Its the zombie apocalypse what weapon do you choose

[dagens24]

Depends on if they are slow or fast zombies. Some sort of mid to long distance rifle is all well and good when you're going up against zombies you can easily run away from, but against fast zombies you might take 1 or 2 down but then you're boned.

 

[Gammaj4]

[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaveMotionGun]
Wave Motion Gun!

What?

 

[Wintermoot]

Pssssh. i want a Gundam.

use this instead of a gundam if you want to be 200% sure the living dead never EVER see the light of day again

 

[loc978]

snip

where do you live that you need a machete?

Middle of nowhere, Oregon.

Well, okay, not really the middle of nowhere, but it's not in a city, and it's about 2 acres of land.

Spoiler: a random picture of part of my property

 

[Super Six One]

50 Cal Anti Material rifle, one shot could take out 5-8 zombies. I'd destroy them.

If you would like to know more about said rifle:

...you could only take out that many zombies in a single shot if you were firing into a crowd... if you were facing a crowd large enough to make that rifle efficient in terms of kill:ammo weight used, and you weren't running away, I pity you.

Yea but say imagine a high-rise building, with multiple adjsent buildings for an easy escape route. Sit on the second floor and remove all the first to second floor stairways and access.
Stock up on mutiple months of food supply with 10,000 rounds, (maybe a second rifle for backup) and spare parts for the rifle. Bang, sorted, let those hordes come get me.

You'd still be better served by a smaller-caliber rifle. How do you expect to take out more than one or two targets per shot firing from a second-story window? At that angle of fire, most of the round's energy would be expended into the ground.

I have time and mutiple angles to shoot from. I could drag them to one building before making a quick hop over to another building(via the roof) putting them at more of a distance which would reduce the angle of fire (a second floor is not that high) resulting in more hits with a single shot, zombies are sqwishy the 50 cal will tear most of them apart rendering them a minimal threat with some even being killed. Lower calaber sniper rifles will have to be all killshots to have best effect, even if you missed with a 50. you'd tear the one next to it up, lower calabler would just be wasted.

You'd be surprised just how much tissue damage a 7.62 NATO can do, and how many human targets one can go through. Also, they weigh less than 20% what a .50BMG cartridge weighs... not to mention the weight of their respective rifles (30lbs for the .50, average around 11lbs for a 7.62 battle rifle --unloaded--). So, any shot you take that kills or disables fewer than 6 zombies would be wasted potential, not to mention all the holes you're making in the pavement... and lugging around a Barrett would get tiring, especially if you're leaping between buildings (think of it like this: an M249 SAW weighs 23lbs unloaded, and some infantrymen complain about the weight even just on long marches).
...and the second floor of a building really does make a pretty steep angle for anything less than 100m away. Considering you'd most likely be the only human around for quite a ways, you'd probably wind up with zombies all clustered close to your small group of buildings. If you're lucky, you might kill one and disable two on an average shot.

I'm not saying its the best option it's just the one i'd choose. If the group was big enough tho it be tightly packed, zombies don't worry about personal space they just pile on top of each other. Even if i was just punching holes in the ground, the zombie i went thru first would be obliterated.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Kratos' blades.

Blades of Chaos, Blades of Athena, Blades of Exile - I don't care, as long as it's sharp, stuck on a pair of chain and up to scratch to perform a 360° slaughterhouse reenactment.

Oh, AND the power/skill to actually wield the damn things.

 

[KnifeyMcStaberson]

canada

 

[Deathlisk]

http://www.runwaytshirts.com/images/splitreason-in-case-of-headcrab-infestation-use-crowbar.jpg

 

[GameMaNiAC]

A gun that shoots shurikens and lighting with tits hanging out... while on fire.

 

[Uszi]

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/01/17/war-tank-on-one-wheel-operated-by-one-man/

If we're being realistic, then probably some sort of melee weapon so I don't have to worry about ammo. Hopefully something with a little bit of reach to avoid scratches and bites.

 

[Daverson]

A different kind of zombie. So, for example, if they decide to be Romero style zombies, I'll go and unleash the T-Virus on them, if they end up being T-Virus zombies, I'll contact my local Voodoo priest, to put the zombie curse on them, and if they end up being voodoo zombies, I'll just drop a satellite on them to make everyone inexplicably come back from the dead.

That way, the zombies will have to deal with double zombies, and if for whatever reason the double zombies win, I can pull the final ace in my sleeve and set triple zombies on them. I see no possible flaw in this plan.

Failing that, this baby:
BAE Railgun [http://winteryknight.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/railgun_bae_model_lg.jpg]
Why?
Fucking Magnets. That's why.

 

[William MacKay]

Famas with red dot and sound suppessor, deadly and unheard.

suppressors conceal muzzle flash, not sound.

Y'know the Suit in Crysis 2?

Spoiler: Yeah, that.

You never said anything about realistic.

they're developing those. also, technically armour so, i'd pick that too.
my weapon: i wouldnt go all up in the zombies shizzle mofizze terwhizzle pumizzle fuhsizzle pizzle rizzle... sorry i always do that. i'd stay indoors except when looting the dead's houses. .357 Magnum revolver. blow their faces off then chuck them away with the suit.

 

[VaderMan92]

AR-15 24 inch stainless barrel with a few beta C mags a roof top and an epic sound track. oh and about 6 billion rounds of ammo and snacks.

 

[Castratikron]

My weapon would be the weight of the hundreds of "Zombie Apocalypse, Choose Your Weapon" threads, I will have crushed every zombie in the world by the end of the day.

 

[loc978]

Famas with red dot and sound suppessor, deadly and unheard.

suppressors conceal muzzle flash, not sound.

Actually... the proper name for a "silencer [http://www.rusmilitary.com/images/br_suppressor.jpg]" is a "sound suppressor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressor]", as it doesn't actually silence a firearm... just suppresses both sound and muzzle flash. There's also such a thing as a "flash suppressor [http://www.mapartsinc.com/products/8220610246_a1%20001.jpg]". Much less bulky, and only suppresses muzzle flash... standard issue on US military battle rifles.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

VSS Vintorez.
Awwwwriiight.

 

[Shiv595]

My log splitting axe. Hells yeah.

 

[llew]

hmmm... i could just do my usual response and say dante's ebony and ivory (pistols that require no reloading) and vergil's yamato... but im gonna say an assault rifle with 6x scope, suppressor, underslung rocket launcher, nuke designator on the side, flamethrower on the other side and possibly a chainsaw on the butt of the gun for close-encounters of the ugly kind

 

[loc978]

My weapon would be the weight of the hundreds of "Zombie Apocalypse, Choose Your Weapon" threads, I will have crushed every zombie in the world by the end of the day.

Only if you actually printed 'em out. Data weighs nothing without a medium to store it on. I'll bet you could fit 'em all on one modern hard drive (in html format... maybe even if you're talking about every English language forum on the internet), so you'd be screwed there.

Spoiler: not an effective weapon

 

[Eazey Diamond]

Robbins of Dudley knuckle knife
http://www.donrearic.com/images/knuckleknifefour.jpg

UK ftw