Originally Posted by
Gm54-120
To anyone that thinks "new fangled" stuff doesn't extend your limits. Lets test that idea deep in a remote grizzly bear area and the only way to supply meat/protection is a rifle for a month or two. You get a tent, a knife/axe, the clothes on your back and your choice of ML, 30 projectiles, primers/caps and a pound powder. Plus a few cooking utensils and enough water.
You gunna choose a PRB shooter and BP or something that gives you a little edge? Something you can reload faster, Something that requires a little less up keep. Something with a little more range and knock down at that longer range.
I think when it comes to survival the tune of the buckskinners will change enough to help insure their survival.
In this scenario I would choose a rifle with a fast twist barrel. Whether it is a sidelock or inline would not matter. For powder it would be genuine black powder because nothing has more reliable ignition when my life depends upon it. Primers would be either RWS or Remington #11 caps which have a little more umph than some of the others. The projectiles would be slip fit lead conicals somewhere around 500 grains. There is not time to pound down a saboted bullet in this situation and the conicals are effective at both long and short range.