Allright turn off the seriousness and take off your thinking cap for a sec, and I'll give yall a scenario.

  The year is 2016, Society has colappsed and every man and his family is forced to fend for themselves, some make it to the hills, most are stuck in urban areas where they have to escape and evade. In addition to this a widespread epidemic is spreading (causing something along the lines of what are known as zombies).

You are temporarily stuck in an urban area, fending for your life. Would you use your sling to further you survival or just as a back pack strap? BTW you can choose multiple options above. Keep in mind by 2016 you'll probably be a better slinger. If you don't lie zombies just stick to break down of society like Mad Max or Terminator without the machines.

Zombies, while fictional, have generaly realy improved the awareness of much of todays society so now we have things like BOBs and an excape plan. If you are ready for this foreign invasion, nuclear break down, natural disasters will be no problem. 

Anyway it's been awhile since we had a theoretical sling scenario (sling vs black powder was last) just figured like trying somthing new.

Well,  there are a number of implied circumstances as well.  By this time the "G" has probably confiscated most of our guns and ammo because by gosh, what would we possibly need such things for.  In order to kill a zombie you have to hit them in the head, as everyone knows.  They are also attentive to gunfire so you have to be quiet.  Not a problem since most of the guns have been confiscated.  Mauro, on the other hand, will quickly run out of arrows unless he comes back later and pulls them out after the "Z"'s friends are gone.  If Mauro's bowstring breaks, what then?  Run down to the five and dime for a spool of dacron?  No, the sling is king.  lots of rocks you don't care about losing, very quiet, Z's are stupid so they won't know where the rock comes from unless they see you.  Ammo is everywhere and so is cordage.  And I'm talking about the U.S. Zs, which are more agro than the easy going Italian Zs.  Practice now, or practice later, but start slinging your hearts out because dark days are coming.........................

i probably couldn't do much with one, but seeing that i've got the skills to use one i might as well. i chose the second maybe option

i disagree with the assumption that you have to just hit a zombie in the head.  i feel that if you take out the legs , ie: cuttin them off or breaking with stones, than you can finish them off with a hammer to the head.
they might still crawl with broken legs, but they will not be running. and that is a huge difference

and i voted for bring them on, and the seconed one

First of all, zombies must be burned - otherwise they just reanimate. See, I've actually learned something useful, playing computer games  

Second, I'd use just about anything, including the kitchen sink and the loo, to keep them at bay. The more different weapons available, the more zombies we can deal with, before they eat our eyes/skin/brains/big toes/noses/whatever.

Holy water and water gun. check! <- that would be my primary weapon!
"Petrol"="gas"="benzin" and a water gun, plus matches. <- secondary weapon.
Sling and plenty of ammo. Check!
Bow with plenty of arrows. Check! Extra bowstring. Check!
Crossbow with plenty of bolts. Check!
Atlatl with plenty of darts. Check!
Molotov cocktails. Check!
Bolas. Check!
Bricks! Check!

A good boar spear to keep them at distance while we chop them up, would be nice as well.

Dig a moat and fill it with flesh worms - that will weaken them. They also try to avoid water, as it dissolves them.

Be sure to have some silver, for when the weres come out  

Perhaps you should keep a solarium ready for the vampires. Otherwise a blowpipe and some wooden tooth-picks may do the job.

And garlic! Don't forget garlic!

Dan wrote on Nov 30^th, 2011 at 9:00am:


Those from the holy water, right? 

Dan wrote on Nov 30^th, 2011 at 9:00am:


That would solve my lighting problem They'd still have to get through the moat, and I'd have a good supply of crispy worm roast.

But yes, slow them down, hack them to pieces and destroy the evidence so we wouldn't have to deal with neither PETA, nor the smell.

fletch_man wrote on Nov 30^th, 2011 at 11:26am:


Then I've got a major issue we need to clear up. We'd naturally need some kind of priest, but from which religion? Or have the catholic priests cornered the holy-water market?

Now, in a post apocalyptic world, I'd raid a few supermarkets for those misters they use for vegetables. We are talking WMD here  

Or,  would this suffice?


Quick, Robin! Pass me the bat anti-vampire spray

Silver tipped, Ironwood biconicals with inscribed crosses and varnished with garlic infused linseed oil and dusted in wolfsbane pollen. One can never be too careful. Maybe getting my sling blessed by a priest would improve my aim...