Romero (DayZ)

Hello All, First off...what an intense awesome gameplay experience, totally hooked. I had two things happen and would like to know if I did something wrong or if they are glitches. This is not a complaint in any way, just seeking advice so I know how to avoid it in the future. I also understand this is a free alpha, so some strangeness is expected. I also looked around the forums to see if I could find anything about this, no luck. #1 - Found a hatchet and AKM. Running around with my hatchet, killed a few zombies. Found an AKM, put hatchet (in or out of toolbelt..don't remember, but whatever let me keep the hatchet and arm the AKM. Ran out of bullets but couldn't figure out how to disarm the AKM without losing it and go back to hacking with my hatchet. Is there a way to store the AKM and use the hatchet? Also, whatever I did, the AKM completely disappeared and I lost it. I know I didn't click delete or anything, not even sure if that is possible. Is there an easy way to quickly switch between rifle and melee? #2 - Snuck up on a guy that appeared to be hiding. Maybe AFK, maybe disconnected. I've been killed a few times and that is the nature of the game so I figure I'd kill him and loot. I hacked him with my hatchet 15-20 times and nothing. I figured maybe disconnected or a glitch or something. I ended up walking away and about 2-3 minutes later he came up behind me and blew me away with a shotgun (or what appeared to be). I'm not complaining, I deserved to get killed, but was this a glitch? Thanks for any info and looking forward to playing this and getting better.

Shadowtank, thanks, good to know. Just trying to wrap my head around the mechanics of this, guess I need to play more. It just seems odd to me that if I am in the middle of a tense situation and run out of bullets, I have to drop my assault rifle to equip my hatchet. I guess that can seen seen as realistic, just was hoping there was a way to not have to worry about losing it. Definitely makes things more difficult, which isn't always a bad thing.

I already had the AKM, do I need to drop it and pick up again every time I want to switch between rifle/hatchet?

Thank you for the helpful reply. So the fastest way to change out would be hit G for gear, open bag, pick AKM from list on left side, click arrow to put in bag, then equip hatchet? If I see somebody just standing there, I'll just avoid.