I am so sick of these "You guys wouldn't survive any kind of apocalypse!" threads. From now on, users starting threads in this vein will receive a one week ban.

here you go, don't say i don't do anything for you.

>>38180
You sir, are amazing. Take this offering, and travel in peace.

am I missing something? No link attached or anything anywhere,.

I would say as long as it destroys the brain, it's a good choice.
Advantages:
Low recoil.
More shots.
Easily suppressed/less noise.

Disadvantages:
Small hole
Less power
possibly inadequate.

To be safe, i would go with .357 magnum. You will also me able to shoot 38 S&W special.

9mm, just because they are a popular center fire cartridge.

Something you're all missing;

The effective range for an untrained gunner using a pistol is like ten feet, and the head is the smallest general target on a zed.

Also, by 'effective', I mean the legitimate military term, which means 1/3 rounds connects with grazing wounds at least.

To become proficient with a firearm, and knock that down to about 2/3 rounds hit with a grazing wound with an effective range of 15 feet, you're looking at upwards of three hours a day, everyday, for months training. Remember how long it took you to get GODLIKE at CS:S? It's going to take longer than that.

Plus, it takes ammo to train. Three hours a day for months costs a lot of ammo.

>>38183
Re-reading my post, I noticed a mistake I made.

"Effective range of an untrained gunner using a pistol" has a hit to miss ratio of 1/3 with a grazing, firing at the torso. Forgot to mention the torso part, where here we're aiming at the head. It would be lower.

no, I don't do lame shit

ever.

thread ruined by internet tough guy, move along.

Everyone grasping at straw and screaming BUT ZOMBIES CAN HAPPEN are making similar assumptions to OPs article.

Dumbshits.

>>38148
>the virus stuff only started with I Am Legend.

Lets save everybody some time here:
The book came out in the mid 50's. There's 1 survivor of a pandemic which turns everyone into something similar to vampires. While vampires =/= zombies, the book was influential in zombie movies, comics, etc.

Even in the '80's, a ton of the zombie movies cited radiation, chemical weapons, or voodoo as the cause. I think it's just the very new, mainstream films that go the virus route.

Nah, it's a golem. A zombie is a re-animated corpse (or an 'infected' human if we are dealing with the more boring kind), whereas that is clearly artificially constructed from several corpses, as well as bits of metal and shit. Frankenstein's monster, for example, isn't a zombie - that and that WoW thing are both flesh golems.

The thing is, with 'real' zombies, you have all these scientific holes as to how they exist.

However, if you use some sort of demonic force, or magic, you ain't gotta explain shit.

i like a rifle with a bigger round like a 7.62X39 or .223 remember zombies wont be the only thing you will be fighting

bump

Considering how they were almost caught in the end, I'd say no.

>>37473
He got Liz and the other two to leave their apartment, which Shaun had to climb in order to actually get to them, and convinced them all to go to a pub, remember that he had no idea what condition it was, how many zombies were around nor did he have a plan on how to barricade it, and ignored the advice of the smarter David all the while, even if the dude was a jerk he knew how to be less of an idiot zombie survivor than Shaun did.

>>37511 That sounds like a piece of fried gold to me.

I'd probably shoot myself eventually. Just the thought of this zombie war--being lonely in this world (knowing everyone is practically dead around you)--just sounds so depressing.

the gore wouldnt bother me, all of that wouldnt bother me, ive been to warzones, ive fought in a couple, but if i were to wake up and the love of my life, plus all my friends, who i have spent my life with, the ones who served with me especially, if they were zombies, i couldnt do it, id shoot them then myself

the gore wouldnt bother me, all of that wouldnt bother me, ive been to warzones, ive fought in a couple, but if i were to wake up and the love of my life, plus all my friends, who i have spent my life with, the ones who served with me especially, if they were zombies, i couldnt do it, id shoot them then myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vejGzjPYPsM

>>38160

Strangely enough I am reminded of the protesters in The Dead Next Door. Or the pseudo intellectual hippies in college.

To answer your question yes I would continue, and no it would not deter me in the least.

>pseudo intellectual hippies
>petty concepts like beauty and hygiene
I think I see your reasoning.

>>38146 This

If you want to destroy the brain, use a hammer, hatchet, crowbar, pick, bat, or tire iron. Anything to smash skulls in as quickly as humanly possible is what you want. A blade requires care if you plan of continuing to hack off limbs and lop off heads.

A good kukri is good, because it rivals a hatchet in weight distribution, and works dull.

You get the idea, right? If you can't bust heads, you can't kill zed.

IMHO, you are better off facing a group of shufflers with a shovel than with a machete.

Your gun is your friend, and doubles as a blunt force weapon.

If you have "Dawn of the Dead" zombies, or "I am Legend" zombies, edged weapons MIGHT be more effective.

>>38012

Crowbar

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