Springfield 30/06, dad had an old Winchester 94 in 32 special. For home protection Grampa had the Winchester model 12 and dad had an old Blackhawk 357 mag. Each had an old 22 as well. Dad shot his share of deer with that 22

Good choices but I'd probably go with the 92FS simply because ammo would be easier to aquire

Stick with me, and you'll have coconuts the size of pearls, and walnuts the size of diamonds.

Good job!

1st Pray it dont come.2nd Good Video.. 3rd Got to think what Ammo is gonna be available.. or have a good supply already. Pay to attention to those that were available n are now over stocked. Or everybody seems to havein stocked.

My Grandfather had a military surplus .30-40 Krag, an S&W .22 revolver and a 12 gauge back in the 1930’s.

This was very interesting and eye opening. Ya I'd keep the shotgun and 22. but would go with probably a 308 rifle. Mostly due to where I live, and I can't remember the last time I saw 30-30 ammo for sale around here. Not much wooded hunting around here.

Frankly the 12 gauge shotgun is perhaps the best all around firearm period and that simple mechanically is preferred. What also needs to be weighed is parts and ammunition. It’s a pain in the rump now to get some calibers of ammo what do you expect will happen in a depression? 12 gauge is generally available and easy to keep extra just in case. The one arm that was not discussed and I would place just after a shot gun would be a .357 revolver instead of a semi auto. It’s just more versatile and forgiving ammo wise and can be used to harvest small and big game if necessary. Reloading wise in a pinch both 12 gauge and 357 can fire black powder.

awesome as usual

Funny enough, I realized I’m already starting to do this by watching this video. I’ve been working towards normalizing and thinning out my cartridge pool. Selling rifles in oddball cartridges and sticking to popular and more generalized ones, as well as selling extravagant rifles I don’t need. So far, I’m down to 22lr, 223, 9mm, 12 gauge, 6.5 creedmoor and 3006 I need to work on my ammunition amounts for a few of these while I still have spare cash. My budget is having to be reevaluated monthly as living expenses increase. Personally, I think 223 is the dark horse that can do almost everything aside from squirrels and wing shooting. If I had to cut it more I would probably cut 3006 next and then likely 6.5 creedmoor, but I don’t think it will be necessary. As you say, it’s hard to know when you’re not living it.

Thanks Tom for another great video ,,being poor you sometimes miss some of the freshly suffering can't miss what you never had lol ,,NO I'm not living in a cardboard box but rather a comfortable home the LORD has let me rest in .and the truth be told the gun may not matter as long as you had one right.,, Tom your right we may not have our bests rifle due to priorities.. But keep the praise and prayers going up,,,and it will pass before we do if not we are in the best Hands Possible anyway lol I don't have much time to worry anyhow.GODBLESS ALL.

I have stocked up on thousands of once fired cases for pistols, revolvers, and rifles. Keep as many primers and containers of powder as posiible.

Slow steady and very wise.would love to be under that tin roof in the rain in that shed with a coffee and a lot of time for a good conversation.thank you for stating what I've always thought to be the obvious...without the razzamataza of marketing.tony from australia

GOD BLESS TOM WAKE UP AMERICA

I think a lot of people will not make it if they had to survive on wild game . There would not be enough to last long.

@Kyle-sr6jm

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My grandfather said it was a sign of good times if you saw a rabbit or deer beside the road. Because in bad times, someone would have already stopped and taken it.

The Colt in .32 cal may be problematic due to getting ammunition. I own a .32 and the ammo is rather hard to come by.

my wife and i both like shooting and hunting both big game and small game so far as a semi auto for the home guns we each have a remington 742 woodsmaster in 308 we also each have a 9mm carry gun i have my 12ga pump she has a 22lr and we have our own muzzle loaders and if we are going out on a moose hunt then its a 30-06 and a 7mm rem mag but if it got right down to it im thinking i might pull out the old school 303 british its the gun with the 10 round mags and i have a few of the old stripper clips for it

I enjoy the video

Did you factor in ammunition? Which rounds are easier to come by and which ones are easier to make yourself and use less powder per round?

@TomRiverSimpleLiving

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Ppirate, I did not factor in cost of ammunition. But I suspect so few shots would be fired in a depression that it wouldn't matter that much so long as the ammo wasn't just outrageous? I remember my late uncle saying when he went hunting as a boy his Dad gave him three 22lr bullets if he wanted 3 more had to bring a squirrel or rabbit home. Target shooting was wasting ammo and something that just wasn't done very often.

I love your thoughts on communist politicians. Had them then, and we sure as hell have them now.

We need to take into account that very little is being produced. We could have thousands of dollars in our pockets but nothing to buy. Stock up now on essential items. I don't think hording is a need, learn to raise a garden now. Learn to hunt. Learn to purify water.

It would be tough but if i could only have one gun its hard to beat the ole 12 gauge. Id probably have a pump action with modified choke or removable chokes though a single shot would be ok too because how simple they are . If i chose a pump action Id want a pump action that has alot of parts available in case things break or for aftermarket ie remington 870 or mossberg 500... It hurts me to say that because i love my ithaca 37 and i want a winchester model 12. id also have a reloading station to reload shells, with plenty of shot and powder. I think its good to be stocked up on 12 gauge ammo and keep ot simple. No5 birdshot shells, 00 buck, and slugs. A second close firearm would be a 22lr A third choice would be a ar15 in 5.56. id get a 22 adapter for it as well. But you just cant beat the verstillity of a shotgun

@anonymousf454

2 ай бұрын

Definitely agree. The shotgun will keep your stomach full. If I could add a second, it would probably be a good 357 magnum revolver. Very versatile, can load it down to take small game, or load it hot to take deer and hogs. Easy to conceal and a proven record for dealing with 2 legged predictors. With the right load, a 357 magnum is capable of taking just about anything in North America...and has taken all of the things already.

Oh my God, not the Mini-14!

I know my family had a lot of single shot 12ga and 16ga shotguns like the American a uncle had a win 37 20ga . Most still had sing shot 22 and the uncle that had the 37 had a stevens in 32 rf. There really was no big game the biggest thing on average was a turkey. here they still let hogs run lose so no hog hunting. The deer were shot out My dad remembered grandpa feeding the first doe that showed back up in the early 40's just to try to get her to stay around the farm

A great depression will be no accident.

Ruger GP100 is the perfect zombie great depression handgun. It would be the last handgun I'd give up.

I disagree with some of your choices but loved the video and topic nonetheless. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Lots of North American hunters easily forget there is a hunting tool that can fill your freezer quite easily. A 10 gauge magnum shotgun, outfitted for steel. Pass shoot geese like nobody's business. Many jurisdictions also have a spring goose season to augment the fall season, too. Doubles your opportunities. Hence, it doubles your annual harvest. Added bonus, no criminal willingly defies a homeowner sporting a magnum 10 loaded to the gills with buckshot. Twice the payload of 12 bore 00 buckshot, with only one pull of the trigger.

@genericyoutubeuser1700

8 ай бұрын

And 0 available ammunition for it. If you want to make a ten gauge work, you had better have 500 rounds already in storage.

I would everything go before i let my gun's go.

Keeping the .32 Long...because .32 ammo is EVERYWHERE and you'd have no problem obtaining some. 🙄 Just say you're keeping it for sentimental purposes. No one will fault you for that. Though, it is not the most practical of the three handguns.

All i need is powder and lead.

the premise of your video is true but the conclusion, in my opinion, was off just a tad. During the great reset (the bible calls it tribulation that the earth has never seen before) which I honestly believe could begin around October, nobody is going to have money to purchase anything, much less firearms. I think, and I may be wrong on this, but the majority of our population lives in cities and large towns. They have no means to harvest game for food. As you stated, they are coming for our stuff. From a biblical standpoint, once the great tirbulation begins one will not be able to buy or sell with the mark (code) from the beast. My point is, tough times never before seen on this earth are just over the horizon and we should be preparing our hearts for the day of Christ and not stocking up on guns and ammo. Just my opinion of course.

I going to have a gun if it is illegal are not.

If guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns. Desperate times could cause citizens to take desperate measures. We all need to protect our rights at all cost.

Must be awful to live in a country where you need to carry a firearm to feel save, not really the land of the free is it

@jerroldshelton9367

8 ай бұрын

"Must be awful to live in a country where you need to carry a firearm to feel save, not really the land of the free is it" I wouldn't know. I don't live in such a country. I do live in a state where bearing a firearm on one's person is a right guaranteed by the state constitution, though. In the main, I haven't exercised that right, personally. If I were to carry a firearm on my person, it wouldn't be to FEEL SAFE. People who support restrictions on the private ownership and bearing of firearms do so to FEEL SAFE. Demanding that others sacrifice individual liberty on their altar of FEELING SAFE is their currency of exchange, It isn't mine. If I were to exercise my right under my state's constitution to carry a firearm on my person, it wouldn't be to FEEL SAFE. I'd carry a firearm as a civilian for the same reason I carried one during my tenure in law enforcement: to actually BE secure in my person, I don't know where you live and fundamentally don't care. If other people live there, too, you're not 100% immune against being a potential victim of violent crime. Here in the U.S.A., the defensive use of firearms by law enforcement is predicated on the notion that the threat of deadly force is often sufficient to thwart or quell any violence occurring when a peace officer arrives on the scene. That I can count the number of times I had to use a firearm to deliver deadly force on one hand with four fingers to spare, but cannot count the number of times I pointed a handgun at someone, while having the legal justification to do so under color of authority,, during my tenure in law enforcement in the Los Angeles Metro area, and stopped whatever violence was occurring, without firing a shot, testifies to the veracity of the concept. The civilian defensive use of firearms in this country, in states where citizens can legally engage in it, is really no different than law enforcement defensive use of firearms. The will, means, and present ability to meet violent action with lethal force is generally sufficient to cause the violence to cease. When I first moved to my current home state, it was a "shall issue" state for concealed carry permits. As a retired peace officer, I could carry on the authority of my retirement badge and I.D., but didn't. We don't have much violent crime here. "Almost non-existent" isn't the same thing as "non-existent," though. On my first night of residency in this state, I went to Walmart in the small hours to get some over the counter medication for a sick child. When I got back to my Jeep, I was met with a knife-wielding lunatic who demanded my wallet and the keys to my Jeep. I still have his knife. He never got to see my wallet or my keys. But I'm getting a little too old and feeble for that sort of thing. I like having the option of exercising a constitutionally protected right to self defense and the right to carry the means to secure it on my person. Before I moved, while I was still a resident of California, I got held up at a gas station by some idiot who claimed he had a gun, and thus he was entitled to my wallet. I didn't have a gun on me at the time, but he wasn't lying about having one. After I told him, "Oh, really? Well, take your gat and shove it up your ass, becuase you're not getting my wallet," he pulled it from his hoodie pocket. It turned out that I didn't need to bring a gun. He provided his, albeit not willingly. After I had control of his gun, his face had a little accident against the rock facade of the gasoline station's mini-market and I suspect his nose got broken when that happened. Poor fellow. I was younger then and not as feeble as I am in my approaching old age. I'm increasingly inclined to bring my own gun, rather than go to the trouble of taking one away from a person wielding it with malicious intent. But here, the people carrying guns aren't carrying them for nefarious purposes, so I don't yet carry one. Even so, it is WONDERFUL to live in a jurisdiction where I have a right, protected by the state constitution, to NOT be a victim, to be secure in my person, and to carry a firearm on my person, if I want to, in order to insure that I remain secure in my person.

Nope about Communists in power. Who, specifically? Back up your careless language. I love your content, but your history lesson is bush league.

My wife sometimes goes for my 32 new police.was my grandads.sombody name Dillon and some dairymen took it from sombody named B F. Nelson. Nelson tried a horn swoggle but couldnt pull it off.he had to carry groceries next day. So we still use that old thing for same purposes.🦬🦬🐎

Excellent thoughts, thanks.