Zombies?

[Gunslinger808]

Is it just me, because I just don't get the allure folks.
What is it about a zombie apocalypse that has so many wanting to crawl out of their mom's basement?
Is it the fact you can finally shoot the neighbor with the stereo that goes to 11 once he's infected?
Is it the anarchy that will reign? (anarchy is cool till YOU'RE the one in the crosshairs)
No work/school to go to? (well, that could be a good thing)
Lately I see otherwise great companies buying into the crazy, from "special" zombie ammo to "special" zombie rifles and kits.
Really, Is that the best your marketing company could come up with?
I swear, some people really need to step away from the hype and get out more.
Besides, everyone should know it'll be aliens that we'll end up having to fight for survival!

 

[venomballistics]

dont have a wife ... do ya
for those of us who do, and have an eye on a new gun we just cant explain to them ... we'll be need'n that gun for zombies

 

[Fishslayer]

Besides, everyone should know it'll be aliens that we'll end up having to fight for survival!

Aliens are just something thought up by The History Channel to get people to watch.

Zombies are serious business!

 

[Hobie1]

dont have a wife ... do ya
for those of us who do, and have an eye on a new gun we just cant explain to them ... we'll be need'n that gun for zombies

I didn't even know about the zombie thing until I got back in the game a year or so ago. Personally I don't have a problem with it as long as the unwashed masses don't latch onto it to make us look like a bunch of fanatical loonies.

Hornady and even Brownells have taken an marketing step to make....money. I have a box of ZombieMax 5.56 on display in my "cave". I'm going to buy a box for each caliber that I own just because I need a little joking around in my life. Plus, it's real ammo.

If it offends folks, then don't buy it.

Have fun, live every day like it's your last. Stay thirsty my friends.

Hobie

 

[pace40]

Aliens are just something thought up by The History Channel to get people to watch.

Zombies are serious business!

Yes they are...

 

[Revolver M65]

Well I am a younger guy (19) I think I can explain this to you. When I was younger My folks got me watching all of the original Romero Movies. Needless to say I was hooked. I think that the obsession comes from all the things you wrote about. do you know why horror movie are so successful. they prey on our instinctual need to survive, in tribal days a women's scream would signal danger and the men would return from hunting to protect there pack thats why most of the time it is women and not men that fall victim to the boogieman if its a slasher or something that is try to catch and eat us. it is going to catch and keep you attention (sorry I'm a Psychology major)

growing up in the late 90s and 2000s video games skyrocketed first person shooters, Fighter games, ect. Personally I never got in to them but I have have buddies who are glued to the controller. and currently there are over 100 different zombie games and and estimated 570 Zombie movies and in the Media age with more people having i-phones, beta Recording Devices or what have you. its now wonder why people got into zombies

I would consider myself a zombie aficionado I have seen a lot of zombie movies, I love the movies and talking about them, just to recap I think it is a combo of video games movies and that does of adrenalin when you see a person surrounded by a pack of flesh eating zombies

but it is a happy moment when you see somebody boarding up an old farm house or running to their car.

Because someday that might be you

Rev M65

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

I just think "The Walking Dead" is a cool show... That is all...

 

[Wheelgunner840]

The allure is that the genre poses a hypothetical problem that needs to be solved. The problem is hoards of mobile lifeless units that have one job. Find you and either kill you or make you one of them through infection. It is a logistical problem.

There is a short story involving army ants overrunning a plantation, and the dificulties in being able to stop them. It was called "Leiningen versus the ants"

Leiningen versus the Ants--Carl Stephenson (1893-1954)

This classic short story gives some insight to the problem of sheer numbers of an adversary.

It's just plain fun to think up scenarios, and then try to figure out how to come out ahead with the tools we have on hand. The biggest question being, stock up, stay put, and defend the fort, or travel light and keep moving.

Remember, "No place is safe, only safer!"


WG840

 

[chud333]

It's either Zombies or Freakin' Vampires !!! Thats all that seems to be on the boobtube these days. I ain't skeered though because:
I guess they must have forgotten the world is going to end in December, "Mayan Calendar"

 

[Marshwheeling]

If I were a Mayan, I would be very, very frightened.

 

[CajunBass]

Zombies represent a target rich environment, with no consequences, and no remorse. Same thing with vampires I suppose. If your target is already dead, are you really killing anything? It's a giant shooting gallery with reactive targets.

Sure in theory, the target can get you back, but that always happens to some other guy, not to the hero.

 

[oldman45]

I wish the zombie thing would go away. It hurts the image of gun onwers and has been used by anti gunners saying how immature gun owners are.

Simply put, there is no such thing as a zombie other than in the minds of Hollywood movies.

I believe in Bigfoot because they exist and there is evidence of it. Zombies do not exist. However I am not going to buy a gun to use on Bigfoot creatures either and if I were, I would not get on a internet forum to talk about it.

Gun owners need to concentrate on promoting safe target shooting, self defense shooting under normal conditions and hunting. We do not need fences shot up, leaving spent casings on the ground, broken glass on the ground from target shooting, accidental gunshot victims or zombies. All lead to bad media attention.

 

[pace40]

I wish the zombie thing would go away. It hurts the image of gun onwers and has been used by anti gunners saying how immature gun owners are.

Simply put, there is no such thing as a zombie other than in the minds of Hollywood movies.

I believe in Bigfoot because they exist and there is evidence of it. Zombies do not exist. However I am not going to buy a gun to use on Bigfoot creatures either and if I were, I would not get on a internet forum to talk about it.

Gun owners need to concentrate on promoting safe target shooting, self defense shooting under normal conditions and hunting. We do not need fences shot up, leaving spent casings on the ground, broken glass on the ground from target shooting, accidental gunshot victims or zombies. All lead to bad media attention.

You may be right but when I agreed that Zombies were "serious business" in my earlier post, I meant exactly that. With millions of marketing dollars backing it up. Hornady, Birchwood Casey and numerous other respected companies are on board with everything from ammo to targets to T-shirts to coffee cups. Is it a craze that will go the way of the pet rock? Maybe, but for now, cash registers are ringing up the sales in a pretty incredible volume so I think zombies will be around for a while longer.

 

[NKJ nut]

If you like zombie movies that's fine but when I hear grown men talking about zombie guns and zombie killing it's disgusting. I promise you that you will never be attacked by something that only exists on the big picture and was created by someone with a high imagination. And yes; some movies are really bad but not THAT bad Anyone that you ever have to shoot will bleed just like anyone else can and he or she can be taken out without a gun with a bunch of doodoo-dads and zombie killing junk hung on it.

Show me a picture of the baddest looking street thug that you can find on the internet and you will also show me a picture of someone who can be killed with an ordinary load and the most common of guns.

 

[MDGasman]

I think that in reality the term "zombie" is nothing more than a politically correct way to say, or a euphemism for, the great unemployed and underemployed in our metropolitan areas rising to revolt against those of us that are better off. There, I think I managed to make the point without stepping on any one group's toes.

 

[oldman45]

I think that in reality the term "zombie" is nothing more than a politically correct way to say, or a euphemism for, the great unemployed and underemployed in our metropolitan areas rising to revolt against those of us that are better off. There, I think I managed to make the point without stepping on any one group's toes.

My daughter tells me that zombies were recently made popular by movies and videogames, mostly familar to the younger folks. I know that zombies have been the subject of a lot of horror films years ago.

Until recently nobody mentioned zombies until the movies and video games came out.

Those you mentioned as zombie substitutions are simply called scum, trash, deadbeats, criminals, low life and a few others by me. Then I do not care what toes I step on. If the shoe fits anyone here, then wear it.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

NKJ nut;....when I hear about zombie guns and zombie killing it's disgusting. I promise you that you will never be attacked by something that only exists on the big picture and was created by someone with a high imagination.

I really do not believe that any of us that are having fun with this actually believe that zombies exist. I mean really!

MD Gasman; I think that in reality the term "zombie" is nothing more than a politically correct way to say, or a euphemism for, the great unemployed and underemployed in our metropolitan areas rising to revolt against those of us that are better off.

Absolutely not the general consensus. There may be a few "Death Wish" wannabes out there that think like this, but the vast majority of folks that I see engaging in discussions about this subject are just having fun setting up a problematic senario that requires some imagination to overcome. That's it. It's that simple. Fun.


WG840

 

[beach elvis]

Y'know, it's funny to me...
I've been a zombie flick fan since 1980 (I was 16) but never worried about being ready for it if it actually happened. Way I figure is if things went south enough to where there was an ever-growing bunch of dead cannibals running around, it'd be pretty naieve(sp?) to not expect something unsurvivable to happen to you.

Although the fear of the possibility of dead folks getting back up and developing an appetite for my still-warm pancreas was not on my radar, anyway.

Tell ya what, though. I recently read a book called, "Lucifer's Hammer" that's just slightly more possible, but there were enough similarities to conditions that COULD exist as a result of other stuff happening...now THAT one shook me up a bit. That story made me wanna go into The Cave and embark upon a marathon reloading session.

 

[DeadAye]

I wouldn't worry about dead folks too much.
It's the people that are still alive ya gotta keep an eye on.

 

[Evil Dog]

Looks like Hogue is jumping on the bandwagon also. Evidently at the SHOT show they were displaying their new line of Zombie grips.... personally I kind of liked the glow in the dark version.