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Captain Matt wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Captain Matt wrote:What's the problem you're trying to solve that calls for more than your EDC? Is a coyote nosing around your chicken coop? Are you opportunistically harvesting game? Is there an antifa mob between you and home? Did the balloon go up and you need to bug out without going home first?

The balloon goes up, I’m going home first. I HAVE to. I’m a husband, father, and grandfather, and we’re under one roof. I have responsibiliities, and I’m not going to abandon my family.

I hope your 18" barrel lever action truck gun is up to the task, whatever shape it takes.

Actually, my truck gun is an AR (when I actually keep a gun in the truck), but I was agreeing that a carbine barreled lever action 30/30 would make an inexpensive and effective truck gun for most uses.

locke_n_load wrote:

jailbird wrote:I just figured I'd let everybody know what I decided to go for (in case anybody cares! :) ).

I really appreciated everybody's ideas and feedback. I was really much interested in mainly .300 BLK in a short rifle, preferably suppressed, since obviously I won't be able to grab for hearing protection in a hurry in my truck. So with those criteria in mind, I ended up going with:

http://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/r ... 7-lmt-lead

The dual suppressor + SBR NFA goodness will probably keep most people away from it, but in the end, I figured it was worth the headache.

Thanks again, everybody!

Definitely would not leave any NFA gun in the truck permanently, especially a two stamp gun...

I kind of feel the same way. I have a 2-stamp gun for home defense, and several 1-stamp items, and while I do transport them to shooting ranges and home again, I don’t keep any of them in my vehicle as part of a “truck gun” setup. In fact, if I decide to make my 20” A4 into my truck gun, I’ll just leave the original A2 flash hider on it.

Captain Matt wrote:Did the balloon go up and you need to bug out without going home first?

The balloon goes up, I’m going home first. I HAVE to. I’m a husband, father, and grandfather, and we’re under one roof. I have responsibiliities, and I’m not going to abandon my family.

Now, maybe after I get home and we get things sorted out, maybe bugging out becomes the best option. But my primary tactic is to already be relocated before the balloon goes up. That won’t stop it from going up, but it will give me a lot more options, and as importantly, it will give me time in which to make decisions. Some day that will be possible. AT the moment, it isn’t; so we have to survive in place as long as we can.

Excaliber wrote:In the typical truck gun role, it is extremely unlikely that many rounds of rapid fire would be needed.

A standard lever action 30-30 with a 16 inch barrel makes a very fine gun for that role with a much better price point.

I agree, although make mine an 18” barrel. Almost anything that is relatively light and relatively powerful will suffice, which is why the AR15 is so popular. But, to my mind, a truck gun should have a shoulder stock. You’re not just carrying a handgun (which in theory, you already have on your person), you’re carrying a long gun, with better range, more power, a longer sight radius, etc. If you think about how may of our fathers brought Garands home from the war, but still persisted in using a lever action rifle, or a M1 carbine as a truck gun, you’ll begin to get the idea. It’s one reason why the Ruger Mini-14 was such a popular truck gun......small, light, accurate enough, and better than any pistol.