I am 16 years old. Since I live in England, firearms are out of the question. I own a 7" bladed hunting knife and a sturdy, birch-wood baseball bat. I own nothing that could destroy a staircase without risking injury to myself or without destroying the tool at hand. At the bottom floor, there are 8 kitchen knives, including one very long (10") knife and a meat cleaver, although I have no intention of using them. My plan is that, when I inevitably either hear the screams of the dying, the moans of the undead or even just a dire news report, I will gather up what canned food and bottled water I own, and put them in a backpack. I will then call my mother and tell her to drive to Stowe woods (a huge forest in the middle of nowhere). My brother has been previously briefed on this plan, and so knows to return home if an outbreak hits.

My grandmother lives just down the road, but I am undecided on what to do about her (which is why I am posting this plan, for help with this part) . I will have the baseball bat while my brother has the knife. We will set off on the road to the forest, which I have walked along many times and I am used to. The road passes through no towns apart from a couple farms. When we reach Stowe, we will wait for my mother, maybe calling her a couple of times, then when she arrives we will enter the forest. There is, very deep in Stowe, a long-abandoned log house, which is situated on a huge, incredibly steep hill.
The reason we can climb it, and have climbed it, is because we use both our hands and feet, due to the sheer angle of the hill. When we reach the top, we will begin fortifying the log house. We will spend a night or two there, then I will set out to my father's house, around 2-3 miles away, through more country lanes. He owns many useful tools, such as axes, hammers, nails and other classical farming tools. At him house, I also have a .177 1250 fps air rifle, capable of hunting small game with ease.

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If I'm at home I'll board up my doors and windows, grab a gun (my dad has 30+), run upstairs and destroy the staircase(there is a ladder upstairs just encase I need to get back down for supplies) and hold out as long as I can. Since I live in a rural area with few people and many guns I should last for a long time.
Since I'm only 15 I also have school to worry about, so If I'm at school I will try to find anything that could be used as a weapon then try to find my sister. Then I would try to run away from the city. If I cant find my mother or a have to leave the city immediately I have a friend just outside of the city limits that is relatively well prepared for an outbreak.

Please tell me what you think.

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(Assuming I'm at Home) The moment I hear about the Zombie Outbreak I will be on the radio in my office. From there I will contact ZRS Command. I will give them all the details I have (assuming I'm one of the first to know.) From there I will then contact local ZRS members and give them the go-ahead to execute the main plans. From there I will start to fortify my home. The backyards gate will be barricaded tight. The lower windows will be covered and locked. The front door will be welded closed and the upper windows will be opened and set up for gunner and watchman positions. During this time (assuming they havn't died or the outbreak didn't happen in the immediate area) Close members will make their way to my area with their supplies. They will be helped in through a window or the back fence and the command post can be set up. Once my home/post has been secured we will radio in to ZRS command saying we have finished securing the area. Then we will wait 3 days. On the third day we will gather teams and shifts to make our way to local parks for gathering and locating other survivors. My home will be arranged in a way to give medical attention. Each member of my team is trained in basic and advanced First Aid. Along with various forms of other medical attention. Radio Contact will be kept with other posts and with ZRS Command. After the first search party. Rescue Crews will go out once every 2 weeks. They will also slowly re-secure areas of the neighborhood. In the rare event of a breach. Or if the area I'm in is a heavy hot zone. Evacuation Procedures will be made to form a convoy and head into the mountains where we have a preset long-term camping location set out.

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if push comes to shove and the military doesn't contain infection, i would, to put it lightly, be screwed with multiple royal shafts. with that being said i have a secret weapon... smarts. my only firearm is a glock 23 (.40 i think) that shows how much i know about guns though. the reason my brain is my secret weapon is my brain is because im basically a walking supercomputer(so ive been told) and can easily weigh odds and the probability of situations im in. im not the fastest,strongest, handsomest but i can easily out smart them. anyway now my plan.


considering my weapon, physical situation i have decided to bug in.i live in a apartment complex about 30m from Chicago. the stairs can easily be dismantled and the apartments doors are standard wood w/ steel reinforcements and a deadbolt and chain. i live a block and a half from a church, rather, a cathedral, that is FULL of food,water, wine. the church also grows food for the homeless, so they will have seeds. i also know how to pick locks and how to distill alchohal. if the maggot munchers get too rowdy i always have a door to the landlords room and i know that he has a secret door to somewhere(hopefully away) and can easily get to the cathedral and it has huge steel doors. hopefully my big head will stat intact. :)

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The primary disadvantage of the crossbow, even allowing for unlimited ammunition, is rate of fire; it's abysmal. It takes several seconds to draw the bowstring to its catch, place the quarrel in the slot, and then take aim. While this may be acceptable in some circumstances (very few walking dead; several members in your party as support, or a strong defensive position with good fields of fire and all the time in the world), in others it's a recipe for disaster... the act of reloading a crossbow takes some concentration and attention... attention better spent on situational awareness. All the weapons in the world won't save you if you're taken by surprise while reloading. The limited range of a crossbow dictates that its user must be a short distance from the target; and in this case, the target is closing that distance during the reloading process. It can be seen how a crossbow user could easily be overrun simply because the weapon could not be fired rapidly enough to keep the zombies at a distance. Even Romero-esque, slow-moving zombies would be able to overwhelm a crossbow user; the currently popular "runners" or "fast-movers (as I like to call them) would be present a challenge that no one could meet with a crossbow.
A crossbow does have one supremely attractive characteristic - it is almost silent in use, and will not attract hordes of shambling corpses like some horrific dinner bell. This saving grace grants the crossbow a place in the survivor's inventory, if he or she has the ability to carry/store it along with their primary weapons.
But the bottom line is, while they may have some specific niche applications in which they excel, crossbows are not a sound choice for primary (or even secondary) weapons.

That brings us to firearms, which will be discussed in part 3.

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1st. go to immeadiate drop point compile list of present and accounted for.
2nd see who is missing and determine likelihood of survival and rescue, great panic =null risk too great.
3rd stock pile munitions,food and water in the center of our compound.
4th set orders of work and security priority.
now to anyone with military experience my plan is closely related to the way we operate when on patrol and when setting a PB.
of course not exactly in the same order. but it is adapted for a crisis when not in a "unit" type formation. think of it more as a rendevouz patrol.

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Hey Guys, this is how i will survive, it still needs tweaks but tell me what you think.

Things i Have Already Stockpiled:
Water (1 Gallon Spring Water Containers)
Cans of Food (mainly green beans, corn, baked beans, and peaches)
Gasoline in my tanks underground connected to my generators already

ok z day happens and i here about it. i start calling my family to let them know and get their asses over here, then 3 of my best friends who live in my neighborhood. since im stockpiled on food, water and gas, i figure id start to board up first, as soon as everyone gets here, until then im just pushing couches against my front door because i cant do much else. my uncle is a contractor so he would bring over his son and his hammers and nails, along with his 2 shotguns and he only has about 2-3 boxes of ammo. my dad and sisters would bring themselves. my dad is a doctor so he has medicine. my 3 friends bring any food and weapons they have. one of them has a revolver and my other 2 friends have metal baseball bats from when they were younger. everyone would enter through my backdoors since its fenced in back there and itd be safer than the front. i dont have wood stockpiled so id just get everyone to start unhinging the inside doors and using those to barricade the doors first then windows. i have a side door from a car port, 2 back doors, and 1 front door, so should be able to get those boarded up in good time. then from there we would just wait it out through the initial months.

FYI:
i have enough canned food to provide 2 meals a day to all my group for at least 7 months.
enough water to last entire group at least 9 months
and enough gas to run my generator for an undetermined amount of time, depending on how much we need to actually use it, it wont be going non stop.

tell me what you think, i live in a 1 story btw bc of my wheelchair.

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Pt. 1

I live in San Antonio, Texas. Pretty much the last type of area you'd want to be in for a zombie outbreak. At the first sign of trouble (news reports of riots or patients 'violently attacking staff' at hospitals) I set up mine and my family's BOB bag. We stick to the bare essentials and pack light. Whatever pants we have on that day can last us a few days until we get somewhere safe. But as far as what we do pack goes, a couple of shirts each for me and my wife and a couple of clean outfits for our two year old daughter. Next comes a hygiene kit (soap, deodorant, toothbrush and tooth paste), a couple cans of food or boxes of Slim Fast Meal bars (we keep them around since we're both trying to get in better shape, not that we're grotesquely overweight or anything lol. I wouldn't be in the USAF if I was). I'm thinking realistically here so unfortunately, I don't own any guns, but with any luck in our favor, I'd know where to get some. As far as weapons that go into the bag are my two trench spikes, tracker knife and special ops tomahawk (I have a collection). Other stuff to go in includes two cantines of water, a flashlight, and I sh*t you not, my Zombie Survival Guide lol. All that stuff mentioned gets thrown into my ruck sack from my first deployment that I kept and gets set right by the door.

When it comes time to evacuate, we sling our daughter onto my wife's back with the baby harness we have, I throw the bag on, my wife gets the baseball bat and I grab my machete up out of our closet. Grab the keys to the Cruiser and get the hell out. Our daughter will go in her car seat but we're both gonna need our hands free in case there's any zombies right out front to get in our way. Once we reach the car, I throw my bag in the very back and cover my wife's back as she straps the baby into her seat. Then we hop in the car and take off.

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I actually have a Modular set up My B.O.B. (Packed in a Meduim Alice Pack that lives in my car) is set up for a camping trip I know I can survive on this exactly as it is for 3 -4 days before I think about resupply because I do it at least 3 times a year. ( there is a Sheath added to the outside for my shotgun) I'll post a compleste invintory of it later in this same thread.
Also in the back of my car is a Tac vest with 180 rounds of 22LR (6-30 round Mags) and 24-12ga rounds (12- Remington Reduced Recoil "OO" tactical loads / 6 - Slugs / 6 - 7 1/2 game loads) Cleaning supplies for a .22 and a 12 ga. In the inside vest pockets are Topo Maps for 5 miles surrounding my house. An MRE thats has been broken down. An Otaraio Knife Company SPAX (that has been modified) A Military issue Tritium Compass. 50' of paracord. Handheld GPS. Flashlight AND a Headlamp A Ziplock with spare Batteries.
I keep a Ruger 10/22 mounted in a bullpup stock (see picture) in my car. You might be wondering about the shotgun ammo on the vest if I'm not carrying one around.
There are 2 reasons for this, ONE-Once I make it home I keep 2 Shotty's ready to roll one is my deer hunting "Slug Gun" (Remington 870 set for slug hunting because NY state says Buckshot isn't safe) and my Moss 500 set for home defence. TWO - If the Fecal material impacted the rotating steel blades and I gott walk home from say work (32 miles by road) through Cival Unrest, Z-Day, Canada Invading Upstate NY, whatever... I'll find a 12 ga somewhere along the way.

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My Plan:


Title: The "You Bastard" plan

Basic Idea for survival: Stealth, Balls, Farming, Guns, Water




Alright, so near where I live there is this fairly remote lakeside country club, they have food, few people, and their own water and power supply. There are lots of cabins there but only one permanent resident, the caretaker who lives in a cabin just outside the big house, he has lots of guns and ammo, as well as ammo making capabilities. Also in the cabins there are various gunpowder and non-gunpowder (for stealth) weapons. My plan to get there mostly revolves around one basic fact that many seem to forget, zombies aren't good at detection, their ears have probably rotted off as well as their noses, which means that zombies probably work off of either sight or very loud noises which they can feel. I actually don't own a gun but I do own a powerful pellet rifle which could probably kill a zombie with a headshot, and various household objects that could double as melee weapons (baseball bats, axes, screwdrivers that could be used like icepicks).

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