Delta 5 Tactical Vest – CamelBak

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Staying on the move is essential when you find yourself exposed and in need of finding new shelter, or a better fortification (beyond just a hasty fighting position). When you’re on the go, the ability to carry as much as you can is really going to help your long term ability to see another day. Staying hydrated will also help you stay on the move, but if you’ve got to stop to get your canteen, that just ain’t efficient when flesh eating zombies are on your tail. The Delta 5 Tactical vest by CamelBak carries 3 liters of water, with fully integrated hands-free hydration.

Built for speed in tactical environments, the Delta 5 features MOLLE attachments for CamelBak pouches and zip cuffs. It’s adjustable to fit most sizes with and without body armor underneath, and if things head south, it’s also got a heavy duty low profile drag handle, so your crew can pull you out of the party when the zeds get a little crazy.

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Cracked Article : 5 Popular Zombie Survival Tactics (That Will Get You Killed)

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Cracked.com has put out a helpful and insightful article on 5 Zombie Survival Tactics and the possible pitfalls associated with them. It does a great job in highlighting the problems associated with certain contingency plans. Hopefully, you incorporate a few countermeasures into your own plans, just to be prepared. Without going into detail, they do highlight some interesting points.

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Highland Hiking and Survival Staff

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Whenever you’re out for a supply hunt, zombies aren’t the only danger you need to be wary of. Losing your way is always a possibility and not having the right tools to help you get around and survive is a very scary thought. It’s hard to have all the necessary tools on hand, but with the Highland Hiking and Survival Staff you can make sure you’ve got several valuable hiking and survival tools within reach. Developed jointly by Cane Masters (a true authority on self defense canes) and Colorado Search & Rescue, this bad mama jamma is made of 1-inch diameter solid American hickory and weighs in at less than three pounds. The crook designed into the staff helps you reach further for more mobility, on top of giving you a nice hook for grabbing zombie necks and limbs to control the distance in a self defense situation.

It’s got plenty of features to help you get back to base in one bite-free piece as well. 35 feet of paracord, a military designed whistle that can be heard from a mile away, a steel chisel tip (for piercing zombie faces), a fluid suspended compass and a bit of swedish firesteel to top it all off.

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Original ‘True Ways’ 5 Day Survival Course

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If you live in the U.K. or are willing to travel there, I’d suggests spending some time on one of the ‘True Ways’ Survival Courses. There are plenty of other worthy training programs, probably closer to you than this one, but any course with SAS member and survival author Lofty Wiseman as member of the instructional team is worth checking out.
This 5 day course will definitely run you through the ringer. You may go in a rookie, but you’ll come out with survival skills perfectly suited for the Zombie Outbreak: Shelter Building, Fire Staring, Site Selection, Food Gathering, Fishing, Navigation, Finding Plants for Medicine, just to name a few. Sure, you could spend your time visiting the Big Ben and checking out the Crown Jewels, but those won’t help you on Z-Day.

Also available are 2 and 3 day courses if it suits you better.

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When Zombies Attack! : Mathematical Modeling Of An Out Break Of Zombie Infection

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Some very smart mathemagicians in Canada have put together a model for the Human survival of a Zombie Outbreak. It’s a whopping 150 pages but if you’re into Maths at all, it’s probably worth a gander.

Their Abstract statement:

“Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually
portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently,
we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie
movies. We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine equilibria and
their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the
model to introduce a latent period of zombification, whereby humans are infected, but
not infectious, before becoming undead. We then modify the model to include the
effects of possible quarantine or a cure. Finally, we examine the impact of regular,
impulsive reductions in the number of zombies and derive conditions under which
eradication can occur. We show that only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the
doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.”

I think the model is slightly flawed, as it does not include those of us preparing for the Outbreak!

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When All Hell Breaks Loose by Cody Lundin

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The Zombie Survival Guide is a wonderful book about surviving against the Zombie outbreak, but it really doesn’t go into detail about surviving the other aspects of life that inevitably comes with it. Penned by the founder and director of the internationally recognized Aboriginal Living Skills School, this book contains several helpful tips and tidbits on how to deal with an urban disaster.
“From the basics such as shelter, water, food, survival kits, and first-aid, to survival exotics such as building a makeshift toilet, catching rodents for food, and safely disposing of a corpse, When All Hell Breaks Loose is the first book to concisely and humorously outline a simple survival system using everyday household items to survive catastrophes from Los Angeles to Paris and everywhere in between.”

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Marmot CWM EQ Sleeping Bag

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We may not be Zombologists, and it’s difficult to say what the long term effects of winter is on the bodies of zombies, but we do know that extreme cold temperatures slow them down, and in some cases make some nice zombie-shaped ice sculptures. The problem is, traveling through such extremes is much harder on living bodies, so we need some help. The Marmot CWM EQ Sleeping Bag is tailor-made for the task. It’s rated for temperatures as low as -40 degrees (fahrenheit and celsius, how convenient). This sleeping bag is made to survive and help you stay warm and comfortable in the harsh climates you’re looking for to escape midnight snackers. Let the other survivors stupid enough to stay in comfortable weather lay around like burritos offered to the undead deities roaming around the state parks.

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Whistle Creek Survival Kit in a Sardine Can

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Sometimes you’re going to be in a situation where you don’t have your full Zapocalypse kit. That’s why it’s important that you always keep some essentials with you, even if it’s not everything.

We at Zprepared don’t go anywhere without the Whistle Creek Survival Kit in a Sardine Can. This handy little essential comes with 25 survival items in a compact, air-tight, crushproof sardine can. It even includes duct tape, matches, whistle, signal mirror, razor blade, fire starter cube, chewing gum, salt and a safety pin. Just throw it in your backpack, purse, or briefcase and you’re good to go.

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SteriPEN Journey LCD

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Drinking filtered urine isn’t something we here at Zprepared condone or recommend. You’re already avoiding whatever supernatural or government induced virus created this batch of Zombies, the last thing you need to worry about is being offed by bacteria in your water. That’s why we always have a SteriPEN Journey water purification system on hand.

It will provide you with fresh, clean water for 8,000 cycles. That equals out to about 4 times a day for 7 years on just one filter!

Not only does it have an amazing shelf life but its quick, purifying a half of a liter in 48 seconds.

Only weighing in at 4.5 oz it wont weigh you down when your on the run.

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PVS-14 Night Vision Mono Goggle

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You do your best to keep an eye out for zombies stumbling into your perimiter, making sure your crew has overlapping fields of view and the discipline to watch for trouble. However when you’re stalking through new and unexplored areas with no functioning power or lights, you need something to give you an edge in the dark. Advanced Night Vision Systems (ANVS) has the answer, the PVS-14 Night Vision Mono goggle. It can be head or helmet mounted or just used as a handheld system. The PVS-14 can help you see’em coming before you walk right into a gaggle of chomping and clawing zeds.

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