Truck gun
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I think one of these would make a great truck gun. I would leave it with the iron sights. The issue here is it isn't a legal cartridge for deer. But I wouldn't mind having it along in other states.
Would be handy to have in the truck when I am pheasant hunting in South Dakota. I bought a H&R youth single shot .243 just for that, the occasional coyote that needs picked off.
I think one of these would make a great truck gun. I would leave it with the iron sights. The issue here is it isn't a legal cartridge for deer. But I wouldn't mind having it along in other states.
Would be handy to have in the truck when I am pheasant hunting in South Dakota. I bought a H&R youth single shot .243 just for that, the occasional coyote that needs picked off.
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I would load it with 60gr partitions and be good for what ever came a long, well most everything anyway. Might be a little shy in grizzly country. 0 -
I don't have the youth model but I a CZ like that in 22K hornet. One thing about the magazine, on mine is you have to be careful about COL.
Other than that its a really nice shooting gun.
I have a buddy who has one in 7.62x39 and it is a carbine length gun. The barrel is 16 or 18" and man is it a nice little rifle.
The single set trigger is nice too.
They are well made guns. I think for a truck gun I would try to find one with a synthetic stock.0 -
SCOUT5 wrote:I would load it with 60gr partitions and be good for what ever came a long, well most everything anyway. Might be a little shy in grizzly country.
Right about 60 gr. Speer has some 70 gr that we use in 223's and 220 swifts with good results. (reloaded ammo)
Some 22 cal guns just won't group the heavier 22 cal bullet very good though.0 -
The 7.62x39 would be a legal deer cartridge here, but only on private ground, not on public lands. That would be a greatd truck gun in carbine length. The synthetic stock would be fine, but, while I don't intentionally mistreat a stock, it doesn't bother me if a gun I'm using gets a some nicks and scratches.
A buddy of mine uses a Beretta semi auto shotgun, one of the extrema models, it has a camo synthetic stock, it's been used, a lot. His grand son bought one just like it. He told my buddy he had one just like his only without all the scratches and and stuff. I told him he could only hope his shotgun looked like his grandpa's someday. Took him a little while to get what I meant.0 -
Okie743 wrote:SCOUT5 wrote:I would load it with 60gr partitions and be good for what ever came a long, well most everything anyway. Might be a little shy in grizzly country.
Right about 60 gr. Speer has some 70 gr that we use in 223's and 220 swifts with good results. (reloaded ammo)
Some 22 cal guns just won't group the heavier 22 cal bullet very good though.
70 grain pills have to be pushed hard in most CF. 22 bores to get good accuracy. I learned that over on the ATE forum when I was asked about what to run through a .223 WSSM.0 -
My only current "Truck Gun," is the Kel-Tec Sub2K in the venerable. 40SW. 
It lives in a med. sized black ballistics cloth (Mountain Equipment Incorporated) [MEI] backpack, along with a Glock 22 that it shares magazines with. 10 round standard for the Kel-Tec, 17 round standard for the Glock. About 4-6 31 rounders (SGM) just in case I need to get home from work 33 miles away. Both in a lock box, in the Nissan Versa hatchback.
I remember the good Old Days when you could carry a firearm in a rack, in plain view without it being stolen in very short order. I had a modified IH Scout II, with a side rack (in the window) behind the drivers seat. Used to keep a scoped semi-auto .22lr, and a .30-.30 Winchester 94 in it.
My Jeep carries a Kel-Tec PLR 16 in 5.56, with a single point Voodoo bungee sling, muzzle brake, forward handguard, a Meprolight MP20 Holographic (always on) [Tritium] X reticle sight. A small fitted Assault Systems carry case with 1 stock 10 round magazine, one 20 round magazine, and 4 30 round magazines. (Also kept in a lock box.)
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KenK, my idea of a truck gun is a little different than yours. You are set up great for a SHTF scenerio. I think more of all around use. Hunting, varmits, wounded critters in addition to dealing with crap heads. I have my daily carry with me and a box of shells (50) for that, then what ever long arms I have in the truck for what I am doing. Could be a .22 and a shotgun, a deer rifle or slug gun, etc. but I have some sort of long gun with me all the time.
So if SHTF I'm probably good to get home, maybe not as good a shape as you, but I should make it.0 -
SCOUT5 wrote:KenK, my idea of a truck gun is a little different than yours. You are set up great for a SHTF scenerio. I think more of all around use. Hunting, varmits, wounded critters in addition to dealing with crap heads. I have my daily carry with me and a box of shells (50) for that, then what ever long arms I have in the truck for what I am doing. Could be a .22 and a shotgun, a deer rifle or slug gun, etc. but I have some sort of long gun with me all the time.
So if SHTF I'm probably good to get home, maybe not as good a shape as you, but I should make it.
I knew where you were going Brother.
My idea of a "Truck Gun," is probably parallel to your own - and similar to what I used to carry.
I was relaying the only two long arms I currently carry in my vehicles. (Primarily because they conceal/hide easily in plain sight, due to their collapsed size.)
I know purists will not consider the PLR16 a "long gun," (nor the Sub2K for that matter,) but with the one point sling, and its current configuration, you raise it - tension the sling out away from you and it fires/aims like a SBR. With the Meprolight sight it is very accurate.
Sorry to partially hi-jack your thread. I am interested in what Members carry for long arms. Will be an interesting thread.0 -
KenK/84Bravo wrote:SCOUT5 wrote:KenK, my idea of a truck gun is a little different than yours. You are set up great for a SHTF scenerio. I think more of all around use. Hunting, varmits, wounded critters in addition to dealing with crap heads. I have my daily carry with me and a box of shells (50) for that, then what ever long arms I have in the truck for what I am doing. Could be a .22 and a shotgun, a deer rifle or slug gun, etc. but I have some sort of long gun with me all the time.
So if SHTF I'm probably good to get home, maybe not as good a shape as you, but I should make it.
I knew where you were going Brother.
My idea of a "Truck Gun," is probably parallel to your own - and similar to what I used to carry.
I was relaying the only two long arms I currently carry in my vehicles. (Primarily because they conceal/hide easily in plain sight, due to their collapsed size.)
I know purists will not consider the PLR16 a "long gun," (nor the Sub2K for that matter,) but with the one point sling, and its current configuration, you raise it - tension the sling out away from you and it fires/aims like a SBR. With the Meprolight sight it is very accurate.
Sorry to partially hi-jack your thread. I am interested in what Members carry for long arms. Will be an interesting thread.
You didn't hijack anything. We're talking about truck guns. I caught that yours would be more concealable, and that would be a big plus if SHTF. I'm looking at a Ruger 44 carbine right now on the auction side. Thinking if would be a decent truck gun, with the added benefit of it is a legal deer cartridge for public land here in Indiana.
Edit: BTW, the purist can Kiss Our Azz.0 -
I own a Ruger .44mag Carbine. It has a Simmons Pro -Series Diamond reticle Shotgun scope on it. (3 or 4 power.) If not ridiculously expensive, buy the one you are looking at, if it is in good shape. They are getting increasingly difficult to find, and like the Marlin Camp 9 (which I also own.) and the Camp .45 getting pricey. I regularly turn down offers to buy each of those from Buds, when I have them out.
That would make an awesome "Truck Gun. "0 -
Back when you could buy Mosins by the truck load for $40 each I bought several. My brother came by one day and talked me out of one , he restocked it with a cheap black fiber stock , cut the barrel down and moved the sights. He has less than $100 in it ..leaves it behind the seat of his truck year around 0 -
This is my "truck" gun...I drive a pick up, and this is one of the guns that goes with me on long trips....300 blk 0 -
Dang Ken you are a fairly dangerous man
That is quite and arsenal your hauling around.................0 -
My go-to truck gun. 0 -
Sam06 wrote:Dang Ken you are a fairly dangerous man
That is quite and arsenal your hauling around.................
Negative SamMan.
Those are my hidden out of view, have them when/if you need them firearms. Locked in Lock boxes, bolted to the floor. Not easily accessed. Better to have them, and never need them, than (well) you know.
My daily carry has gravitated to a S&W 642 Airweight revolver in .38 Special. (Old School.) A la Ricci.
Look at that, I used "Ricci & Old School" in the same sentence. :shock: :?
Sam, I picture you as a 12ga. Riot pump kind of guy. Correct?
That is what I would carry, if I could readily conceal it. I collect/have a wide variety of Riot pumps, going back to Wichester 1897's. I have a few to choose from.0 -
Tikka T3 lite .223 we can hunt coyotes in Michigan year round. 0 -
KenK/84Bravo wrote:Sam06 wrote:Dang Ken you are a fairly dangerous man
That is quite and arsenal your hauling around.................
Negative SamMan.
Those are my hidden out of view, have them when/if you need them firearms. Locked in Lock boxes, bolted to the floor. Not easily accessed. Better to have them, and never need them, than (well) you know.
My daily carry has gravitated to a S&W 642 Airweight revolver in .38 Special. (Old School.) A la Ricci.
Look at that, I used "Ricci & Old School" in the same sentence. :shock: :?
Sam, I picture you as a 12ga. Riot pump kind of guy. Correct?
That is what I would carry, if I could readily conceal it. I collect/have a wide variety of Riot pumps, going back to Wichester 1897's. I have a few to choose from.
If I was to put one in the vehicle and when I do its a rem 1100 that is my 3 gun Shotgun.
It has a 22" barrel and a 8 shot mag tube. I can derail a train with it.
I prefer slugs and Breneke 1oz 2 3/4" is my goto.
Its highly modified and runs like a top.
I like a SG, I was the #3 man in the stack for a few years0 -
dunbarboyz wrote:Tikka T3 lite .223 we can hunt coyotes in Michigan year round.
Here's one on the auction side. I looked at it the other day and thought it would be good that.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/8368828330 -
How about a High Point carbine in 10 MM?? The reason it would be a good truck is, if it gets beat up or damaged you wouldn't get upset. For that matter, how would you know if it got scratched/dinged up? 0 -
Farm pickup: AR 15 in 5.56 in a soft case(only to prevent total "dustification" when driving the gravel roads with the windows down ) in the seat . It's a bit much for small vermin but it gets the job done.
Work pickup: Sometimes a similar AR but the permanent solution will be a suppressed 9mm AR 10.5" "pistol" in a soft bag behind the seat. That will take a year but in the interim, the 9mm AR will be on the job with a simple "muzzle extension" so I don't shoot my fingers off in a high stress scenario.0 -
I bought one of those 13" barreled Remington 12 gauges for a truck gun. Remington Tac 13 0 -
Beretta m9 in a center console mounted serpa holster and an xm15 a2 behind the rear seat. 0 -
Mr. Perfect wrote:My go-to truck gun.
I hear ya, used to have 2 of those mounted on the roof of the Camaro0 -
I quit messing with that small stuff and went to phasers, disruptors and photon torpedos. Leaves less debris on the highway. 0 -
always wanted to see Capt. Kirk say "fire the futon torpedos!" and the screen shows a couch shot at the other spaceship 0
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