Some of you even have your trusty katanas and kukris ever close at hand.
But suppose you’re just hanging out and watching TV when all of a sudden BOOM zombies come pouring in through your living room window. No problem! The Zombie Table has a removable leg that acts as a club and a top that doubles as a shield for self-defense.
If I’m at home, I’m on the second floor and usually within arms reach of at least two fireams, and they’re loaded and ready to rock…
In fact, i’d probably have enough time for the pleasant dillemma of "which gun do I use to defend me and mine from the slouching hordes? Do I use the .22, the .45 (ACP OR Colt) the 12-gauge, a baseball bat? My Ka-bar?) , heck, I’d probably spend so much time trying to decide that the first floor would be compromised…
sometimes too much choice can be bad
First person to suggest a Swiss army knife gets brained by a Chinese shovel of death. (Yeah, it’s an 8-minute video - but it doubles in amazement every 40 seconds.)
If the zombies came a knockin’ right now, the best I could probably do is take apart my speaker stands to fashion a primitive club. I guess I could fashion some Molotov Cocktails from my vintage cognac collection, but it seems such a waste
I go the Universal Enforcer route with plenty of banana clips and a .38 for last ditch. I’ve never seen a good ballistics study on just how much head trauma a zombie can take and I figure to stick between assorted .30-.40 and some lower velocities. Some zombies at the walks have some serious head exit wounds and are still walking - could be higher velocity .30s and .223s aren’t the best ticket.
For a hand weapons I have several Dead On Tools Exhumers and Annihilators and I have my eye on a couple of the shingle hammers. Darn things are cool as Hell to own even if Z-hour doesn’t come until after I’m already worm food.
I don’t have a firearm yet, but I plan on getting as many of them as I can when I’m older: I’m a huge gun nut.
Remington 870 will be my personal defensive anti-zombie weapon of choice when the apocalypse comes. When it comes to larger engagements (besides personal defense) I’ll use a rifle- I’m not sure what kind yet.
My friends and I have a contingency plan. When we see signs of the approaching apocalypse we’ll get into contact with one another and put it into play.
I only own one firearm now and as it’s a big bore revolver (S&W 500) it’s a poor choice for the zombie apocalypse. Massive overkill, wrist snapping recoil, difficulty in ammunition supply and poor rate of fire combine to render it less than ideal. If I’m down at my Dad’s house then I’ve got a much better selection of over 50 handguns, 30 or more long guns and enough ammunition to occupy Paris.
My house is pretty secure, easy to defend and well stocked with food and water for a siege so if I had to hole up here for a while, I could. Throw in a mix of improvised hand weapons that I have available such as my fire axe, a couple of crowbars, three pound hand sledge and a couple of machetes and I’ll do my best to avoid becoming well chewed meat.
Sorry, but if it comes down to a choice between Mr. Christ or Mr. Mossberg, I’ll have to go with Mr. Mossberg, he is far more effective, and has an easily verified resume’ on putting humanoid entities down for good
Hmm, a choice of “magic words” or high-velocity bits of lead?, gotta go with the …elemental… choice, good ol’ Pb (no, I don’t mean peanut butter…)
As far as which gun I’d use to suppress an uprising of the “Reanimated Americans”, A.K.A. “Ambulatory Cadavers” (Band Name!), I’d once again take the scientific approach, and perform actual research
Start with the .22, as I have the most ammo in that caliber, try to see if the round is capable of consistently breaching the skull of the shuffling hordes of Undead Americans, if it is, then that becomes the main anti-zack weapon (Ruger 10/22 with an assortment of Butler Creek Steel Lips 25 round banana mags), the highest probability of success with a .22 would be using it in a rifle, so the tiny 1.5 to 2 grain powder charge in the cartridge fully expends all it’s energy in propelling the bullet, .22 handguns suffer from reduced velocity, as the powder does not have time to completely burn inside the shorter barrel (ideal barrel length for a .22 is around 18", under that you get unburnt powder exiting the muzzle as flame, longer than that, you lose velocity due to friction
If the .22 does not reliably, consistently drop Zack, then step up to larger, more powerful calibers, in my case, the progression would be .22>.30-30>.30-06>.44-40>.45 ACP>.45 Colt>12-gauge
that said, my Kimber 1911 would remain at my side as my backup/sidearm, it’s difficult for a reanimated corpse to argue with a projectile that’s almost a half-inch across even before it hits anything, and the Speer Gold Dot defensive hollow points it’s loaded with consistently expand to .65-.75 caliber once they hit a soft target
