Best weapon for killing Zombies

I think when the zombies come my weapons of choice would be a scoped rifle of some sort, sawed off shot gun, and a baseball bat. Grenades would be cool too if I could find 'em. What about you?

 

Get a Galil. IMI make the best weapons and you wouldn't want to arm yourself with less than the best. For close combat, a .50 Desert Eagle will hold you over. No Zombie will get near you!

 

"...THEY GOT TO MSD. SHOOT HIM, SHOOT HIM!"​

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Aaah, the zombie apocalypse weapon discussion... an old favorite. I've got a copy of this on my bookshelf at home. I generally agree with it.

Some considerations:

What kind of zombies (Romero / 28 Days)? Where are you (city, 'burbs, rural)? How big a group are you with?

Generally speaking, you should be fine with a scoped .22 LR rifle provided you've got the time to take the shots.

A shotgun would be poor choice. For backup, a .22 LR pistol with a New York reload or fancy titanium crowbar.

Idea is to disable the brain as quickly as possible. Torso and extremity shots will not neutralize your threat.

Key to success is always keeping distance between you and the goons. And wearing good protective equipment.

 

Maybe a Bushmaster .450 Semi Automatic Rifle with scope, a FNH USA FS2000 Tactical Semi Auto Carbine for closer street fighting, a Glock 9mm(or better .40 S&W) and a large knife( a machete actually works very well).
You have to be careful though, the noise from gunfire will actually draw the living dead to your position. That's where a crossbow comes in handy. Grenades will make to much noise and not kill the zombie. Flamethrowers sound good but like grenades, will get you in legal trouble prior to the rising.

 

Large caliber weapons, especially those firing exotic cartridges, are of little use to the survivor. They are cumbersome, cannot be fired rapidly and their ammunition is bulky. If your goal is to poke a hole in the brain, anything above a 5.56mm is a waste of muzzle energy. You don't have to pop the head off the neck with some wildcat AR15 bazooka. This is why shotguns are a bad choice: limited penetration, ammo is huge and heavy, reloads are slow. Pistols are largely useless except as defensive weapons. Ideally, you'll want a magazine loaded rifle in a light caliber. .22 LR, .22 WMR, .223.

I'm not sure a bow would be a good choice unless you've trained on it extensively and can get a head shot. Torso shots will only slow down zombies.

Hand grenades are probably more of a liability to you and your team unless you're using them as an MacGyver trap (such as the string/can routine).

IIRC, flamethrowers are not regulated by US gun control laws. Doesn't matter much, they're a shitty choice for stopping brain-driven zombies.

 

i think the dad and daughter in 28DL had a decent idea by living in a high rise, but according to any zombie survival guide, a zombie WILL fall for any trap, no matter how obvious, you lay for it.

live in tall building with balconies on either side.
make the most direct path to you and yours through the adjacent balconies.
partially destroy balconies adjacent to yours so that if Zed tries to come at you, he falls 10-15 stories.
get a cycling machine to power a boombox playing nothing but drum solos on full blast.
allow for Newton's Laws to acquaint the undead with pavement so that they become redead.

 

Maori/Hawaiian club with shark teeth, perfect for penetrating the skull. The only possible improvement that could be made is if it were made in Israel by IMI, as all fine weapons are.

 

It really depends on the physiology of the zombies. Is a 22lr through any part of the brain going to put them down? My assumption would be no. Zombies are probably running on a very small portion of the brain. You put a 22 into the frontal lobe and I don't see it doing much.

That said, I would want at least a primary and secondary weapon. Primary would be a medium to long range rifle or shotgun. Something that is going to some massive head trauma at a nice distance. 12 ga with heavy shot, 308 hollow point, something like that. Secondary would be something for up close work if it comes to that. Baseball bat, machete, axe, maybe a halberd depending on the space.

 

A good .22 rifle. Silencer preferred, so I can clear an area and not call in every zombie for 5 miles with the noise. For a pistol I would want my trusty Makarov. Almost impossible to break, and if I run out of ammo, I can use it as a club. A good aluminum baseball bat would be a nice addition. Light, but strong. I would also want a good AR-57 with me, not because of the zombies, but because anyone that has watched a Romero film knows the zombies aren't the real problem, the other people are.

 

My fiancée loves this topic. Being the retard that she is, she opts for shotgun + katana combination.

All my guns better be from H&K. Doesn't matter to me which actual product/s it would be. I've always been a fan of medium-to-long range precision weapons, so my preference should be clear. If a good silencer can be found, I call dibs.

I'd get scratch-proof clothing to cover my entire body other than face with... you know, just in case. For face, something similar to an American Football helmet with a grill in front, or a police helmet with a hard plastic front. Not sure, if there's bite-proof clothing or wearable material, but I'd look for that as well, especially for the extremities because you'd use them in close-combat and would have the highest bite-risk.

Melee weapon... not sure on whether it should be especially sharp or more of a bulky weapon. I mean, bulky weapons would have to be heavy enough to create enough kinetic force to smash the skull with, and presumably would take too much (I think) energy for a kill... especially if you're running from a large bunch and you'd need to be really energy-efficient. Then again, sharp weapons would need a fair bit of maintenance to keep their sharpness.... and I don't know how good an army knife or the like would generally be in penetrating the skull bone, and how hard it would be to pull it out again. Maybe a relatively-heavy knife-weapon would be best? Something like a machete or butcher knife. Katana is out of the question, because without it being sharp it is a useless piece of metal.... and keeping it sharp requires a stupid amount of maintenance.

I do agree that the primary kill method should be silent and ammo-conserving, as such taking out small numbers of zombies should always be done with melee weapons.

 

Rocket Propelled Chainsaw

 

I've always wondered about the ammo scarcity thing. If you could effectively use 22lr rounds on zombies, the amount of those lying around is phenomenal. Approximatley 2 billion are made per year and they last practically forever. If you could find a stockpile, like a manufacturer, you could be swimming in rounds.

The more I think of it, the more I would want to set traps to bottleneck a lot of them at a time and hit them with claymores. Shooting them one at a time would be great for defense, but it's not going to make a dent in the zombie population as a whole.

 

Just a couple observations.... Earlier I referred to my .40S&W. Good weapon to have but several of you are right. Maintenance and reliability. A revolver would be a much better choice. Much more reliable.
Aluminum bats generally are a bad idea. Several good head hits and it's all bent up.
Bats and other large bludgeoning weapons are OK if that's all you have. A madock, sledge hammer, axe will do the trick, but what if you miss> you fall off balance and may not be able to recover.
Most people have played baseball or softball at some time and can efficiently swing a bat. Then you have a body fluid problem.
Machetes are a good light weight weapon.
Best weapon is your brain and physical conditioning.

 

Rule #1: Cardio. Man, I love that movie.

 

Rule # 2>> Beware of Bathrooms...

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My Favorite, speaking of the 32 rules....
Rule 23: God Bless Rednecks: Rednecks are loud, brash, well armed and ready to kick ass now and ask questions later. So when a redneck shows up in your group half drunk and rumbling louder then your humvee welcome him. Sure rednecks can attract zombies but they also are well armed and kill a whole lot of em when they do come for dinner. Best of all they are good bait for you to make your exit while he is making a mess of the zombies and before he realizes he just ran out of bullets and does the happy meal groan.

 

Oh, H&K MP7... how I covet you.

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Anyway:

Slight misconception. A revolver, even a modern double action model, is constructed of many finely-fitted parts, kinda like an old watch. The primary advantage a revolver has is also its biggest limitation: a lack of a detachable magazine. The rotating chambers (cylinder) are technically more reliable than an automatic, they are slow to reload. While an automatic requires the slide to move back and forth on a stable platform (your hand) to function reliably, it also has the advantage of firing many times faster based on the trigger dynamic (DA/SA or SAO), ammunition capacity and reload speed.

I own and train with numerous revolvers and automatics from nearly every service-class manufacturer. While I've never had a wheelgun jam on me (dud round, just squeeze to the next chamber), they always seem do that horrible CLICK! thing after shot five or six. Reloading a revolver--even with a speedloader--takes an awkward eternity compared to skinning and slamming a mag. That and the amount of reloads you have to do is absurd: 3 reloads on a service automatic (45 rounds) is more than twice as many reloads on a revolver. There will be plenty of guns sitting around; take an automatic. There's a reason the military and police ditched wheelguns decades ago and now use 15+-shot automatic pistols: they're a big upgrade.

Given the choice between a Glock 19 and a S&W 686, the G19 wins every time. Both guns require the same amount of maintenance: rod the barrel and scrub the chamber(s) every ~500 rounds, lightly oil the primary moving (friction) parts and avoid using it as a hammer/dropping it in the mud.

This is why said weapons should only be used as a last resort, preferably in groups of 3 on 1. Always avoid solo combat if at all possible.

Only if you're able to the pierce the skull. Again, penetrating hand tools like the backside of a claw hammer would be a better choice because they penetrate the cranium and pop the brain. Hacking big cuts may slow them down, but they'll keep crawling toward you, moaning for gray matter.

Yeah, but that's not good porn... unless we're talking about the cupless MOLLE corsets our female entourage will be wearing.

 

Well, to be honest I think my first weapon would be to move to Alaska. Dead things don't move so well in the cold. No body heat to keep them from freezing.

 

My weapon of choice:

 

A10 Warthog?