By Samantha Grossman,
TIME NewsFeed, June 11, 2012
Worried about
recent bouts of rampant cannibalism? Fearing an onslaught of the
undead? Well, fear not: you can now prepare for Zombiegeddon with a new
line of specially engineered zombie bullets — while supplies last.
Hornady Manufacturing Company, a
Nebraska-based ammunition maker, is promoting its line of Z-Max
zombie bullets as “specifically designed to vaporize zombie
varmints.” Since killing zombies, as everyone knows, requires taking out the brain, the Z-Max line boasts
“Ultra-flat trajectories [that] send mangy menaces to the varmint graveyard.”
These bullets are built, as Hornady’s website puts it, to “make dead
permanent.”
But before you rush out to fill your
survival bunker with special anti-zombie ammunition, please note that the
product’s more of a gimmick than anything else. The Observer reports that the bullets are
mostly a product of company owner Steve Hornady’s affection for zombie flicks,
plus a dash of clever marketing and some good timing. Company spokesperson
Everett Deger took pains to tell Detroit-based WWJ Newsradio that the ammunition is to be
used only on targets, and definitely not on people — undead or otherwise.
But despite the lack of anything
that would make a round of Z-Max more likely to take out a zombie than any
other bullet, Deger said the Z-Max bullets are already Hornady’s most
successful product. The company seems to suspect that the booming sales numbers
are a result of the product’s “cool” packaging and cross-market appeal.
But as the zombie apocalypse draws ever closer, NewsFeed knows the true reason
this product has flown off the shelves: Just in case.
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