Weapon Madness – Round One – Melee Weapon Contest: Pick Axe vs Cordless Drill
When a rock challenged the .22 rifle, the rifle shot back with a take no prisoners kind of attitude. People overwhelming preferred the long distance killing potential of the .22 rifle over a hand thrown rock. The rifles are light and as Strife26 pointed out on the main blog site, ammo is cheap and light to carry.
This next matchup puts a pick axe against a cordless drill. Some might rush to a conclusion on first glance, but I found the more I thought of this matchup, the harder it was to decide. Also, I’ve used both tools rather extensively in the past year which jaded me to both. Which one did I choose? You’ll have to read the next matchup to find out.
Pick Axe
Pros: great kill potential, can be used to pry open doors, can push zombies back
Cons: an off swing could throw you off balance, liable to break under heavy use, tire out your arms
Cordless Drill
Pros: Should be able to cut through bone, good club potential, good for getting into difficult places
Cons: power, up close to use, useless against multiple zombies
Just a reminder about the judging. These are Romero type zombies. They are slow and sluggish. Headshots or decapitations will kill them. Bites will lead to probable infection, then death. You should judge a weapon based on its effectiveness against one zombie to an entire horde. A weapon does not need to be lethal to be effective. If it buys you some time to escape, then it should be looked on with favor.
So which do you think will make for a better zombie killing weapon?
Filed under: Zombie Madness Bracket Challenge · Tags: Weapon Madness
pick axe! no doubt.
I’d like the axe here. Neither is an especially good weapon (the drill being awkward and requiring being withing bite range, and the axe being horrible unbalanced). They’re both useful as tools though. I worry about running out of power for the drill (this depends a lot on the drill in question though, mine tend to drain pretty quickly). The axe can be used to break up furniture for material, smash doors, and is a slightly better weapon than the drill.
its got to be the pick axe, a cordless drill is too slow and too close like you said. a chainsaw would be better :)