10 Best Weapons For A Zombie Apocalypse
Facing down a horde of the living dead? Maybe try something quiet.
So you've found yourself in a zombie apocalypse.
Maybe you just woke up from a coma, à la The Walking Dead or 28 Days Later, or maybe you're going for a leisurely drive with the kids and find that traffic has been brought to a standstill as zombies course through the streets. Bottom line is this: zombies have arrived. The "why" doesn't matter. What matters is what you do next.
HOPEFULLY you'd get yourself isolated. Hightail it to the countryside or something. Depending on what movie/TV show/video game you're living in, zombies probably can't swim, either. If you own a houseboat, get on that boat and sail far, far away. Canoe out to an island in the middle of a lake and build yourself a crude lean-to, and, eventually, a cabin.
You'll want to get as far away from civilization as possible, because that's where the dead folks are. You're more likely to run into a horde of the walking dead in New York City or London than in NASCAR-redneck-Budweiser, Texas.
But let's say you don't have that luxury. Let's say you're stuck where zombies are plentiful, and you're forced to contend with them on a regular basis. In that instance, what should you do? LOAD UP! That's what you should do! Arm yourself, and get ready to survive. This is the Last of Us, baby! Now let's pick out your arsenal!
11. Honorable Mention: Rolling Punji Trap
Not a weapon, per se, but the rolling trap would still be extremely effective against the walking dead.
Of the great many booby traps laid by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, these are probably the best for your particular situation. Snake traps probably wouldn't do the trick, as we have no reason to believe that venom would have any effect on a zombie. Regular tiger traps and bamboo whips would impale zombies, but they could just pull themselves off of the spikes. Grenade traps would be effective at killing a zombie, but they'd attract a dozen more, and then what? You only had one grenade. Now look at you. You're food. Because you were silly.
But a rolling trap? A zombie could potentially be impaled multiple times - possibly even through the head - as they fall through the trap. Once they're in, they're in. They're trapped beneath spikes that keep them at bay. You could just come finish them off as they sit at the bottom of the pit.
What's more, they're easy to make. They were widely used by guerrilla forces, and in a zombie apocalypse, YOU are a guerrilla soldier. So get to guerrilla-ing.