Has anyone seen this before?

[AsahinaKimi]

http://www.hornady.com/ammunition/zombiemax

[gejohnston]

1. Have not seen them in the store, but have seen it mentioned here and on other gun blogs.

I'm waiting for the silver ones to come out for werewolves and vampires.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Wow. Well, for Zombies...

...it doesn't pay to use less than the best!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. Yes

When I first saw this (and many other times) I was/am very glad that I didn't major in marketing.

[Lurks Often]

4. Marketing Gimmick

The ammo is nothing more then Hornady's hunting and self defense ammo with a green polymer tip instead of the red used in the hunting and self defense ammo.

Practical difference none, but I bet someone in marketing got a bonus.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Heard a slightly different version of the story

Head of Hornaday is a big sci-fi fan and did it as a joke that has since gone unexpectedly viral.

[HankyDub]

11. Pretty good gimmick

Considering that Glenn Beck speaks at NRA/GOP events and his audience is primed for a zombie attack any day now. Good job by this company thinking "outside the box" and appealing to the racist gun nut base of the conservative movement.

[DonP]

12. Anti Zombie = Racist?

Wow, even for a board as progressive as DU that's a hell of a stretch. Treat Zombies with respect?

The rest of the world sees this as a silly and fun gimmick to sell an extra box of ammo or two for display. But we've come to expect true insanity from gun control supporters, so keep up the good work.

And thanks for the good thoughts, Hornady is doing very well with pretty much their whole product line.

[HankyDub]

14. Maybe if you could show where I said that

It would be helpful to your argument.

In general the Glenn Beck gun nut zombie bunker audience will tend toward extreme racism.

I'm sure lots of gun and ammo manuacturers are doing very well, especially since the SCOTUS ACA decision. Need lots of guns and ammo if you are planning a teabagger coup.

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/they-took-our-freedoms-away-from-us-who-why-what-can-we-do?xg_source=activity&id=4301673%3ATopic%3A791569&page=11#comments

[Euromutt]

22. You sure as hell implied it

Good job by this company thinking "outside the box" and appealing to the racist gun nut base of the conservative movement.

The only way that statement makes sense is if you assume that the people who get worked up, even jokingly, over a potential zombie apocalypse, are also racist survivalists. I see no reason to make that assumption; the few people I know who might buy this ammunition are socially liberal with a strong love of sci-fi. Have you not noticed that zombie-apocalypse-themed movies and TV shows tend to have multi-ethnic casts, and the black guy generally isn't even a token to be sacrificed at the first opportunity.

[rl6214]

21. "appealing to the racist gun nut base"

Hoyt, is that you?

Racist against zombies?

[PoliticAverse]

5. Yes, they're capitalizing on the Zombie mania with an apparently profitable marketing gimmick. n/t

[SkatmanRoth]

6. Yea, a couple of times

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9805932
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/117242699

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. I thought the zombie in the suit was Romney. n/t

[gejohnston]

10. nawwwwwww

the suit looks too off the rack, like where I shop. Dead give away. OTOH, the face and hair does look like his.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. Dead give away.

good one

[aikoaiko]

19. How many times do I have to explain this? Romney is a mutant.

He is diseased. He never died and came back to life. He's a diseased mutant like in 28 days.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. Don't forget the matching ammo can

http://www.mtmcase-gard.com/products/shooting/zombie-ammo-can.php

Like Hornaday, its a recoloring of an existing product. MTM makes good cases in general. I find them better than mil surplus metal

[ileus]

13. Bass Pro had Zombie max Bullets for reloading yesterday.

and I saw all different calibers today at my LGS. Stuff is over prices, but pretty cool to have in the background when taking pictures.

I thought it was funny that they would sell the individual components for reloading....I'm pretty sure there's no R&D involved in producing these, but a rebadged type of bullet? Am I wrong?

[era veteran]

16. When we say Zombies, we mean…ZOMBIES!

LOL
Just think of the hijinks we could have if they went racist.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

17. Absolutely no different than A-Max ammo other than a green tip and flashy box and higher $.

Waste of money.

[eallen]

18. It doesn't work...

Unless you shoot them up enough to remove appendages, they just seem to shrug it off. After I emptied a box of that ammo at one, it still took a baseball bat to finish the job.

Damn.

[rl6214]

20. I saw them at Academy Sporting Goods just yesterday

Overpriced capitalizing on the popularity of the zombie phenomena.