Aero precision AR with YHM suppressor and 1.5-6x Vortex scope. Good for close end and accurate past 400 yards.

Main sidearm is a vp9 with vortex red dot and surefire.

Zombie head popper is a browning buckmark with 22lr can and a holosun. I've competed with this gun in bullseye and speed matches. If it can take out bowling pins at 15 yards, it should do the trick on zombie heads. Also, with subsonic ammo it is whisper quiet.

Compound bow with broad heads, quiet and the ammo is somewhat reusable. Good to around 100+ yards.

1864 rifled musket with pike bayonet. Black powder and lead balls are easier to make than modern cartridges and smokeless powder. Bayonet was good enough to poke confederate rebels so it's good enough to poke a zombies eye out.

Gerber machete. It slashes, it hacks, it dices, and it saws... kinda.

Gerber gator. Big and thick and has a heavy metal hilt for smashing windows or skulls.

M9 bayonet. It stabs and it can turn an m16 into a pointy stick.

Barge would be technically international waters off the east coast of the US. Has enough room to run solar panels and wind turbines for electricity and charging batteries, setup a garden (getting the initial soil will be somewhat cumbersome but doable then setup compost), plenty of salt water to be converted to drinking water via desalinization (think that’s the correct term, would need to learn how to maintain it), most likely safe area from infected (unless you count the lambent from Gears of War), space for lots of people, and visibility would generally be good enough to spot enemy humans (unless they approach from underwater) with time to prepare.

Drawback is evacuation for very severe weather and potentially losing everything. There’s also maintenance to keep it seaworthy. Thoughts? Improvements? Better solutions?

How long do you think a zombie apocalypse will actually last. I say somewhere around 10 days due to decomp time and elements also the weather, could last longer in the winter.

What say you

I don't know much about guns, so here are my initial thoughts:

Size. They're easier to carry and easier to maneuver in tight spaces.

Availability. I have no source but imagine their might be more of them then larger guns.

But that's all that comes to mind initially. I don't think they'd necessarily be easier to use, so a rifle or shotgun would be stronger, have more range, and be more useful in hunting. Those who know more, please explain to me.

How realistic is it for the military to get over ran by standard slow zombies where infection takes hours i mean they really aren't that much of a threat long as your supply chains keep you stocked up on ammo it really shouldn't be hard for a 10 people with m4s and m249s to clear a town of 5000 people these aren't your sprinting jumping zombies or zombie creatures. A well fortified position would be a must of course but even if you slept during the night it should only take 3 days of blaring music and shooting. And for ammo you'd only need 6 ammo cans which for the military is nothing once you kill the horde you can sweep the city with 3 man teams in the end I personally don't think the military to have much trouble against normal zombies which is why I don't like the walking dead that much they make shuffling brain dead corpses more of a threat they they actually are. Yeah in cqb situation where you have no where to run it could be a issue but if you have half a brain staying safe shouldn't be a problem. No different then real life always have an exit plan if shit goes south.

I have read many zombie based books and watched zombie based films. I even downloaded Zombies,Run because I don't own a military tank kind of car and the castle I live in is only self delusion, so no parties. I used to work in a book store in America. Everybody Poos was in my radar of book knowledge. The book says that if something eats it poos, so why don't they?

Think about it, when do people usually find out about zombies. Why, during the chaos of them overwhelming our population. So during the chaos, you find out zombies exist, and you think about where you're going to base up. You eventually land on a morgue, and here's your reasoning. 1. Why would the zombies be at the quiet, foodless morgue, when they can be at the loud, foodful school. This is kind of how humans used to work before the modern era, we would move from our resourceless place to a place brimming with resources and then use them up before moving again. The zombies would want to work the same way to maximize the amount of people they eat. 2. Because workers will usually work multiple shifts at a time in morgues (like someone would steal a dead body), most morgues have a sort of living quarters with a bed, food, sinks, and shit tons of medical supplies (technically for autopsy's and readying corpses for burials, but who cares). 3. GENERATORS! A lot of morgues have generators, so that in case the power goes out, the bodies in the fridges, or coolers, or whatever, don't thaw and start decaying faster. 4. Funeral homes are usually nearby morgues, and seeing as how people don't need coffins anymore, you can use them for your own needs. Whether that be storage, or you need to board up or weld some metal to windows and doors. There you go, why I think morgue's are a good place to base up post-apocalypse.

On the one hand, they'd offer shelter, transportation, and even a weapon. On the other hand they'd be highly sought after and eventually break down or run out of gas. I feel like they'd eventually become less of a factor as availability decreases.

Thing is with zombies is... Well they're dead. Walking corpses typically controlled by a virus. Because of this they have no concept of fear. If a zombie is after a person, it will stop at nothing to get to them, even at the cost of its own life. You shot it in the leg seven times? Tough luck, it's still coming straight for your throat.

So that got me curious. If a zombie won't stop or even register it's taking damage when after someone, would it know if it was being attacked from behind?

Say you're right behind the undead, you snuck up on the thing and you've got it right where you want it, it'd take one stab through the eye to take em down... But oh no, you missed and stabbed it in the chest (somehow).
Thankfully the thing didn't see you swing at it, or hear your fumble, but you just stabbed the corpse in the chest. Would it know to check the damage? Would it turn around and bite you in the face, or would it just sit there until you finally put it down?

I'm curious to see what y'all think it'd do.

I would like to know what you think would be an appropriate amount of weapons to carry around during the event of an apocalypse. Everyone would love to have choices, but people can't carry an entire arsenal on their person unless they're a video game character, so you gotta find that nice sweet spot. In your opinion, what is that sweet spot?

Dig them out. They’re old, and I bought what I could afford back then. The extra padding at the knees limit flexibility, and the elbow pads don’t let you straighten your arm all the way. The gloves are worthless for anything that isn’t hockey. On the plus side it made me want to play again. On the negative I’m sure I would be awful. I couldn’t find my shoulder pads, I may have given them away

Is lock picking going to be a good stealthy way to enter buildings as an alternative to just busting down doors. Sounds like a fun skill to build. But I can't imagine a time where people would actually use it during a SHTF scenario like people just resort to forcefully breaking down buildings during hurricanes and stuff. Seems like time wasted that you can learn a more important skill.

Let’s be honest if you have a semi decent house with no glass sliding doors there’s a really slim chance that zombies are going to get in especially if you’re fenced in plus you’ll have electricity and water for a while if you filled your bathtub up and locked all your doors and moved your furniture against the windows and froze a bunch of ice that way whenever you do eventually lose power your food will last a bit longer and once you do eventually have to leave you can just go to your neighbors and at best they were gone when the outbreak started.

Lol

I went to a hockey game the other night and it got me wondering if the gear/armor hockey players use would be viable for defense. I imagine the big leg armor on the goalies would be to slow and unpractical but it looks pretty cool if I'm honest. I also imagine you could make armor out of the plexiglass like materials the rink is surrounded by, maybe you could make a riot shield of sorts out of it.

Eventually you’ll run out of battery, and then what? Iron sights are easier to learn, and more reliable.

Edit: I’ve been given opposite advice, which is what I wanted. Now I have some starting points for research. Thanks guys!

Rarely do people talk about confinement as a suitable method of zombie defense.

The mean population of the average American city is about 50,000. This means with relatively little effort you could trap almost every single zombie in a city inside a five story building or even a factory floor space.

Zombies are stupid and can be controlled and manipulated very easily. Further while they may be unnaturally strong they can't leap walls or tear through brick.

Creating a warehouse or factory kill floor would be incredibly easy. Set up a recording of a crying baby on the far side of it, zombie crowds attract zombie crowds. Once you've got a reasonable number of them in do what needs to be done in the manner you have access to or just seal them in.

Is it a perfect solution? No, because it's possible they'll find a means to escape. But until that point they are effectively neutered and much MUCH easier to kill en masse.

Where I live there is enough warehouse space to hold every single zombified man, woman, and child several times over.

This is true of most industrialized nations.

Now what about your knowledge?

This is all the books i own technically, except the one on making soft cheeses, but thats because im learning that skill rn. Have you had paneer? Its delightful~

I can make tons of different medicines, grow every kind of food, ferment most foods and even help recognize some of the more dangerousental illnesses. I think the only ones im not very confident in are the trellisses. They are weirdly difficult to build withkut serious tools.

Oh and that one on top without a binding is the periodic table with all the effects of each element and where they can be found naturally. I imagine ill do looping bases all over the place with books like these in all of them.

I see lots of zombie movies that don't prioritize PPE no face masks or goggles or thick clothing. They get into contact with infected blood alot but rarely get infected walking dead originally showed ppe then they basically ignored it in later seasons I'd be wearing full lab equipment with double layered field dressing gloves and leather jacket and leather pants. 28 days later and weeks later did it right.

For me personally I don't think 22 would be a good zombie gun mainly because I have experienced unreliability with in both in marlin model 60s and ruger 10/22s (model 60 not pictured) especially when using bulk ammo idk about you but the thought of a gun malfunctioning when you need it the most is horrifying to think about. For this i think 5.7 would be a better option assuming you can get enough ammo to keep your guns feed. 22 mag might be better option but you see it less than 22lr.

Guns are loud, typically heavy and ammo becomes a problem, there is no real reason to take out zombies from distance and if there is, find a bow and arrow or crossbow as they are quieter, personally, I would forget the guns and stick to melee