Super Realistic Zombie Apocalypse Training

By Ben Philippi

Frank Jardim of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is a diehard zombie fan. He recalls watching the original zombie films by George A. Romero as a child and falling in love with the genre. As a gun enthusiast, he began to dream of ways to blend his two passions — zombies and shooting. What he came up with is likely the most realistic zombie apocalypse training course in the nation.
Frank Jardim, the creator of Zombie Shooters United, prepares a zombie target at a shoot in 2016. (Photo: Ben Philippi/Guns.com)
REAL HUMAN HAIR
In 2011, Jardim began fabricating life-size zombies in his living room using films as inspiration. He sculpted grotesque faces out of paper mache, collected real human hair from barbershops for the heads and dressed the figures in worn-out, shabby clothes to give them a macabre feel. Most importantly, he devised an ingenious and robust mechanism in the head that allowed the zombies to fall with a headshot to the brain area.
Real human hair, collected from barbershops, is glued onto the zombie’s head to add an extra touch of realism. (Photo: Ben Philippi/Guns.com)
NEW PARADIGM OF 3 GUN SHOOTING
Soon after, he created Zombie Shooters United. “It’s a new paradigm in 3-Gun action shooting sports,” says Jardim. “The theme is

Source: Guns.com