Zombie Survival - Choice of Firearm

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by sillybunz13

It'll take just as long as a shotgun but you're supposed to load before you decided to go outside. 7 30 magazines of 7.62x51 rounds with hollow points would hold off a lot of zombies until you find more ammo. You know how bulky and big he would be if he had 210 Buckshot SHELLS! Good luck.

Being prepared with a pump action and a revolver is dumb. Carrying shells and revolver rounds is clunky, slow to reload, and all over the place. It's not organized and slow. You would take forever to reload in the middle of zombies chasing you. You would die. If you reload with magazines, it's faster and it can save your life with the time saved. Like I said before, that's in war people use magazine fed rifles because it's organized and it's faster.

In warfare you're fighting against human beings with the same limitations and vulnerabilities as yourself. The logistics of zombie fighting would be a bit different.

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache

In warfare you're fighting against human beings with the same limitations and vulnerabilities as yourself. The logistics of zombie fighting would be a bit different.

A lot different in fact. Human heads are very easy to break, so hollow points or not or high caliber or .22 can go into a human skull. The only reason for different caliber is range.

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

A lot different in fact. Human heads are very easy to break, so hollow points or not or high caliber or .22 can go into a human skull. The only reason for different caliber is range.

Well if zombies are "killed" by shots to the brain, that implies some sort of neurological disruption is at work. Human beings can survive being shot in the brain by small caliber bullets, why couldn't zombies?

[Excalibur]

Cause we can assume that the zombie brain requires a lot less activity to work and since they ARE continuously rotting, any trauma could potentially put them down. But just to be safe, I say anything bigger than a .22LR or a bunch of .22 calibers like a hornet's nest.

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Cause we can assume that the zombie brain requires a lot less activity to work and since they ARE continuously rotting, any trauma could potentially put them down. But just to be safe, I say anything bigger than a .22LR or a bunch of .22 calibers like a hornet's nest.

It could go the other way. Nonessential portions of the brain rotting away could give the bullet a path to move through with less resistance thus transferring less kinetic energy to the cranium as a whole.

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache

It could go the other way. Nonessential portions of the brain rotting away could give the bullet a path to move through with less resistance thus transferring less kinetic energy to the cranium as a whole.

It seems that the zombie still needs the brain intact to "survive", so we can assume the brain part is the last to really go before the rotting gets to it. Either way, I'm not taking my chances with small caliber. And a shotgun to the face works all the time

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

It seems that the zombie still needs the brain intact to "survive", so we can assume the brain part is the last to really go before the rotting gets to it. Either way, I'm not taking my chances with small caliber. And a shotgun to the face works all the time

Not so. Even in Dawn Of The Dead (the remake), they still had to burn the bodies after shooting to prevent them from getting back up. I think they called them "twitchers" or "squirmers".