Walking Dead Knives

Foot442 said:
Any knife can puncture the skull in the soft spot, but it takes force. Stab with weak hand and use strong hand to perform pomell strike. Marine corp trained. The only problem is that it is damn near impossible to remove after. There is a much easier solution, under the chin and into the base of the skull. Sorry if graphic but I hate movies that make knife fights look to simple. Knife fights are hard and take a lot of energy. The body naturally causes suction on the blade so it's harder to remove than to stab in the first place. I didn't enjoy killing when I had too nor do I condone it now, and at times I can still have nightmares but for the most part I'm great. Happy Thanksgiving all
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Thank you for the informative post.

Unfortunately, they don't seem to do that in the show, but, you know, that's TV for you. They did do the knife under the chin and into the base, but the same YT show I just posted tested that and it didn't work. Would sure as hell do the job on a living person, though. :eek:
 
There is also the brain scrambler in which you stab from the back side of the neck upward at a 30 degree angle into the base of the skull. Then twist twice and retrieve. No sound and quick death but lots of blood though. 4 inch blade or longer for best results, but smaller blades will work just at a more aggressive angle
 
Foot442 said:
There is also the brain scrambler in which you stab from the back side of the neck upward at a 30 degree angle into the base of the skull. Then twist twice and retrieve. No sound and quick death but lots of blood though. 4 inch blade or longer for best results, but smaller blades will work just at a more aggressive angle
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Yeah, they did that, too. That's gruesome stuff. :thumbup: Just found the link.

[video=youtube;LPdrASjuASI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPdrASjuASI[/video]

Something tells me he's not doing it 100% correctly.
 
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Foot442 said:
Any knife can puncture the skull in the soft spot, but it takes force. Stab with weak hand and use strong hand to perform pomell strike. Marine corp trained. The only problem is that it is damn near impossible to remove after. There is a much easier solution, under the chin and into the base of the skull. Sorry if graphic but I hate movies that make knife fights look to simple. Knife fights are hard and take a lot of energy. The body naturally causes suction on the blade so it's harder to remove than to stab in the first place. I didn't enjoy killing when I had too nor do I condone it now, and at times I can still have nightmares but for the most part I'm great. Happy Thanksgiving all
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Stab with the weak hand, then perform pommel strike with the strong hand? Hmmm... I didn't realize Marine Corps close combat training was that optimistic about the opponent staying put...

Anyway, the real danger of skull strikes from blades is that the head's skin tissue is incredibly prone to massive bleeding... Massive head bleeding killed or weakened soldiers in swords fights far more often that actual skull penetrations...

This was driven home for me in the Michael Peterson case, where the death of his wife Kathleen was finally demonstrated to have been the result of head lacerations from an Owl attack... (The mysterious pattern of the head lacerations become crystal-clear in this light) Two microscopic owl feathers were found mingled in her own hair, that she had herself uprooted in an attempt to dislodge the bird: These tiny feathers are only found under the bird's talons... (She also had triple talon punctures holes in a neat pattern on her elbow)

The biggest problem of course in penetrating the skull is that the neck hasn't much rigidity, and you have to put quite a wallop into something round that doesn't stay put... A real person also will duck the head so you don't hit the center... Even axes routinely do little more than cracks, but definitely axes and hammers are the better tool for this: In a real Zombie apocalypse, all you would see is people with hammers and hatchets... Hugh!

Gaston
 
Foot442 said:
Any knife can puncture the skull in the soft spot, but it takes force. Stab with weak hand and use strong hand to perform pomell strike. Marine corp trained. The only problem is that it is damn near impossible to remove after. There is a much easier solution, under the chin and into the base of the skull. Sorry if graphic but I hate movies that make knife fights look to simple. Knife fights are hard and take a lot of energy. The body naturally causes suction on the blade so it's harder to remove than to stab in the first place. I didn't enjoy killing when I had too nor do I condone it now, and at times I can still have nightmares but for the most part I'm great. Happy Thanksgiving all
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Not trying to be a smart a$&, but where is the soft spot on an adult skull?
 
Lifting the arm so high that you can stab through the supposedly soft spot on top of an opponents skull will leave your body open. That kind of indirect stab isn't the fastest thus you will probably get hit before you can complete that action.
 
I can't believe people are getting so worked up over the legitimacy of knives being depicted as being capable of easily penetrating a ZOMBIE SKULL.
 
Bobby3326 said:
I can't believe people are getting so worked up over the legitimacy of knives being depicted as being capable of easily penetrating a ZOMBIE SKULL.
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This is where you go wrong: According to the story, they are not ZOMBIE skulls, they are human skulls of people who happen to be zombies...

Also, it is kind of idiotic that what is supposed to be the scariest thing in the show is depicted as far less capable than what you see around you every day, even though one is supposed to be derived from the other...

The scariest zombies were in the ones the 2004 remake of "Dawn of the Dead": I thought being truer to the bodies they derive from made them especially haunting...

Gaston
 
Gaston444 said:
This is like the third time you come up with that: What is this, the forum Zombie Police or something?

Gaston
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Idk about zombie police but maybe he's trying to give a reality check to those arguing over the authenticity of which knife is capable of piercing a zombie skull in the real world, oppose to as seen on tv.[emoji57]
 
Foot442 said:
The body naturally causes suction on the blade so it's harder to remove than to stab in the first place. I didn't enjoy killing when I had too nor do I condone it now, and at times I can still have nightmares but for the most part I'm great.
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Hmmmm, Ive read that several times in regards to knives sticking in bodies i.e. the body creating 'suction.'
I hunt pigs with a knife. Its like stabbing/sticking water.
You can obtain different results when hitting a pig bone, but thats got nothing to do with 'the body causing suction.'
The body simply doesnt 'suck' or attach itself to the blade in my experience.
And yes, pigs are similar to humans in some respects - there is a reason spare parts from pigs are used in medical science .....and a reason why the military tests their hardware on piggies (that and a general lack of volunteers).
But I digress a little - back to blades.
 
Did anyone happen to notice what make/model Rick's new folder was in Season 6 episode 11? The one he sticks that dude in the throat with.
 
themaxx76 said:
Did anyone happen to notice what make/model Rick's new folder was in Season 6 episode 11? The one he sticks that dude in the throat with.
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At Hilltop? If that's the one you mean, they made it really difficult to see in that scene. It looks like it might be a fixed blade(?); beyond that, not a clue. This was the best look I got at the knife during that struggle:
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