What makes a headshot a headshot?

[Slinky]

So I was shooting with some friends, and decided to have a "headshot shootout" unfortunatly we were unable to declare a winner as no one could agree on what exactly constituted a headshot.

Just how much brain do you have to destroy to make a zombie re-dead? If a large amount of gray matter must destroyed many standard calibres may be insufficient. By the same token why waste ammo when blunt objects work just fine.

I want your opinions and more importantly the reasoning behind them.


Thank you

[LD!]

So I was shooting with some friends, and decided to have a "headshot shootout" unfortunatly we were unable to declare a winner as no one could agree on what exactly constituted a headshot.

Just how much brain do you have to destroy to make a zombie re-dead? If a large amount of gray matter must destroyed many standard calibres may be insufficient. By the same token why waste ammo when blunt objects work just fine.

I want your opinions and more importantly the reasoning behind them.


Thank you

Shouldn't you know, maybe be laying low after a game like that?

[crypto]

f a large amount of gray matter must destroyed many standard calibres may be insufficient.
I want your opinions and more importantly the reasoning behind them.


Thank you

My opinion is that anything big enough to make a canteloupe explode is going to make scrambled eggs inside a zombie skull. My reasoning is that all the stuff I've shot at before looks like it's pretty well fucked up.

Buy a big hunk of brain at a butcher shop and shoot it with a pistol, see what happens.

[Ranked Below]

Ripping the bran stem, the frontal lobe and the centre of the brain up.

[Starsmore]

A head shot is a sucessful shot to the head that takes the Zed down. In practice I would say any shot in the center of the head area that would not be a "grazed" shot. Although I'm talking gamer terms more than anything.

[Ricky Romero]

IMO, and of course this would vary depending on the etiology of whatever has caused the zombism, the brainstem is all that counts. The frontal lobe is where you find your higher consciousness and decision-making abilities. Not applicable as zombies go, generally. The back of the brain houses the origins of some of the main nerve pathways, and gross motor function and the visual cortex also reside here. Important, yes. Shots here may disable or slow a zombie down, but not destroy it. The brainstem is the most unevolved portion of our brain. That's where we get our most basic primal urges, including hunger.

Aim for the brainstem.

[Ranked Below]

IMO, and of course this would vary depending on the etiology of whatever has caused the zombism, the brainstem is all that counts. The frontal lobe is where you find your higher consciousness and decision-making abilities. Not applicable as zombies go, generally. The back of the brain houses the origins of some of the main nerve pathways, and gross motor function and the visual cortex also reside here. Important, yes. Shots here may disable or slow a zombie down, but not destroy it. The brainstem is the most unevolved portion of our brain. That's where we get our most basic primal urges, including hunger.

Aim for the brainstem.

I said frontal lobe because I would'nt want them evolving.......
So yeah.......

[TardArm]

what if its the brainstem that needs destroyed......then most headshots wouldnt work.... i mean you would have to hit like nose level i think to kill it, not forehead...

[Rus]

what if its the brainstem that needs destroyed......then most headshots wouldnt work.... i mean you would have to hit like nose level i think to kill it, not forehead...

Well, just do the whole head.



For the record, I think those bottom five or so rounds wouldn't put a zed down. Likely keep it from biting, though.

[Ranked Below]

what if its the brainstem that needs destroyed......then most headshots wouldnt work.... i mean you would have to hit like nose level i think to kill it, not forehead...

Then I would be screwed?

[PAW for President]

The people from the firearms forum would probably be more helpful.

The idea is, if it could kill a person, it could kill a zombie. I think most people die when they get shot it in the head. Like, as a rule.

Crypto's got the idea; get a brain, shoot it up, see what happens. It'll be uplifting.



(Edited for grammar.)

[Gunny]

Bullets don't act like they do in hollywood.

I've made headshots with small calibers (think .222 and .223) that act like a grenade. I've made headshots with very large bullets (think .338) that made no more than a pencil sized entry/exit wound.

Draw a line from the left eye to the right, and continue that line until you circle the cranium. This method works for most all critters you might need to take a headshot on.

Just remember that it's all about the bullet you're shooting. A 40 grain nosler ballistic tip will cause more catastrophic damage than a 70gr FMJ.

[Ranked Below]

So true.......

[Packin' Heat]

By the same token why waste ammo when blunt objects work just fine.

You and I are on a roof top.

"Here is the crowbar, climb down and and hit as many of those zeds on the head until they stop moving. Good luck. watch your 6. In the mean time I will stay up here with the scoped M14."


where do you wanna be?

[Ranked Below]

By the same token why waste ammo when blunt objects work just fine.

You and I are on a roof top.

"Here is the crowbar, climb down and and hit as many of those zeds on the head until they stop moving. Good luck. watch your 6. In the mean time I will stay up here with the scoped M14."


where do you wanna be?

I think he means a weight on a string.

[BIGJAKE]

There is no way to tell until it happens. When it goes down and I bug out I will start of with the 12ga w/ 00 or 000 shells at a closer range and work my way down in ammo size until I find out what really does the trick and hopefully a carefully placed .22 from a distance will do the trick in the end.

[Ranked Below]

There is no way to tell until it happens. When it goes down and I bug out I will start of with the 12ga w/ 00 or 000 shells at a closer range and work my way down in ammo size until I find out what really does the trick and hopefully a carefully placed .22 from a distance will do the trick in the end.

Hey, a carefully placed anything will probably do it.

[dood]

Buy a big hunk of brain at a butcher shop and shoot it with a pistol, see what happens.[/quote]

Dude, you gotta make a shell as hard or harder than the human skull to
be sure if it works.

[Ranked Below]

Buy a big hunk of brain at a butcher shop and shoot it with a pistol, see what happens.

Dude, you gotta make a shell as hard or harder than the human skull to
be sure if it works.[/quote]

Heres a slightly better test:
Get your friend.
Tell your friend you need his gun.
Try to shoot through a 2 inch piece of wood into the brain, which must be in a glass jar floating in urine (use water if you want.)

[CommonHighrise]

Shoot into a can of tomato paste. Preferrably with some sort of hollow-pointed hunting round. Or a good shotgun slug. Or a four-bore.

[Ranked Below]

Or a bow.

[Mr. E. Monkey]

Buy a big hunk of brain at a butcher shop and shoot it with a pistol, see what happens.

Dude, you gotta make a shell as hard or harder than the human skull to
be sure if it works.

Heres a slightly better test:
Get your friend.
Tell your friend you need his gun.
Try to shoot through a 2 inch piece of wood into the brain, which must be in a glass jar floating in urine (use water if you want.)[/quote]

Okay, I was WAY off when I first read "Get your friend."

After reading your whole post, yeah, that's probably a good test that will also keep you from going to jail.

[Fetus Smasher]

What about shooting the neck? Or more specifically, the spine?

Blowing the f*** out of the neck below the cranium would definetly render a zed in operable. I don't know about the head itself (which, depending on method of zombification, would still be alive) but the zombie would be down.

[pickledkraut]

just look for the pink mist.