Timeline for Most effective long-term zombie killing weapon
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| May 28, 2016 at 8:39 | comment | added | Mark Ripley | @wposeyjr: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling_(weapon)#Staff_sling. A sling attached to the end of a quarterstaff. The sling throws further than a regular sling and you can use it for mele combat as well. | |
| May 14, 2015 at 15:59 | comment | added | Mike L. | @MatthieuM. Eh, he'd be better off with a spool of paracord. It takes less than a minute to improvise a sling if you have rope. | |
| May 14, 2015 at 15:03 | comment | added | Matthieu M. | @MikeL.: On the other hand, given a that it weighs close to nothing and can be used as a belt in emergency, give a couple to Ned anyway, and also give him another weapon to hold those zombies off until he gets better. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 22:15 | comment | added | Mike L. | @Twelfth While it's true that slings have been used to great effect and have an impressive track record in both warfare and hunting, there is one important reason why it was abandoned (well, two, but armor penetration is not an issue here); you can't train slingers, only recruit them. Using a sling effectively requires literally a lifetime of training. If Ned happens to have been a Middle-Eastern shepherd boy he's covered, but other than that he's not going to get much performance from a sling. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 21:59 | comment | added | Mark | @wposeyjr, at close range, you load up the sling with a large rock and use it as a flail. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 19:14 | comment | added | Twelfth | @DaaaahWhoosh - Trained slingers can throw off 10 rounds per minute at a range of 150 or so meters. Expertise and ideal situations can apparently see them fire 20 per minute and it's renowned as deadly accurate at 200m in the right hands. According to slinging.org, max range is around 450m and have a launch speed of around 250mph. For comparison, it's 2 ounce shot contains about as much energy as a 5oz baseball travelling at 100mph...I'd imagine a direct hit would concave a zombies skull. It's underrated...it will out preform bows up until the 14th century longbow and later composites. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 17:39 | comment | added | Kromey | The problem with a sling is that they are surprisingly difficult to actually use effectively. Ned is leaving now, he doesn't have time to learn how to use a sling, so whether or not it actually would be effective (spoiler: I think it probably could be at range, but I doubt you'd be able to handle more than 3 or 4 coming at you) it's not going to be effective in this scenario. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 17:39 | comment | added | Dan Smolinske | @DaaaahWhoosh: Biblically, David took out Goliath with a sling and a stone. They've been used for hunting and in war. And reloading is actually extremely fast, a good slinger can slap a new stone in on the followthrough of a throw to reload, without ever really stopping. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 17:35 | comment | added | DaaaahWhoosh | I would like to know if this could actually kill the zombies. Is it possible to kill a moving target with a sling at a range that would actually keep you safe if you missed the first time? And if so, what are the chances you would miss? I imagine reloading might take a bit too long. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 17:33 | comment | added | wposeyjr | This will certainly be effective at range, but close quarters combat with a sling will certainly be problematic. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 17:31 | history | answered | Dan Smolinske | CC BY-SA 3.0 |