Ask a gun owner something.
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I have only been to /k/ a couple times, I prefer /s/Corwynt said:
Zombie killing is all about shot placement and penetration, you have to destroy the brain.
A shotgun with birdshot will not do that, wont penetrate deep enough, you need some heavier shot for that, and heavy shot is not so plentiful.
Any round for a revolver would kill the zombie, but revolvers, being pistols, have reduced accuracy.
Also, shotgun ammunition is very bulky, you can carry 3-6 rounds for a revolver for every single shotgun round (depending on caliber of revolver)
Im not sure why zombie games always rely so much on shotguns, they would suck at zombie killing.
Personally, my fav anti-zombie gun would be a bullpup .22 rifle
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/muzzelite-10-22-bullpup-rifle-stock.aspx?a=282511
the round is tiny, but in a rifle it would have plenty of power to enter the skull and do some serious damage. The bullpup stock makes it shorter for quicker engagement of targets without significantly reducing longer range accuracy or power
Its also relatively quiet, makes a pop heard for a few miles around but not loud enough to alert all zombies in the whole region like more powerful weapons.
Not to mention if one standardizes weapons on a .22 caliber they can carry a pistol with CB caps, which are subsonic (read, almost totally silent, you hear the hammer fall and thats about it) for those covert zombie killings.
And, ammunition abounds, a trip to a wal-mart will land multiple thousands of rounds.
1000 rounds is smaller than a breadbox
Not so good against fellow human scavengers though.
Theoretically, indefinitely.TsunamiWombat said:
Not really, but if properly maintained a firearm lasts longer than the human who purchased it. Certain weapons, even if improperly maintained will outlast their owners.
My mosin nagant was manufactured in 1947, it sat in a crate covered in grease for all but about 10 years of that time though.
While many people do own guns for self-defense (and in my opinion self-defense is what the second amendment is about) it's not because of some paranoid fear.Deadlock Radium said:
old school ftw!Bob the Average said:
also humming the terminator theme doesn't let you magically cycle the 1887 one handed lul
lol it's a cheap as shit IAC copy. iirc the good replica's are like ~1700 AUD. this one was $800 AUD. cycles fine, if you're rough with it haha. feels like the internal toleraces are huge, all loose.Mathurin said:
a cannongamefreakbsp said:
if your looking for a legal definition you'll have to look up local and federal laws as to what makes a firearm a firearm.
Why don't you get something that will actually protect your home from invasion? Like a grizzly bear, or a sixteen ton weight.
You misunderstand self-defense and fun are separate events much like how one can use a car simply as transportation to and from work and on the weekend go to a race track use if for fun.Rickyvantof said:
I totally forgot about Marlin. They do make great .22's but I would stay away from their 30-30 lever actions. I don't hear such great things about those.Berethond said:
I'm a Winchester/Remington kinda guy. I own a 1920's lever action .300 savage and I hunt with a 870 express .20 gauge. Both are high quality firearms. The .300 is a work of art, they don't make them like they used to is overused but you cannot say it any other way. There is nothing in the world like a solid hickory stock.
The big question is safer from what?Dommyboy said:
My main concern is that we have a nation which has guns legal, but anybody who carries one is a criminal, so guns cannot act as a detterrent to crime.
Concealed carry laws are changing that.
Regardless, I see guns as a totally seperate issue to crime, there are better ways to tackle crime than guns, from either direction (ie, neither banning nor carrying firearms is the best way to attack crime)
But look at me, breaking my own rules, want to debate gun policy, pm me
the 39A is fucking great! very fiddly if you're doing competition/single shot, but great accuracy.JWAN said:
two groups at 50m, open sights (obviously), T22 ammo bottom, winchester powerpoint top group.
i'm an okay shooter and was pretty impressed with the accuracy. never heard a bad thing about their .30-30's and .45-70's.
Guns are pretty foreign to me, but all this talk of zombie apocalypses got me to thinking: In the event of said apocalypse how would I go with my complete lack of firearm experience. is it as easy as it looks in the movies to just pick up a gun, whack in a magazine, point and shoot at the nearest undead corpse and watch it's head explode?