[Beef]

Here's my take on the some of the long guns: bring what you need for a firefight. AR's or M-4s. Appropriate ammo. If you're on the run, do you want to be dropping deer and other game that need more than a .22 to bring down? You can't carry a lot of unpreserved meat, so you'll only cut off pretty much what you'll cook and eat in the very near future. And you'll leave a trail of slaughtered deer/elk, etc. Much like the cut barbed wire. If you stick to small game, you can carry it for little while until you can prepare it if necessary and then hide the remains or scatter them to look like a natural demise. I'd go with my AR with 180 round in mags/stripper clips as some of you described above and my Sig P226 with 3 15 round mags. Since I don't have a .22 conversion kit ( but getting one as a result of this thread, thanks TR!) I'd also take my trusty Colt Woodsman and a box of 50 rounds.

As far as food goes, I think that stuff like Carbo-Plex and protein supplements deserve some attention. While not tasty, they can fill the bill for fuel for the machine. While not totally depending on those, in addition to some regular light weight food, you should have a good base of that.

For those of you who have little field experience, go backpacking the "Ray Way." Ray Jardine has perfected an ultralight lifestyle of minimalist backpacking that is very efficient, once you get the system and techniques down. Small, fast and light.

Snickers bars were mentioned above. LOL! When I cross trained as an 18C in 1981, one of the Demo committee guys ONLY ate Snickers in the field. Six a day. He froze them, wrapped them in pairs in multiple layers on aluminum foil and froze them some more. Then rolled them in a doubled poncho liner. Could go 5 days in the summer and much longer in the fall and winter. The rest of the committee backed him up. He always said, "Man cannot live by Snickers alone! You gotta have coffee!"

My long-winded .01