Top 5 zombie weapons

"As I said, you're too focused on the AR which is the big Hollywood gun. Talk about fantasy scenarios."

Hollywood is irrelevant. Unlike zombies, AR-15s are real, obviously, and have been on the civilian market since 1964. I already gave my reasons why it's an ideal gun for your fantasy scenario in my first reply. Again:

"It's the most popular rifle platform in the US, plus it's used by the military and police, so that helps with finding ammunition, magazines, and spare parts if you need them."

On top of that it uses relatively compact and lightweight ammunition; the platform has a relatively high level of inherent accuracy (for a military-style auto), and it's very modular. None of those things have anything to do with Hollywood whatsoever, obviously.

"Perhaps you never deployed,but trust me, your weapons system is actually used more because of contracts. Not function."

You don't know what you're talking about.

"Dude keep repeating the same info. It's hilarious."

What does it mean when an idiot laughs?

"Actually you convinced me. I'm now going to go with a .357 revolver"

A .357 Magnum revolver is the most versatile handgun you could have in an "apocalypse" type scenario. You have two very common cartridges to choose from, ranging from light .38 Special loads which are good for small game without destroying too much meat, up to heavy .357 Magnum loads which work for whitetail deer-size game and are also very effective against 2-legged varmints.

"just to piss you off."

LOL at you imagining that you could possibly "piss me off" by typing words.

"Zombie apocalypse aren't about the massive engagement or using equipment that is the best today. They're about long term survival."

First, you don't get to define what a "zombie apocalypse" is or isn't about, since you didn't invent the concept; George Romero [mainly] did. Second, something that qualifies as the best equipment and is suitable for "massive engagement" is inherently better for increasing your likelihood of "long term survival" anyway, obviously.

"If you said the M1, I would have respected you."

I'm trying to think of something more meaningless/worthless than getting "respect" from someone who demonstrably doesn't know what he's talking about.

"At least the round would do better with a headshot."

Assuming you're talking about an M1 Garand rather than an M1 Carbine, the .223/5.56 is already overkill for headshots out to several hundred yards anyway, which is as far away as you're going to be able to make headshots to begin with. And good luck finding en bloc clips for it during an apocalypse, and have fun trying to keep the ones you already have, which automatically get forcefully ejected upon firing your last round. Furthermore, .30-06 cartridges are a lot bigger and heavier than .223/5.56 (not as bad as 12-gauge though), and have drastically more recoil. And with a stock M1 Garand you can't use just any .30-06 ammunition you happen to find because, due to its fixed gas system combined with the rest of its design, the ammunition has to be loaded to certain specifications; powder has to have a certain burn rate else you risk bending your op rod. And on top of all that, you have a whopping 8-round capacity in a platform with difficult-to-find-in-an-apocalypse spare parts.

"But you went with the Hollywood staple."

Hollywood is irrelevant, Slow Doug (see above).

"what a dolt."

Comical Irony Alert, you know, coming from the clodpate who thinks a 12 gauge shotgun is a better choice in a "zombie apocalypse" than an AR-15, and who thinks an M1 Garand would be better too, and who mentioned 12 gauge ammunition being common as a benefit, and then later contradicted himself by saying, "You'd be better off not going for the popular choice."