Black Friday ammo deal alert

Jack from cheapammo.com emails to point out that they are running Black Friday promotions.  Since you have seemed to like this sort of notification in the past I'm putting this up here.

We’ll push the ammo specials live at 9 a.m. (Eastern time) Friday morning. Like last year, I don’t expect the ammo to last terribly long but hopefully your readers will have an honest shot if they catch your article before mid-afternoon on Friday. To help spread the ammo around make sure some dealer doesn’t gobble it all up, we are limiting customers to one of each caliber. These are priced below our cost so other sellers might be interested in getting their hands on them but we’d obviously rather have real shooters get them and use them.

Ammo Highlights Include:

We’ll have bulk Fiocchi 223 ammo for $375. That’s 55-grain, FMJ, 1,000 rounds with free shipping. 

Bulk 9mm ammo is at $190 per case from a manufacturer that won’t be revealed until Friday morning. This is brass-cased FMJ in 1000-rounds packs and will have free shipping.

22 Long Rifle ammo from an unknown manufacturer - 5000 round packs for $220 with free shipping. (That’s less than a nickel per round.)

There will be a sprinkling of a handful of other calibers priced to move very quickly as well.

 Good luck, everybody.  And remember, ammo makes a great stocking stuffer ...

Communications for preppers

Secure comms are an issue for any emergency/disaster/Zombie-apocalypse scenario.  This looks like a pretty nifty solution for that problem.

A Christmas Story - Zombie version

I stole this from T-Bolt's archives.  His passing sure was a loss for our community.

Remember, ammunition makes a great stocking stuffer

Glen asks, I answer.

 This one's for you, T-Bolt.

Dad Joke CCIII

What do you feed a vegetarian zombie? 

Graaaaains!

A Christmas Story (updated for modern times)

I must confess that I'd never watched A Christmas Story until I met The Queen Of The World.  It's just one of the many ways that she has improved my life.

It's awesome, and if you have never seen it, the line from the film to remember is You'll shoot your eye out.  You see, the kid in the film wants a BB Gun for christmas and everyone tells him, well, you know.  The Queen Of The World made me a T-shirt with that caption and the picture of a set of glasses with one lens shattered.  I wore it to the gun show last weekend to great hilarity. 

Anyway, via T-Bolt (you do read him every day, right?  Thought so.) we find this most excellent mash up.  Embedding seems to be broken in the new Blogger interface and the new one can't seem to find this video even though it's there (WTF, Youtube?) - bit it's worth the click.

And remember, T-Bolt is your go-to Zombie Defense guy.  'nuff said.

For you lucky sumbitches out there

Suppose you have one of those sweet, sweet M1 Carbines - you know the ones: light, short, handy, low recoil and fun to shoot all day.  You lucky sumbitch.

Well, Ammoman has a sweet deal on .30 Carbine to feed your habit, just in time for the holidays: 1080 Mil Surp .30 Carbine cartridges in 10 round stripper clips in nine bandoliers for $520 (!).  You lucky sumbitch.

And remember, ammunition makes great stocking stuffers.

(No comment on how Gov. Cuomo gave Gammy the gift of Eternal Peace this past year ...)

Just remember, a shotgun is not a defense against zombies.  C'mon - this is an expert on the subject. 

This is not the Zombiepocalypse I had been promised

Shamelessly stolen from David Drake.

Weird science

From ten years ago.

Scientist: Come the Zombiepocalypse, you must quickly and mercilessly kill all the Zombies

Or else mankind is doomed. He has math and everything to prove it:

Human-zombie coexistence is impossible... Since all eigenvalues of the doomsday equilibrium are negative, it is asymptotically stable. It follows that, in a short outbreak, zombies will likely infect everyone.

Gosh, Dr. Science, how come?

According to Smith, a major factor restraining normal plagues from utterly devastating humanity is that they tend to kill their victims, after which the sufferers can no longer move about and infect others. This is one reason the frightful Ebola virus has never spread, for instance: it knocks people down and then kills them so fast that they have only a limited chance to pass it on.
Not so with zombification. Once someone has died of Z-plague, they remain a mobile carrier. The factors which have prevented humanity being rendered extinct by the Black Death, smallpox, cholera etc don't apply.

So there you have it. Scientifically proved.

So learn and survive, people. Sure, it's all a truckload of yucks now, but when all those Canadian Zombies come pouring south across the border, you'll be trying to sort out which end of an 870 is which.

Remember, ammunition makes a great stocking stuffer

This is a holiday classic.

Remember, ammunition makes great, stocking stuffers!

The mistletoe bit is pretty funny, too.

Remember, ammunition makes a great stocking stuffer

Fall Out Boy - The Phoenix

Via #2 Son comes this plausibly appropriate-for-the-Zombie-Apocalypse music.  It seems it's what the young folk are listening to.



I'd sure like someone to do a song with these lyrics:

LORD, make me fast and accurate.
Let my aim be true and my hand faster
than those who would seek to destroy me.
Grant me victory over my foes
and those that wish harm to me and mine.
Let not my last thought be “ If only I had my gun ”.

And LORD if today is truly the day that You call me home,
let me die in a pile of empty brass,
Surrounded by the lifeless bodies of my enemies
and with blood and skin on the barrel of my empty pistol
where I beat the last one to death.

Amen

.700 Nitro Express - the caliber for Zombie Boris Karloff?

ASM826* posted on what caliber would you use if you (like the lady in the story) were attacked by a crazed rabid deer.  A bunch of you left comments which mostly boil down to "this is my carry piece; there are many like it but this one is mine."

That got me thinking last evening when out with a friend.  His brother and sister-in-law were visiting from New Hampshire and were going to watch the Walking Dead being filmed here in Atlanta.  What caliber for zombies has been hashed to death (T-Bolt is the go-to guy on why shotguns are not what you want).  But even he hasn't reckoned with the first Walking Dead, none other than Boris Karloff himself.

It's from 1936, and is an actual zombie story.  Karloff is a man wrongly convicted of a crime and executed.  His body is reanimated by a mad scientist and he searches out those who falsely accused him.  They all meet unpleasant ends, proving that Justice isn't just poetic, but can write in iambic pentameter.

And so the interesting question is what caliber for zombie Boris Karloff?  It's not just your average zombie, it's Boris damned Karloff.  As a Zombie.  I'm guessing that a regular carry piece might not be enough,  T-Bolt says no to shotties, but you need something a bit beefier than pistol for this, and Zombie Karloff doesn't travel in hordes.  12 gauge slugs?  Depleted Uranium 12 gauge slugs?

Holland and Holland double rifle in .700 Nitro Express**?  DIY Elephant Gun?

* Not only is be bringing the shooty goodness, he's getting me to bring some, too.  Win!

** Yikes!  Those are $100/trigger pull, but if you can't afford the ammo you sure as shootin' can't afford the rifle.  But if you can't drop a Zombie - even Zombie Boris Karloff - with 9,000*** foot pounds of impact force (!!!) then the Lord is calling you home that day ...

*** Double Yikes!  It seems that you can hand load these babies to 15,000 foot pounds of impact!  At that point, I'd expect crew served**** from a tripod ...

Via El Wik, here's the .700 Nitro Express next to a .45ACP:

The dang bullet is bigger than the entire .45 cartridge.  I'm not ashamed to say that I'm not man enough to fire this off hand.  Yowzer.

**** I think that if I sold the house, I might be able to afford one of these.  Wonder if there are any on Craig's List?

Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness

This has crazy good production values.  And all the Army Of Darkness one liners.

States most likely to survive a Zombie outbreak

Man, Georgia isn't looking too good.

Hat tip: PMHenick via email.

Remember, ammunition makes great stocking stuffers!

Epic pwnage is epic

TV stations all over the country have spent the last few years replacing the emergency notification system with a new, uber high tech networked emergency response system.  A design that's the uberest of uber high tech.  Translation: a target rich environment:

Hardware powering the US Emergency Alert System can be easily tricked into broadcasting bogus apocalyptic warnings from afar, say experts.

Researchers at computer security biz IOActive reckon they found private encryption keys within firmware updates for the devices; miscreants armed with this information could successfully remotely log into the hardware, installed at television and radio stations around the US, as an administrator and broadcast panic-inducing messages to the masses.

And the discovery comes just months after shortcomings in the Emergency Alert System (EAS) were exploited to beam news of a zombie apocalypse to American TVs: Montana Television Network’s regular programming was interrupted by warnings of the end of the world back in February.

Viewers of KRTC in Great Falls, Montana, were confronted by an on-air audio warning that "bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living". A scrolling text warning at the top of the screen naming various Montana counties as targets for the spoof announcement of doom, which sparked calls to the state's cops.

ZOMG! ZOMBIES!!11!!eleventy!!

All I want to know is where T-Bolt was back in February.

Teletubby zombies?

Damn.

I have to confess that I had something to do with La La's demise.  In my own defense, we did way more than double-tap.  But I thought we were free and clear, once we dealt with the Teletubby Spec Ops team.

OK, I'm a sucker

I picked up a box of the Hornady Zombie ammo for a stocking stuffer. Dang, that's a rip off.


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UPDATE 22 December 2012 17:52: Bob in the comments asked if there was much ammo there - the case was half empty, and the only .380 was either Winchester or the Zombie stuff.  72 cents a round for the Winchester and 96 cents a round (!) for the Hornady Zombie.  Yikes.

But it was to have stocking stuffers.  Because ammo makes a great stocking stuffer.