Zombie Survival - Choice of Firearm

[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".

[AdAstra2009]

Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache

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".

It wasn't to keep them from getting back up. That's just sort of a generic thing to do to a diseased body, to burn it so that the infection won't live on in the dead body. The twitchers they just shot again.

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by AdAstra2009

It wasn't to keep them from getting back up. That's just sort of a generic thing to do to a diseased body, to burn it so that the infection won't live on in the dead body. The twitchers they just shot again.

Point is the twitchers had already been shot in the head once.

[AdAstra2009]

Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache

Point is the twitchers had already been shot in the head once.

In both instances of DOTD 2004 where they had twitchers they shot them in the head a second time to put them down permanently.

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by AdAstra2009

In both instances of DOTD 2004 where they had twitchers they shot them in the head a second time to put them down permanently.

Which implies one wasn't enough and they could get up again.

[predator20]

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