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hey for best results with an outbreak it is always smart to remember even though the zombie is nasty and scary looking, killing it is just like killing a very primitive human that cant climb,talk,run, and has very very basic motor skills. since this is so the zombies are relatively easier to kill using this perspective. but now onto melee wepons. first every survivalist will want to have a switchblade or folding knife preferably smooth edge and sharp on both sides with point in middle. for cleaning and sharpening this knife you will need eighther a sharpening stone or kitchen knife sharpeners which are both very common house hold items. you will also need sharpening oil so that when you sharpen the very small pieces of the blade that come off wont chip the blade. now you will also need a secondary also light melee weapon. hatchets, short swords, bats, and hammers are recommended differently. in order from overall best to worst: short sword, hatchet, bats, hammer. even though the short sword is ranked highest it is also the rarest because come on how many people do you know that own ready to use non decorative durable short swords besides roman gladiators. because of this you may want to use other wepons not mentioned, but if you do ask yourself these questions: can it be used more than once, is it durable, if lodged in skull can it be easily retrieved, does it have good distance, does it have good stopping power, can it crash a skull and if not can it sever a head. these are all important questions to ask but you also have to think if you like it. since in some situations this maybe your last hope you may want to be farmiliar with the weapon and you may also want to practice with it so that you can know your strengths and your weaknesses with it.

GEAR-

Like every zombie movie the hero always is geared in some over dramatic armor, swat vest or some sort of out of reach item for a regular civilian, well not everyone can afford or believes in zombies, so they will only have the clothes on their backs... This is not a problem, as long as its movable, lightweight and skintight you are definitely in decent gear for fleeing zombie hordes. On the other hand if your daily attire is a trench coat and baggy jeans you should at least drop the trench. Its long cape like features give the perfect handle for a ghoul to grasp you and pull you to its snapping jaws. Ex of a no: cool, but could lead to impending doom

Personal Opinions

My Zombie Survival Rifle would be the following:

Accuracy International Arctic Warfare .308 Suppressor
Bolt-Action Configuration
Folding Chassis
Butt Spike
Adjustable Cheek-piece
Black Chassis Colour
.308 Suppressed Consists of a 16” barrel housed in a 28” Suppressor overall length
AI Factory Bipod
Maintenance Kit
Standard Sling black
Target Butt Pad
.308 10-Shot Magazines
Black Soft Carry Bag for use with folded rifle
Schmidt & Bender PMII Telescopic Sight P4-Fine Reticle in Mil format, 0.1 Mil Clicks, “One-Turn” Zero-Stop Elevation Knob, Reticle Illumination
Subsonic Ammunition 140 Bullets (14x 10-shot Magazines)
Barrett Optics Optical Ranging System (BORS) with spare batteries

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Richboy's Gear

1 Spas 12 shotgun with flashlight with 24 extra rounds
2 cop-issue silenced Beratta's with 4 extra clips
1 combat knife
1 first-aid kit
1 .22 rimfire rifle, silenced with scope and bayonet with 100 extra rounds
2 lighters
1 knife sharpening/cleaning kit
2 water bottles/ water purification tablets
1 Military Backpack
10 rations
Vehicle-Cleaned out garbage truck with 20 extra cartons of 2 gallons of gas, sniper rifle onroof,
and opening over passengers side for sniping

Any feedback on the above rifle system would be greatly appreciated. It seems like a lot but this rifle will shoot as straight as a laser at anything up to 500 yards, and will be very quiet. It is expensive though, but I guarantee that it will not miss a zombie head easily. If a zombie is close enough to be a threat, this will take care of it without a hitch. The only downside is that engaging another human sniper (rebellious etc.) during a zombie apocalypse will not be as easy at longer ranges with this particular setup. As always, I thoroughly recommend a secondary firearm anyways, but this is an extremely reliable piece of kit.
- DarkStorm89

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JerryHendrix`s gear

FirstAidKit
As an Primary wepaon: AKSU(SMG version of AK-47)
Secondary wepaon:Glock 17
One Anti-Virus pack (If invented )
Two Rations
Car Keys ( Pontiac Parisienne )
Flashlight
Crowbar

Note this gear is light soldat version. In civilian version the Wepaons well be removed

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Firearms and other stuff by - MR.NIBBLES
HBAR (Hill Billy Assault Rifle) / Rossi Model 92 .357 magnum Lever Action Rifle
Light weight, tough little rifle. This rifle along with 100 rounds of 180 grain Partition Ammo and 200 rounds of 145 grain Silver-tip ammo pushes the scales at about 10 pounds. Granted, effective range is limited to 100 yards but anything past that I'm sneaking by anyways.

SCATTERGUN / Mossberg 500 12 gauge with 18.5" Barrel
What else can you say about a shotgun? Mossberg's are reliable and affordable. This scattergun equipped with 120 rounds of ammo hits the scales at about 13 pounds. I'd split the ammo into 80 rounds of OO buck (for close work out to 30 yards) & 40 rounds of rifled slugs (for shots between 50 to 80 yards).

Fill-Yer-HANDGUN / Ruger SP-101 .357 magnum with Crimson Trace Laser Grips
Built like a tank snub-nosed revolver. This 5-shot snubby with 100 rounds of 125 grain hollow point ammo weighs a scant 4 pounds. The laser grips are robust and work fantastic. Where the red dot shows, the bullet goes. Toss in a few speed loaders and I'm good to go.

Melee Weapon / Fat Max Functional Utility Bar by Stanley Tools
Believe it or not, I'm going with the 24 inch Stanley. I know it's not as flashy as a Katana blade, but this 1 piece, all steel tool does it all. It's made for demolition & building, the design of the tool lends it to be a very good weapon. It's perfect for prying open doors, breaking wood, it's like a crowbar on steroids.The tool weighs about 3 pounds. There is an assortment of these tools available, some are as long as 3 feet.

Mountain Climbers Rucksack w/ Camel-back water storage (100 oz)
I'd skip the Alice pack, tried them, like the civilian stuff much better.
Rope - 50 foot para-cord and 25 foot (550 lb test) climbing rope.
Fixed Blade Knife - 6 inch blade
Leatherman Wave - MacGyvers best friend, the ultimate in compact tooling.
Butane Lighters - Self explanatory as to their use. I'd have at least 6 in my pack for thousands of lights.
Canteens / Military with stainless steel cups - Two canteens with the cups would store a lot of water. The cups are great for boiling up water or eating from.
PUR Water Filter - Pound for pound, the mechanical method of purifying water beats chemicals hands down. Bonus being there isn't an expiration date on the PUR filter as there is with say Aqua Pure tablets. One filter processes hundreds of gallons, if not thousands depending on the original water source's quality.
Flashlight (LED) / Shake type - A shake type of flashlight is far superior to a windup type because of their method of power storage. The windups use Ni-Cad battery's, that over time will quit holding a charge because of building a memory in the battery, you'd have to continually wind it for light once the battery flamed out. The shaker types use capacitors to store their power and aren't hindered with the memory issue, the con to this type of storage is that you'd have to shake more often for power.
Rain Poncho with Insulated Liner / Military - This is the best setup, the poncho can be used as a tarp and of course a rain poncho. Using the poncho with the liner you wrap yourself in it and make what is known in the military as a "Ranger Roll". This setup will keep you comfortable in all but freezing weather, but you can add a wool blanket to combat that. The bonus to using this setup is that your not confined in a sleeping bag, so if you had to, you could get up to fight or run in an instant.
Wool Blanket - A 60"x80" wool blanket packs light and will keep you warm, even if it's soaking wet, unlike a down sleeping bag.
Food - Depends, if your talking for 72 to 120 hours I wouldn't bother with anything more than a couple food-bars like Cliffs or Datrex type of emergency food. I would always have some hard candy, tea, instant coffee, Ramon noodles and maybe instant oatmeal on hand for trips of 7 days or more. I'd depend more on scavenging food as I went, I'm sure I can scrounge up food. Hey it's worked for pillaging army for century's.
Binoculars - Use is obvious.
First Aid - Basic first aid kit with a couple of battle dressings (kotex in a pinch) Also caffeine tabs in case the morning coffee is out of the question. Along with basic meds for pain, etc.
Socks / wool - Three pairs of wool socks
BDU's - One pair of pants and one shirt.
Underwear - Three sets, along with one full set of silk long johns. The silk long johns are fantastic for cold weather, don't knock em till you tried em.
Sweater / Wool - British Army issue sweater, these are the absolute best. Their made for harsh environments and are very warm.
Jacket / Farm Type - Insulated jacket, same type as you can get at your local TSC (Tractor Supply Store). These jackets are bullet proof (figure of speech, wont actually stop a bullet). These farmer type jackets are made to take lots of abuse, their far superior to anything the military has. However the good ones are not cheap, but you get what you pay for.
Leather Work Gloves - Self-explanatory
Boots / Combat or Engineer Type - You need tough and high protection for your feet.
Gun Cleaning Kit - 30" leather shoelace and cleaning patches. Don't need a cleaning rod, drop the lace down the tube and pull the patch through until clean.
Playing Cards - Might have to hole up somewhere for awhile, might as well play some solitaire, or if you find a friend poker.
Totals = While this setup is not all inclusive for most people (but it works for me) the weight of everything listed here, weapons, gear, everything including the water in the camel-back / canteens, the weight comes to 57 pounds. Keep in mind I'd be wearing a good chunk of this as clothing.
SUBMITTED BY MR.NIBBLES Throw some feedback my way, let me know what you like or don't like about the list.


Keep in mind when choosing firearms the weight of the weapon, magazines loaded or otherwise, necessary cleaning kit, and where your going to store it all. Just as an example, lets say your carrying an M4 carbine, the weapon by itself with a 30 round magazines weighs 7.5 pounds. Every other magazine you carry is a little over one more pound. The cleaning kit, consisting of a couple rods, brushes and maybe some CLP is less than a pound but awkward to store. Lets use another example, an AK47. Its a little over 8.5 pounds, but the ammo is almost twice as heavy as the 5.56mm ammo of the M4/M16 variant. The ammo of the 7.62x39mm hits harder, but has a bit shorter range, about 100m less accurately. However don't knock on the AK's accuracy, you'd be surprised.
-790superstar

As choosing your weapon is very important, so is knowing your abilities of using weapons. And also you physical ability for weapons. Also if your good with automatic weapons and bad with shotguns, don't pick a shot gun! If your a good sniper with good vision and bad with hand to hand combat don't jump into a fight with your Bowie hunting knife! (you should still always carry a knife on you but what I'm trying to say is that if your not good with a knife don't really rely on it for a major weapon, just as a last resort or if a zombie sneaks up on you.) After all you don't want to starting fighting with a weapon that your bad at operating or even in the worst case don't even know how to operate! Every once in while though, you find a guy (or girl) that is very skilled in many weapons and is physically in shape. People like this may include a person in any form the army (National Guard, Air Force, Navy etc.) or maybe just a person that is just good with weapons. A person like this is a have to have person while choosing your group. But as these weapons and devices are very cool to learn about and fun to see, keep in mind of your physical abilities. If you have any opinions about my view please comment or e-mail me a message.
~Mr.

In regards overall preparedness, on should always have a small knife handy. A buck knife, ka-bar, or switch blade comes to mind. In the event of a grapple with a zombie, something which no one would wish to be unprepared for, a small knife could be the deal breaker for your life, or your undead existence. Granted you may never used this knife again, once it is embedded in the zombie's temple it will be counted as a lost cause to retrieve. But, better one lost knife than one more zombie.
-EvacMedic

First off, very few people will have access to most items under ballistics. You would have to be a leader(President) or General of a nuclear armed country to even think about the nuke.
Now as for the Unarmed thing, it is a bad idea. Even a weapon as ineffective as a baseball bat has a better ability to keep you from a zombies grasp than your bare hands. Not to mention that zombies are famous for their grip(ever heard the phrase "you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead fingers?), so once they have a hold on you, you better have at least a pencil to jam through their eye into the brain(risky and unlikely, but you are already in a horrible position).
Finally, what is a "Spiked Gauntlet" doing on a weapons page? Shouldn't that be in Protective Clothing?
-McSkullcracken

My first weapon that i would grab would probably be my Mossberg 500 12 gauge, along with my H&K 45.Auto USP. My other gun is just a plain ak47 they are so reliable they would be a awesome weapon in a zombie attack the only downside for an AK is i suppose the accuracy although i never have had serious accuracy problems with it. For my melee weapon i would have to choose either a crow bar or a katana. For a good sniper rifle i have a 7mm winchester black shadow bolt action.(I currently own all of these weapons I have mentioned and i shoot and practice with these a lot so i do know what i am talking about.)
-zombiekilla


A molotov cocktail is a good weapon...only if it is made right! A rag and a bottle w/gas is a sure way to set yourself on fire. Instead use a wine bottle filled with gas. Use epoxy to seal the cork. Yes, you put the cork back in the bottle. Then get yourself a road flare, the type with a pull tab, and duct tape it to the bottle. Now you have a safe, effective weapon that can now be carried as well. Just pull the tab on the flare and throw it.
-Meep1982

It disturbs me that so much of the information about weapons on here was wrong. I changed a lot of it and I'm confident that the information is correct as I got it from my husband, who does small arms repair in the Army. That covers everything from the .9 pistol to artillery. He also suggests that everyone researches weapon techniques like transition drills, stress shooting, and things like that.
Also, clothing really depends on the person. You should fight in what you feel comfortable in, for my husband, it would be his military gear. Whereas that would be heavy and uncomfortable to me. So, thats a personal decision.
I do want to apologize if anyone is offended by my changing the weapons section so much. I just wanted to make sure
the information if correct and people aren't being misinformed.
-xharlotx

Sorry but i just had to fix all the wrong information in the .22 section.
-Wulfgar87

A tile remover is an awesome melee weapon. Imagine an over sized titanium chisel attached to a 4-6 foot long hardwood pole.
-Sgt.Schultz

If there is one thing I learned by watching TV, it is that anything and everything can be a weapon when your life depends on it. For example: window becomes a knife, chair becomes club. Use your imagination. But remember go with things that are meant to kill with first, they work better.
-GrantHatman

Personally I would use my two Katanas. They are legit. I didn't even get them in America, I got them from the Asian countries surrounding Japan, such as Korea and the like. I am a master while using the blade (not an exaggeration), and using my swords, I could easily kill and protect myself more so than using any gun (although I would still use a gun any time I had the chance).
Stay safe my friends.
-ZEROFLY

Hey,just because you aren't armed with katanas,firearms, or any weapon of mass zombie slaughter,you could use regular household items until you find better, a cooking knife could be used to impale the zombie in the temple then adding a slight wiggling movement to ensure a kill, at the same time you will have to get uncomfortably close...but going down fighting is better then going down screaming without the fight. Another thing people don't take time to try in the movies,Search the neighbors house, if they are a proud gun-bearing American you could save your life by stealing it.

Slayer123

Oh c'mon, a simple hand gun would do a lot of things..a round to the head eliminates a zombie..PERMANENTLY..
but i can handle light fire arms like m16a4 rifles..that would surely do...
-Shaun

Super-Z: I would preferably use a 12 gauge single shot break
shotgun. The only problem would be that you only have one shot then you have to reload. But they are reliable and easy to clean.


Improvised spear by byates
Here's one for ya!

I saw this thing and fell in love. Talk about crowd control. An 8 1/2 in. axe blade with sharpened hook and spike all on a 6 foot pole. Ever chopped firewood with an axe that had a 3 foot handle? Imagine the momentum this thing generates. Double the energy, half the effort! Then you have the spike for thrusting and spearing, and a hook for dragging or skull busting.
Halberds have been around for 600-1000 years for a reason, they wail ! Plus, they never need reloading, just rub them with a file or decent rock and presto! Good as new!
But of course, like the spear, once something gets too close, the reach is a liability. When that happens, simply drop it and pull a close quarters weapon and keep going!
This particular halberd was produced by Cold Steel. Although it's been discontinued off of the C.S. website, search the web and you should be able to find one easy.

Z13: Not to be a dick, but almost all of these weapons are obnoxiously hard to find and not important in a zombie situation. I really don't see the need for RPG's, Grenades(except in a resident evil type scenario) or any of the high powered rifles

Serious Air-guns
http://www.quackenbushairguns.com/
Quackenbush Air Guns
They have guns that will take down a bison or smaller ones that will drop smaller targets. If that won't stop Zed then TSHHTF.
Might want to check here too, Bigbore Airguns
http://www.bigboreairguns.com/

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