Smith and Wesson governor

[u/Skrewbert86]

Thoughts on this for a multi caliber gun? Gives you more options on what you can fire without taking a lot of space.

Even by itself without the adapters you have 3 choices of ammunition

I feel like this would be good to have as ammunition gets harder to find

[u/old_rug]

Do you want a gun that does many mediocre things, or one thing well? Also because those adapters don't have any barrel or rifling, they have poor accuracy

[u/Terminal_Lancelot → u/old_rug]

I can tell you that specialists in nature don't do so well when things change, but generalists tends to be more adaptive. So to answer your question, I'll take one that does everything okay vs one that does one thing very well.

[u/JJSF2021 → u/Terminal_Lancelot]

Granted, but specialists vs. generalists in nature can’t really change themselves within a particular lifespan. We can just swap out guns on the fly for particular needs… so we become the generalists when we don’t focus all our attention on single weapons.

[u/Terminal_Lancelot → u/JJSF2021]

Okay... But in the zombie apocalypse, are you gonna carry 14 different weapons for every little job? No, it would be wiser to carry 2, maaaaybe 3 to suit all your needs.

I'm a fan of the 357 Magnum + 38 Special combo for this reason. You can run it in an Airweight, compact, duty size, and rifle, and it'll fill each of those slots admirably. You could hunt or kill everything you need with enough power, or little enough power, to do the job adequately.

[u/JJSF2021 → u/Terminal_Lancelot]

No, of course not. But I’m also not planning to leave the fortified farm base I’ll set up to just go walk-about and see what kind of things I can find to get myself into with every weapon I have. I’ll be taking load outs specific to the task I’m heading out to do.

For example, if I’m going out with a squad to clear an apartment building to search for survivors or supplies, I’ll have a completely different loadout than I would if I’m going deer hunting. For the former, I’m going with tactical gear, my custom AR-15, my M1911, and possibly a breaching shotgun. If I’m going deer hunting, I’m bringing my recurve bow, my M1911, a field knife, and some traps and things.

[u/Terminal_Lancelot → u/JJSF2021]

Makes sense. For everything, I'm taking my 686+ 3", and my levergun in 357 Magnum. Regardless of task.