# Re: zombie bashing.  How tough are human skulls?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-zombie-bashing-how-tough-are-human-skulls/601415
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 31, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-zombie-bashing-how-tough-are-human-skulls/601415 "2011-10-31T19:20:59Z")
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### Author: ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-zombie-bashing-how-tough-are-human-skulls/601415/21 "2011-11-03T04:50:14Z")

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Replying to immediate previous post by Mr. Slant…

> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#):
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> Ha, zombie lawyers, they give a bad rep to the rest of us…

Best follow-up post ever!

(Those who are not Discworld fans may safely ignore this.)

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### Author: ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-zombie-bashing-how-tough-are-human-skulls/601415/22 "2011-11-13T11:31:55Z")

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> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#):
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> A Macheté never runs out of ammo.

And it doesn’t jam.  
I would use a morningstar.

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### Author: ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-zombie-bashing-how-tough-are-human-skulls/601415/23 "2011-11-13T14:20:05Z")

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> [@Sasquatch](#):
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> I just meant you’d break a wooden bat before you got through a whole wave of zombies. Aluminum is a bit more rigid also, so I expect it would be slightly better at skull-cracking, but I doubt it would be much.

I think they made[this](http://www.coldsteel.com/brooklynsmasher.html) to address the skull-cracking endurance question.

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### Author: ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-zombie-bashing-how-tough-are-human-skulls/601415/24 "2011-11-13T15:06:03Z")

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There’s also the Stanley Fubar ([http://www.stanleytools.com/default.asp?CATEGORY=Xtreme&TYPE=PRODUCT&PARTNUMBER=55-099](http://www.stanleytools.com/default.asp?CATEGORY=Xtreme&TYPE=PRODUCT&PARTNUMBER=55-099)) tho I suspect it wouldn’t be the most contamination friendly piece o kit.

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