Zombie Headshot Training: Pistols (part 3)

So lets start the year with a bang? :-)

The living dead can only be destroyed by shooting them in the head. You must breach the cerebral cortex to take them out permanently!

Competitive shooting can help you prepare for the enemy. Its a great way to hone this critical skill. You build confidence with your firearm by playing under match conditions which can ultimately toughen your mental game.

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Zombie brains are hard to hit! 

The brain is smaller than half of the head and we need to aim at the upper part of their ugly face. We need to be precise. This requires us to be familiar with its shape from various angles for each precious shot.

You could do it with pistols, rifles, bows, slingshots, or whatever weapon that is powerful enough to breach the skull.

You'll also need to be fast. We will be surrounded by hundreds or even thousands of hostiles.

The great Col. Jeff Cooper's motto was Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas (DVC) meaning accuracy, power. He was the founder of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC).

Practice hard. Your loved ones are counting on you.



Zombie Headshot Practice part 2 of 3
Zombie Headshot Practice part 1 of 3
Recuve bow VS Zombies!


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Zombie Boot Camp Experience

If you are planning to visit London and are in need of zombie training, you could check out the Zombie Boot Camp Experience from Buyagift.

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You can buy a gift for you or a friend to learn important things like team work, trigger discipline, and surviving the absolute chaos that can happen in a close-quarters zombie battle.

They've got this training scenario in a real decommissioned Cold War Nuclear Bunker! That is enough reason for me to check it out if I ever visit the UK.

 

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Fighting hordes of undead requires specific tactics. The enemy moves differently, they have no fear. Against hundreds or even thousands of walkers, your shots will need to count.

The biggest thing that many survivalists forget is the importance of fighting as a team. We are guilty of thinking of only ourselves going up against the whole world. One lone ranger VS possibly BILLIONS of walkers? Brain-dead!

Training to fight with a team is for real survivalists. Turning your family into an effective fighting force is your first mission. This is why I dig this program from Buyagift. It looks like a lot of fun and I'll bet that they have a course that your wife and daughter will appreciate. From here, anything is possible.

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Zombie Headshot Training: Pistols (Part 2)

Bald zombies... are easier to hit. 

 

I finally get to step up my training in the sport of IPSC practical shooting. There are a lot of big tournaments that I'm looking forward to join this year and I'm hitting the firing range on a weekly basis. Good times are here!

Even my dad is returning to competitive form. He scores higher than me most of the time, and that means I often buy the cold drinks & chow after range time.

Aside from competition, I am using this as an opportunity to upgrade my zombie-killing skills. The video below is me practicing against a row of steel plates.  I love shooting at those palm-sized targets because of the nice "ping" sound you get when hitting them. I get a warm fuzzy feeling from knocking them down one after the other.

If only I could get our Range Officer to design moving steel plates for me to train with. That would be awesome!

Above is a video of a "man vs man" match, I'm on the right. Two guys try to knock down their row of targets faster than the other guy. There are numerous variations to keep it lively. Indoor practice is good, but I love being out in the sun!

Whatever you do, please practice the fundamentals of FIREARM SAFETY. Wear eye and ear protection at all times, and set steel targets at the proper distance to minimize ricochets. 

Train hard, train often, have fun. It directly contributes to winning the coming zombie war.


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Headshot Training: SF Archery Recurve Bow

Its taken about two weeks for me shoot at stuff without embarrassing myself. The good part about it is that I can do this in my own back yard! 

At least 3x a week,  I pull out a double-layered rubber mat target and hang it on our laundry clothesline. I then pull out my SF Archery take-down recurve bow from my bug-out-bag. My archery range is pretty safe, there's a deserted grassy fiend behind my home.

Killing Zeds

We all know that head shots are the only way to dispatch the living dead. Easier said than done. Lower shots to the face may only go through the mouth and throat. Those won't do. 

Is the upper half of the head you need to aim for. Now try that on an undead person you may have known who is now shambling towards you. It will be quite disturbing.

Warning: broadhead arrows will damage rubber mat targets. 

I'll save them for a Smashing Coconut Test (TM).

Method

• Targets are set 15 meters or 49 feet away.
• The head area should be close to the actual size. Smaller is better if you have space limitations.
• The clothesline could be pulled up and down for added difficulty. 
• In the future I'll design it in a way that we can pull the target towards the shooter.
• Nighttime archery is very important training. Too bad the videos of these were too dark

Observe archery safety at all times:

1. A bow is not a toy
2. Do not hold your bow if someone is downrange
3. Be aware of your surroundings, even behind the shooting line 
4. Do not point the bow at something you are willing to destroy or eat 

Note: I eat whatever I catch. I frown on wasteful hunting and poaching.

This is how 49 feet looks like. 

Aim between the eyes.

Its best to use drawings or print-outs of zombies to shoot at. Full-color if your could afford it. 

Remember: they need to be menacing and creepy. You must be mentally prepared to take them out when the time comes.

Here's a short video of my session on a fine sunny afternoon.

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Archery rocks man. Survivalists will love its versatility. Feed your family, improve your physique, kill zeds. Its a quiver full of win!

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Zombie Headshot Training: Rainy Weekend Practice (pistols)

The weekend at last! Off to the shooting range.

I did poorly at a tournament my dad & I joined last week at the Quezon City Police Department Firing Range.  I was doing fine on the first 3 stages, but I stank the one that had a lot of IPSC poppers (small steel plates).

Normally I don't have any trouble with these. But on that particular stage, it took me about two or more shots to drop each plate.  Aaaarrgh!

Overconfidence is a zombie-hunter-killer. 

It matters a lot to me because poppers represent the all-important head shot. How else will we slay our undead foes?

I've been preparing for the big 11th Bolo Tuason Cup this July 15, so my drills need to remedy my weakness.  I also want to improve to show my dad that I'm really trying to catch up with him. He made it to the #3 ranking at the national level around 2005-2006 for the standard division. He'd make a fabulous zombie hunter & could easily protect my mom WTSHTF. 

Happy weekend report:

We went to an indoor range yesterday.  The monsoon season is in full swing, so it was raining hard.  This forced us to make a rare trip to an indoor range. I focused training on slightly than smaller popper targets compared to the IPSC standard.  

We had a lot of fun and found that either of us would tend to miss a couple of "routine" shots during live-fire practice. This can sometimes result from overconfidence & bad habits mistakenly reinforced during dry fire.

The targets we worked on were placed between 10 and 15 meters. Smaller targets are good because it will help us train to destroy zombie brains.  Shots to the lower half of the head will not be combat effective unless the bullet is large enough to blast the thing apart.  

Brain destruction is the only valid shot.  Alpha or nothing!

And here's some progress at the end of the day. Remember folks, if it ain't a head shot, you're wasting ammo.





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