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ORIGINAL: AthenaSurrenders

Your chance of survival: Preparedness: 36%, City Skills: 29%, Survival Skills: 53%, Nature Skills: 8%

I was below the average mark on every single thing. I'm telling ya, unless someone takes a fancy to my child-bearing hips and decides to save me, I'm food.

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ORIGINAL: AthenaSurrenders

I believe my brother-in-law is preparing for the dead rising. He and his wife have a plan involving going to a certain place in the desert with tents and guns and supplies, in case of 'emergency'. They're both very fit physically and if anyone could do it, I think they probably could. They mountain climb, explore caves, swim, cycle, run and shoot.

It made me think: would you survive?

I would not. While my basic health and fitness might be passable, that's all I have going for me. Being English I have no access to guns and although I'm not too bad a shot I'd have no idea how to clean or maintain one even if I could get hold of it. Around the house I'd only have kitchen knives which are a bit close range for zombie combat.
Our fairly big car would be hard to maneuver if the roads were blocked and we don't have bikes. It's a fairly high-population area so we probably couldn't hole up here for long (though we'd have a couple of weeks worth of food and such).
I don't have any outdoorsy skills - I wouldn't know how to start a fire or catch a rabbit or identify edible mushrooms.

In a zombie movie I'd be dead before the opening credits. My husband too - even if he survived a while he's diabetic so when he ran out of drugs he'd be gone. Plus we have a baby who would slow us down.

My best hope would be to get into a survivor's camp when hopefully they might trade protection for my general usefulness. I'm pretty sure I could do a reasonable job of cooking, mending things, nursing injuries etc. But I'm not a skilled doctor or mechanic and I doubt my English degree would be much use, so if food is scarce I might not make the cut.

So yeh, I'm gonna be a zombie. Who's with me?

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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael
what calibers are common, an idiot with a .357 sig is never going to get ammo.

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ORIGINAL: coldslayer

no. im black. we seem to de first in these kind of things

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Oh rabbit is very nutricious

Lots of fluffy bunnies mto keep us going.

Bastid

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Supersoakers and acid and shoot them in the mouth, a gummer zombie is a hungry zombie.

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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael
what calibers are common, an idiot with a .357 sig is never going to get ammo.

That was one of the things we talked about. We have a .22LR Marlin Rifle with a Nikon scope. .22LR is cheap and plentiful, so we bought a case. It would become the workhorse gun and that scope makes it easy to control. If we need more stopping power we have the AR15 or the 9mm X18 pistol, with 500 rounds a piece set aside.

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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael
what calibers are common, an idiot with a .357 sig is never going to get ammo.

That was one of the things we talked about. We have a .22LR Marlin Rifle with a Nikon scope. .22LR is cheap and plentiful, so we bought a case. It would become the workhorse gun and that scope makes it easy to control. If we need more stopping power we have the AR15 or the 9mm X18 pistol, with 500 rounds a piece set aside.

The best guns/caliber are a 22 anything, you can run with 500 rounds in your pocket and its commin ammo.
A 357 revolver, which will shoot 38 special, another common caliber. Abd if you flatten the rims, you can shoot 9mm & .380.
12 guage shotgun
Then even though its a shitty cartridge, .223/5.56 because its common and the military uses it.