When the ammo runs out?

by **SlingsVaqueros** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:07 am

There have been a ton of posts under various headings about how to fight a zombie in hand-to-hand combat. I'm hoping to solidify the ultimate "I ain't gots no bullets left" post with this worst case bit.

If you had one of those "police dog training arm guards" and a hatchet/axe/hammer you could occupy the zombie's mouth and do away with it in a quickness with no risk to yourself. If a german shepard can't bite through it, a zombie human can't

How many of us have the tools and the training to reload ammo?

Using "home-made" black powder with foul a modern fire-arm quickly if used in reloaded shells, for those who know how to make black powder. Do we have the skills to craft matchlock/flintlock muskets?

These questions are just to get the ball rolling. This is taking into account that we have survived for years in the PAW and our current fire-arms have become broken/fouled/unusable.

P.S. I realize this is a bit extreme (Kevin Cosner in Postman) in it's PAW but hey, we're here for all kinds of situations, right?

by **ZETFleader** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:19 am

Back to the primative stuff then, I haven't got enough ammo myself right now at the moment. I am almost considering to take my compound bow.

by **jamoni** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:10 pm

I'll be alright.

by **Jeff** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:42 am

I'm sure you could find one of the billions of ammunition stockpiles filled with the what... probably hundreds of trillions of rounds of ammunition somewhere in the world for years to come. If you are truly afraid, grease some up and hide them in the hills in an airtight box.

by **Sage** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 4:26 am

No ammo.I would use a bow.Its simple quiet,and effective.

by **Sage** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 4:28 am

No ammo.I would use a bow.Its simple quiet,and effective.

by **Jonas** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:10 am

I'd throw rocks at stuff.

by ***Mike*** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:33 am

If your afraid of using up all your ammo, don't shoot too many zombies.

by **minengr** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:57 am

I’m not too concerned about running out of ammo. I don’t know off hand how much I have, but it should last a good long while. I also have enough reloading equipment and components that I should be fine.

by **ghostface** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:59 pm

You should always have one last round

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by **the lone swordsmen** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:53 pm

thats why one should cary a sword for back up

by **nicklefish** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:46 am

Or a crowbar.

by **Horatio_Tyllis** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:50 am

bows are great if you know/are a fletcher... good arrows you can't just string together form sticks and feathers.

by **will** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:30 pm

very true but you wont have too. there will be lots of arrows from walmarts, kmarts, pawn shops, and other sporting goods stores. you cant cary more than about 20 anyway...get a bunch now....they are not very expensive and dont sweat it.

by **SlingsVaqueros** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:05 pm

Wouldn't some of those hunting crossbows give better range, more hitting power, smaller bolts/quarrels/arrows, and be easier to use than a bow? I've used a few different bows durring my childhood and they can be tricky to get the hang of.

I think the crossbow is Illegal in new jersey, or maybe you need a permit to own one due to it's silent lethality. I could be wrong.

by **the lone swordsmen** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:45 pm

i got a crossbow my advise get one you can relode easly

by **Valarius** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:10 am

No, you can't. My friend had an small crossbow in Hawai'i, about 1.5 to 2 feet long and same across, with foot long arrows. Took me a couple of minutes to pull the cord back and secure it so the arrow would fit properly in the groove.

That's a small one. A big one would require a lot more strength in the arms to pull the cord back.

by **kyle** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:17 am

Valarius wrote:That's a small one. A big one would require a lot more strength in the arms to pull the cord back.

Well.. just don't be a wimp.

by **ZETFleader** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:02 am

Well.. just don't be a wimp.

Now lets be nice, you can get a cocking device that only requires 16lb of pull but I still rather use my compound. It has a 70lb pull and you don't have to put your foot through a loop to get it back, you can use your fingers or a release.

by **SlingsVaqueros** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 5:40 pm

The crossbow seems like a nice combination between accuracy, power, and silence, at the cost of speed. Other than the slow reloading time and the strenght needed to load them (for the light-weights out there...) what, if any, drawbacks are there?

by **Valarius** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:40 pm

Posted by Kyle
Well.. just don't be a wimp.

Or... I could do the smart thing and give myself an exit in the case I run out of ammo. Because for all my bravado about using swords and pipes and stuff, I'd rather run my ass off than confront a group in hand-to-hand.

But hey, I'm sure you could impress your wife by pulling back a heavy bowstring with those rippling, oiled tree trunks you call arms.

by **jamoni** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:19 pm

Oh great. Now Michelle knows about Kyle's wife! Way to go, Valarius! What are you going to spill next, the fact that he has five kids by different mistresses, and supports them all by his illegal pork-belly smelting? Now she'll never let him near the diamonds!

by **kyle** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:31 pm

Jamoni wrote:Oh great. Now Michelle knows about Kyle's wife! Way to go, Valarius! What are you going to spill next, the fact that he has five kids by different mistresses, and supports them all by his illegal pork-belly smelting? Now she'll never let him near the diamonds!

Damn it!!

by **Norseman** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:42 pm

When underseige by the hordes of the walking dead...while laying down suppressive fire, I usually have part of the team strategically place several bottles of Boone's Farm Wine around the killzone ( Zombie's are notorious drunkards/partiers if they think there is a meal to follow), then when they are good and drunk and I run out of ammo, I run out and give them all "wedgies" so they can't folllow very fast as I make my escape on foot.

No shit, it works, or usually does (once it didn't, and I had to shoot my partner in the knees so they would stop to eat him while I escaped - he really didn't mind, because he had been getting into the Boone's Farm himself a lot lately and was pretty drunk anyway. :lol:

)...and believe it or not, Boone's Farm can make some of those Zomb chicks pretty "friendly" if you know what mean :wink:

. Just don't fall asleep and let them sober up...

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