Zombie Apocalypse: Combat and Survival

By Wes Remington

Zombie Apocalypse: Combat and Survival outlines in detail, the tactics and strategies that are critical for survival against zombie world domination. The ravenous undead will stop at nothing to taste human flesh. This guide will tell you exactly what gear you will need, what weapons to carry, what skills to practice, what challenges you will face, and most importantly, how to overcome those challenges.

Zombie Apocalypse: Combat and Survival will cover:

-Zombie abilities and viral transmission
-The survival mindset
-Dealing with unsavory survivors/bandits/marauders
-Proper fitness training
-Fundamental marksmanship and weapons skills
-Choosing the proper weapons
-Weapons maintenance
-Zombie survival kits
-Urban and wilderness survival
-Stealth and camouflage
-Navigation
-Survival colony setup
-Zombie combat tactics

When the first zombies rise, it may be too late to prepare. Your true assets will be your survival skills, and they cannot be mastered in days. Build your skills, supplies, and confidence before the outbreak with Zombie Apocalypse: Combat and Survival. This survival knowledge will serve you well through any disaster. This guide is based off of years of United States Special Operations training and experience. It provides the most comprehensive and realistic strategies, tactics, and information to protect yourself and your family from ravenous, merciless, and unrelenting zombies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wes Remington
• Release date: Mar 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301204502

Wes Remington

My name is Wes Remington and I am a writer for End of Time Survival. I am a former U.S. Military Special Operations Commando who is sniper qualified and well versed in close quarters combat. My current mission is to ensure you are adequately prepared for the zombie apocalypse.

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Zombie Apocalypse: Combat and Survival

Wes Remington

Copyright 2013 End of Time Survival LLC

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Table of Contents

Introduction

The Zombie Apocalypse

The Survival Mindset

Zombie Fitness

Swimming

Rules of the Game, Know Your Enemy

Select Your Weapon

Use Your Weapon

Zombie Survival Kit

Bunkers and Long Term Supply Storage

Should you stay or bug out?

Urban Survival

Wilderness Survival

Navigation

Lone survivor or survival colony?

Stealth and Camouflage

Zombie Combat Tactics

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Introduction

I have always had a fascination with apocalyptic scenarios, more specifically, the zombie apocalypse. My name is Wes Remington, and I am a contributor to End of Time Survival along with my buddy, Johnny Maverick. End of Time Survival is a website that examines various apocalyptic scenarios with a primary focus on the zombie apocalypse. We provide recommendations for quality, reliable, and affordable zombie survival gear that have practical uses in every day life. We also generate fictional zombie or doomsday scenarios that teach survival tactics.

Our goal is to prepare the average person, those who cannot afford a doomsday bunker or to employ personal security. We believe that with the right gear, the right training, and the right tactics you can increase your chances of surviving a zombie plague. Your first step on the path to becoming a zombie killing bad ass is to acquire as much tactical and survival knowledge as possible. This guide will provide a solid foundation of skills and information that will keep you a step ahead of the zombie horde.

By now you must be thinking, Why the hell should I listen to you? I am a former member of the United States Special Forces. I have received advanced training in firearms, demolitions, diving, parachuting, and wilderness survival. I have survived in cold, mountainous, jungle, and desert environments. In the Spec Ops community, I was a sniper by trade and am well versed in close quarters combat.

I am being purposefully vague concerning my branch of service and my unit. I have no desire to profit off the heroic reputation of my brothers. My hope is that this book can provide useful tips to increase your chances of surviving the zombie apocalypse. I want you to have confidence in your survival knowledge, so you can step up, protect your loved ones, and take responsibility for their well being.

Military and survival manuals can be horribly boring to read, so I translated some of that information, and lessons that I’ve learned from personal experience into an easy to read format. This guide can be read from the first to the last page, or just referenced if you are only concerned with particular skills or topics. I make recommendations and provide my opinion on some political and moral issues regarding the zombie apocalypse. Take it for what it’s worth.

If anything, I hope my discussion of politics, morality, and culture in a world devastated by zombies gets you to think about how you would do things. If you think my way won’t work, devise your own strategy. Any plan of action is better than no plan at all. My survival recommendations are just one way to survive. The saying, There are 100 ways to skin a cat applies here. If you already have a well developed zombie combat and survival plan, perhaps my recommendations can be used to troubleshoot its weaknesses.

Here is my approach to the zombie apocalypse...

The Zombie Apocalypse

The end of the world could be right around the corner. The big questions are when and how will it end? The end could mean the human species becomes extinct, modern civilization is thrown into utter chaos, or planet Earth is destroyed. There is not much we can do as individuals to prepare for total planetary destruction such as an Earth ending asteroid.

There are many other ways the end could come; nuclear war, a global epidemic, or an alien invasion to name a few. The focus of this survival guide will be to help you survive the zombie apocalypse. The tips in this book can be used for any apocalyptic scenario where total extinction of the human race or destruction of the planet does not occur.

I have decided to explore the zombie apocalypse because if you can survive combat with the undead, then you can survive any disaster scenario. If you stock your home with supplies to combat zombies, and a hurricane or earthquake hits, then you have those supplies ready for use.

The Survival Mindset

Mental strength is the most powerful asset a survivor can have. All the high speed, expensive gear in the world cannot substitute for a strong survival mindset. The zombie apocalypse will be a catastrophic shock to our way of life. There will be many scared people who have lost everything.

The inevitability of death and destruction will consume people. It will exterminate their will to live. The sheer challenge of a world dominated by zombies will cause people to quit.

As long as you have breath in your lungs, there is hope of survival. I will paraphrase Lt.Col Doolittle and emphasize, Victory comes to the one who wants it the most. You must find motivation; whether it comes from your loved ones who have survived with you, or it’s merely the desire to kill every last zombie out of revenge or sport.

The landscape will become cut throat and brutal. Challenges will present themselves daily. The mind believes the body is weak and causes us to quit when we experience pain or discomfort. The human body is strong and can be pushed farther than we realize. Understand that you are capable of amazing things.

Build your confidence. After conquering an extreme situation, other challenges will seem easy in comparison. If life seems to really suck at the moment, think back to when it was worse. You can say to yourself I made it back then, and it was awful. I can definitely come out on top now.

This advice comes from a place of experience. I have been hypothermic, gone days without sleep, and endured immense physical pain. When faced with a challenge, I think back to more difficult times; remembering past victories gives me the confidence to conquer new obstacles.

A zombie survival mentality requires you to segment. Break your challenges up into smaller, attainable goals. If you are building a large survival colony, then set small goals each day that can be accomplished. In time, the complex job of building a survival colony will be realized. Rome wasn’t built in a day!

Survive with the goal of making it to lunch. Then when you are there, make it to dinner. Once your confidence builds in your abilities, look a little farther into the future and set goals to accomplish.

The sheer scope of the zombie apocalypse presents too large a problem to tackle at one time. You must segment it, and take steps towards an effective survival strategy. Then you can try to work towards a cure or solution to the zombie plague. An overwhelming problem such as this, will not be solved overnight. A remedy may not exist, but having a purpose will push you to survive.

My final tip for building the right zombie survival mentality is to think. Do what the zombies can’t. Thinking requires time. When you have time, think about solutions to your problems. Work smarter, not harder, and try to do it right the first time (avoid costly mistakes). The correct plan won’t always be obvious.

Time won’t always be on your side. The zombies may only allow you to react. That is just a fact of life in a zombie infested world. Find time to think, and it will increase your life expectancy greatly.

Summary

-A positive survival mindset is everything.

-Victory comes to the one who wants it the most (Lt.Col Doolittle).

-Find a purpose, set goals, and stay motivated.

-Segment large challenges. Break them up into smaller, attainable goals.

-The zombie apocalypse will not be fixed overnight. Do not get discouraged and lose hope!

Zombie Fitness

First, you must prepare mentally for gruesome zombie battle. Next, you must prepare physically. It’s no surprise you must be physically fit to give yourself the advantage, whether you have to fight zombies, or