My Pick List for Zombie Survival Necessities
(In no particular order)
1. Flint Fire Starter.
This will start fires affectively even when wet. By scrapping the flint with any rough metal, or even the edge of a coin, it will admit a large amount of sparks that will allow you to ignite whatever dry brush you may find.
2. A Good Heavy/Long Machete.
3. A Multi Purpose tool that includes at the very least a shovel, an axe and a saw, Such as this,
This will allow you to dig holes to dig latrines, saw logs and branches, and if need be chop would, but it would be recommendable to saw instead of chop as an axe will make more noise that will carry for a distance. Perhaps an unwanted group of the undead scourge. The axe would be predominantly for the purpose of self defense.
4. Water Purifying Tablets, like these,
This will allow you to drink stagnate water with less risk of contracting some sort of illness. Warning: DO NOT THINK THIS WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ZOMBIE INFECTION! Though these will help to drink water that may carry unwanted bacteria it will not protect you if there happen to be rotting undead corpses that have been in the water. Remember there is no cure from infection.
5. Grappling Hook and Rope.
This will be useful if you need to get up a tree or a small cliff, and of course rope is very handy and can be used for a multitude of different task. However be careful with the rope you select, it must be strong enough to lift you up but you shouldn’t carry so much that it slows you down. For this reason I would recommend either braided nylon rope, or parachute cord, seeing that the later is much harder to find you will be heavier which means you will not be able carry as much of it. I would recommend at least 50ft of it. Trust me when I tell you that it is very handy, but again if it is too heavy go with less rope make sure you can mover freely. If you are lucky enough to find parachute cord, count your blessing because it is extremely strong and relatively light weight so you will be able to carry much more lengths of rope.
6. A portable hammock that does not need to be screwed in but simply tied.
This will be quite hand it will be easy to carry, easy to set up, and if you use the previously stated rope and grappling hook to get yourself higher in a tree, you will be much safer sleeping than you would be if you were on the ground. I would recommend you use some sort of strapping method so you do not fall out while you sleep.
7. Food.
MRE’s are military rations, MRE stands for meals ready to eat. These are handy as they have a long shelf life. I would also advise canned goods. Never get any perishables and do not count on Mother Nature to provide, she can be a cruel mistress and in a zombie induced apocalypse most animals will have departed do to fear of being eaten alive. (Even though zombies favorite meal is from the living flesh it once was, I.E. man flesh.)
8. A first aid kit
Now some of you may scoff at the ides that this as a necessity, after all there is no cure to a zombie bite. However you can get injuries from more then just zombies. You could slip climbing a cliff and tear your leg open. And if you have an open wound not caused by a zombie, you may die yet or get infected as a result of not treating and dressing this wound. It may not help a zombie infection, but that is not the only kind of infection, or wound you can get walking through tough terrain or demolished city streets.
Now this list is simply what you would need to survive, not what you would need to be on the offensive. Obviously some of the items I mentioned can be used for offensive purposes, but this list is simply recommended objects that would be quite useful in keeping ahead of the zombie scum, as will as avoid confrontation by being safe, and being clever.
I wish you all good luck when the zombie plague inevitably arises
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