Welcome back everyone to Surviving with Clementine, where I, Clementine, teach you how to survive the zombie apocalypse!

Our next topic for today is guns!

Guns are one of the greatest and most useful things to have in the apocalypse aside from food, water, shelter, weapons and a pulse. No matter what gun, they will kill a walker. However, there's still a number of pros and cons when it comes to firearms.

The guns we will be looking at are pistols, revolvers, auto-rifles, general rifles and shotguns. Let's start out easy with the pistol and it's pros and cons.

Perhaps one of the best things about pistols is that it's the lightest of all the guns I mentioned. The average weight of one comes out to about 1.5 pounds, making it easy to carry. Additionally, due to their size, they're easy to hide in a survival situation, such as a person threatening you. Plus they can be easily holstered. It also helps that the pistols aren't usually the first to be taken during the apocalypse, leaving not only a lot of pistols, but a lot of ammo.

Now the cons, which admittedly, there aren't many, but they still should be mentioned. The size I mentioned before makes it easy to lose if you're not careful. Say you're running in the night and you accidentally drop your gun out of your pocket. You may not even feel it. The other con is that due to pistols being common, ammo will likely also be common for other people to take. It's a double edged sword to be precise.

Now for the revolvers. Revolvers are extremely powerful for one, and easy to reload if you've never reloaded a gun before. However, there's also an issue with reloading. When it comes to pistols, usually the ammo comes in a cartridge that you can store multiple bullets in, and when you put that cartridge into the pistol, you'll be able to fire off several shots quickly. With revolvers, you have to put every bullet in yourself, and it'll take a bit. Plus there's also the recoil and unfortunately, you can't put a silencer on it.

Now for the auto-rifles. I'm putting AK-47's and SMGs in this category, mainly because of the similarities. Now, these types are very useful. They fire fast, can hold a lot of ammo, can switch between a rapid fire or one-shot mode (although this usually applies to AK-47's), and use suppressors. Really, the only cons I see is the rate of fire making it difficult to keep track of your ammo. There's also the pellet spread and the higher possibility of the gun jamming, which is VERY bad if you're against a horde of walkers.

General rifles usually involve hunting rifles and sniper rifles, and these guns are great. Hunting rifles are great for hunting, and they can be customized easily with different scopes and suppressors and even a bayonet if you're feeling extremely ambitious. Additionally, they are very accurate, and you'll usually never miss a shot. Plus, sniper rifle scopes can be used if you don't have binoculars. I'm going to be honest, I don't see any cons with these rifles.

Finally, we have shotguns. Shotguns are very, very powerful, and being hit point blank with these will screw you up bad. Unfortunately, this is where the pros end. Shotguns have a very powerful recoil, so you'll have to be decently strong to withstand the power of it. Also, shotguns are not accurate at all due to the pellet spread. That means that if you want a guaranteed kill, you'll have to get very close and that's dangerous. Plus they don't hold a lot of ammo and can't use a suppressor.

Now for the ratings.

The best guns are general rifles due to there being no cons from what I could see, and it's usefulness for more than defense.

Following that is are pistols, due to its size and abundance of ammo.

Third place is the auto rifles due to the ammo issue, and if you want to save the last bullet for yourself, you'll be out of luck if you can't count that fast.

Fourth are revolvers because of the simple reload and much more manageable size.

Last one are the shotguns, which, while the most powerful gun, have way too many drawbacks to be better than revolvers.

Tomorrow, we'll be taking a look at shelters and where to make your home base!