Noticed the new Z-Max (Zombie-Max) bullet on the Hornady website. I'm wondering if these are just V-Max bullets with green tips? I thought it was kind of funny myself.

Same as the VMAX.

marketing... gotta love it!!!

No, they're not.....

funny thing is, try to order some... they are way backlogged on all the orders...

they are even offering them for reloading in a 30/30...and a 7.62 x 39....

PT Barnum was right..

No, they're not..... [/quote]


Ok educate us then ,what are they?

Yeah, they are totally different! They have "AMP jacket technology", I'm thinking some form of explosive kryptonite from the planet Avatar that can only be mined during leap years from the unobtainium fields located under the tree of life.
Or it could just be a thin copper jacket.

Be prepared for Zombiegeddon...
when VARMINTS ATTACK!
Just in Case� Get Loaded with Z-MAX� Bullets and PREPARE to "Mist"ify Zombie Varmints!

Explosive Hornady� performance comes in every Z-Max� bullet specifically designed to vaporize zombie varmints.
Ultra-flat trajectories send mangy menaces to the varmint graveyard.
Combined with AMP� jacket technology, the Z-Max� bullet is built to...MAKE DEAD PERMANENT!

Damn, way too many TMs in that post.

Its a marketing deal but I think it is somewhat comical and may buy a couple of boxes just to have. May collect a box or two.

OK, stoopid here...whats a 'TM'...?

Trademark, Poohbah. Kind of back-handedly noting with some derision that it read like ad copy.

Its either "tiny meathammer" or "trade mark"

While I am tickled that Hornady managed to get outside the typical stiff-necked corporate culture to offer such a tongue-in-cheek item, I'm also utterly sick of this recent zombie fad. Thank goodness that it finally seems to be at an end.

RR, I guarantee it ain't dead yet... pun intended!

All I can say is, they've got EVERYONE talking about 'em, and that funny-colored ammo, and that's a good thing. I kinda like the whimsy and humor of it all.

Per Hornady they are V-Max bullets with the exception of the 168gr .308 cal. It's an A-Max.


Travis

I think they're making a mistake going with a thin jacket. Everyone knows you need full pass throughs on zombies. Maybe Barnes should get in on the act.

I might could order a box or two then. Kids would be tickled...

Who cares what they call them if they shoot. V-max have gotten too expensive.

I ordered the .17 cal 20gr. Z-Maxes.

Almost a $30.00 difference! If you like V-Maxes, this is your chance to get them a little cheaper.


Travis

You must have little Zombies up there....

They're awful. They even chew on each other after you brain 'em.


Travis

I love that. When you ding one, you cant use him as 'bait' for the others...gradually build up a little pile...

Also seen some necrophiliac barren ground Zombies too....

they got added to the pile..

I love goph blasting.


Travis

For Hornady's marketing, I've been wondering how much longer it will be until they become "Hornady LnL, Inc".

Oh yes!

Graf's got them in. Zombies beware my friends...


Travis

Given Hornady's love for putting "LnL" on about everything they sell I figger it's only a matter of time before they slap it on some bullets too.

Yep I was told they were amaxes by another gent in the industry. He didnt mention about specific calibers though. If hornady is doing it for marketing hype i am certainly not knocking them. I like those green tips even if they call them alice in wonderland tips. I was hoping they were all amaxes and i could get some .244 105's, no such luck i suppose. However i do have a new 20" 5R i could run those 168's in

After they run their cycle, you think Hornady might introduce a P/Max next? to use on politicians...

or a D/Max to use on Democrats?



just thinking out loud here...

I hear that, I was sick of references to zombies from the start. I used to take those using the rhetorical aspect of "shooting zombies when the SHTF" to task, I wanted to know what the exact makeup of a zombie was.

The truth of the matter is that 95% of those talking about shooting zombies are as clueless as to what a zombie looks like or is as they are about politics in general, that is to say they are 100% ignorant fools. Those who actually can put a definition to a zombie have it in their mind that those liberal right wingers who put the president in office that got this country in such a mess are zombies. It's not often defined but that is at the unspoken heart of what a zombie is in many people's (minds?).

It offends me that Hornady is ignorantly feeding into what is an undercurrent of political and civil unrest. You can't get your hands on these for varmint hunting because the typical buyer is hoarding thousands for that imminent day when they have to protect themselves against/kill hundreds of mindless zombies.

I wrote to Hornady letting them know what the unspoken undercurrent is and suggested that when some right winger fool goes on a rampage that they had a liability for feeding the mentality by stroking and fueling the fires of an imaginative spectre.

Buy your Zhombie-max while you can, because bullet manufacturers hate implied liabilities, they know if they can foresee it it will happen.

That's funny, and goes into my post on the political nature of the zombie thing. You left out R-max's, although P-max's would work just fine.