zombie apoc weapons book 6

ZOMBIE APOC WEAPONS BOOK 6

Chapter Two ( pistol )

Just as with a rifle, your pistol needs to be economical with its ammunition. So let's just get this out of the way. You are NOT John Wick. I don't even know why you would want to be John Wick. Hell, just watching the actor play John Wick exhausts me ( have you seen Bruce Willis in a movie lately? He looks like a corpse was dug back up and reanimated by Disney, using not microchips but their supernatural power from their deal with the Devil. As an aside, I trust Sonny Bono is roasting in Hell, punished far more than Hitler or Nixon, for his part in The Mickey Mouse Copyright Act ).

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The best gunfight to survive is the one you avoided. Yes, I get it. Given a choice between watching John Wick or reading Sun Tzu, I would probably watch the movie. But one is much better at strategy and tactics than the other. Can you guess which one? Gun Fu is not the greatest martial art to learn. So forget all the horse apples about leaping and twirling and shooting each guy point blank three times and then fighting the next guy waiting his turn in line, using your semi-auto pistol like a submachinegun, unlimited ammo on your person. Did you already forget that you are on foot?

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A pistol is not a magic talisman such a policeman would wield among the disarmed population of serfs. It is not an Austrian get out of the morgue free card. When did guns made of plastic go from a point of ridicule to a quest to use plastic in every part except the barrel ( and they are working on that one! )? I won't refuse to use plastic guns, and yes, light weight is paramount as Ultra Light Infantry ( more on that very soon. Oh, yes, VERY soon ), but there is a point where going light goes too far. Especially when it does no good, you carrying more ammo.

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I prefer revolvers. No, I don't insist on them to the same degree of religious fanaticism as I do for bolt guns over semi-auto carbines or rifles. To me, a pistol is for emergency use only, not part of an essential arsenal. I say, carry whatever you are comfortable with. For me, that is a revolver for the simple fact it is a load and forget weapon. At the very most, you flip your wrist and see the cylinder is loaded. None of this checking the magazine and the chamber. I like simplicity. Call me strange that way.

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I do NOT like pistols as a combat weapon. Infantry has been doing fine without them for a half a millennium. The only reason they might-MIGHT-be needed is that a Congressman from a district with a gun manufacturer in it was bribed to suddenly discover ground troops needed to have an extra weapon that cost three times civilian retail price. Now, I know I'm prejudice, carrying the damn things in the field, along with the Pig M-60 and its barrel and other accessories, and adding a 45 to that was just insult to injury ( I saw the need as we had live rounds if any LEO functions were required, but while playing infantry I hated the extra weight ).

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Light Infantry in the Army is anything but light. They just don't have the heavier weapons. Whoopie humping pickles. Humping sixty pounds ( as mechanized ) instead of 150. Yes, the heavier weapons do the most damage, I grant you. But regardless of your good intentions, once you overload a soldier with equipment, they lose mobility. You might be RoboCop with all that armor and weaponry, but you move as fast as he does also, which negates most of that advantage.

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You want to be truly light? You dump all that weight that you think you need but is merely contingency crap. Twenty pounds is about max to retain mobility, and that includes the weapons and ammunition. Everything but your clothing ( which does NOT include armor ). That doesn't leave room for a pistol, unless you sacrifice food, water ( I could see being slightly over the weight in water if you consume that extra weight quickly, hydrating ) or ammunition for your long gun. Let us not forget that this is the zombie apocalypse. Weight weighs more the longer you carry it, and you'll be carrying ALL the time here.

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If you do insist on a pistol, I don't think it matters much which one you choose. For the simple fact that it's main purpose is probably going to be to eat a bullet rather than be eaten alive ( or, tortured to death by OpFor's ). I wouldn't spend a butt ton of money on it, since it won't be a primary weapon. And revolvers are usually no longer cheap, except in rimfire. On a budget, most likely you'll buy a plastic 9mm. The lower capacity ones ( the only ones you'll really need ) or even the ones in 380 should be plentiful in the under $200 range, and I've seem some as recently as just before the Commie Cadre Panic Buying going for $159.

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I don't recommend those because they use everyone's favorite caliber, or because they are semi's, but because they fit into everyone's budget. IF you simply must have a pistol. Now, for the Boogaloo? Yeah, pistols are great, for urban stealth and ambushing. Spending more for increased capacity and reliability makes sense, as they then become your only weapon. But for zombies? Go three days without finding food, and tell me how macho you are lugging all the extra weight around. Hint: your Beard Boy Tactical Tommy gear takes extra fuel of a higher order. Just as a knights heavier mount cannot survive on grass but needs oats and other hauled fuel, troops carrying extra weight need a specialized diet. Which foraging ain't going to deliver. Just saying.

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