I've always been partial to the crossbow since it's significantly more quite than other firearms and is easy to maintain and repair. As an additional benefit you can craft ammo, and reuse it.
Poll: What weapons will you use in a zombie apocalypse?
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no they dont have blood but they have head, legs, arms, and etc to cut off.ElPatron said:
and i have a katana already,
carbon steel, almost full tang, lets where i put my hands on the handle. hence it is my first weapon of choice. had it 10 some years and other than some occasional tarnish, which is normal for carbon steel, a wipe or a bit of polish and its all good again, other than that i just needs grindstone, sandpaper high grade, etc to maintain the edge. i will not buy a sword less it is "cutting/combat" ready. and it is pretty easy to discern a stainless steel piece of trash from a good sword. the katanas you reference were from world war 2 btw, where they were cheaply made because they were not really designed for combat primarity but as a last resort. any number of modern forges make battle ready katanas some even made in the "old school" forging processes of using different rockwells of steel sandwitched together to create a softer core and harder exterior, to a very hard cutting edge. to forges that use new steel alloys, that hold up to tons of abuse over typical carbon 1040 1060 steels.
Plus in a zombie apocalypse, i doubt any zombies will be armed with anything that will cause a katana to break, and a good sword will go through bone on a good swing, off line cuts are the biggest danger and chunking your blade into bone. where blade harmonics and etc come into play.
My problem with this strategy is that it's naive to think you will be able to scavenge food forever(with the number of people I'm planning to have with me, and it goes double for my area), and with the number of people I'll have with me, I can't find enough food in the wilderness which means I have to grow it which means I have to stay in one place and grow it. The up-shot is that I have quite a bit of medical knowledge as well as how to find many medicinal plants in my area, even one that functions as a weak anti-biotic.Dastardly said:
So my strategy involves going to a place that takes at least two full days to reach and that gives most people(and therefore zombies) absolutely no reason to go there. Then use armed patrols to eliminate any enemies that come too close
I have 3 short term plans for both fast and clever zombies as well as slow and stupid.
Really for me it would be transport would be my weapon but my carry wepaon would be a bow and arrow as I know where to get them and I'm a ok shot (yea right). But really umilmted ammo and the ammo can be collect agian and used a melee.
I would always have a melee though because it is * never going to let you down (never going to give you up)
Really for me it would be transport would be my weapon but my carry wepaon would be a bow and arrow as I know where to get them and I'm a ok shot (yea right). But really umilmted ammo and the ammo can be collect agian and used a melee.
I would always have a melee though because it is * never going to let you down (never going to give you up)
My problem with this strategy is that it's naive to think you will be able to scavenge food forever(with the number of people I'm planning to have with me, and it goes double for my area), and with the number of people I'll have with me, I can't find enough food in the wilderness which means I have to grow it which means I have to stay in one place and grow it. The up-shot is that I have quite a bit of medical knowledge as well as how to find many medicinal plants in my area, even one that functions as a weak anti-biotic.spartan231490 said:
So my strategy involves going to a place that takes at least two full days to reach and that gives most people(and therefore zombies) absolutely no reason to go there. Then use armed patrols to eliminate any enemies that come too close[/quote]
Doesn't sound any different from my strategy. The entire point of my strategy is that your weapons should be geared toward escape. What you do once you escape is up to you, but the plan should be to find somewhere with minimal traffic and some means of sustainable food and water.
Even once you have that farm of yours, you still want to deal with zombies up close. After all, if they're not close, they're not a threat. Using a powerful enough weapon to shoot a zombie that's far away is guaranteed to create enough noise that you risk drawing more. Keep that up, and your farm will get overrun -- and the harder you fight to defend it, the more you'll attract -- meaning you'll either have to abandon it or die with it.
If I could only have one I'd take the gun. I could use a .22 or maybe .223 because I have a crap ton of ammo for both and have a good deal of rifle experience. If there are enough zombies to run though my ammo then there is no chance I could survive with a melee weapon because I'd be swarmed. That being said, my ideal with prep would be an AK-47(or any variant) because of it's reliability and ammo availability, I'd also have a crowbar because it has many uses and it's an epic blunt weapon.
I wouldn't want to get up close I'd be afraid of getting their blood on me and catching the disease after beating them with a bat or something. I'd just stay hidden somewhere with a sniper rifle. Probably make a game out of it.
Except that I can't run away from my farm, I need it. And it's not guaranteed to do anything. My spot is over 10 miles of heavy forest from even so much as a road, I could fire off .50 cals for fun and it wouldn't be heard anywhere near civilization, which means there will be very few zombies or humans that would be attracted by gunfire. Of those that would be, I want them to be drawn in, it means they will approach the location of the shooting, a location prepared to be easily defended, as opposed to showing up in the fields or the shelter areas.Dastardly said:
Weapons... yes weapons are important... but what is also important is defense... So I suggest full chain mail because you can't bite through that. Also weight wise its fairly reasonable... well compared to plate lol. Then with good protection you can really use whatever weapon you want. Just keep that flesh cover and unbitable and you're fine.
Full chain mail is over 40 pounds. Have you ever carried 40 pounds for any distance? It's hell. True hell. It'll also slow you down like hell and increase your chances of being swarmed. And that's usually not much more than a short sleeved shirt, leaving lots of places to bite. Also, you ignore the likelyhood of other people being dangerous, bullets go through chain mail like butter. Against fast zombies it would probably be worth it, but against slow zombies the weight is just too much of a disadvantage. The best defense is keeping a good distance away from themArdure said: