Line45's Six Picks for Hard Times, From Henry Homesteader to Chiappa M6

In this Line45 video, the host builds a six-gun collection for hard times around common ammunition, shared magazines, portability and mechanical simplicity rather than range performance.

Snapshot

Line45 details two 9mm carbines that take common pistol magazines, a .308 scout rifle with a ghost-ring sight, a revolver with cylinders for .357 Magnum and 9mm, a rimfire and .410 break action, and the folding Chiappa M6 with its heavy adapter set. The host concedes none are perfect range guns but argues that, once normal routines break down, flexibility and dependability count for more than performance.

Key points

• Henry Homesteader and Ruger PC Carbine: both 9mm carbines take swappable magwells; the 6.6-pound Henry accepts Henry, Smith & Wesson M&P, Sig P320 or Glock magazines, and the Ruger breaks down into two sections and runs Ruger or Glock-pattern magazines.
• Ruger Gunsite Scout .308: a 16.5-inch barrel and about 7 pounds, with match ammunition around 2,600 feet per second and useful accuracy to roughly 300 yards, plus a ghost-ring rear sight so it does not depend on glass.
• Taurus 692: one cylinder for .357 Magnum and .38 Special and a second for 9mm with moon clips, seven rounds either way, with the largest average five-shot groups just over 3 inches at 25 yards.
• Savage 42 Takedown: a .22 LR or .22 Magnum barrel over a .410 barrel in a simple break action weighing about 6 pounds 3 ounces.
• Chiappa M6: a folding 12 or 20 gauge and rimfire combination whose stock stores three 12-gauge shells and five rimfire rounds; Excalibur adapters add calibers, but the full steel set adds close to 5 pounds.

Quick take

Line45 says none of these are perfect range guns, arguing that when normal routines break down, a collection built around flexibility and dependability will outlast one built around performance alone.

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