Certaindeaf
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First there was the "Potato Digger" (1895 Colt) and then there was the "Grave Digger!"Like this : ?
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=258000&page=111&highlight=scope
Long before it was "popular"
Discouraging the "Zombie" market
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Lex Luthier
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Clearly the zombie thing was a small scale cultural phenomenon before the bastard marketing establishment took it upon themselves to create an investable "brand" with an ROI. Like EVERYTHING else, mature and normal socially adjusted people will not even blink at this thing after a few passes.
As an aside, there is a new drug causing a furor in Russia and other Eastern Bloc countries called "Krokodil" which is essentially homemade heroin, made much in the way some folks with that flavor of initiative whip up CMA.
This drug has deleterious effects on the human body that can only be described as zombielike. That being said, there IS a chance, in the near future, of a group of these drug addicts walking around together observed by a person with the perfect storm combo of caliber and crazy to enact a scenario the OP has offered.
As an aside, there is a new drug causing a furor in Russia and other Eastern Bloc countries called "Krokodil" which is essentially homemade heroin, made much in the way some folks with that flavor of initiative whip up CMA.
This drug has deleterious effects on the human body that can only be described as zombielike. That being said, there IS a chance, in the near future, of a group of these drug addicts walking around together observed by a person with the perfect storm combo of caliber and crazy to enact a scenario the OP has offered.
Malachi Leviticus Blue
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I don't let Anti 2A types or Bullies influence my choices. They own their own opinions, actions and reactions not me.
MuleRyder
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This^^^+1 albeit not soon enough!!
benEzra
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I don't see "zombie" action shooting games, themes, etc. as any different than "cowboy" action shooting games, themes, etc. It may be a generational thing; my dad's generation grew up watching Westerns on TV and they are probably the biggest demographic in SASS, whereas my generation came of age in the zombie era.
I tried to get a box of Hornady Z-Max for my engineer sister for Christmas (she would have loved it) but alas, none was to be found locally.
I tried to get a box of Hornady Z-Max for my engineer sister for Christmas (she would have loved it) but alas, none was to be found locally.
XxBulletBendeRXx
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AhhMan... Are you kidding me..
That 5000 Round order I just bought of Hornady's zombie stuff is already outdated... great!!! :banghead:
I knew I shoulda stook to the Red tipped ones!!
That 5000 Round order I just bought of Hornady's zombie stuff is already outdated... great!!! :banghead: I knew I shoulda stook to the Red tipped ones!!
JohnBT
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"The zombie fad will soon run its course and the goofy marketing will go..."
...back to TACTICAL !!!!!!!!
All that Night of the Living Dead stuff is so 1968. Speaking of goofy marketing, what kind of idiocy would cause someone to make a new Three Stooges movie? It must be greed. And that brings us back to the zombie topic.
The Zombies were so 1964, well before the movie.
...back to TACTICAL !!!!!!!!
All that Night of the Living Dead stuff is so 1968. Speaking of goofy marketing, what kind of idiocy would cause someone to make a new Three Stooges movie? It must be greed. And that brings us back to the zombie topic.
The Zombies were so 1964, well before the movie.
I am not going to say "anything goes", but if people purchase firearms, ammunition, and have fun going to the range once a month, shooting zombie cut-outs, and end up developing a love of the shooting sports, and joining the NRA, I should think that something like this is a GOOD thing. Have we forgotten the damage done to the 2nd Amendment's cause, by the wedges driven between the hunters, and the proponents of self-defense? "I'm a hunter, we don't need 30 round magazines, why anger the anti's???"
We might as well give up our semi auto rifles too. Then turn in our high capacity handguns. Followed by our home defense shotguns. You will never make the anti gun crowd happy. They want all firearms banned. By looking for ways to appease the anti gun crowd you are working for them.
I thought the "anti's" WERE the zombies?
People are crazy. Not all, but enough so that we are aware of their presence. Those crazy people do crazy things. Who would have thought that some nut would shoot a president to show some actress how much he cares about her?
Who woulda thought some nuts would walk into a school and start shooting?
There will always be nuts out there. If we cater to the scripts that their idiot lawyers use to defend them, then we've already lost another God given right and just haven't gotten the paperwork yet.
With that being said, I'm still not going to carry Zombie Max ammo but only cause I won't pay for the novelty factor.
People are crazy. Not all, but enough so that we are aware of their presence. Those crazy people do crazy things. Who would have thought that some nut would shoot a president to show some actress how much he cares about her?
Who woulda thought some nuts would walk into a school and start shooting?
There will always be nuts out there. If we cater to the scripts that their idiot lawyers use to defend them, then we've already lost another God given right and just haven't gotten the paperwork yet.
With that being said, I'm still not going to carry Zombie Max ammo but only cause I won't pay for the novelty factor.
Sam Cade
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..gotta go back farther than that. Romero didn't invent the cinematic Zombie.
As soon as as there were movies, there were Zombie movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrg73BUxJLI
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ca.1920
Hypnozombies
I'm rather fond of Bowery at Midnight starring Lugosi myself. It's from 1942.
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I have to agree. I don't like telling other people what to do or how to think, but I'm surprised that the firearms industry would play into the hands of the anti-gun crowd by catering to an out-of-touch-with-reality mindset, and marketing firearms and ammunition as if they were toys.
The more we are seen by our enemies as people living in a fantasy world, the worse it is for us.
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Jeff F
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Even the CDC got in on the zombie craze. If you have not seen oe heard of it here you go.
http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies_novella.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/documents/11_225700_A_Zombie_Final.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies_novella.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/documents/11_225700_A_Zombie_Final.pdf
1858remington
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Ok Zombie fans... Think Geek has Brain shaped jello moulds, and a brain shaped cupcake maker with head holder.
baronthered
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The zombie thing has been with us since Gilgamesh.
" I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
I will smash the door posts, and leave the doors flat down,
and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
And the dead will outnumber the living!"
George Romero just applied the whole zombie thing to mass consumerism among other things that was the whole point in placing the first film in a mall, the zombies were returning to the mall or if you want something " smarter"
"Romero's reinvention of zombies is notable in terms of its thematics; he used zombies not just for their own sake, but as a vehicle to criticize real-world social ills—such as government ineptitude, bioengineering, slavery, greed and exploitation—while indulging our post-apocalyptic fantasies"
Personally I see pictures or film of people walking down the side walk in large "packs" in a large city I think of zombies.
More as a metaphor but the feeling remains.
As to the point of whether a crazed individual says zombies are after him and he went on a rampage, is like the argument of inanimate objects are what hurts people rather than the person using said object.
As to the anti's ... nothing high road to say to them.
I do want one of these
http://zombieindustries.com/shop/category/bleeding-zombie-targets/
but they are kind of spendy. On the other hand my wife did spend the cash on my "zombie rifle" soooooo... ( insert evil laugh) mmmmmwwwwwaaahahahahahah
" I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
I will smash the door posts, and leave the doors flat down,
and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
And the dead will outnumber the living!"
George Romero just applied the whole zombie thing to mass consumerism among other things that was the whole point in placing the first film in a mall, the zombies were returning to the mall or if you want something " smarter"
"Romero's reinvention of zombies is notable in terms of its thematics; he used zombies not just for their own sake, but as a vehicle to criticize real-world social ills—such as government ineptitude, bioengineering, slavery, greed and exploitation—while indulging our post-apocalyptic fantasies"
Personally I see pictures or film of people walking down the side walk in large "packs" in a large city I think of zombies.
More as a metaphor but the feeling remains.
As to the point of whether a crazed individual says zombies are after him and he went on a rampage, is like the argument of inanimate objects are what hurts people rather than the person using said object.
As to the anti's ... nothing high road to say to them.
I do want one of these
http://zombieindustries.com/shop/category/bleeding-zombie-targets/
but they are kind of spendy. On the other hand my wife did spend the cash on my "zombie rifle" soooooo... ( insert evil laugh) mmmmmwwwwwaaahahahahahah
Saakee
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The Ex one is kinda. . . iffy.
buckhorn_cortez
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It's another thread where people can predict the future and "what will happen."
Would someone who can predict the future (someone will use zombie ammo to ....whatever)...please have the courtesy to use their gift of predicting the future to PM me the next week's winning PowerBall number? Because if you can't do that, I don't believe the rest of your prognostications.
Would someone who can predict the future (someone will use zombie ammo to ....whatever)...please have the courtesy to use their gift of predicting the future to PM me the next week's winning PowerBall number? Because if you can't do that, I don't believe the rest of your prognostications.
JohnBT
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"Romero didn't invent the cinematic Zombie"
If he didn't, he certainly popularized it and the whole zombie fad when I was a teen.
Come to think of it, I don't believe there were zombies (as we think of them today) in the Cabinet of Dr. C. They were more like mind-controlled sleepwalkers weren't they? Of course I haven't seen the movie for 20 or 30 years.
John
If he didn't, he certainly popularized it and the whole zombie fad when I was a teen.
Come to think of it, I don't believe there were zombies (as we think of them today) in the Cabinet of Dr. C. They were more like mind-controlled sleepwalkers weren't they? Of course I haven't seen the movie for 20 or 30 years.
John
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We seem to have gotten away from the effects of the Zombie craze on RKBA, which is the only possible THR content.
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