Zombie Guns
I’ve been enjoying the show The Walking Dead. It’s decent for TV and it gets points for having zombies. JT looks at whatever zombie archetype the ‘geeks’ in this show are. Based on what I’ve seen, the perfect zombie gun in the show would be a suppressed Ruger 10/22. They go down with a head shot and they are attracted by gun shots. So suppressors would be quite handy. Remember that next time you fill out a form 1 for a suppressor.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:26 am
With A LOT of ammo. My one problem with the show is that it takes place in Atlanta, yet, few of the characters are carrying guns. You’d think that, by now, EVERYONE would be carrying SOMETHING and know how to use it.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:40 am
I was thinking along the same lines. The Savage Mark II my kid shoots with would work well – even a can or plastic bottle taped to the barrel would keep the noise down to a whisper if I run our of subsonic ammo.
When noise isn’t an issue, a 9mm or .40 carbine would be handy. Probably lots of ammo laying around in police stations, etc… And 50 yard headshots are much easier for people like me who stink with pistols.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:40 am
You have to realize that most people bugged into Atlanta and took their guns with them. This is of course a stupid strategy when dealing with the zombie apocalypse. Now Zed owns the town and the only survivors nearby are essentially sheltering on parkland in the outskirts.
One of the first plots in the comic is figuring how to go into town and get to all the guns and ammo without getting killed.
Oh and yes a .22, especially a silenced one, is a brilliant anti-zombie weapon.
November 11th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
That show is especially creepy for those of us from Georgia. Seeing familiar places swarming with zombies makes me want stack the basement wall to wall with ammo and spam. Sort of unrealistic that the Sheriff didn’t run into any more zombies on his way south seeing as the Metro Atlanta sprawl and heavy population goes north about an hour and a half by car. Also, on 85 south he would have passed the post-apocalyptic survivors dreamland: the Bass Pro Shops in Lawrenceville… Ammo, Camo, Guns, and Scent Killer for Deer Hunting… All could be useful… I think a 10/22 and a Browning Buckmark (both suppressed) would be the ticket. Reach of the rifle, maneuverability of the pistol and you just have to carry .22 LR.
Anyone else find it funny that people headed TO the city to avoid zombies? Seems the last place I would go…
November 11th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Anyone else find it funny that people headed TO the city to avoid zombies? Seems the last place I would go…
Yup. I was yelling at the TV when that was suggested. Bad, bad idea.
November 11th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Georgia, he came on GA Hwy 85 SOUTH of Atlanta, not the Expressway. Silly Northsiders.
However, i don’t know how he got around the airport and Lakewood, East Point, etc.
November 11th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
And do you people just look at the TV when you watch it? There’s this thing called “dialogue.” They speak words that have definitions. Such as “Refugee Camp in Atlanta” and “Look for family there.”
November 11th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Perhaps I missed it, but I’ve yet to see a single Waffle House on the show. They’re pretty hard to miss in Atlanta.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Uh, using zombies (or any other clever reason) on NFA forms will get it bounced now.
I already did mine (zombies, naturally), so sucks for y’all johnny-come-latelys.
November 11th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
I agree with creepy. I work just a block or so from where they shot the horse and tank scene (11th federal circuit court of appeals on Forsyth ). Makes me think I should be carrying more ammunition.
C.
November 11th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
ATLien, I realize the scene was FILMED on 85N but wasn’t he coming from Kentucky? Either that was just in the comic or he took a really indirect route. As far as going there being a refugee camp in the city, I think that’s pretty unlikely seeing as big cities with their close quarters and generally unarmed population would be the first places overrun. Ft Benning in Columbus would’ve been more realistic.
November 11th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
A Ruger 10/22 isn’t a bad choice to fight zombies. Just keep in mind that during a real zombie apocalypse — especially the first few weeks — you’ll be in as much danger from your fellow humans than the undead. If you have a good fortified shelter, your neighbors will kill you to take it from you. Keep an AR around do deal with them.
November 11th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
The best zombie weapon is not a gun, but a flamethrower. It’s easy to understand why fire is not written into zombie movies or TV shows: the whole thing would be over very quickly. Send in a cow or someone you don’t like, and as they zombies swarm in, let ‘er rip! Who cares if you burn half the world down if you can flambe several hundred zombies at a time? Mmmmm! Charbroiled week-old corpse! Deeeelicious!
November 11th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Cept fire wont immobilize em for way too long… walking firebombs…
November 11th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Georgia, are you even watching the show? He says on his radio that he’s on GA hwy 85, the entire length of which is south of Atlanta. There being a refugee center in Atlanta is part of the plot; that’s the only reason he went into the city. In fact, the campers try to warn him off and tell him that it’s been overrun/destroyed/whatever, but he couldn’t hear the transmission.
The scenes of the highway going in is neither north or south I-85, but a CGI version of Freedom Parkway. It’s the only way to get that view cause i see it every time i visit my friend that lives off of S Highland Ave.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Actually, you don’t need a suppressor. What you want is to turn on all the Tornado Sirens, saturate the city with noise, and then, taking your time, use a Leatherwood on an M-14 and clear a block at a time. Boring TV, I admit. But since I haven’t read the Comic Books, I’m sure they’ll find another way to avoid being Zombie Chow.
November 12th, 2010 at 5:23 am
Heh, over at http://zombiehunters.org/ there is more than enough zombie tactics talk to satisfy anyone. Flamethrowers are generally not considered a good defensive weapon against zombies for many reasons, such as the 68 pound weight of a fully loaded flamethower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_flamethrower
Also worth mentioning is Max Brooks book, “The zombie survival guide.” It’s a fun read, and the tactics suggested are pretty good, though Max does get some details wrong. For example he is too obsessed with decapitation and doesn’t understand how difficult that is.
I’m enjoying the TV show “The Walking Dead” very much so far, and I hope it continues for many seasons. The comic book the show is based upon is pretty hardcore.
I think an ideal zombie killing weapon is a semi-auto .22 WMR rifle. And for those of us who do not have access to silencers, a long barreled rifle shooting .22 rimfire shorts is very low key and has the terminal power of a typical handgun shooting .22 rimfire long rifle ammo.
Rule #2 (for shooting at typical shambling zombies): do not shoot at a zombie beyond 50 yards range. Beyond 50 yards a zombie is not a significant threat and a clean headshot is too iffy. Ammo is a precious resource during zombiegeddon and should not be wasted.
November 12th, 2010 at 6:58 am
My first complaint was that folks weren’t armed. Even the kids would have an AR carbine, a bandolier of 30 round mags and a glock. The second issue: Zombies are walking around with grievous wounds…why does shooting them one more time make an impact? Half a corpse was dragging itself down the street for goodness sakes. You think blowing a spare hole is going to matter?
Plus the awful drama between the characters. The racist was especially insulting. Just wouldn’t happen.
November 12th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Robert
Rule #1 for zombie shooting: headshots!
The classic George Romero imagined ghoul is a corpse animated by some kind of infection. The nature of these zombies was explored quite a bit in the first three Romero zombie movies: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead. The only proven easy way to stop those zombies was by damaging the zombie brain, usually with a well placed gunshot.
It’s pretty clear from the first episode of The Walking Dead, that the zombies are the classic Romero type.
If you have not seen it already, I heartily recommend seeing the 1979 movie Dawn of the Dead. It’s at best a B movie, but still great entertainment, the best of the Romero zombie movies, and will inform you all that you need to know about Romero style zombies.
November 12th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Robert, when they elected Obama you couldn’t buy an AR style rifle or ammo for anything for love or money. And the president wasn’t eating people. I imagine the gunstore were cleaned out as the horde became apparent and now a lot of weapons are on the ground rusting in zone controlled by the undead. Sure, some weapons got to retreat areas, but not nearly enough to deck out everyone. Maybe.
November 12th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
I’ve only seen the first two episodes, but like the show. The characters seem well-written, and of course the iconic Python is a great supporting player.