Ninja42
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I've seen a lot of threads on these forums in which people are asked to name their favorite, 'best', or most practical gun, but in these threads people can never seem to limit themselves to just one gun, though that is clearly the intention of these threads. I understand that it is as hard for some people to choose their favorite gun as it would be for a farther to choose his favorite son, so I am going to try something... diffrent.
Imagine yourself as a protagonist in a SHTF zombie movie. Not in the since that you are an actor, in fact you are not even aware that you are in a movie, but your life follows the metaphysical laws of Hollywood (better not investigate too many strange noises!), and it has a script that contain certain situations that you just cannot avoid.
The movie starts when you go to work tomorrow, and the first 10-15 minutes shows how you say goodbye to your family (or your dog if you haven't got a family) in the morning, how you laugh with your colleagues in the lunch break, and generally proves to the audience that you are a good guy who deserve to live. After this short prologue its time to go home and spend some quality time with your dog/family, but as you get into your car you discover that the radio is broken! You are a little unhappy about missing the 4 o'clock news on your way home, but what can you do about it? The prologue ends as you start your car and start heading home..
Here comes the rules:
1) As the hero of the story, you must of course survive for long enough to save the day, and in this case it means that you have to use your gun to negotiate four different action scenes. Also, you have to survive the movie with only the ammo in your gun and one spare clip/speed loader... after all you are a sympathetic hero, not a mall ninja who trots around with enough ammo to fight a war.
1a) First blood.
- As you are driving home, you notice that there is surprisingly few cars on the road towards the town/city where you live, and that many people are going in the opposite direction at great speed. Halfway between your home and your workplace, you see a school bus that has crashed really bad, and it is now lying on its side in the middle of your lane. there is no emergency vehicles present, so you immediately stop your car and run over there to see if you can help anyone. As you run to the bus from your own vehicle, you call 911, but all lines are busy.. now it all depends on you! You climb into the wreck, only to discover that no one is there, even though the inside of the bus is covered with fresh blood, and that the large back window in the rear has been bashed out. The radio in the bus is working, but to your surprise it is just repeating a single recorded message; "Attention to all that are listening, a state of emergency has been declared for the City of ..." suddenly you hear a loud groan from behind you and the zombiefied bus driver that had aparently been hiding behind a seat grapples you from behind. In this scene, you will have to draw your gun and shoot the assailant, preferably in the head, while wrestling!
1b) Running home.
- You crawl out of the bus, only to see the zombiefied remains of 32 schoolchildren swarming all over your car! You decide to sneak out of the broken back window and proceed home to save your dog/family on foot! On the way you encounter numerous zombies at various distances. The zombies are not very fast, so you only shoot at those that gets in your way, and you simply outrun the rest. In this scene you will need to kill 5 zombies, preferably by head shots, at as long ranges as possible. You don't want to get close to one of them again
1c) The hunt.
- You meet up with your dog/family, and your are relieved to learn that they are all right. You lay low for the rest of the day, and sneak out of town under the cover of the night. You walk all night, and by the next day you are safely outside the city. You know that there were no people living in this area when the zombie plague broke out, and that means that there is no zombies either. But need to go hunting with your gun to feed yourself and your dog/family..
1d) The final battle.
- An old friend calls you on your cell phone and informs you that the arctic areas are safe from zombies, because the living dead freeze stiff up there, so you decide to dash north. You make your way to the freeway, and find a van with the keys in the ignition outside a deserted diner! Inside you find a number of fuel cans which you full up with gas from the other cars in the parking lot, and enough canned food to sustain everyone during the trip. But as you go inside to get the last cans, an old pickup truck swings into the parking lot, and out of it comes two guys armed with shotguns. From a window in the diner, you see them rob your supplies from your family at gunpoint! And they shoot your dog! You know that you are doomed without those supplies, and you can obivously not talk reason into these people. You decide to shoot them from your hiding place at a distance of about 25 meters.. that is two takedowns that you need to do as quickly as possible, otherwise they might hurt your family!
2) The movie company that is making this film has a product placement deal with the manufacturer of your gun, and it says that the protagonist (you) can only use this one gun from start to finish. You cant fight the script, so you must choose one single weapon.
3) The gun must be suited for everyday carry. The disaster takes you completely by surprise, and you wont have time to get home and equip yourself with the best suited gear for this situation.
4) This is a movie, and you as the protagonist must of course look really cool in every way possible, as the box office sales depend on it. This means that your weapon of choice has to look good on you. If the weapon also has special meaning to you, like the 1911 that your father (or yourself) used back in Vietnam and 'forgot' to return to the armoury when he got back, thats just great. Hollywod loves heroes who dosent always play by the book.
Now, here comes the big question; what gun will be your trademark weapon in this movie? What weapon looks cool enough on you to secure the box office sales while keeping you safe in the zombie apocalypse?
This could get fun
Imagine yourself as a protagonist in a SHTF zombie movie. Not in the since that you are an actor, in fact you are not even aware that you are in a movie, but your life follows the metaphysical laws of Hollywood (better not investigate too many strange noises!), and it has a script that contain certain situations that you just cannot avoid.
The movie starts when you go to work tomorrow, and the first 10-15 minutes shows how you say goodbye to your family (or your dog if you haven't got a family) in the morning, how you laugh with your colleagues in the lunch break, and generally proves to the audience that you are a good guy who deserve to live. After this short prologue its time to go home and spend some quality time with your dog/family, but as you get into your car you discover that the radio is broken! You are a little unhappy about missing the 4 o'clock news on your way home, but what can you do about it? The prologue ends as you start your car and start heading home..
Here comes the rules:
1) As the hero of the story, you must of course survive for long enough to save the day, and in this case it means that you have to use your gun to negotiate four different action scenes. Also, you have to survive the movie with only the ammo in your gun and one spare clip/speed loader... after all you are a sympathetic hero, not a mall ninja who trots around with enough ammo to fight a war.
1a) First blood.
- As you are driving home, you notice that there is surprisingly few cars on the road towards the town/city where you live, and that many people are going in the opposite direction at great speed. Halfway between your home and your workplace, you see a school bus that has crashed really bad, and it is now lying on its side in the middle of your lane. there is no emergency vehicles present, so you immediately stop your car and run over there to see if you can help anyone. As you run to the bus from your own vehicle, you call 911, but all lines are busy.. now it all depends on you! You climb into the wreck, only to discover that no one is there, even though the inside of the bus is covered with fresh blood, and that the large back window in the rear has been bashed out. The radio in the bus is working, but to your surprise it is just repeating a single recorded message; "Attention to all that are listening, a state of emergency has been declared for the City of ..." suddenly you hear a loud groan from behind you and the zombiefied bus driver that had aparently been hiding behind a seat grapples you from behind. In this scene, you will have to draw your gun and shoot the assailant, preferably in the head, while wrestling!
1b) Running home.
- You crawl out of the bus, only to see the zombiefied remains of 32 schoolchildren swarming all over your car! You decide to sneak out of the broken back window and proceed home to save your dog/family on foot! On the way you encounter numerous zombies at various distances. The zombies are not very fast, so you only shoot at those that gets in your way, and you simply outrun the rest. In this scene you will need to kill 5 zombies, preferably by head shots, at as long ranges as possible. You don't want to get close to one of them again
1c) The hunt.
- You meet up with your dog/family, and your are relieved to learn that they are all right. You lay low for the rest of the day, and sneak out of town under the cover of the night. You walk all night, and by the next day you are safely outside the city. You know that there were no people living in this area when the zombie plague broke out, and that means that there is no zombies either. But need to go hunting with your gun to feed yourself and your dog/family..
1d) The final battle.
- An old friend calls you on your cell phone and informs you that the arctic areas are safe from zombies, because the living dead freeze stiff up there, so you decide to dash north. You make your way to the freeway, and find a van with the keys in the ignition outside a deserted diner! Inside you find a number of fuel cans which you full up with gas from the other cars in the parking lot, and enough canned food to sustain everyone during the trip. But as you go inside to get the last cans, an old pickup truck swings into the parking lot, and out of it comes two guys armed with shotguns. From a window in the diner, you see them rob your supplies from your family at gunpoint! And they shoot your dog! You know that you are doomed without those supplies, and you can obivously not talk reason into these people. You decide to shoot them from your hiding place at a distance of about 25 meters.. that is two takedowns that you need to do as quickly as possible, otherwise they might hurt your family!
2) The movie company that is making this film has a product placement deal with the manufacturer of your gun, and it says that the protagonist (you) can only use this one gun from start to finish. You cant fight the script, so you must choose one single weapon.
3) The gun must be suited for everyday carry. The disaster takes you completely by surprise, and you wont have time to get home and equip yourself with the best suited gear for this situation.
4) This is a movie, and you as the protagonist must of course look really cool in every way possible, as the box office sales depend on it. This means that your weapon of choice has to look good on you. If the weapon also has special meaning to you, like the 1911 that your father (or yourself) used back in Vietnam and 'forgot' to return to the armoury when he got back, thats just great. Hollywod loves heroes who dosent always play by the book.
Now, here comes the big question; what gun will be your trademark weapon in this movie? What weapon looks cool enough on you to secure the box office sales while keeping you safe in the zombie apocalypse?
This could get fun
