Zombies Are Really Just Big Varmints

Something we have not touched on so far is firearms.  Many dislike them, many eschew them, feeling they will somehow prevail in hand to hand combat, some people feel all they will need to fight a zombie is a knife held between their teeth, as they attack the zombie, naked, with only a knife and the love of a benevolent god on their side.  I'm not one of those people, neither is S.D., we'd rather, honestly, steady our aim and fire with a reliable firearm from a safe and protected distance.

It seems the rational way to go about things.

So to discuss this further, I will trust S.D. to expound at a later date, but I'm going to give you my take on it for now.  While scurrying through the zombie infested urban wilderness, a good, solid sidearm is really nothing to scoff at, but for almost any kind of distance, a good, old fashioned varmint gun is what you're going to want to have.  Really, the zombie is just a large, bipedal, less-clever but more olfactory-endowed raccoon.  A varmint.  One that shuffles, unless it's one that's got the rage, in which case, you're gonna want to be at a safe distance, in a safe location, because they just never stop, unless a leg or foot part falls off.

My favorite varmint gun is the one we call "Blonde Gun", it's a .243 from the early to mid 1960's and is about as pretty as it is lethal.  In the hands of anyone who isn't completely brain-dead, Blonde Gun is a lazer beam.  You can shoot just about anything off of anything else at several hundred yards, and at a closer range, you can blow the back off the head of a zombie with phenomenal accuracy.

Now, we stopped BUYING ammunition for Blonde Gun, because S.D. likes to load for her, and makes some pretty good loads too, might I add.  I'd strongly recommend making your own ammunition, because it has a few advantages:

1. accuracy (this takes time to get it right, and is often boring to the onlooker (wife), but really pays off)

2. cheaper

3. is a quiet form of entertainment for long winter nights (did I mention quiet?  not sure about you, but when the ZA comes, we're gonna all be a lot quieter, sose we don't attract any undue, undead attention)

4. takes basic components that can be used in other applications if needed. (?pipebomb)

5.takes no electrical hook-ups to do, and face it, there likely won't BE electricity after the ZA

So, we have the pretty. pretty gun, we have wonderful ammunition to shoot the undead with, what could go wrong?  Well, if you gotta run, guns and ammunition are HEAVY.  I'm not a fan of black plastic, and won't carry it unless under dire need or duress, firearms ought to be a work of art and beauty, black plastic simply is not.  If we WERE going to have to run, it's revolvers in every place we can put them.  I don't care so much about more and more ammunition, those revolvers will hit like a ton of bricks and hit everything you point at them, I'll deal with 6 at a time.

I have no need to fight hand to hand with a zombie, never did, I'll deal with them in a much more long range way.  Undoubtedly, there are others out there who will flash a bunch of numbers pertaining to other guns and ammunition at me and get a testosterone charge out of it all, but this is where I'm at.  We'll talk more about shotguns and things like that later, for now, get yourself a nice varmint gun and get practicing.