Best zombie guns?

[AKIron]

I think I'll remain mobile and try to avoid any situation I'm not adequately equipped to deal with. Living primarily in sparsely populated areas with occasional forays into towns or cities for supplies seems the most likely way to prolong my survival. Joining forces with a few resourceful survivors will also be my goal. Sounds like I should be living in northern Idaho today.  

[Pooh21]

Joining with other survivors is probably bad. as popular fiction shows us they are the first to either be turned. go insane and protect their zombiefied love ones with deadly force, or do stupid crap that your other survivors wish to save them from and drag you into. Give me my K98 and my medieval military hammer and all is good.

Here is a question in a world of auto reanimation what do you do with granny or a loved one in a fragile health condition?


Oh that Hoverround commercial freaks me out. especially the first part. Motorized zombies.

[ReyPirin]

>cough< The Walking Dead comic book>cough<


hmm...

[Coshy]

Hub,

You hit on an important point. Even in rural areas the Wal-Marts & malls are going to be crawling with the living dead. The distrubution centers, well at most they may have the reanimated corpes of the employees, couldnt be more than a hundred or so. Much easier to gain access than a store.

Also those dist centers will have loading docks (easy above ground level ingress & egress), as well as semis which could come in very useful.

Once secured these dist. centers could also serve as a base of operations, a mini-fortress. Plenty of supplies including canned food (most likely).

I may have to revise my Emergency Zombie Attack Protocols accordingly.

My take on military installations was they would be deserted. If occupied by trained soldiers/marines/airmen/seamen I would instead of "looting" attempt to join.

One other thing ... eventually the existing food supplies will dwindle and be consumed completly. We would have to revert to an agrarian society. Which would mean we would eventually have to secure a large enough area to plant crops and raise livestock in a relatively safe environment.

[lazs2]

akiron... an island would not be trapped.

You would have a back door.. the best boat the island had could be equipped and in a cove and ready to go just in case.   being mobile in a situation where the threat is huge and everywhere is simply making yourself a bunny rabbit.

you can fortify a spot on the island.. you at least will have breathing room to think about something other than how to get what you need to run away again this afternoon.... every afternoon...

lazs

[Dichotomy]

I'm in agreement with the Island idea.  

Additionally I think, if the zombies on the mainland decided to head to the island, and if there was any way they could make the trek without being devoured by all the scavengers in the ocean or manage not to fall into a trench where the water pressure would make them pop, or into an undersea volcano where they get vaporized, only a really persistant zombie would make it across the ocean and, by the time it made it to the island it wouldn't be much of a threat.

I still say a shark would eat a zombie.

[Speed55]

Step #1  
 Get as large a group of good people you can find.  Get 1 or 2 big yellow buses, and 1 or 2 big rigs with really long empty box trailers.
 Get to home depot and raid the place.  Using 1/4" sheet metal line the buses and the big rig cabs from a foot up to almost the tops of the windows, so the only way in and out is from a hole in the roof.   Load up on supplies, rope, batteries, flashlights.. ect.    
  Raid as many markets as possible for long lasting shelf food.
 Get on the road and find gun stores.  Load up with with as many low and medium caliber firearms as possible.  Take the store owners and there family's with you.
 Set up the buses and big rigs to be mobile gun platforms.

Step #2
 Find a  low populated area, and kill all the zombies there.
  Set up a temporary  town for the living, and scan the radio waves until you can find other large groups of rovers.  

Step #3
  Hook up with that group and repeat step 2.

Step #4
  Repeat step's 2 and 3.

This is assuming that the zombies are the typical slow lumbering ones from night of the living dead.

[Gryphons]

Hmmm, airsofters do zombie scenarios every so often (we're having one just before Halloween) and one thing you learn is that the zombie hoards will eventually overwhelm even a heavily fortified position.  I'm all with speed55 on this one.  You need to fight back other wise what are you going to do.  

If on an island you will eventually run out of ammo and it's not like you could keep your society on an island for ever; you would eventually have to get back to the zombie mainland and when you did many would be fighting them with primitive spears and such.

Back to speed 55's suggestion; I would suggest getting to a factory and modifying the school buses so that they will accept those huge redneck off-road tires, then welding large spikes onto some snow chains.  That way you can run zombies over and the spikes should act like bullets when they strike the zombies head.  I would also use the armored big rigs to keep the children and women not brave enough to fight safe.  I would have large blades on the sides of all vehicles designed to rip the zombies to pieces (at least this way they'll have to crawl along).

[indy007]

Having just seen the new Resident Evil, it's safe to say...

You're all dead unless your a psychic super-being.

The zombie-birds will get ya, the swarm is just too big.

[cpxxx]

I can definitely see flaws with some of your ideas. This all assumes these are normal Hollywood zombies. (zombie classique) Suppose they are zombies like in the movie 28 days later. (Which joking aside, is actually not that implausible). Those zombies are easy enough to kill but one drop of their blood on you and you join the horde! So in any melee situation you would be in great danger.

Therefore we would need stand off weapons of some sort. Shotguns, knives and any close in stuff would splatter you with brains and gore. Not nice.  So it has to be rifles and handguns and I think one that hasn't been mentioned here yet, mortars. You can zero in on concentration points in your defence perimeter with your mortar and zap them all. The island idea is nice but you would need forays to the mainland for supplies. Very risky.

Here in Ireland, which is in fact a big island,  a better option would be to re-fortify an old castle or fortified house. The countryside is littered with them. Ironically many were built by the English to keep out marauding Irish. This is the one owned by Jeremy Irons the actor who is clearly ready for the impending Zombypocalyspe Admittedly that's not really an option for Americans.  But, just re-fill the moat and get the boiling oil ready.

It worked in the middle ages and it will work now. We also have lots of round towers which were originally built to hold off the Vikings, surely the dark ages equivalent of zombies. Once the zombie alert goes off, we all head into the tower, pull up the rope ladder and set about sniping at the zombies gathered below.

[hubsonfire]

Brainfilled castle = zombie homing beacon.

[Dichotomy]

Originally posted by Gryphons

If on an island you will eventually run out of ammo and it's not like you could keep your society on an island for ever; you would eventually have to get back to the zombie mainland and when you did many would be fighting them with primitive spears and such.
 

Why would you have to go back to the mainland?  Once you've established a zombie free island you learn to live off of the land.  Cultivate crops and breed provisional stock.  

Granted the 28 days later scenario is the most frightening which leads me back to Laz's suggestion that you park just far enough off shore to pick them off one by one until they are gone or their numbers are low enough to go get them with stand off weapons.

We all know they're drawn to sound so you get on the bull horn and yell 'zombie... you zombie... fresh brains right out here on the boat' and BOOM... good zombie

[lazs2]

well.... if their blood is poisonous... it is even more imperative that you stand off in a boat and long range head shoot em.   easy to do... much easier than clearing a pasture of grounhogs... bigger and dumber targets that don't hide and become scarce.

you sure would not want a machete or a cricket paddle if the blood was poison.

running out of ammo in America in the next couple of generations would not be possible.   converting to black powder is not difficult during the dark ages either.

you can make black powder and black powder firearms fairly simply.   A good blackpowder revolver, like an 1858 remington with a few extra cylinders  would work fine on zombies.     What it did then.. it will still do today...

lazs

[Swoop]

Nuke the site from altitude, it's the only way to be sure.

[hubsonfire]

Oh come on, Swoop, you're being completely unrealistic.