Can you post your entire setup? I'd like to create another smaller "In case of Zombies" box with your .22 setup just like in the book.

Currently, it is looking like this:

-- Ruger Mk 2 4.5" bull barrell. I settled on this because the Ruger 22lr semiautos are, by far, the most accurate and reliable 22 pistols ever made. The Mk 2 has a number of improvements over the Mk1 and the Mk3 has the unfortunate additions of a magazine drop safety and a loaded chamber indicator. Both make takedown and cleaning exponentially more difficult for a gun that is already pretty tricky to maintain. I went with tritium night sights on it too just for the heck of it. Shooting silently in the dark was too tempting to pass up.

-- Advanced Armament Corporation Pilot suppressor. I chose this one over the others in the running (Liberty Cans and Tactical Solutions) for a number of reasons. One was that the overall profile of the can portion was narrow enough that it would require no changes in the sight profiles. With the TacSol, the can actually obstructs the sight picture. Another is that it is audibly quieter. The TacSol was cheaper and you can take it apart, but the smaller profile and better sound reduction was worth the extra $50 to me.

-- Ruger 10/22T. Absolutely everyone on the planet should have a 10/22. It is easily one of the most versatile rifles ever made and aftermarket parts for it are just about everywhere. Get a stock 10/22 and a Midwayusa catalog and you're in for a long, long year of modifications. The T version comes with a hammer forged heavy barrell. Threading will cost me an additional $150 at my local gun shop, but they do good work so I won't complain. I contemplated getting a second Federal stamp to cut it down to a 10" short barrelled rifle, but that will have to wait. It's fitted out with a EOTech red dot sight on a Weaver rail. The next modifications will probably be a Tactical Solutions extended mag release. I also need to make a trip to Virginia to get some hi-cap 45 round magazines.

I toyed with the idea of a bipod, but don't want to look too gravel pit commando.

Not quite millions, but I appreciate the gesture. Not to mention the fact that the whole idea of a suppressor is so that folks are blissfully unaware that I'm plinking in my basement so there won't be any voices crying out in terror.

One of my buds has the very same setup and had a situation a month or so ago. His wife came upstairs screaming that there was a skunk in the back yard with a dead kitten in its mouth. He lives in a townhouse and couldn't exactly break out the 870, so he pulled out the 10/22, fitted the can, and fired two shots into the offending animal's brain pan from his balcony.

No one noticed.

Ah, the simple pleasures.

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode when Homer joins the NRA and uses his gun to open beer cans and to turn on the TV.

I am quite fascinated by guns, but wouldn't necessarily want to own one. Firing a HK G36 was quite fun, but I can't imagine it being fun after having fired hundreds of rounds into simple targets. Anyway, gun control laws in Germany are very strict, so owning one isn't even in the picture.

Perhaps we are hammer-addled nail pounders, but I have to agree with you on all points. Skunks, racoons, and possum populations in this area have actually grown to the level of public health hazard. Calling animal control past business hours would have been a non-starter and "humanely" dealing with the issue would most likely have resulted in stinking up the entire neighborhood (with ground zero being right on his ground floor entryway).

Now, if I could only get one of those Anton Chigurgh hairspray cans for my 590 to deal with the deer.....

And as always, The Onion has to add something relevant:

If you can kill a skunk fast without getting it riled up, then the stink will be minimal. Dead skunks on the highway stink because someone ran over them with their car and ruptured their musk glands, thus spreading mr skunky's personal defense armament across the tarmac. Plug em in the head and you're good to go. My dad used to always shoot skunks that wandered onto our farm because they are very often rabies carriers, and while the animal itself was pretty rank, once it was in a garbage bag you'd never know it had been there.

Is this why you run around wearing a clothes pin on your nose?

I'm not sure how to feel about my husbands apparent belief that talking about disposing of vermin is a sure fire man magnet...

Should I be boning up on exterminator manuals, honey?

It's a slippery slope. One day, you're thinking "what's a bipod or folding stock". The next day you look like this:

That was me on a diet.

Mmmm, babies.

Nice setup Paleo. I'm wanting to get a suppressed weapon as well, but I'll probably go for a pistol caliber carbine. Preferably in .45 cal.

That reminds me of the line from Days of Thunder:

Randy Quaid: "Glendale, California"
Robert Duvall: "He's a Yankee?"
Randy Quaid: "Californians aren't Yankees. They're not really anything."

Funny story about guns and the south. Crime in our town has been on the rise recently and our "re-elected" mayor suggested this as the solution. Now this isn't your typical small southern back woods town, oh no, this is the capital of Alabama. I can't wait to live outside the red.

And yes I have a shotgun within reach.