I Know I'll Get Flamed But Best Round for Killing Zombies

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Against "slow" zombies, probably a pistol caliber carbine would be sufficient. But against "fast" zombies, an M-16 (full auto if at all possible) would have a good balance of short and long range firepower. An American 180 would be a nice backup, in case they get too close.
 
Why would you get flamed?

I tell all my friends that make fun of my love of guns and how much money I spend on them to "make all the fun you want, but when the zombies come guess who's house you will be running to.."
 
The shotgun is still top dog but its ammunition is heavy and bulky.

This is where the hi-cap poodle shooter shines.
 
I'm wondering how many zombie heads a 7.62x63 will overpenetrate. .50caliber don't sound bad either, but muzzleloaders will be a mite slow for this mission.:neener:
 
Borrowing a quote from Jayne Cobb in Serenity:

"Sure would be nice if we brought some grenades, dontcha think?"
 
AR-15 with a Beta-C drum. Accurate, deadly to zombies. My preferance though would be a house in the hills with cliffs all around..Oh. and a helicopter too!
 
I wrote this over a year ago on TFL and it needs to be updated to reflect my improved firepower capabilities. But here it is in the original form for your enjoyment.

Crosshair's Zombie Survival Plan, (CZSP)
OK, here is my senario. (A more realistic, though less "fun" one.)If I have word that Zombies are coming and I have little time to haul ass somewhere safe with 3 other people here is my plan.

The local TV station is about 2 blocks away from my house. I used to work there and the building is an old single screen movie theater. The ground floor is rather undefendable, but the second floor, where the projector and movies used to be, is an ideal "Zombie Hideout". The only way to the second floor is up a strait, steep, and narrow stairway. The door is out of the way and even a non Zombie wouldn't think it went anywhere but a closet. The narow staircase is easy to baricade with all the electronics that they keep upstairs for parts. Once we and all our supplies are up there we throw the biggest and heaviest crap we can down the stairwell for an effective baricade. Now we have the complete upstair's to ourselves, the floor is solid concrete and 20' above the ground floor so they won't be comming up.

Once we are safe upstairs, the fun can begin. To get to the roof of the first floor you climb up a 5' ladder to the "door from hell". There is no ledge to stand on, so you have to hold on to the railing with one hand and turn the knob with the other and push this heavy, spring loaded, solid steel door open to get onto the roof. It's really a 2 person job to get it open, so even if the zombies do get up to the second floor, there is no way they are going to get through that door, especialy if we baricade that shut too. Then to get to the roof of the second floor you climb a steel ladder. So the highest point we have is about 40' above the ground. The 2'nd floor roof is really big since it was a theater. So now that we have our supplies, weapons, and ourselves safe in our own little castle. It is time to defend our little castle.

My personal weapons would be my Yugo SKS, my Marlin 880 ss .22lr w/ 3x9x40 scope, my Howa 1500, .223 w/4x Nightscope (got a real sweet deal on that scope ) + batteries for the scope.( I converted it to take AA's), my Savage 22-250 w/6x18x50 scope, and my Mosin Nagant (Ammo is cheap, so I can get lots of it.) If this sounds like a lot of weapons for me to carry, it is because I am basicly the "gun guy" in the group. My 3 friends would probably bring two 12 gauge shotguns and two .22lr total. They aren't bad with guns, they just don't have many themselves. They will basicly bring the food, water, fuel, batteries, and Ramstein CD's. (Ramstein is the best band to listen to when killing zombies )

The one friend has nearly 100lbs of deer jerky at his place (Why I have no idea ) that he can haul over and can brink some jerry cans full of water too. The other is good at skinning and trapping animals so once the zombies die we can hopefully survive off any wildlife that is left.(Hopefully there are no zombie Bunnies ) My last friend is kind of the "mechanic" of the group. He will get things working again (car's, generator's, snowmobiles, etc) so once it is over we can put things together again.

Basicly in the meantime we blow away the zombies with the guns, using the .22lr's mostly for pot shots (since we have cartons of .22lr) and the more powerfull weapons for when they start getting a little too close for comfort or when we happen to see a zombie that might actuly have some intelligence left in them. Dumb zombies are bad, but smart ones are even worse. Of course this assumes that this happens in the summer. If it happens in the winter all we have to do is head out of town for a few day's and camp out of my friends van. The zombies will freeze to death quite easily.

Sorry if I have thought this out too much, but if you guy's enjoy it, all the better.
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My choice would be a Home Depot 2.2 gallon garden sprayer filled with K1 and a Bic lighter. Backup=12ga with "Dragon fire". Final defense = 6 feet of 3/8 chain with a 2# lead ingot on the end. The films I have seen of these zombies is that they are easily torn to pieces if you stand and fight.
 
DBR said:
My choice would be a Home Depot 2.2 gallon garden sprayer filled with K1 and a Bic lighter. Backup=12ga with "Dragon fire". Final defense = 6 feet of 3/8 chain with a 2# lead ingot on the end. The films I have seen of these zombies is that they are easily torn to pieces if you stand and fight.
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Ahhh...you have not seen the new movies with the fast and strong zombies. Why, oh why did they have to introduce fast moving, strong zombies!?!?!? As if the slow ones were not creepy enough.:uhoh:
 
I assumed I was dealing with the "fast and strong Zombies". The others I would just kick in the gonades. From what I have seen they are very vulnerable at that point of their anatomy since it was never fully satisfied in their earthly life. If my assesment was incorrect, I would just have to turn then into mush with my nearest John Deare excavator bucket and then use it to make them a permanent part of tera firma.
 
my choice would be a AR-15 type 5.56mm rifle , a saw-off shotgun , plus a handgun of at least 9mm for pistol or .38 for revolver and lots of ammo. :)
 
mrmeval said:
Every day
I drive to work.
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I don't know if I see zombies on the drive to work.
But I think I become one on the drive to work.
Zombie driving.

Back to the question -
12 gauge, slugs or buckshot. It's no more effective than .22LR, but more entertaining with zombie skull fragments flying through the air.
 
I think the main ideas are a quick compact rifle with acceptable accuracy within 100 yards, light recoil for faster follow-up shots, and plentiful ammo for the hordes from hell...

I don't think a handgun is accurate enough, until you get into those uncomfortable distances.

Hmmm... If I was Andy, on top of the gun shop.

I'd start with the .22LR... Show me a gun shop that doesn't have many thousands of rounds, and I'll show you a gun shop that I have more ammo than, which is really pretty sad.

Load up every rifle in the place, have yourself a mad 15 minutes. Let things quiet down, or better yet, improvise a few suppressors - they don't have to be attached - they just have to quiet... Try to do a 25-50 yard perimeter - drop 'em and make a wall with 'em. Do this about every hour, see what happens. When you start to get a perimeter going, start going for shots as they try to cross it. Grow it higher. Vick's vapo-rub is gonna come in handy. Start to clean out the inside of the perimeter, especially as they wander toward it.

Separate out what you're gonna carry, along with a reasonable quantity of ammo for 'em, and shoot the rest. You probably ain't gonna haul a .270 bolt gun around, so let's shoot it up. Ditto for the .243, and all the other stuff that you ain't taking with you.

By now you should have about 20,000 former zombies piled within the 200 yards around your building. Go downstairs, get in the hummer, and drive off.
 
If that's the zombie book I think it is, it's stupid. It has such sage advice as drive a jeep to get away, but avoid an APC because several zombies could overturn it, and extolls the virtues of the AK's superior accuracy over the AR.:scrutiny:

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And you DO need to keep them at a distance:D
 
All these movies are great...who doesn't love a good zombie movie? Anyway...I'm going to have to agree with most...some sort of compact assault rifle in 5.56 would do the job. Light recoil and enough punch to knock the brains out of a zombie. Great subject by the way...all my zombie loving friends would appreciate it...

-xsnydx
 
Maybe I was the only one who watched the special features on the unrated version of DOTD 04, but there is a mini "documentary" staring Andy, in which he tries to thin the heard in front of the shop and gets discouraged because no matter how many he drops, more come to replace them.
 
I would want to have one of those wide body 1911's that have the 14 round magazine loaded with hollow points. For the rifle, I would have to go with an AK because its very reliable. And last but not least, I would have my chainsaw with me in case I run out of ammo..... :evil:
 
i always think back to the original dawn of the dead.....why did they choose the weapons that they did? they had a whole gun shop full of weapons, and if i remember correctly, they left with like a couple of revolvers, a shotgun maybe, and some bolt action rifle. i really liked that store. it was inviting and it had the interesting jungle soundtrack. i would have been constantly ferrying weapons and ammo back to my upstairs office hideout, and really set up a nice pad with supplies and what not from penny's like they did in the remake. the disasters in these movies always happen when people try to do something ingenious, like barricading all the mall exits with trailors. for goodness sake, just stay put.

as for the best caliber...it's really inconsequential. with slow moving zombies, you've got time to think and move. so stock up on everything, and just have fun using whatever you feel like using that day. for fast moving zombies, your only hope is to find transportation and keep moving...maybe far north like someone else said. in that case, some sort of hi-cap, small caliber, semi-auto is essential, as has been mentioned.

how come having escapist delusions is so much more fun than dealing with the real world?
 
Being partially decomposed, the zombies would have pretty soft tissue and a .22lr would be sufficient. Even so, I'd take my Ruger PC9 because it feeds a lot more reliably than any .22 I've ever owned, and 9mm ammo is at least as easy to get as .22 ammo. With its Bushnell red dot sight I can get 1MOA groups at 50 yards all day long (falls off too much beyond 80 or so yards for longer ranges), so I know I could put the required rounds in the zombie melons.

I'm tempted to make a joke about Cheney mistaking Whittington for a zombie, but since he's accepted responsibility for his mistake I'm going to leave the guy alone.
 
Lobotomy Boy said:
I'm tempted to make a joke about Cheney mistaking Whittington for a zombie, but since he's accepted responsibility for his mistake I'm going to leave the guy alone.
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THAT is the funniest thing i've read in a week...kudos. you could have a whole comedy sketch devoted to dick cheney hunting zombies. call saturday night live and tell em your idea....they're badly hurting for anything funny.
 
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