Each weekend from 7 pm to 2 am through October, event participants will board a specially constructed wagon and shoot attacking zombies with paintball guns as they ride through the golf course.
Caseville (Mich.) Golf Course is hosting its own version of the zombie phenomenon in the Zombie Paintball Safari, in which participants shoot zombies and save the golf course, the Bad Axe, Mich., Huron Daily-Tribune reported.
The event will take place over six weeks, having started September 26 and continuing every Friday and Saturday through October. Visitors will have the opportunity to take a ride on a specially constructed zombie-shooting wagon through the ruins of the Caseville Golf Course. Zombies will be attacking the wagon throughout the 15-minute trip and visitors will be armed with paintball guns mounted on the wagon, the Daily-Tribune reported.
“I had an idea last fall,” said golf course owner Shawn Conners. “We were talking about doing a haunted hay ride. I had also pondered having a paintball field on the driving range, just to bring kids out to generate a few extra dollars.”
From 7 pm to 2 am each weekend, visitors will be encouraged to shoot zombies. Signup begins at 6 p.m., the Daily-Tribune reported.
“It’s just like a safari hunt, where you have a group of people loaded onto a trailer,” Conners said. “There will be paintball guns mounted on the trailer, so you can’t shoot the person next to you. We start them off with 80 bullets, and they can buy another 70. We have special paintballs that are illuminated.”
The wagons will be outfitted with black lights to make the paint glow when it hits a zombie. To ensure visitors will be able to aim properly, they will be taken to a target area before the safari, the Daily-Tribune reported.
“They’ll practice before going out to shoot zombies,” Conners said. “It’ll be a quick course on how to shoot a paintball gun.”
After that, visitors will be given final instructions. “We’ll be giving them a drill-sergeant-type atmosphere to go out there and mop up these zombies,” Conners said.
There will be at least 12 zombies on the course at all times, but not all will be on foot—some zombies may assail the wagon while mounted, the Daily-Tribune reported.
“They may be attacked by a zombie maintenance crew, which will be riding lawnmowers and using weedwackers,” Conners said. “We’ll have a zombie on a golf cart, and a couple of burning golf carts.”
Cost for the Zombie Paintball Safari will be $25 per person. The fee will include ammunition, and additional ammunition can be purchased on site, the Daily-Tribune reported.
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