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For long ranged, a crossbow would be useful. You can easily make crossbolts from stuff you find around your secret hide-out. They also make very little noise when fired so won't draw any attention. Unlike hunting rifles or any other fire arm.

I would choose a crowbar. It serves a dual purpose. Not only could you use it as a weapon, but you could pry stuff open if'n you had to.

True. Well, if you have a silencer for your rifle/pistol/whatever you happen to use, then woot.
:D

Another plus with the bow, however, is you can alwyas get your arrows back. Just pluck them from the zombie's heads.
XD

I'd also assume that gun shops and what have you would have already been raided at the begining of the zombie onslaught. So ammo would be harder to come by for those types-o-weapons.

Yes! Burn them.
>D

Let's just hope they burn quickly.
o-o
They may set stuff on fire if they're still walking around. And I would think they wouldn't notice. They're dead, after all...well...kind of.
oO;
XD

Fire isn't always your ally, however. It is uncontrollable for the most part. You should never use it in purely static defense. It is better if used when you intend to flee right after. You need to consider you surroundings too. If you're in a building, for example, that would be a bad move. Smoke inhalation could kill you long before the zombies could. Considering it may take hours for them to fry.

Random fact: Avoid hospitals at all costs. That's where most of the infected will be. Those who were first introduced to the virus will likely head to the hospitals for treatment. They'll die there, be placed in the onsite mourge and reanimate within it's confines. The spreading of the disease shall soon follow and with that, more zombies will be created. On the plus, you could hang out in a cemetary. Any bodies would have reanimated long before they could be properly burried. And the rumors of zombies crawling out of the grave is just that, a rumor. Only fresh corpses can become zombies. Any person already six feet under can't come clawing back to the surface. And even if for some reason a zombie were burried, they only have human strength, at best. No man could escape from a fresh casket placed under tons of dirt.