Posted on 06/07/2012 2:18:33 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Zombie Bullets In High Demand Following Flesh-Eating Attacks
DETROIT (WWJ) – Worried about a zombie attack? Buy zombie bullets.
Talk about zombies and a possible zombie apocalypse has increased due to recent gory accounts of drug-induced, flesh-eating attacks in the news.
Stores across the U.S., including in Metro Detroit, are getting in on the undead action by selling Zombie Bullets, made by Hornady Manufacturing.
In promoting the product on their website, Hornady suggests, “Be PREPARED – supply yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse with Zombie Max ammunition from Hornady! Loaded with PROVEN Z-Max bullets… MAKE DEAD PERMANENT!”
So, will this ammunition actually defend against the things that go bump in the night?
WWJ Newsradio 950′s Zahra Huber spoke with company spokesman, Everett Deger, who said, while the bullets are real, they’re only meant to be used on targets and not on people (or zombies).
(credit: Hornady)
Deger said company president Steve Hornady came up with the idea for Zombie Max bullets because of his love for zombie movies and shows.
“After it gained some acceptance among some of us here in the company got on board with the idea we decided just to have some fun with a marketing plan that would allow us to create some ammunition designed for that … fictional world,” Deger said.
He said the Zombie Max and Z-Max bullets are Horady’s most successful products.
“This is probably one of the only (product) launches that we’ve seen when people who are not in the hunting and shooting industry will go out and they will purchase this,” Deger said.
“I mean, I’ve heard of guys who buy it just because they think the packaging is cool and they set it on their cube and they don’t even own a gun,” he said. ”It has that sort of cross-market appeal, which I think is rare to find these days, where you can actually sell something that will transcend not just one market but go into several.”
In Michigan, the bullets are available at Cabela’s. You can find other retailers selling Zombie bullets at this link.
Hornady video on YouTube ...
Introducing Zombie Max™ from Hornady®
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bQWb-5nblx4
Nice gimmick, but zombies are not worth the extra cost.
maybe some rat senator will ban them due to their name and the fear of losing zombie voting constituents.
it’ll then go the way of the Black Talon.(rebrand/renamed)
There were some zombies at last night’s Stanley Cup game. The first faceoff took place ten minutes before the game started.
Watch it - we got some people around here that think this is real...
I’d say a good sized deer slug from a good shotgun would stop one on a head shot....dead in his zombie tracks.
Head shots. Hitting the torso won’t do the job.
Zombie bullets Ping!
You got the bullets but what is the best gun for the job? One of the gun shows had a “competition” and a Soviet SKS was voted the winner.
AND NO I WILL NOT BE PINGING THE PREPPERS’ LIST FOR THIS STORY!
We got enough people that already think we are crazy, why promote it? ;-)
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I still have an (old) brand-new box of the original Black Talons in .45 ACP, it should work on zombies. At least the "rampaging mobs of inner-city dwellers" zombies that one is most likely to encounter in Detroit.
Last October I saw a History Channel show in which a firearms expert contended that a .22 semi auto handgun would be the best defense. He said that .22 calibre bullets are lightweight and plentiful and a mere .22 headshot would easily disable a “zombie” brain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnCbOs5alYA&feature=player_embedded
Why did they cancel the leper hockey game?
There was a face off in the corner.
Har Har Har!!!!
From left: .44 Mag, .825 Std, .825 Premium, .357 Mag.
Enquiring minds want to know.
.825 would be fun. But not at $40 per round..
I’ve purchased a few boxes to give away as gifts and for themed raffle prize packages.
Here’s a purported review by G&A (but it’s all tongue-in-cheek) ...
http://www.gunsandammo.com/2011/10/14/hornady-zombie-max-ammo/
Also here is a YouTube review and demo fo the .45 acp ammo ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6RvLNMyo0s
The most special thing I can tell about this ammo is the price.
The weapon is selective fire, operating as a semi-automatic, or in fully automatic mode at 300 rounds per minute. It is fed from either an 8-shell box magazine, or a 20- or 32-shell drum magazine. It is made of 12 different kinds of STAINLESS STEEL and NEVER needs maintenance of LUBRICATION. You can hold it under water for an hour, pull it out and immediately start firing.
IT HAS ALMOST NO RECOIL. You can hold it with one hand and fire it FULL AUTO. The AA-12 can use different types of 3" 12 gauge ammunition such as buckshot, slugs, or less-than-lethal rubber stun batons. Like most 12 gauge shotguns it can also fire flares or special Frag-12 19 mm fin-stabilized HE, HEAP, and sensor fused HEAB "air-burst" fragmentation shells that can detonate in mid-air.
FRAG-12. FRAG-12 rounds are available in plain high explosive (HE), high explosive fragmenting anti-personnel (HE-FA) and high explosive armour-piercing (HE-PA) varieties, each designed to mince foes in different locations and situations. The frag grenade, for example, can be put through the window of a house from 100 metres away, and will explode with a burst radius of up to nine feet. Send a dozen in there, and there'll be very little left when the troops go knocking on the door.
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OBTW, the "critical defense" ammo is very good defense ammo. It is designed to penetrate approximately 12 inches and mushroom very well. For .380 ammunition it costs about $1.25 a round. Not cheap, but if it penetrates in the body like it is supposed to, then it will be very effective. The green/red tip keeps the hollow point from being clogged up from your attacker's clothing when it penetrates; which has been a problem with hollow point ammo.
Some of these guys seem to think that zombies are armored, or giants or something, they keep wanting more and more powerful armament.
The object with zombies is to simply penetrate their skull, to ‘pop their heads’.
The smaller caliber that is adequate, the larger magazine to reduce magazine changes and losing the sight picture, the ability to rapidly engage multiple targets accurately and with the least fatigue inducing activity seems to be the secret to success for me.
Give me an AR-15, 40 round mags and a high capacity 9mm for off the shelf guns and ammo.
I don’t want to be exhausting myself with a 12 gauge and a machete, especially in a crowd/ocean of zombies.
Those hot little 22 bullets would work great also, especially with 30 round pistols like the Kel-Tec 22magnum.
You forgot one...
34. Travel with someone slower than you.
I want one.
No, but in my opinion the Hornady TAP ammunition is the best commercial self defense rifle ammunition you can buy. It is not chep,but not the most expensive either. It is the most accurate expandig am,o I have ever used. E.g. routinely same hole & clover leaf groupings at 100 yds with scopedheavy barrel Savage .223. Half inch groups at 200.
No, but in my opinion the Hornady TAP ammunition is the best commercial self defense rifle ammunition you can buy. It is not chep,but not the most expensive either. It is the most accurate expandig am,o I have ever used. E.g. routinely same hole & clover leaf groupings at 100 yds with scopedheavy barrel Savage .223. Half inch groups at 200.
They’re pretty much the same as their V-Max ammunition. Just different packaging.
http://www.hornady.com/store/223-Rem-55-gr-V-MAX
http://www.hornady.com/store/223-Rem-55-gr-Z-MAX
Standard Hornady Critical Defense Ammo I think, with a green ballistic tip instead of a red one.
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Hornady even makes a .22 Magnum CD round. It launches at over 1000 fps out of a 2” barrel and gets 9-11” of penetration in gel with an almost 100% weight retention. It’s perfect for a S&W 351PD backup.
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All my AR-15 pieces fit my Carbon-15 21S Pistol:
http://www.bushmaster.com/catalog_carbon15_AZ-C15P21S.asp
and the 100-rnd drum mag is a blast on it:
The barrel tip gets HOT after 2-3 drums!
You can also lop their heads off with a machete. That works - no, I haven’t tried it - yet.
My favorite is an AR 5.7 with 50 round mags combined with FN 5.7 pistol with 20 round mags. Same ammo for both guns!
The 5.7 is what I was too lazy to look up, but that is what I had in mind as the "perfect" set-up.
The AR-15 and it's pistols, 9mm pistols and short rifles/semi-firing submachine guns and so on are all the right tools, but for perfection in zombie guns, your package is the absolute best.
Here is someone's comment from a forum: ""(2) VERY low recoil, so you can see your hits if you’re shooting varmints out to 200 or so yards; (3) 50-round capacity; (4) Simple, blowback operating system; (5) Major versatility with all the rails to mount loads of accessories on the thing; (6) WAY less noise than a .223/5.56, in case you need to do some shooting in an area where excessive noise would be a problem; (7) Excellent accuracy;""
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