The Shotgun Master, soon this man will save us all from the Zombies
on December 28, 2010 at 4:00 amNot even on my best day could I beat this guy shooting shotguns. In fact I tend to blow my arm out of it’s socket when I try… Granted, I do it in a very manly way, but still…
Anyway, shotgun skills are going to be essential to fighting the zombie horde as they make a delightful mess of a zombie’s skull and require less in the way of aiming to crush a brain.
I’ve thought about this, sure you could use a .22 to shoot zombies in the head, but what if it doesn’t penetrate the skull, or what if it doesn’t pulp the brain of the attacking zombie sufficiently to put it down. No, I think the shotgun is your best best for easier aiming and stopping power. Just my opinion.
What do you consider the best weapon to fight zombies? I mean before you inevitably join them?
1. This guy (I mean, seriously, just look at him shoot)
2. tank, until you run out of fuel and/or ammo(Try and and get me now!)
3. shotgun or some type of automatic weapon with a melee weapon as a backup
4. MUSIC!
Big Red Bottom!
- Majority of people are clustered in cities. Vaporizing all major cities would eliminate large amounts of zombies (they spread fastest in large centers), thus balancing zombie:human ration way for humans favour and would save huge amounts of bullets for later. Of course it would vaporize any remaining ‘survivors’ as well but while they can win battles, they cannot won the war.
Being nice
- On other hand, are zombies nasty and dangerous just because they are “evil beast” that movies loves or because people treat them as such. According folklore around here mistreating dead makes them angry, so if one of them comes to inform how uncomfortable shape his grave is, it is better to pick up paper and pencil to write note to fix it instead drawing gun.
Becoming Hindu
At least they, according belief, get out of this world if lived well enough. On other hand, Christians are doomed/blessed to become zombies. With certain interpretations, faithful are raised from their graves at dawn of God’s reign… On other hand, there is no mention about faithfuls’ physical or mental condition. xD Would that also mean that all zombie-killing movies or thoughts are blasphemy and becoming zombie would be meaning of life?
Necromancy!
- It will backfire for sure but hey, how many voodoo-priest we are seen in movies that have actually ended up as zombies?
My weapon of Choice would be a crowbar or mallet. Both can be used as a club (which makes training optional), are silent if needed and can be used for things other than combat.
When forced to use firearms I’d take a shotgun as main weapon and a pistol secondary. The shotgun is good against crowds, be it only to make them all fall over. The pistol is good for close encounters and aimed headshots. I don’t know how to operate either but I assume that an untrained civilian can use them for the mentioned reasons.
Telepfenion: Bodies being raised from the grave in the bible refers to eternal life/paradise. Please don’t take the bible literally and look not at single verses but at least whole paragraphs.
I do not intend to “beat you with the bible”, I’m just saying that you can found any statement on any document if you pick the quatations short and disconnected enough ^^
I think my weapon of choice would be a gassed up Deisel with a reinforced bumper. It doesn’t matter if I crush the brain as long as I cripple the zombies with my big truck.
As I tell my six year old daughter all the time, “If you can’t hit the Zombie’s head, go for the knees. A crippled zombie that can’t chase you is not much of a threat”
That’s good parenting.
Heh, no worries, I was aware of risks when jumping conclusion without true insight to subject.
I haven’t actually read book myself but familiar with our burial traditions – commoners are placed to ground their legs to east (so when special dawn arise, they will face towards the Sun) while priests are placed other way out, so they could face their congregation.
Never got grasp about idea of eternal afterlife / paradise (if there is no setback, success will become meaningless leading to boredom) but as today’s comic noted out, zombies do not complain, so they maybe could pull it out. As a side bonus, they would also most likely leave all kind of apples alone.
And while zombies makes things much more logical for me, I doubt that it is something book’s author meant to it be. On other hand, not familiar Roman’s / early Christians concept of undead but in case it is anything similar as our pre-Christian traditional ‘undead’, there really isn’t much difference between living and dead, apart the fact that others has died once. And unlike movie zombies, our dead can get up from graves _just_ to complain….
I had an idea. Replace tank with Killdozer 2.0. Basically think of the Abrams tank plus the Killdozer. THAT would be a sight to see.
How about one of those “Mine Sweepers” the military uses. The one’s that whip chains against the ground.
That would be fairly fatal to any zombie in it’s path. Plus… funny.
If you could find one that’s still in working condition then that might work, but I think you’d have a hard time doing so. Plus, the Abrams is the US Military’s most advanced and reliable tank in use.
Problem the gas prices, availability, and maintenance costs on one of those I think outweighs the benefit.
I think a diesel with reinforced bumper would be just as effective, but easier to acquire.
That’s why I made sure to note that the tank would only be useful until it ran out of gas/ammo in my original post. However, I can totally imagine driving around in an armored pick-up with a couple of machine guns mounted on it through zombie-filled streets while blasting metal on the stereo. That would be epic.