litesong wrote:vtsnowedin wrote:The last working firearm in America will probably be a bolt action 22LR.
& after the .22 LR bolt rifle stops functioning, the air rifles with keep on "keepin' on". With a supply of 100,000 good pellets, a Feinwerkbau will outlast the pellet supply.
Well an air rifle is not a fire arm technically so we are both right!
Hard to take a deer or bigger game with one. I'd go to my crossbow first.
When it comes to saving powder such rounds as the 6mm PPC are quite efficient as well as amazingly accurate if you can find one and enough brass. For myself I'd just load the 7x57 with 25+/- grains of any of several powders behind a cast gas checked bullet for around 1700 fps.