Zombie Survival - Choice of Firearm

Excalibur · #1 10-01-2010, 12:42 AM

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 · #2 10-01-2010, 12:43 AM

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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 · #3 10-01-2010, 01:50 AM

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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 · #4 10-01-2010, 02:07 AM

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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 · #5 10-01-2010, 02:16 AM

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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 · #6 10-01-2010, 02:33 AM

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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 · #7 10-01-2010, 02:40 AM

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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.