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What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 5:21 pm
by GunnyGene
Probably none of my beeswax, so don't feel obligated to post it. I know a lot of y'all probably have enviable stashes in safes and other secure places - don't care about that or what you might have already loaded in your firearms/magazines.

Since I'm past caring about who knows what, here's what I currently have handy for stay or go.

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Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 5:52 pm
by BigAl52
All that and more Gene. I have a PO9 CZ 19 round 9mm a 40 M&P and a M&P 45 always around me and I always have a 38 in my pocket. The AR's are handy to but there in the safe.

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 6:39 pm
by Grunt67
9mm on me or close, 45/70 at the ready, 12 ga w/ 00 Buck handy in the bedroom. Think that'll cover it.
Ammo for all, of course.

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:33 pm
by ol'pole
a tube with 00 buck & slugs, a SAA & BBS in 45c with adequate ammo, more handguns in various calibers with enough to feed them so they won't get hungry for a while ;) :)

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:28 pm
by Vaquero
Pretty much every firearm I own, there is at least a box or two at the ready. :o
Maybe not in the -06, but there are dies and bullets. ;)
There's enough 22's to shoot a 50 rd. box a day from now until this day next year with some to spare.
Yeah I've been stocking since the LAST Damn election fiasco. :lol:

RP

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:29 pm
by Vaquero
And I have a few more 22 mags. than there are in your pic. ;)

RP

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:14 am
by Vaquero
Hey Gene, some of it is hanging in plain sight. 🤣
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Grab a 20 ga. And 25 rounds right there. 👍

RP

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 6:35 am
by RanchRoper
The Red Ryder and a pair of safety glasses. You know, so I don’t shoot my eye out. :)

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:24 am
by fortyshooter
Everything I shoot is available and enough of it. Shotgun is first into action though.

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:40 pm
by Ernie
I learned the last time. I have enough.

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:53 pm
by Holiday009
Winchester 1300 Defender first one deployed for home defense.

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:34 am
by Koyote
Great to see that others are interested in .22 Mag. My fave over the .22 LR! Just yesterday, I stopped by one of LGS in town and found they were selling 100 rds./customer. I picked up two boxes of which one was Maxi-Mag. I have a Remington 597 with several new original plastic magazines that work better then the subsequent metal magazines they made. I also got a Volquartsen extractor and eliminated the FTF/FTE probs I used to have. Too bad Remington didn't find/fix the problem with their 597M because it is a great little rifle. Mine had the gray all weather stock. I picked it up back in 2008 and am very happy with it.
Good shootin' to y'all!

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:08 am
by GunnyGene
Koyote wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:34 am
Great to see that others are interested in .22 Mag. My fave over the .22 LR! Just yesterday, I stopped by one of LGS in town and found they were selling 100 rds./customer. I picked up two boxes of which one was Maxi-Mag. I have a Remington 597 with several new original plastic magazines that work better then the subsequent metal magazines they made. I also got a Volquartsen extractor and eliminated the FTF/FTE probs I used to have. Too bad Remington didn't find/fix the problem with their 597M because it is a great little rifle. Mine had the gray all weather stock. I picked it up back in 2008 and am very happy with it.
Good shootin' to y'all!
Yep, always a favorite of mine. Bought this Win 9422M new in 1973. Just put the scope on it a couple years ago (eyes).

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Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:17 am
by Rifletom
Nice wood on that one Gunny. Looks good.

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:22 am
by GunnyGene
Rifletom wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:17 am
Nice wood on that one Gunny. Looks good.
Thanks. I've tried to keep it in good shape. Probably has 10k rounds thru it.

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:26 pm
by DAVIDF
I keep most of my defensive rifles in soft bags with 6 to 10 magazines plus the one in the rifle. A Glock 19 with 6 spare magazines stays in my backpack or on my hip. Plus another 100 or so of my 9mm hand loads packed loose in a zip lock bag. I tend to keep either my 9mm AK-V (blow back action with AK type controls and short 10.5" barrel) or an AK rifle by my side 24 hrs a day. Perhaps the closest time I've ever been to being in a gun fight was in my back yard. I took a week off from work to move a drive way full of mulch to the back yard. On Wednesday, I took a day off from the manual labor to go to the range with my wife. While we were at the range 3 armed car jackers fled for 50 or more miles from the police. They ditched the car in a store front next to our neighborhood climbing over a number of fences including ours, passing thru our back yard while looking for a house to hide in. Our two back doors would have been open had I been home. They were arrested in our neighbors yard as they went to the front of the house and confronted a number of officers in the drive way. Doesn't matter where you live sometimes it is just happenstance. Something that starts 50 miles away can end up in your back yard or living room.

I've stock piled a lot of ammo (I wish I had more) over the last few years and quite a bit last year, especially 7.6x39 & .22 LR. I bought over 40,000 rounds of .22 LR last year as soon as it looked like everything was going to be bought up. I wanted something to last quite a few years so I could enjoy shooting without worrying about how much I paid for it or when I would be able to buy again ;)

Re: What do you keep readily available?

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:16 am
by Sir Henry
I have four main range ammo cans I keep stocked everyday. And I have one and sometimes two general range bags filled with staplers, targets and tools.

Grab a few firearms, an ammo can and a range bag and I’m good to go. When I get back I immediately reset for the next trip. I think the Army taught me that.