Your Preferred T2K Personal Weapon

[Raellus]

If you were "on your own"* in the T2K-verse, c. 2000, and could have only one personal weapon (i.e. something that would fit in the broad category of small arms), what would it be and, more importantly, why? A brief justification of your selection in the thread will give us something to discuss.

*i.e. Cut off behind enemy lines, not necessarily by yourself.

[weswood]

12 guage shotgun, preferably Remington 870. Very popular guage, easy to find ammo, versatile with loads ranging from bird shot to rifled slugs. Not as much range as I would like, but if I was behind enemy lines, I'd me more interested in sneaking out than fighting my way out.

[Legbreaker]

G11 with about 20 full mags. Light, accurate, can carry bucketloads of ammo.
When you finally run out of the nearly 1000 rounds you've been carrying (if you live that long), just pick up one of the bad guys weapons.

[Trooper]

Any decent SMG with silencer. Very nice tool when you meet soviet sentry or rabbit. Wise GMs dont give their players silenced weapons with subsonic ammo.

[Nowhere Man 1966]

M1 Garand. Might as well plug my favorite rifle.

[leonpoi]

well assuming that I'm stuck in Poland or eastern europe it would have to be an AK, probably a ak-74. Reliable and should be good availability of ammo. Something with a folding stock so that you don't look like a gun slinger everytime you walk near a village. Maybe even an ak-74SU.

[jester]

I'd use my issue for familiarity sake for as long as practical. However, I would pick up one of the enemys weapons at the first opportunity so I would have a reserve weapon to go to when my issue rifles ammo supply gave out. But, I would also use an enemy rifle, I am thinking an RPK with a folding stock with 4 40 round mags and 3 75 round drums.

The system would have longer range and more firepower than a regular AK. And the weapon would not give my position away as readily as a 5.56 would. People would not be on their guard as much.

Further, at a longer distance your weapon is a means of identifing you, so behind enemy lines, they see a dude toting an RPK and they are going to think its one of them.

Further, ammo would not be a problem to aquire once you started to run low.

[sglancy12]

Originally Posted by Nowhere Man 1966

M1 Garand. Might as well plug my favorite rifle.

God bless you sir, and all of your progeny. The M1 Garand is an excellent rifle.

If I was in the states and had access to a reasonable expectation of 30.06 I'd go with an M1 Garand. However, I think I have a better chance in the states of scrounging .308 Winchester/7.62mm NATO so maybe a variant of the M-14 battle rifle would be better.

If I was stuck anywhere else in the world, I'd have to go with an AK-47. There's just too damn many of them out there and ammo shouldn't be that big a problem. Not to mentions spare parts, etc. If I was stuck behind enemy lines in Poland, with limited resources, I'd have to go with the AK-47. I'd pick the AK-47 over the AK-74 because I just don't care that much for the ballistic characteristics of 5.45mm.

A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing

[waiting4something]

Originally Posted by weswood

12 guage shotgun, preferably Remington 870. Very popular guage, easy to find ammo, versatile with loads ranging from bird shot to rifled slugs. Not as much range as I would like, but if I was behind enemy lines, I'd me more interested in sneaking out than fighting my way out.

I have to agree with that, except I would choose the Mossberg 590, but both are good. Well screw it, can I choose a combo like a M4 with a 870 Masterkey system? I mean together they are one gun. Yeah I'll go with the Masterkey.

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by waiting4something

Well screw it, can I choose a combo like a M4 with a 870 Masterkey system? I mean together they are one gun. Yeah I'll go with the Masterkey.

I was waiting for someone to exploit this loophole. Bravo, sir!

For the reasons already cited, I would go with an AK-74 as well, preferably with an underslung 40mm GL.

[waiting4something]

Originally Posted by Raellus

I was waiting for someone to exploit this loophole. Bravo, sir!

For the reasons already cited, I would go with an AK-74 as well, preferably with an underslung 40mm GL.

Well thank you very much.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Raellus

For the reasons already cited, I would go with an AK-74 as well, preferably with an underslung 40mm GL.

Switch that with an AKM, and I'll agree.

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Switch that with an AKM, and I'll agree.

I respect the more powerful cartridge of the AKM but I chose the AK-74 to save a little weight on carried ammo and because I think my marksmanship would be better shooting the smaller round. I've read in numerous places that the AK-74 is easier to handle in full auto. I probably wouldn't use it in that mode very often but it would be nice to know that my chances of getting more rounds on target were a little better.