The worst weapons to use against the living dead.
There are hundreds of posts on the web about which weapons to use against zombies. Most are nothing more than a list of ways to get yourself killed. So here is a list of the worst weapons. Pay attention, this might save your life.
1. Handguns. The worst weapon you could possibly choose. The accuracy and range of most handguns leaves much to be desired. To be of much use the target needs to be close. Once the dead have come within this range fear kicks in. With fear comes adrenalin. With adrenalin comes an unsteady hand. At this point a headshot is all but impossible contrary to what the movies would have us believe. Unless highly trained and battle hardened, only use that handgun on yourself.
2. Fully automatic weapons. These weapons when deployed against zombies will have little effect other than self demoralization. The effect on morale after unloading one of these into a group of zombies and only managing to score a handfull of headshots will be devastating. Don't waste your time.
3. Fire, acid, and other chemicals. There may be some situations were things of this nature can be effective. Most of the time they are a bigger threat to the user simple due to the injuries inflicted. Most will little or no effect on the dead. Best used for disposal purposes only
4. Swords, knives, and other archaic weapons. The effectiveness of these weapons is not in doubt here. With the advent of firearms these weapons have fallen into disuse as a killing implements. As such the skilled people required to create true fighting weapons have been lost. Most examples that can be found are cheap knock offs that WILL break upon being used in battle.
Knives are great tools that any survivor should carry but the effectiveness of them to guarantee penetration of the skull is in doubt.
5. Sporting equipment. Baseball bats, hockey sticks, etc. These simply were not design for sustained combat. Alluminum bats will flatten and lose effectiveness quickly. If pressed a wooden bat can be used but constantly question it's durability. Any fan of baseball has surely seen a bat splinter on contact will a ball. Just imagine what the outcome will be from repeated blows to a skull.
Ultimately the best weapon humans have is our ability to think, something the dead completely lack. Use your brain and hopefully I will not need to destroy it with my trusty crowbar.
1. Handguns. The worst weapon you could possibly choose. The accuracy and range of most handguns leaves much to be desired. To be of much use the target needs to be close. Once the dead have come within this range fear kicks in. With fear comes adrenalin. With adrenalin comes an unsteady hand. At this point a headshot is all but impossible contrary to what the movies would have us believe. Unless highly trained and battle hardened, only use that handgun on yourself.
2. Fully automatic weapons. These weapons when deployed against zombies will have little effect other than self demoralization. The effect on morale after unloading one of these into a group of zombies and only managing to score a handfull of headshots will be devastating. Don't waste your time.
3. Fire, acid, and other chemicals. There may be some situations were things of this nature can be effective. Most of the time they are a bigger threat to the user simple due to the injuries inflicted. Most will little or no effect on the dead. Best used for disposal purposes only
4. Swords, knives, and other archaic weapons. The effectiveness of these weapons is not in doubt here. With the advent of firearms these weapons have fallen into disuse as a killing implements. As such the skilled people required to create true fighting weapons have been lost. Most examples that can be found are cheap knock offs that WILL break upon being used in battle.
Knives are great tools that any survivor should carry but the effectiveness of them to guarantee penetration of the skull is in doubt.
5. Sporting equipment. Baseball bats, hockey sticks, etc. These simply were not design for sustained combat. Alluminum bats will flatten and lose effectiveness quickly. If pressed a wooden bat can be used but constantly question it's durability. Any fan of baseball has surely seen a bat splinter on contact will a ball. Just imagine what the outcome will be from repeated blows to a skull.
Ultimately the best weapon humans have is our ability to think, something the dead completely lack. Use your brain and hopefully I will not need to destroy it with my trusty crowbar.
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Permalink Reply by Reese on -
I see where you come from with the swords but think about it this way. if they are strong enough, use them, why because they don't need reloading and can kill them easily, cut the heads off, stab them to death while they are down (Well that might not work) Just cut the heads off!If the head is still movin some how, bash its head in! When you've got explosives, or guns, what happens when this happens. You run out of supplies and no help comes for you. Or your gun jams, backfires? I think that the best weapon would be an ax. Sturdy, strong, able to sever heads,And once the head is off, you can easily use the back side of the ax as a hammer and bash it's head in. simple as that.
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Permalink Reply by ghoul on -
Axes, crow bars, hammers, and entrenching tools are all great back up weapons. I would choose any one of them for one simple reason, they have multiple uses. From prying things open to digging latrines to chopping fire wood. A sword cannot do any of these things.
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Permalink Reply by John Cimeno on -
A good sword made out of 1060 carbon can be used to chop wood if needed, it can also be used for prying, (think a lever or prybar)
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Permalink Reply by Darc on -
Best weapon that I can create out of almost nothing: my cooking. I honestly think, depending on what I fail at making, that my cooking could be classified as a WMD. I'm not kidding.
On a more rational standpoint, a useful weapon would be the Desert Egle, as far as CQC goes. That gun packs a punch, but wouldn't be much use against a hoard.
As far as 2x4's, it honestly depends on the type of wood. You get something like fresh cut oak, (odds are this wouldn't be avalible) and you've got something that has been proven to deflect cannon balls. (If your not sure what I'm talking about, Google "Old Iron Sides," turns out the ship had a layer of fresh cut oak inbetween two more layers of aged oak, and the fresh cut repelled cannon balls shot at it.) If you were to pick up a less dence wood, say a fir(?)-tree of some sorts, then that would break/start to splinter after one good whack to a skull.
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Permalink Reply by Lynn on -
If you're going to use something to distract them use something they might actually consider food....forgoe the muffins and toss out someone you don't really care about....at that point the knife becomes very handy....slice the archillies tendon, and toss the live bait in one direction while you run the other way....it's not very nice, but it's better then being zombie food.
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Permalink Reply by G on -
Trying to get them drunk?
Better yet put up a sign on your door that says NO-SOLICITORS
Or asking them to come back later.......
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Permalink Reply by axl on -
Pepper spray sounds pretty useless to me. And passive smoking. Maybe that ultra-sound whistle used against dogs might be a good idea. Or a sonar.
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Permalink Reply by Steve 'Stevil' Moore on -
Friends, Listen to the voice of experience.
Many of us Love the Shot Gun.
I have one myself. Then I thought , "Ya know, exotic rounds would be awesome!"
So I got me some "Dragons Breath". Shoots Flame over 50 feet.
Anyway there I am at the mall. (I know, What was I thinking), When this group of 'Deaders' start coming through the parking lot.
I reach behind the seat of my Pick-up. Whup out my trusty Sawed Off and let them have it.
The next thing I know the "Deaders" are wondering around like mobile bon-fires and three cars go up in flames.
My Bad.
Moral: Lead makes 'em dead.
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Permalink Reply by Suigeneris on -
Agreed. A spoon, banana or, tickle me elmo are inefective as weapons. Once, while cornered in a beauty salon I had to fight off a fleshy armed with only a hot crimping iron. Imagine trying to burn off an entire angry bee hive with only a heat lamp? Yeah, almost bought the farm that night!
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