http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Preferred weapon? Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I personally like a machete, or possibly the sharpened blade from a paper cutter. If I absolutely had to use a gun, I suppose it would be a handgun, preferably with a silencer. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#473 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I would have to say a very sharp sword. I saw Manic Cop 3 and he carries a sword that looks like a billy stick until you take it out of the sheath. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#475 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Samurai katana. A very sh Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#477 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I think I'd prefer to make my own weapon ...something all me Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#481 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Oooh weapons.  I hate to be all boring, but I think I'd just stick to something like a tire iron.  Tire irons (and similar tools) are ubiquitous, well-tolerated by the authorities (at least more so than your average firearm or long bladed weapon), dur Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#485 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm tire iron? never thought about that... i would have to go with CauliflowerJones. i would prefer a machete. did u see what that thing could do to a human head in friday the 13th? i know its a little over acted but come on if u have enough strength to cut Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#607 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I think people underestimate the quality of a good homemade weapon. I keep one in my closet. It's kind of like a baseball bat. Same idea defense against intruders, but its actually three railroad spikes wired together and covered with electrical tape. N Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#634 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I keep a sawed of bit of pipe next to my bed and a tapered metal table leg (it's solid but light, so I can swing and recover it almost instantaneously) next to the front door.  I feel a bit silly about the table leg since I've lived in the same place s Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#656 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm There are aluminum baseball bats made for little kids - T-ball bats... they are perfect weapons and I keep one in the back of my truck at all times. Light, solid, maneuverable and would have no trouble taking off a zombie's head (as well as a would-be Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#658 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm   I think people underestimate the quality of a good homemade weapon. On that topic... glove gun...definitely glove gun...   But for zombies...i'd go with some heavy bludgeoning instru Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#660 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm A chainsaw, of course. Or even a lawnmower like that one used by Lionel to end the zombie party at his house in Dead Alive. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#683 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Heavy broken table leg or 12" piece of steel pipe with an elbow joint at the end   either with scraps of scalp still adhered.   and without being sexist, an icepick for the ladies.  (for those close quiet momen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#784 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm and without being sexist, an icepick for the ladies.  (for those close quiet moments). ouch! Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#786 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Are we talking about weapons for actual self defense, plotting a murder or what would be the best thing against a zombie? If we're talking about a murder, a friend of mine from high school once made a good point that an Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1244 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Ever since I watched Shaun of the Dead i'm going to have to go with a cricket bat, and there's almost something nostalgic about a crossbow. I'd probably die using these 2 weapons as my only defense against a zombie invasion but i'd feel pretty damn bad- Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1330 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Ever since I watched Shaun of the Dead i'm going to have to go with a cricket bat, and there's almost something nostalgic about a crossbow. I'd probably die using these 2 weapons as my only defense against a zombie inv Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1333 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I think I'd prefer to make my own weapon ...something all me I can think of worse things than being beaten to death with you, Molly Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1337 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I think I'd prefer to make my own weapon ...something all me I can think of worse things than being beaten to death with you, Molly Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1349 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I suppose its a good choice for a gun person. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1361 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I suppose its a good choice for a gun person. It's not so much that I'm a gun person. I thought we were stopping a zombie invasion. If it's just onesies, I'd probably use piano wire. Or, if I could get Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1365 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I don't think there's any greater pleasure or rush in the world than a four inch blade sliding through the epidermal skin of the neck with the ease of dog shit spreading out under Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1372 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm If anyone's interested, i saw a video on liveleak.com a few weeks ago and there's this new gas powered knife where you stab something and push a button and it shoots this high pressure gas into whatever it is you're stabbing. The dude totally blew the s Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#1420 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm that is the coolest thing i have ever heard in my life and i would take that hands down for a zombie attack Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#2336 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Just had this conversation with a friend this morning.  I think we have to seperate your Zombie types first.  For the slow moving zombies like those in shaun of the dead, blunt weapon would be prefered, a bladed weapon has the danger of getting stuck Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#2811 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Bakili, if we had followed your lead, we would still be British. Remember Valley Forge! Remember Antietam! Remember Tarawa! Where's your fighting spirit, man? Zombies don't even have weapons! Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#2825 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm no, but they are very "bitey". Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#2876 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm for up close a small two pound sledge is pretty good. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3263 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm 1.  crossbow 2.  nailgun 3.  aluminum bat 4.  battle ax/mace 5.  good, solid blade I definitely need to put more thought into this... Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3270 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm "Y'see, I'm a guy of simple taste. I enjoy Dynamite..and Gun Powder and..GASOLINE! And y'know the thing that they have in common? They're cheap."   ~The Joker~ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3300 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I really appreciate that in Dead Rising, the game, I can chop off a zombie's hand and use it as a weapon :D Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3466 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm   I really appreciate that in Dead Rising, the game, I can chop off a zombie's hand and use it as a weapon :D   I love that game-- I like to run over them with the truck or sometimes I would ma Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3470 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Being a BRIT :)  its hard for us to gain access to firearms, hence the Cricket Bat in Shaun of the Dead, Most of the lads i know have one of these from there days at school. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3834 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Being a BRIT :)  its hard for us to gain access to firearms, hence the Cricket Bat in Shaun of the Dead, Most of the lads i know have one of these fr Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3838 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I agree with cryptic, more flex from the drivers shaft too. Ever hit something head with an iron like a tree, your hands wont be very happy. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3861 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm   I agree with cryptic, more flex from the drivers shaft too. Ever hit something head with an iron like a tree, your hands wont be very happy.   What if you sharpen the edge with a grinder, or Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3884 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm I agree with cryptic, more flex from the drivers shaft too. Ever hit something head with an iron like a tree, your hands wont be very happy. What if you shar Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3886 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Oh this one's easy. Three weapons. 1) Close range- Crowbar. Simple. Not heavy. Common. And has MULTIPLE USES (zombocalypse survival is all about usability and efficiency). 2) Open ares- Shaolin Spade. Love this Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#3964 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm Dwight Shrute : "There are several ways to kill a zombie, but the most satisfying is to stab it in the brain with a wooden stick." Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:59:27 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/Preferred-weapon-.htm#4079