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[Strife26]

Does that translate into 'lots o' guns'?

And combat knives, and food, and coats, and bows, and bullets, and stuff.

[cowofdoom78963]

Does that translate into 'lots o' guns'?

And combat knives, and food, and coats, and bows, and bullets, and stuff.

What the hell are you going to do with bows?

[Strife26]

Juggle.

[RAM]

If you are on one side of a security grill and the zombies are on the other, then you can get close enough that aiming isn't a big issue, and it is easier to make improvised arrows than improvised bullets. Save the guns for when your shelter is compromised or you decide to leave it. In the mean time you can just spend your days slowly killing off whatever packs of zombies happen to come for you with an almost limitless resource. Also, if you are actually any good with a bow then they are perfectly lethal, and they work against the zombies' vampire masters...

[Strife26]

I'd try a polearm for that actually.

New discussion, polearms as a weapon for zombies. I keep a diamond willow staff in my bedroom so that I can duct-tape a knife to it for a spear. How effective will it be?

[Golgath]

I'd try a polearm for that actually.

New discussion, polearms as a weapon for zombies. I keep a diamond willow staff in my bedroom so that I can duct-tape a knife to it for a spear. How effective will it be?

If you duct-tape it nice and tight, it will be decent, but I wouldn't trust it by a long shot.  If you can get it on solidly, it won't be too bad for a spear, but you don't want to find out it isn't good enough when your life depends on it.  Would be better if you could somehow mount it inside the staff, but if it's thick enough to do that, you'd be better off cracking skulls with it. 

[Gunner-Chan]

Rifle with a bayonet, polearm and gun all in one.

[WorkerDrone]

Rifle with a bayonet, polearm and gun all in one.

This.

[Micro102]

why not just tape to uzis to a chainsaw?

[RAM]

Or some caterpillar tracks to a cannon...

[Strife26]

I also have a PVC pipe that my bowie fits suprisingly well in.

[Duke 2.0]

 Spears and their effectiveness would depend on how much self-preservation the zombies retain. Without any, you could just stab through their rotten heads and be done with that. With it, things would get tricky. And thrown spears can be swatted out of the air, you just need to be fearless to a freakin' spear being thrown at you. And these are zombies, which fear nothing.

 I suppose to make an effective zombie weapon you would need anything that can break through skulls. So really, a club would be ideal.

[RAM]

The problem with a blunt instrument, is that it is more likely to smash open the skull, at which point you give in to temptation and just have to taste the gooey filling. I am not sure I have ever heard what happens if you eat a zombies brain, but the odds of turning into some sort of intelligent master-zombie that is impervious to conventional zombie-killing techniques has got to be rather low. You probably just get really bad indigestion and throw up for a couple of weeks...

[Aqizzar]

Rifle with a bayonet, polearm and gun all in one.

Spoiler: I'm golden. (click to show/hide)

I deigned never to post in this thread again, precisely because there is no perfect weapon against zombies save nerves of steel, a heart of stone, and a whole lot of luck.  But I would sooner trust my life to a carbine rifle with hollow-points and try to stay the hell back.  Unless they're runners, and then I'd probably just barricade myself into my house and hope they decompose before I do.

[umiman]

Cool. The bayonet is on the top. I thought only the French did that.