The Zombie War...

[SamuraiDave]

I just got finished reading "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War" by Max Brooks. The guy who wrote the survival guide.

It reads like a oral history of WWII or some other great conflict. The scary thing is how he puts it all together.

I loved it. A strange yet good read. It makes you want to go out and stock up on MRE's, bottled water, and a few extra thousand rounds of .22 ammo. Statistically speaking you probably wont survive, but you might as well take as many of them with you as possible.

BTW, I am making some mods to my BAS to make it more comfy after having it by my side for the past few days (I told you the book was creepy). Although they don't make any references to khuks in the book, in the survival guide it is clear blades beat firearms.

We havent done a thread on Zombies in quite some time. I think now is a good time to start one... again.

Remember, you dont have to sever their head, just destroy their undead brain. So my BAS would work well, although my 20" AK would be interesting, and my HI Katana would be great.

Maybe I need a Malla?

What are your top Zombie khuks?

 

[Wolf_1989]

I'll rank my HI's in this order:

21.5" Chitlangi by Sher - my favorite khukuri and my favorite blade of any I own. Nice compromise between agility/speed and chopping power... with perfect ergonomics.


26" Chitlangi by Bura - good agility for its size, excellent reach, but a bit cumbersome in tight spaces. I bet it could behead an undead water buffalo if needed.


23.75" Chiruwa Chitlangi ("Wolf's Battle Chitlangi") by Santosh - Incredibly stout power chopper. A bit heavy but well balanced and nigh indestructible. Feels more like a super-tough brush clearing tool than a weapon, but I sure wouldn't want to be hit by it

Tarwar Sword by Bura - very agile and relatively quick blade, yet still a ferocious cutter. Good reach combined with impeccable balance. A hard strike using the back of the blade could certainly shatter bone.

20" Ang Khola by Kumar - the 23.75" Chiruwa Chitlangi hits harder but the 20" AK bites deeper. This khukuri is like a meat cleaver on steroids.

25" Sirupati by Vim - very quick for its size, but lacks the powerful chopping ability of my other khukuris. It would probably be adequate for decapitating the undead though.

25" Bhairab by Vim - a 5lb and 0.5" thick beast. It could decapitate a tyrannosaurus but too heavy and slow for engaging multiple targets.

14" Seax by Dil - a big tough sharp knife, but lacks the reach needed to decapitate zombies while staying out of their biting range.



I'd still rather keep the zombies a few hundred yards away with my AR15 though.

 

[TWBryan]

My go-to blade for everything is my 20.5" sirupate I re-handled. The 25" sirupate would probably be better,but I think I need to work out a lot before I become deft in it's handling. I've got a kobra,but I think it's more for the living than the undead. I agree with wolf_1989,I'd rather keep 'em away with my dissipator ar-15.

 

[Steely_Gunz]

Fantastic book, Dave:thumbup: I've read it about 4 times.

My Manjushree would probably be my weapon of choice should I need to face down a few zeds at a time. Double edged with a good heft, this is one HI sword made to cleave and poke.

One on one, I think i would take something with a little more utility yet lots of shearing action. Probably my M43. It's basically made for that kind of warfare. It could easily disarm (quite literally) a zed, or pierce the brain pan.

My Munk Chunk Cleaver would be great for Whack-a-mole duty. 15" and 32oz, a zed that poked his head up into my inevitable hidey-hole would be split like a melon.

Having handled a 14" trisul before, I think it would excel as a last ditch hand to hand if a biter got the drop on you and you needed something sharp and pointy to go in his eye

In other zombie related reads:
Check out the author Brian Keene. He has several books that are about the zombie rising with a supernatural twist. Start with The Rising then read City of the Dead. Dead Sea is set in the same universe. His work is pretty easy to get right into and has plenty of gore:barf:

For graphic novel fans: I whole heartily recommend The Walking Dead series. Robert Kirkman's series is about a group of survivors coming together after an unexplained zombie uprising. It not only goes into the horrors of living in such a world, but the bleakness, the stain on the social mores we are so accustom to, and even the paradoxical preciousness of life contrasting the cheapness of it as killing becomes easy and watching the living become the dead is almost a daily norm. Excellent read. 8 books in the series so far.

 

[TWBryan]

I've read the walking dead graphic novels,very depressing. I'll have to get one of Brian Keene's novels though. Thanks to Yangdu I've got an M43 on the way,so I guess I will have all bases covered.

 

[Wolf_1989]

And there's always one of my home-made zombie smashers:

 

[DannyinJapan]

that is beautiful. is it strong enough for combat?
id love to have nice one of those gunstock clubs with the blade in the front..

 

[Mike Winderman]

My Zombie Arsenal currently is : 18 Inch Bone Cutter, Hi Ginunting, Remington 870 Tac, S and W 627,

and of course Flamethrower that doubles as a marshmellow cooker. If I could find one I would add a

cricket bat.

 

[Wolf_1989]

that is beautiful. is it strong enough for combat?
id love to have nice one of those gunstock clubs with the blade in the front..

I carved it from one solid piece of cherry heartwood which was slowly dried in my basement for about two years.

Before the final sanding and staining, and before adding the antler spike, I tested it thoroughly on different striking targets, including watermelons, a sheep skull, and a tire pell one of my reinactor friends uses to test swords and battle axes.

overall length - 23.5"
diameter of the ball - 4.5"

The antler spike protrudes out 2.5" and is set into the ball about 1.5" and epoxied.

 

[tyr_shadowblade]

I hear they're making a World War Z movie . . . don't know how it could be better than the book.

I only own 2 khukris . . . both are Bura Movie Models that are scary sharp. Purchased specifically for this type of scenario.

 

[DannyinJapan]

God I love a good weapon. I dont care where it comes from. Native American, Asian, African, European...If it is well made and has a touch of class, I love it.

 

[kronckew]

that is beautiful. is it strong enough for combat?
id love to have nice one of those gunstock clubs with the blade in the front..

cold steel of course make the ball and gunstock clubs - in polypropylene, would give you the feel before you get a proper wood one done up.

now that we've 'opened up' past kukhuris, with my trusty Kobra on it's baldric on one side (to keep this war on-topic & forum appropriate), a bowie tucked in my waist and my dharb* on the other side, i'd use my zulu knobkerry or my trench mace where appropriate.

*- i'd vary that with my aceh sikin, moro kris, dutch klewang, talibon, ginunting, or possibly the dane axe or bullova axe, depending on the mood.

so many choices, so few zombies....

good thing Z's don't carry guns tho (of course they'd be arrested over here as that would be illegal - a smart Z lawyer would probably get him off arguing that once you are dead, you're not expected to obey the law).

 

[Wolf_1989]

LOVE that trench mace!!!

:thumbup:

 

[C.S. Graves]

I think one of the easiest and best anti-zombie melee weapons the average non-khuk owning joe could come across would be the humble claw hammer, especially the longer specimens. One could use the claw side for a war-hammer like penetration.

Maybe they should make a film called Old Boy in the Land of the Dead?

 

[Wolf_1989]

Someone posted pics of his customized Cold Steel Warhammer over in the Axe/Tomahawk section.

Bet that thing would be a good zombie slayer.:thumbup:

 

[Lycosa]

My Tool-Steel Katana. Back up blade, Mission MPT.

 

[leebrewer]

I just finished World War Z audio on a road trip. Great listen. I was wanting more when it ended.

 

[Raymond1000]

I carved it from one solid piece of cherry heartwood which was slowly dried in my basement for about two years.

Before the final sanding and staining, and before adding the antler spike, I tested it thoroughly on different striking targets, including watermelons, a sheep skull, and a tire pell one of my reinactor friends uses to test swords and battle axes.

overall length - 23.5"
diameter of the ball - 4.5"

The antler spike protrudes out 2.5" and is set into the ball about 1.5" and epoxied.

I know what a pell is. What is a tire pell? A stack of tires laid flat? Tire treads tied to an upright wooden pell? Please describe the device.

 

[Wolf_1989]

He has a stack of old tires with a wooden post inside them to keep them from falling over (which is what I used) and a couple tires roped together and suspended off the ground at 3 points.

 

[Yvsa]

I carved it from one solid piece of cherry heartwood which was slowly dried in my basement for about two years.

overall length - 23.5"
diameter of the ball - 4.5"

Wolf as DIJ said, "That is beautiful.":thumbup: It isn't a strictly traditional Ball Club but is close enough that it could've been and it's indeed one any ndn would be proud to have made or to have for his personal weapons stash!:thumbup:
How were you able to carve it from one piece and have the grain on the handle run straight like it is with the heartwood for the ball?
Also how did you carve the ball and get it so round by hand, which I assume you had too do since you said "it's one piece?"

I have a walking stick I carved from a Wild Cherry sapling I cut in Pennsylvania and sent back to myself in Oklahoma in a discarded linoleum tube by UPS. It has several images of different animals in its grain and the natural cherry wood is nothing but beautiful, too bad so many furniture places stain it like they do.
You did a really nice job of drying it!:thumbup: