Like many things in life having the right tool for the job is essential. Trying to twist a screw into a wall using a butter knife is possible, but why would you want to. Also knowing what is required to complete the job, can be just as important as having the right tool. You may know you need to put a screw into a wall, so you grab a screwdriver. However the screw is 3 inches long and you have to screw it into hardwood. I imagine unless you have wrists like Popeye you're going to be wishing you grabbed a drill instead.
Weapons essentially are just tools used to get a job done, a much more gory, mind altering job than normal, but a job none the less. So when you’re picking out a weapon to use against zombies having an understanding of what needs to be done is extremely important.
There is a massive difference between fighting a zombie and, well… anything else and this needs to be understood before you put together your wish list of weapons.
Most people when asked what weapon they would choose immediately go with the bigger the better theory. They picture themselves like Schwarzenegger in Terminator with a chain gun mowing their way through a field of zombies. Sounds good in theory, but when you start thinking about it, you quickly realize that it won’t really work, and here is why.
To explain this and to keep things simple we will compare apples to rotten apples or humans to zombies. The main difference between fighting a human and a zombie is obviously the “one of them is dead” thing. So tactics and weapons that work quite well on a normal living human can be pretty useless against a zombie. A human can be killed in anyone of a number of ways. A gunshot wound to almost anywhere on the body if not treated fairly quickly has the ability to kill. Hit a major organ and it can happen almost immediately, hit an artery and they could bleed out. Hell a gunshot wound to your big toe could kill you if you don’t take care of it and it becomes infected. So a fully automatic weapon against people can be pretty devastating. Now this same weapon against a zombie, not so much. As we have learned the only real way to permanently stop a zombie is to destroy the brain. Unloading a full clip into the their torso may slow them down a bit, but besides making them leak when they eat, it really won’t affect them. They don’t feel pain, so a shot to the leg won’t cripple them unless you manage to destroy the bone to the point that it can no longer support their weight. The “spray and pray” technique so commonly used with fully automatic weapons just won’t cut it. I’m sure a few stray bullets will find their mark and take out a few zombies but really, you are just wasting precious ammo.
This thought process is pretty universal for all weapons when dealing with zombies. It’s more about precision than brute force, and many weapons that can devastate something living can be downright useless against a zombie. It’s easy to fall into the trap of wanting that fully automatic assault rifle but you have to wonder if you’re using a sledgehammer when a stapler would work better.
Weapons essentially are just tools used to get a job done, a much more gory, mind altering job than normal, but a job none the less. So when you’re picking out a weapon to use against zombies having an understanding of what needs to be done is extremely important.
There is a massive difference between fighting a zombie and, well… anything else and this needs to be understood before you put together your wish list of weapons.
Most people when asked what weapon they would choose immediately go with the bigger the better theory. They picture themselves like Schwarzenegger in Terminator with a chain gun mowing their way through a field of zombies. Sounds good in theory, but when you start thinking about it, you quickly realize that it won’t really work, and here is why.
To explain this and to keep things simple we will compare apples to rotten apples or humans to zombies. The main difference between fighting a human and a zombie is obviously the “one of them is dead” thing. So tactics and weapons that work quite well on a normal living human can be pretty useless against a zombie. A human can be killed in anyone of a number of ways. A gunshot wound to almost anywhere on the body if not treated fairly quickly has the ability to kill. Hit a major organ and it can happen almost immediately, hit an artery and they could bleed out. Hell a gunshot wound to your big toe could kill you if you don’t take care of it and it becomes infected. So a fully automatic weapon against people can be pretty devastating. Now this same weapon against a zombie, not so much. As we have learned the only real way to permanently stop a zombie is to destroy the brain. Unloading a full clip into the their torso may slow them down a bit, but besides making them leak when they eat, it really won’t affect them. They don’t feel pain, so a shot to the leg won’t cripple them unless you manage to destroy the bone to the point that it can no longer support their weight. The “spray and pray” technique so commonly used with fully automatic weapons just won’t cut it. I’m sure a few stray bullets will find their mark and take out a few zombies but really, you are just wasting precious ammo.
This thought process is pretty universal for all weapons when dealing with zombies. It’s more about precision than brute force, and many weapons that can devastate something living can be downright useless against a zombie. It’s easy to fall into the trap of wanting that fully automatic assault rifle but you have to wonder if you’re using a sledgehammer when a stapler would work better.
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