Whew, for a minute there, I thought you were saying the dead came back
as democrats, but then I got to the part about a brain, and relaxed.
I've been shooting all of my life, if I were in the chopping up mode,
gimmie a 12 ga shotgun anytime. Remember, everytime a 00 shell goeth
"boom" 5 .30 cal dead soft lead balls are enroute to mayhem heaven.
With a good pump or auto, you are throwing out a lot of owies real
quick like. :-) Dead or alive, Soft tissue is soft tissue, bone is
bone, they couldn't not come apart.

--- In Combat-Handgun@yahoogroups.com, straitpipe <straitpipe8@...> wrote:
>
> Seems to me that if heavy fire can chop up leg bones
> it would work as well with other skeletal parts so why
> be concerned with just leg shots? Go for all the
> bones joints to dislodge limbs, etc. I like the head
> shot being terminal because it focuses on a small
> target to eliminate the zombie threat which would
> allow for a lot of ineffective panicky shots by
> 'regular' defenders. My experience has been 'the
> larger the slug the bigger the hole' which equates to
> more tissue AND bone damage. This would be expecially
> true for handguns. Shotguns for close range work
> (slugs or buck) are very destructive and long guns for
> precision at longer ranges as well as fully auto's for
> repetitive hits to saturate a target area.
>
> Best wishes on your writings.
> --- zombiecsu <zombiecsu@...> wrote:
>
> > Guys, I'm new to this board.
> >
> > I'm a professional writer and I'm working on a
> > nonfiction book built
> > around speculation on how real-world law
> > enforcement, science, and
> > the military would respond to something like a
> > zombei attack (like
> > they show in movies like Night of the Living Dead
> > and 28 Days
> > Later). It's a little far-out, but the book is
> > already scheduled for
> > release next August from Citadel Press.
> >
> > One of the experts I'm using, Mike Witzgall
> > (ex-Force Recon, former
> > SWAT officer) gave me some great technical advice on
> > how SWAT might
> > react in such a situation.
> >
> > What I'm looking for now is some practical
> > information on a couple of
> > points (see question below). Anyone who provides
> > useful information
> > will be quoted and thanked in the book.
> >
> > First, here's the scenario: The fictional zombies
> > we're talking
> > about here are the recently raised dead. They don't
> > breathe, they
> > don't bleed. The only way to kill them is either a
> > head shot that
> > destroys the brain, or severe trauma to the brain
> > stem.
> >
> > My SWAT expert said that even if headshots can't
> > always be guaranteed
> > the responding officers (or soldiers) could use
> > heavy fire to chop up
> > their legs.
> >
> > I need to know the follow:
> >
> > What kinds of rounds would do the most damage to
> > limbs (particularly
> > legs and lower trunk)? I'm talking about loss of
> > limb, shattered
> > bones, etc.
> >
> > Any suggestions? You can post here or email me at
> > zombiecsu@...
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jonathan Maberry
> > Author website: www.jonathanmaberry.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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