ok, here i go:
armor: Polycarbonite armor (easy to make: tiger torch, rivet gun + rivets, some belts, water to cool, and those big blue plastic barrels) lightweight, puncture and impact resistant, very light, and it FLOATS in case you have to swim to safety. and it's zombie bite proof, camoflaged with spraypaint because i dont like getting shot by crazy survivalists... color me paranoid, but i like being alive: cardboard needed to make the templates for the armor, easy and cheap.
weapons:
- flare gun: zombies dont shoot flares: so if i do: DON'T SHOOT ME!!
- police or military style shotgun, with pistol grip mounted on the pump (large ammo capacity, and running targets are harder to hit: shotguns are easy to aim, and ammo is easy to make) note: shotgun bandoleers are your friend.
- Sig 550 sniper rifle: anti crazed survivor weapon, semi automatic, large ammo capacity, legal to purchase, accurate, unlikely to break down, and lighter then a barrett (which is also legal to buy)...
- crowbar with an axe blade mounted to the top (crowbars are handy, so are axes) if not available: a simple fire axe.
- kukri: the machette s fine and good, but not so heavy, a kukri can chop down trees, why not zombies
- pistol: Glok... they can fire underwater and full of sand... 'nuff said
NOTE: grenades are BAD rebound = mister clappy (you can't clap: you blew your arms off), basically all explosives are pretty well a bad idea, forget about them and it's raining men (or at least parts of you or your freinds) fire = burning zombies running at you, chainsaws are oud and stall, plus kickback is BAD, although explosives attached to stray animals would be funny, and effective, you might have to eat them at some point...
- your mind: if you can't kill a zombie: it eats you, no weapon in the world will save you from yourself.