Bad idea, for all the reason that Ade and Chris mentioned. You won't be able to hit anything further away than your big toe with such a combo, because of the accelerated spread from the rifling.. <br><br>.410 is a BAD survival round- not enough energy on not enough payload. It's a waste of time and space. As rule, guns are not worth thier weight and bulk in a survival situation. <br><br>Repeat after me:<br>IN A REAL SURVIVAL SITUATION I PROBABLY WILL NOT BE OUT LONG ENOUGH TO NEED TO HUNT, AND THERE IS VERY LITTLE LIKELYHOOD OF BEING KILLED AND EATEN BY CRANKY CRITTERS, IN NORTH AMERICA SOUTH OF THE 75TH PARALLEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br>Sorry folks, but this is the simple truth. If you go down anywhere between the Rio Grande and the 75 degrees North, your aircraft will be found within a few days. You won't need to hunt, or trap. Or even fish. You have three enemies- fear/stupidity, exposure, and dehydration, in that order. And if you are on foot/road, most of us won't be in trouble more than 24 hours if you get signals out and people know we are overdue, so only stupidity and exposure will kill you. Not wolves. Not bears. Not cougars. Not terrorists, PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. infiltrators, rouge Girl Scouts, French-Canadian sepritists, or the boogie man. <br><br>If you really need a gun, it will be a defensive tool. You might be one of the three cougar attacks a year, or something stupid like that. In that case, a good sidearm of the same kind that you would carry concealed about your daily life will be as much as you need. Not a shotgun, not a rifle, not a cannon. Just a good, potent, reliable autoloader or revolver in nothing less than .38 Special/9mm Para, on up. <br><br>Talking about survival rifles is interesting, becuase it place a technical component into what is largely opinion and art. There are places where you need it, don't get me wrong. But flying over CONUS or the "habitation belt" just above teh US/Canada border, you just don't need it. That weight and bulk is better spent on a spare beacon, water and mainstay rations.