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Slick:
Uh, Khar, I think, I think I love you.

I guess the brain-kill is a valid point, we need the ability to lop heads, which is why I'm a fan of the urban dead shotgun/fireaxe combo. Problems with shotguns are that they're messy and brutal and only effective at short range, unless you're packing buckshot.
The burning is also an excellent point, you need to be able to destroy the bodies.

I am seriously worried about floating zombies now. I doubt they could swim, but it'd mean you have to be on the ball and never let your gard down if you're on an island. Regular patrols, something like a lighthouse would be lovely to watch from.

I suppose you'd need a strategy for dealing with floaters you find while out in the boat fishing or something. Maybe some big net or sealing harpoon to grab them. This is an instance where a polearm would be nice so as to be able to remotely decapitate, but you'd want them out of your fishing waters ASAP. Which reminds me that we'll need water filtration, maybe even distill everything for safety.

Lines:
First I'd grad everything I could that was flammable for a potential flame thrower or home made bombs of some sort. Then I'd raid a grocery store, the gun store down the street from where I live, and then steal someone's truck, because my little car would a)not hold enough and b)is not anywhere near the standards one needs for mowing down zombies. Then I'd probably head over to the Mississippi River and steal a boat and get the hell away from land. Somewhere along the way I'm sure I'd pack up a lot of books and music/instruments, my cat and his kitty things and maybe some other people, considering the end of the world would be an excellent time to become a hermit on a nice tropical island.

And if in the case I can't handle the zombies, I'd blow everything up and take out as many as possible.

supersheep:
An assault shotgun would be a nice weapon, that is true, but not so much on the effective range. Maybe one of them with two guys with rifles? As for .22s, Khar is, of course, totally correct. And on effective range, probably about half of your actual shooting range. I could probably hit a head size target at fifty yards, so 25 is the range I can kill zombies at maybe? With slow zombies, and a semi-auto, I could probably peg two before having to make a tactical retreat, although that might be pushing it.

Of course this is academic because there are not so many guns in Ireland. And I've never even seen a crowbar. I'm a goner.

0bsessions:
Okay, guys. For those of you with gun fantasies, here's the reality:

Guns are unwieldy and in the hands of anyone but an experienced user are more dangerous than any zombie. I picked up and fired a gun for the first time about a month ago. I was able to cap a seltzer bottle about about thirty to forty feet with a .357 (Not a revolver, the type that loads with a magazine)and am told that that was pretty damn excellent for a first timer (I was, in fact, aiming for said bottle and I managed to cap a few other objects, so it wasn't a lucky shot). That noted, I would be absolutely fucked if I tried to take on a large cluster of zombies as it becomes a lot harder to aim in quick succession and the human head is a small target. I've never tried anything more lightweight, and maybe that'd help (Though the likelihood of a kill shot then decreases), but I can't imagine it'd bring my survival rate up that much.

The real trick is not to be all gung-ho, but to play to your strengths. Zombies are slow, you're about 99% better off running from them than trying to stand your ground. There's very few conceivable instances where standing your ground is the smart thing to do. If you've got more than, say, five zombies, you're unlikely to be able to kill all of them before one of them gets to you unless you're very experienced with a gun. If it's less than five, it's probably going to be easier to just get around them/outwit them than kill them (Especially considering that firing off shots is probably going to attract more of them).

The best piece of advice one can consider is to just get the Hell out of any urban areas and don't stop for anything. You're honestly better off getting out of the city with naught but a claw hammer than taking time to stop and look for anything else useful. In the close quarters of a city, a good arsenal isn't going to do you shit worth of good if you're stuck there past dusk. Think aiming's hard? Try doing it in the dark. Now try doing it in the do or die pressure of having twelve zombies coming at you from different angles in a tight alley.

Once you're out of an urban area and into something more spread out, your survival probability goes up exponentially. Unless you're surrounded by a hundred zombies, an empty field is going to be safe. Find your way to a small town where there aren't many places for a zombie to hide, stock up, and find a place to survive.

Personally, I'd be fucked in the event of a zombie outbreak. I live entirely too far into a highly populated city (15,700 people per square mile over 7 miles of land). I'd have the options of either braving the city for a mile or two until I got to the highway and hope it's not so dense with zombies that I could bike my way out OR I could brave my way through the likely worse off streets of Boston straight across the river and into the harbor to try and comandeer a boat. Either instance has a very low survival probability.

Lines:
Yeah, forget everything else (other than food and gas), I'm stealing a boat on the Ohio River. If you're on the western half of the Ohio and anywhere along the Mississippi south of Illinois, I'll pick you up. I'd have to go near the city to get to the river, but I live in a smaller suburb, so I can get food easily enough.

Though I'd still feel safer if I had explosive like things in the case of the zombie apocalypse.

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