Amen to Imagine and gun dog both! Sometimes we take things for granted. I do (The part about knowing Christ in our lives). That is something Patty and I take for granted and true, we shouldn't.

Anyway, as stated before, Patty and I really only need to make it a little less than 10 miles to constant (spring) water, 4 acres of fish and literally hundreds of acres of wildlife. In that area quite possibly the .22 would be king. Relatively quiet, and the deer come in close enough you can literally shoot them through the eyes. Legal here with a .22 no, but if it IS a TEOTWAWKI, that is one law that no one would be worried about. And the meat could be smoked and dried, and my paternal aunt okie would keep her a quart of fresh cows milk in another spring for about three days or sometimes 4 without it going bad. There's a small cabin there to provide sleeping space for everyone with enough old falling down buildings to harvest enough wood to add an addition two or three times that size and most importantly, there is even a Privy!