What started my zombie fixation: a general fascination with the horror movie genre and a need to have a contingency plan for any situation.
Favorite zombie book: Never read many of the zombie books. Just started with "Day by Day Armageddon"
Favorite zombie movie: Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead. The resident evil video game series and the CGI movie based on the games (Resident Evil: Degeneration).
Favorite quote in any zombie movie: yea boyeee!
My Survival Plan:
My “handle” should you look for you on the radio waves or web: cardsharp
My location: Las Vegas, NV
Is my plan dependent on zombies in your home town, or anywhere? my initial plan is of course for home. I'm very at home in a desert climate, and lake mead and the colorado are close by for post-initial-event options. My parents also have land in in northern AZ with well water and plenty of wildlife to hunt. i'm still working on plans for post-initial-event that would enable me to enact survival scenario just about anywhere.
As far as gear, skills, and tactics, i'm confident of being able to employ them anywhere.
Will I be staying in my home or headed somewhere else? Home until the fit hits the shan. i recognize that any major city during the initial outbreak will be a suicide zone. More people means more deadheads.
If I'm heading out, how do I plan to get there? I have a 2002 Ranger, but if the outbreak wipes out enough people and there's cars laying around, i may upgrade my vehicle, depending on how many people are with me and how much gear we have.
Personally, i'd prefer to bug out on my own with my gear and my plan. I'm not big on trusting survivors, especially civilians with no training. I'm not running my own boot camp, i'm trying to survive.
Got anyone I want to take with me? not especially.
How will I communicate with the outside world, or do I plan to go the hermit route? a CB radio, broadband access with a netbook or laptop until the system goes down or all electricity fails.
How am I planning to get food and water? i have survival food stores (dehydrated stuff and some MRE's) and once the news breaks, filling the bathtubs is priority number one. i have canisters for water as well. Lake Mead is close by, and several springs, some only a few people know about.
What’s my weapon of choice? Do you need to reload that thing? Gotta plan for that? I have 4 AK47s and LOTS of rounds with 30 rd mags and 75 rd drums, a 12 Mossberg with a speed feeder stock, a 10/22 with a folding stock and flash supressor (not much use for dead head hordes, but should come in handy for animals and humans) and for a back up sidearm a glock 26. i have 10 rd clips and a couple extended 15 round clips.
i'm working on saving up for a LIberty I from calico arms. (check it out at www.calicolightweaponsystems.com) Calico weapons systems are extremely light and durable. They are accurate with almost no muzzle climb or kick, and they fire 9mm rounds which will be in great abundance. Not to mention 50 and 100 round helically fed clips. The M-950 pistol weighs a mere 7 pounds fully loaded with the 100 lb. magazine.
i also have an assortment of edged weapons. survival knives, bayonets, and a sweet 440 stainless steel sword (http://budk.com/secret-agent-sword/p/43%20BK906/c2p/hp/) that's short enough to double as a machete but long and sturdy enough for carving up deadheads. though taking a head off with a sword is a mighty tough task, so i'd prefer a firearm for zed encounters.
Got a survival philosophy? Anyone in my group will have to be trained to operate firearms and several other survival skills. I won't put up with anyone in my group dragging the rest of us down with hysteria, shame, hoplessness, or lack of skills. A team will only last if everyone can contribute. Building shelters, starting fires, hunting, guard duty. Everyone must have a purpose in the group to prevent from feeling useless and losing hope, and everyone must have the skills to contribute.
If it's possible for me to get by on my own, I will. I won't be looking for groups of survivors til some time after the initial outbreak. The outbreak will be hell on Earth, and i don't want anyone slowing me down.
Urgency without panic, action without thoughtlessness.
Am I willing to hook up with other survivors? After the initial outbreak, yes. During the chaos of the outbreak, absolutely not. People are panicked, hysteric, and possibly infected. They are uncontrollable and more than likely undisciplined.
If there is a group on this site based in Vegas, put me on your contact list. I'm okay with being on a team at the initial outbreak as long as they're prepared.
Is my plan based on a book/movie/blog/scientist other survivors may have heard of? I went through SERE school in the Air Force and i'm a big Batman fan. So i'm all about practical survival, contingency plans, and i have no problem applying survival principles to urban or wild situations. If you read up on survivalist books, you'll get an idea of the proper mindset you need to survive, and books like the SAS handbook and other military manuals are filled with tactics and skills you will need to manage. I suggest reading those too. A few of those hand books are small enough to stow in a BOB, so i suggest packing them up along with a field nurse manual for first aid needs. Plus they'll give you something to read.
Familiarize yourself with all your gear and check it every 3 or 6 months (depending on how paranoid you are and where you store your gear. if you live in a humid environment and humidity might affect your gear, like batteries, you might wanna check your gear more often than twice a year). Update batteries, food, electronics, maps and GPS files,etc. Know it back to front and in the dark.
go over your escape plans and update them if necessary (new routes, new survivors, radio freqs, etc). if you have an escape route, walk or drive it when checking your plans to make sure the roads (or whatever) are clear (or to see if a better route is now available).
Clean your weapons and keep up your proficiency. Practice any drills with the gear you would use to bug out. If you're planning on wearing a gas mask, you'd better be able to shoot accurately with it on. If you have to walk or run with a 60lb pack, you'd better practice the escape route with the pack on. And if you're driving, know how much gas you need to get to waypoints and rendezvous points.
My strategy is to leave as little to chance as possible with accurate planning. By controlling what you can, you minimize the surprises.
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Rating on Zombie quiz on Newgrounds.com:
take it here.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/425802
Overall:
Z+.
Physical:
B Mental:
A Experience:
Z Emotions:
F (I'm a stone cold undead slaughterhouse. I even execute my infected friends.)
"Your knowledge, strength, and will to survive are unstoppable. It would take a nuclear holocaust to remove you from the face of the earth. Zombies don't stand a chance."
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My score and score summary on the
non-lame zombie survival test::
82% Survivability, 93% Knowledge and 86% Fighting
