Guns of the apocalypse

[Arik]

I think the reason why your Grandfather and Father never stocked ammo was because they never had a shortage.

WW2, and (according to Skeeter Skelton) the only civilian ammo being made was 22 rimfire, 12 gauge shotshells and 30/30s. But 90% of the people that were adults, in WW2, were in the service, where there was no ammo shortage.

People, now, have been through shortages, so stockpiling is more intelligent.

I think part of that is also that today people shoot more, a lot more. There are 2 and 3 day classes where you'll shoot 1500 + rounds. If you want to check reliability shoot 500 - 1000 rounds out of it.

 

[the ringo kid]

I am thinking the show does a focus group as they do the show. They pick out who is next to leave by their popularity. Tyrese wasn't that popular due to some bad decisions and perceived weakness. Plus he was the moral compass which hollywood always kills off.

The guns are the cool factor the young identified with their computer games. The show plays to the audience and knows who is watching. Best part is they have really good writers, best on TV today in my opinion. They drag the empathy out of the viewers with emotional tools that really creates a big following. Most of Hollywood is well past it's prime so it's great the show proves it can still be done.

Sad thing was is that he was the kind of character that show needed. I guess he was unofficially replaced by the Preacher?

 

[the ringo kid]

Tyrese (sp?). I liked him but I think they kinda painted his character into a corner. Big, capable guy but if he couldn't kill that man who threatened the baby. ....I dunno. I did like him, he was the only one left with some humanity. Even Rick and Glenn both said they just wanted to kill that cop lady for the sake of it. Almost like don't ask just kill, this way there are no maybe later

Thats the one. I think it was Tyreese--or the way you and the other--spelled it? Truthfully,I think they madea big mistake killing this guy off.

 

[dcxplant]

A few seasons back Carl, the little kid on Walking Dead, was using a Marlin M1894 in several episodes. He was shootin' up a storm, all the while the gun was missing it's rear sight. I don't know if that was done on purpose, or if the shows "Gun Wrangler" just missed it. Apparently, he ditched that Marlin (maybe due to the missing sight), because I haven't seen it since.

The Govoner sharp-shot a soldier running away with a bullpup rifle missing a rear sight awhile back. I got a chuckle from that.

But I have been impressed with the variety of interesting guns used in the show.

Lately AR's have seemed to take over....kinda boring. What I want to know is, where are they getting ammo?? Ammo is hard enought to come by nowadays!

But I am finally starting to see some on the shelves after three years of "sold out". I guess the preppers ran out of storage space....

 

[Muss Muggins]

And we lost another character I liked. I liked the black dude but cant think of his name? I thought his character was a good one one who could always bring the rest back from murderous rages.

Tyrese. I liked him because he carried an M1 carbine and a framing hammer.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

If I am one of the last thousand or so reasoning human beings left on Earth, I figure that I could get my hands on some really good guns.

 

[just jim]

Sad thing was is that he was the kind of character that show needed. I guess he was unofficially replaced by the Preacher?

the show does need cannon fodder to keep going. It would be boring if nothing ever happened. It's no longer the sixties TV shows where the audience is satisfied with good guys and bad guys shooting revolvers that never run empty.

Today's TV watcher has to see guns that reflect our world yet still they get by without reloading

 

[the ringo kid]

the show does need cannon fodder to keep going. It would be boring if nothing ever happened. It's no longer the sixties TV shows where the audience is satisfied with good guys and bad guys shooting revolvers that never run empty.

Today's TV watcher has to see guns that reflect our world yet still they get by without reloading

They should have got rid of Glenn and should have kept Michael Rooker.

 

[just jim]

I loved the Rooker character. He brought something seldom seen in TV, he put a face on that really fit the character and they let him use language that really worked for that character. There was no political correctness in him, he was a true thug. Plus he carried a 1911 so he must have known something about guns.

I wish they would bring him back as an evil twin.

 

[the ringo kid]

I loved the Rooker character. He brought something seldom seen in TV, he put a face on that really fit the character and they let him use language that really worked for that character. There was no political correctness in him, he was a true thug. Plus he carried a 1911 so he must have known something about guns.

I wish they would bring him back as an evil twin.

He did quite well with the way he did his character. Also,I feel that Darryl, must have been in some kind of law enforcement at sometime in his life--or tried to get in....

 

[just jim]

One more opinion here, you will never find a better show that tells you the way Hollywood thinks.

 

[turbo6]

He did quite well with the way he did his character. Also,I feel that Darryl, must have been in some kind of law enforcement at sometime in his life--or tried to get in....

if I remember correctly, there was a scene where someone asked Darryl if he was a cop and he sort of dodges the question....so, perhaps a possibility of LE or army maybe?

Tyrese was a good character. Like Dale he still clung to the idea of a civilization with morals and values. It made for a good contrast with some of the more callous, jaded survivors.

I wish they kept him around a bit longer... even T-Dog seemed to have a longer tenure on the show.

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[vonn]

Lot of interesting posts. Here in Texas ammo is once again plentiful and inexpensive and many people have large stockpiles of most any caliber that you can think of and are shooting but keep restocking just in case.

 

[BigCityChief]

From the title of this thread, I expected we'd be talking about the AC - 130 Spectre gunship. Now, that's a Gun of the Apocalypse!


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[GatorFarmer]

Daryl was redneck slash born hunter, criminal, and convict. During the last he was prison gay. That will be important later.

Rick described Merle as ex military.

Didn't the Governor's AUG have a built in optic as most used to?

There are huge dumps of 5.56mm scattered around the country. A friend of mine was an armorer in the USMC and worked out at the range on Parris Island. He claimed that there were untold millions of rounds of 5.56 stored there.

There actually is an even deeper national emergency stockpile. Ever wonder where CMP Garands came from? Korean war era tents, some old tanks, piles of grease guns...all moldering away.

 

[just jim]

Daryl was redneck slash born hunter, criminal, and convict. During the last he was prison gay. That will be important later.

Rick described Merle as ex military.

Didn't the Governor's AUG have a built in optic as most used to?

There are huge dumps of 5.56mm scattered around the country. A friend of mine was an armorer in the USMC and worked out at the range on Parris Island. He claimed that there were untold millions of rounds of 5.56 stored there.

There actually is an even deeper national emergency stockpile. Ever wonder where CMP Garands came from? Korean war era tents, some old tanks, piles of grease guns...all moldering away.

Norman Reedus character Darrel was never in the comic book. Reedus tried out for the part of Myrell but it went to Rooker. Reedus so impressed the crew that they made up the Darrel character to fit the show.

Since he was never part of the original story they can do anything with the character and knowing Hollywood, they will.

 

[Doug627]

The weapon of the Apocalypse, at the end, will be a long sharp stick. No need for ammo and it gets the job done.

 

[Lt JL]

The kind of Apocalypse I envision is more of a socio-economic meltdown. Should that be the case, a Glock 17 and a Remington 870 is all I'll ever need. (and I don't even like Glocks that well)

 

[schgsd]

As it was pre-December 2012. All it took to make everything AR specific instantly vanish was a psychotic shooter followed by the threat of a government firearms ban. A true threat of impending societal collapse would make the panic of 2013 look like a middle school bake sale.

That's more like a nationwide sized response to a major winter storm where the shelves get stripped of milk and bread. A real Apocalypse to me has the world population reduced to 10% of what it is now. Every 9 of the 10 people living around you are gone. For the U.S. that takes us to a population density of around the Civil War. For me 12 of the 14 homes within a 2 mi radius of myself go dark.

A situation like that, going to be lots to scavenge.

 

[just jim]

That's more like a nationwide sized response to a major winter storm where the shelves get stripped of milk and bread. A real Apocalypse to me has the world population reduced to 10% of what it is now. Every 9 of the 10 people living around you are gone. For the U.S. that takes us to a population density of around the Civil War. For me 12 of the 14 homes within a 2 mi radius of myself go dark.

A situation like that, going to be lots to scavenge.

An optimist is one who thinks his home won't be the one scavengers hit. Reality is nothing happens fast, by the time those homes are empty there would be nothing left but firewood.