DIY Video: How to make a sling shot-bow hybrid for zombie hunting

For the Daryl fans out there, here's an interesting video of making a sling shot-bow hybrid to shoot arrows for zombie hunting. Sure Daryl uses a crossbow, but it seems bulky to carry around and takes time to reload for shots. Meanwhile, this sling shot-bow looks compact enough that it can be carried without burdening yourself. And its much easier to reload once fired. Though I don't think it's faster to reload than a conventional bow. Still, using arrows to kill zombies is much quieter than firing guns. And we know that loud noise attracts zombies. That's a no no.

Check it out:



Kudos to JoergSprave for the video.



Daryl Dixon carries his crossbow slung on his back. It's a typical crossbow complete with a cocking stirrup at the front of the weapon. Below is an illustration of how crossbows are loaded with bolts and arrows. A foot is inserted in the cocking stirrup while the string is pulled up for a shot.



IMO, this is a lot of work in between shots especially if you're facing a horde of zombies. A bow, not necessarily the above sling shot-bow hybrid, may still be the best quiet weapon for shooting zombies.

A very sexy Japanese zombie

I love cosplayers, especially those who can do it right. The cosplayer below did it right a few different times by looking like a very hot zombie. Don't forget that Maria Ozawa also cosplayed a zombie.



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Cool Marvel Zombies Art

Big Marvel comics fan here. So these two images of Marvel superheroes as zombies are too cool for words.





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Zombie Quiz just for fun

How much do you know about zombies? Are you prepared for an attack? Can you defend your loved ones from the undead?

Take a quiz and see. Below is my score. Click on it to take your own quiz.

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Zombie movies you can stream on Netflix right now (March 2013)

Movie	Year	My rating out of 5 stars	Description
Zombies vs Strippers	2012	3 stars	Patrons and employees of a strip club face off against zombies.
Dead Season	2012	2 stars	Survivors flee to a remote island to survive a zombie outbreak.
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimation	2012		Not related to George Romero. Corpses in a funeral home rise from the dead after being exposed to toxic waste.
Doomsday Book	2012		A compilation of three short stories on the end of civilization, one of which is a zombie outbreak in Seoul, Korea.
Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies	2012		Title says it all.
A Little Bit Zombie	2012		Zombie comedy at a bachelor party.
Bloodlust Zombies	2011	2 stars	Weapons lab employees try to survive a zombie outbreak from an accident in one of their labs. Stars porn hottie, Alexis Texas. I don't recall if her character survived in this movie.
Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption	2011		Small group of survivors attempt an all-or-nothing rescue mission during a zombie outbreak.
Total Retribution	2011		Zombies in outer space? Not sure if zombies, but definitely undeads vs survivors.
Remains	2011		Survivors hole up in a vacant casino to fight off zombies.
Exit Humanity	2011		Zombies in a western setting.
Bong of the Dead	2011		Stoners try to make money from zombie brains after the undeads took over the world.
The Walking Dead	2010	4 stars	Seasons 1 & 2
The Truth Behind Zombies	2010	4 stars	Documentary on zombies.
Rammbock Berlin Undead	2010	3 stars	Zombie outbreak in Berlin, Germany.
The Dead Undead	2010		Vampires vs zombies
Highschool of the Dead	2010		Anime series on high school students struggling against zombies.
Helldriver	2010		Japanese movie with a teenage girl trying to kill her psychopathic cannibal mother and uncle.
Devil's Playground	2010		When an experimental drug turns 30,000 test subjects into zombies, ex-mercenary Cole seeks the one unaffected woman, hoping she's the key to a cure.
The Horde	2009	3 stars	Cops and gangsters vs zombies.
Zombies of Mass Destruction	2009		Survivors repel hordes of zombies to save their town.
Mutants	2009		A wife stands by his man looking for a cure after he was infected by a zombie virus.
Day of the Dead	2008	2 stars	A remake of Romero's 1985 film of the same name. I remember this for a vegetarian zombie.
The Zombie Apocalypse	2008		College students vs zombies.
Retardead	2008		A mad scientist turns students into zombies.
Colin	2008		Bitten by a zombie, Colin slowly adjusts to his new existence as part of the living dead, mingling and hunting with fellow flesh-eaters in London.
Zombie Town	2007		Residents of a small town turn to zombies.
Brain Dead	2007		Outerspace parasites turn fishing town residents into zombies.
American Zombie	2007		Mockumentary on a zombie community in Los Angeles.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead	2006		Zombie chickens for a goofy comedy.
Gangs of the Dead	2006		LA gangbangers vs zombies.
Land of the Dead	2005	3 stars	Number 4 in the series of zombie movies by George Romero.
Severed: Forest of the Dead	2005		Environmental activists become zombies as a result of a botch experiment to genetically engineer trees.
Xombie: Dead on Arrival	2003		Animated story of a zombie with consciousness helping a girl and her family after a plague destroys nearly all life on Earth.
Zombie High	1987		Zombies in a boarding school starring classic cinema babes Virginia Madsen and Sherilyn Fenn.
Zombiethon	1986		Compilation of clips from campy low-budget zombie classics.
Oasis of the Zombies	1982		Zombies and buried Nazi treasure in the desert during WWII.
The Evil Dead	1981	4 stars	First movie of Ash and the Evil Dead series directed by Sam Raimi.
Zombie Lake	1981		Nazi soldiers return as zombies after drowning in a mysterious lake.
Valley of the Zombies	1946		A mental patient rises from the dead with a hunger for blood.
King of Zombies	1941		On a Caribbean island, an Austrian scientis control zombies.
White Zombie	1932		Classic zombie movie starring Bela Lugosi.

If I missed anything, write it down in the comments.

Some are more ready for ZomPoc than others

Keep an eye for Zombie Response teams in you day-to-day activities. They could be your best friend someday. By the way, zompoc = ZOMbie aPOCalypse.

Zombies and Gun Sales: Is there a connection?

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There seems to be many people, at least in America, who are preparing for a zombie apocalypse.  Specifically, there are enough incidence of gun sales noticeably attributed to zombies.  Can you blame them?

Read the news excerpt below:

Pittsburgh can be said to be the birth place of the zombie phenomenon thanks to George Romero’s “Night of the living Dead,” which came out in 1968.

Since that film, there have been countless movies, books, comics, and TV shows surrounding the undead, and their popularity has increased exponentially in the last few years. As zombie presence rises in pop culture, real life gun sales are rising as well, and research shows the two are related.

Are The Rise Of Zombies Causing Rising Gun Sales? « CBS Pittsburgh