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To: discostu

There are a couple of things I don’t quite understand about your post.

First is, this thing about running out of ammo. I can’t quite see myself doing that. I look around the house and just can’t see that happening. That must happen in only Zombie movies.

The other is this thing about maintenance with firearms. I’ve had to change a lot of parts in guns but that was mostly a 1911 Colt that I had which had a very unlucky life. It should be fine now. All the parts have been changed.

Head shots difficult? Well, maybe but that’s under the clock and I do pretty well. I don’t have to Mosambique a zombie. That’s a waste of time. I’ll just go straight for the head and save a couple of rounds and seconds.

Swords are fine. They look really nice on the wall and they don’t seem to have the horror from the libs like an AK or something. Every guy should have a couple on the walls, a machete or two in the trunk and just for giggles a tomahawk or three.

Oh, and entrenching shovels are cheap at a local Surplus store. WWI soldiers liked them because you didn’t have to retract them from the body. I heard of a guy who almost died because his bayonet bent under a rib and he couldn’t pull it out. After that, he just sharpened his shovel.


79 posted on 07/15/2009 4:40:16 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA /Patron - TSRA- IDPA)
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To: Shooter 2.5

You’ve got to think zombie apocalypse, 90% of the human race has been turned into zombies plus how ever many of the recently dead it gets. That’s 5.4 billion zombie world wide, 270 million zombies in America, 22 million zombies in your home state of Texas. And that’s giving a really generous 10% survival rate, most zombie movies and books tend to boil down to 1% or less. And let’s not forget that not all the survivors are going to be good people, New Orleans looters unfortunately have about the same survival odds as you. In other words we’re talking about a very target rich environment, and no more ammo is being made. Eventually you’re going to run out, that’s what life is like behind enemy lines, eventually all supplies run out. Especially if you get stuck going mobile, because now you’ve got the limitation of your carrying capacity.

Guns have to be cleaned. Dirty guns are misfiring guns. And of course that cleaning involves supplies being expended too. Admittedly you don’t expend a lot of supplies, but again no more are being made.

Yes head shots are difficult. It’s a small target and highly mobile. That’s why people are trained to aim for the torso. But torso shots are a waste if it ain’t in the head it ain’t gonna help. And in some ways you do have to Mozambique them, gotta make the brain stop.

Not saying guns will be useless, they do have the advantage of range. But if the enemy is zombies and you’re in an either or situation grab the melee weapon with heft, sword, e-tool, even a bat.


81 posted on 07/15/2009 5:21:44 PM PDT by discostu (Jeff's imagination has gone beyond the fringe of audience comprehension)
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