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Jaymo, I thought about that too. I would try to make my own, once I was settled into a secure, or as close to secure as one could get, location. I would find a nice open area and make a Hesco perimeter.

You have to keep in mind that everyone who isn't " The Walking Dead " will be using firearms. The ammo would probably run low quickly. I also like the idea of a compressed air gun. Maybe something like the guy in No Country For Old Men. I would just want a little more stand off distance. The crossbow is another great idea.

I know I'm resourceful enough that if the SHTF, me and mine will be ok.
 
I did some expriments in Quickload

In Quickload about 5 grains of a fast smokeless powder will give 870fps with only 5,000 psi in a 44 cal gun with 8" barrel (A 22 LR by comparison is 16,000 PSI)

There are a number of factors that keep the pressure low, the chamber is large, and the bullet (round ball) is light weight for its calibre.

I have been trying to find a good reference on the amount of pressure
that black powder creates, most say 5,000 to 10,000 PSI.

I think smokeless powder can be used, but obviously you cannot use
the same amount as you do for BP.
 
One or two good thumps with a Walker would smash a zombies brain. No need to load it.
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Interestingly enough, the zombies in the show referenced by the original post are called "walkers" ;).

Anyways, as to smokeless in a BP - it's just not a good idea. Find a club (bat, hammer, pipe wrench, etc - the gun itself isn't long enough IMHO) and just use that until you find another gun and ammo.

Besides - when are you EVER - even in hypothetical situations - finding yourself where you have a black powder gun, and no black powder, but somehow you just happened to have smokeless powder on you?
 
Yeah, everyone wants to shoot someone and be able to live with and or get away with it. Shooting "walkers" is a public service and since they're already dead, you you really aren't killing anyone. Gets by all the TV censors I guess.

However, they do get drawn to sound. So, a firearm of any kind is like ringing the dinner bell. Swords or bats don't have to be reloaded. However, you do get tired and have to get closer. The closer you get, the more likely you are to get bit or scratched.

I was completely brought up to speed on this by my grand kids.

As far as loading smokeless powder in my ROA, having no choice, I'd try it but I doubt the percussion cap would set it off. I know I'd be pointing my beautiful ROA at the forehead of a walker and it would just go "pop" and then I'd have to stove in his head with my custom gripframed and gripped butt end.

Sad....way to mar up a fine pistol.
 
I think a Kirst 45colt in a 1858 along with a lee handloader would make a fine zombie blaster survival kit at least i hope so cause thats what I'll be packin:cool:
 
JN01, using the Walker as a club is a great idea. The barrel is long enough to give me that standoff I wanted. Hahaha!!

MGMORDEN, in the show the people ran low on ammo but in a couple of the scenes there was fighting positions with boxes of ammo for the M2's. Yeah, I know, it's just a movie. Hahahaha!!!
 
Had an Idiot do it!

One of my son's "loose friends" got himself a brass framed .44 '51 style BP revolver. I had sent my boy a copy of loading methods on this weapon. Copied from the Lyman PB book. Great safe info.

The idiot that had the revolver went to a local shop and not finding BP, passed on the Pyrodex and 777, and bought IMR Trail Boss. He filled the chambers with this and crushed a .451 RB down atop his load. Capped it off and proceeded to blow the weapon up! The hammer was torn from the frame and creased his head. He had severe damage to his hand and forearm. Lucky for him that he already had a steel plate in his head where the hammer fragments struck him and glanced off the steel in his head. The barrel was found 50 feet in front of him and the cylinder was ripped apart. When asked why he passed on the BP subs he said "I'm a cowboy. I saw them cowboys on that can of powder and that's what I wanted since I'm a cowboy."

My take on this is that he's not a cowboy, but a pure bred idiot! He had the gall to ask my son if his retired gunsmith daddy could put his gun back together.....I told my boy I'd shoot this fool if he got near me and remove him from the gene pool.....

Wade
 
I'm tellin' ya...my grandson says you can't get any Zombie goo on you. So clubin' them, while potentiaatlly morally satisfying, is dangerous due to splatter.

You apparently have to shoot them square in the head and at a great enough distance so you don't get goo splatter. What? 10 to 15 feet to be safe?

The kid knows way too much about this at his age. It's a combination of TV and video games. Talking to his mom has done little good.

He also just reminded me to remind everyone that gunfire, loud noises draw zombies like crazy. So, in his video game he always tries to get the gun with the silencer. The kid ain't 5 yet....I told my daughter I was starting to practice my "he was a loaner" speech.
 
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I'd get a baseball bat or something.
I wouldn't have time to load up a BP revolver.
 
Get a Mayhew Dominator 48" prybar and bash the zombies heads until you hit tonsils. BONK!

The Sam Yang 909 has a much longer range than the boltgun used in No Country for Old Men. 50-100 yards. Plus, their muzzles are threaded for a can.

You could always get a .22 or .25 caliber Benjamin Marauder. Precharged pneumatic, 100 yard range(with shots to the eyes or thin part of the skull) and quiet as a mouse fart, due to the shrouded barrel. The sound of the pellet hitting the target is much louder than the gun firing.
Adjust the hammer, hammer spring, and transfer port for max velocity at 3,000 psi and use heavy pellets like Eun Jin and it will do the trick quietly.

Sure am glad zombies aren't real.

Speaking of The Walking Dead, I was working in Atlanta yesterday and today.
 
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