zombie apoc weapons book 9

ZOMBIE APOC WEAPONS BOOK 9

Chapter Three ( cont. )

Melee Weapon & Blade

I know most of you look at me funny, like I missed a big spot shaving, my rectum is leaking, I have a club foot and the hair is falling out on only one side of my head. Bolt action rifles? Wheat? Bayonets? What in the good lord almighty kind of twisted reality is this fellow living in? You might think I'm contrary just so that I can be different than the teeming maggot on meat masses, and to a very large degree this is true. But I also have very good reasons for everything that I do.

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Desert junk land? Yeah, because it is cheap, it is in the middle of nowhere, a huge moat of thirsty wasteland keeping the hoards at bay, and because, well, I love the desert as I grew up there, mostly. It might even surprise some of you mutts living in chigger country that there were actually civilizations that thrived in the desert. Wheat, because it is proven to last for centuries in storage. It has so much more dietary variety than white maggot rice, and is half the price.

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Bolt actions because tactics and strategy is adaptable but logistics cannot disobey the laws of physics. And bayonets? Well, bayonets also have a long history of winning battles, when the ammunition ran out ( granted, it only “ran out” insofar as it was too slow to reload, but that was still the proving ground for the post-apocalypse need to conserve ammunition ). There will come a dark day when no more gunpowder weapons are usable from lack of ammunition ( see my free book Forever Gun ), but a bayonet can postpone that day for quite some time ( as well as the bolt actions ).

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The British came to be renowned for their bayonet work. It wasn't that bayonets are great against guns, but that when it became time for a bayonet, they were masters with it. A LOT of that came from their reputation. Just as a lot of troops would scatter long before those short stubby little Gurkha's with their chopping knives got within range. Don't mistake the bayonet as a weapon to be used against semi-auto's. The day of the semi will die quickly, as the universal response to any threat is to hose down the area with lead.

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Sure, it worked against all those evil Nazi dudes with bolt actions ( not really, but the Sacred Semi Myth must be perpetuated along with 'Murica, Only Empire In History To Last Forever, and Without Freeze Dried Foods We Shall Perish Immediately ), and it ONLY took about 30,000 rounds per VC kill ( and that was with inflated body counts, so I'd call it 100k per kill ), so obviously, since we won the Afghanistan War near twenty years ago, spray and pray is the ONLY way to fight a battle. And thank you Baby Jesus, because it means all these idiots are quickly out of ammunition.

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And when that happens, a bolt action doesn't look so under classed. And when you have a bayonet to go along with that, you are in a position where they are severely short on ammunition and you are not. To a degree, at least until the survivors are done with their On The Job Training, they might break and flee sooner. When your opponents are down to rimfire and shotshells ( after the assault weapons run dry ), they won't wait so long before retreating. I'm trying to get to the point that a bayonet has a physiological component. It is easy to miss a shot. Not so easy to avoid the sharp pointy thing. A lot of people fear blades more than bullets, as far as wounding.

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And post-apocalypse, bayonets and metal cased ammunition mean that there is the threat from both ( whereas historically a muzzleloader only had to be feared once, then its bayonet. Now, they can be used in combination ). Bayonets work well for as a police weapon ( normal LEO work and with prisoners of war ). Granted, bayonets are a niche weapon. They only have an advantage against other firearms holders at extreme close range. The bayonets were at a disadvantage in the field, but not once they got down into the trenches. Have you ever been attacked by someone twenty feet away? I have. It is amazing how quick they cover that ground.

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Bayonets will take some time to prove useful after the normal apocalypse. But in a zombie apocalypse? They are a perfect weapon, right away. Because you have BOTH weapons at the very same time. You can instantly use either one, your firearm against humans or your bayonet against zombies. Any other combination of weapons, you must take time to bring one into use. Whatever melee weapon you use, it must be ready to use, immediately. Those carbines in the jungle? You didn't have time to aim, responding to an ambush. You HAD to hose down the general direction with automatic fire.

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The two wars we fought in the jungle, we were an Industrial powerhouse. We were churning out ammunition by the trainload, per soldier. We had the luxury of wasting ammunition as a tactic. Newsflash there, Sammy Short Bus, we won't be replacing your apocalypse ammunition. You cannot duplicate the tactics of a bygone era. There are even many reports from the Sandbox spear points on the accuracy of our M-16's against the AK's, a combination of a superior design, the treasure to equip those with state of the art optics, and the ability to train the heck out of soldiers. Already, our military ( in one small aspect, in embryonic form-although the general form is still stuck in 2^nd Generation warfare-the better to profit the military industrial complex ) is inching back towards accuracy over mass.

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This is the advantage I have in the desert ( my desert, in the mountains. NOT the low desert, flat and lacking vegetation in many areas ). It isn't MUCH distance. You are still looking at rolling hills everywhere except right at the river valley's. It is just enough distance that ambushes are not so close you need to respond instantly. If you aren't hit, you have time to get cover. I'm generalizing of course. You can be bushwhacked from nothing more than a clump of sagebrush. But it isn't the total vegetation of many areas that mean your attacker is mere feet away. There is more time to deploy your melee weapon.

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But if your area is not similar, the deployment part can severely hinder you. THAT is why I prefer the bayonet, just another way it is superior to many other melee weapons ( and don't discount the added benefit of the buttstock of a wooden and steel rifle, shortening the redeployment to strike time in close quarters ).

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