{"id":16219,"date":"2020-07-22T20:53:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=16219"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:32:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:32:53","slug":"just-one-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/just-one-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Just One Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could you live with only one gun? I don&#8217;t know about you but the thought of that is enough to turn milk sour. However, the practicality of just one gun that would allow you to do everything, or at least almost anything you wanted, is sound. Remember the old saying, &#8220;beware the man with only one rifle.&#8221; With that in mind I put together 10 guns that I thought might best represent a one gun answer for hunting, survival, and self defense. Obviously, not everyone would want the same gun; where you live and what you might have to do would influence that decision heavily. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldandstream.com\/story\/guns\/best-do-it-all-guns-for-hunting-surival-and-personal-defense\/?utm_source=internal&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;tp=i-1NGB-Et-PZn-13Lyay-1c-mlc4-1c-13LoGg-l4t5qEjeEx-1dB94T\">HERE<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FS-1.jpg?resize=748%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"16221\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FS-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=16221\" class=\"wp-image-16221\" 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I don&#8217;t know about you but the thought of that is enough to turn milk sour. However, the practicality of just one gun that would allow you to do everything , or at least almost anything you wanted is sound. Remember the old saying, &#8220;beware the man with only one rifle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2509,2814,2522,2820,3024],"tags":[2964,672],"class_list":["post-16219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense","category-field-stream","category-hunt","category-latest","category-scout-rifles","tag-one-gun","tag-steyr-scout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FS-5.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-4dB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8879,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/tactical-zombies-and-the-modern-sporting-rifle\/","url_meta":{"origin":16219,"position":0},"title":"Tactical, Zombies and the Modern Sporting Rifle","author":"gunwriter","date":"April 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here we are on the eve of the 143rd Annual Meetings of the National Rifle Association. 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I have a .35 Whelen and a .45\/70 I like to use and both - appropriately loaded \u2013 will near cross your eyes when you pull the trigger. 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