[Metapotent]

This is kind of pointless...but..

What make-believe, historical, or real life creature would you most like to hunt? It could be extinct animals, dinosaurs, creatures in science fiction, or beasts of legend or fantasy. Also, what would your weapon of choice be? (could be make-believe weapon)

Personally I would like to hunt Velocoraptors that were potrayed in Jurassic Park (really a Deinonychus, the move writers got it wrong because real Velcocoraptors were much smaller). My weapon of choice would be a SAW in 5.56. Backed up with an auto 12-gauge shotgun loaded with 00 buckshot.

Either that or hunt Tyranasaurus Rex with a .50 BMG Barrett Rifle.

[Rembrandt]

Go along with Teddy Roosevelt on one of his African hunts.....gun? Winchester lever actions of course! Good enough for TR, that's good enough for me.

[Sika Stalker]

I would hunt the Giant Irish Elk with a sauer model 202 outback in 300win mag .
This Giant Irish Deer is believed to have roamed the lowlands of central and eastern Ireland, weighting up to 800-1000 lbs. and stood at 2 metres at the shoulder, with antler width of up to 4 metres, are the largest antlers know to have existed on any deer.
http://www.wilddeerireland.com/Species_elk.html

[grizz]

Kodiak brown bear using 2 S&W .500s, crawling around in the thick brush, suprise the bear within 10 feet and let loose with both guns at once!!! :what:

[rock jock]

Mammoth elephant (not those wimpy mastadons).

[NorCalRifleman]

Pre-historic: Sabre tooth tiger. Weapon of choice . . . obsidian spear and knife, something like what would have been used at the time.

Modern Day: Kodiak. I'd use my Winchester Model 70 Featherweight (pre-'64) chambered in .30-06. It would take near perfect shot placement, but that's what the "rifleman's rifle" is for.:cool:

Fantasy: The mighty Jakalope. For that I think the proper weapon would be the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, what else?:neener:

http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/news.images/jakalope4.jpg

[Metapotent]

Good answers.

[killzone]

I would love to enter the Jurassic Park with a U.S M1A2 Tank and fire the sabot rounds at real big ones

[swampdog]

That's a pretty loaded question for someone who's read as much sci-fi and adventure fiction as I have.
The sabre tooth tiger, as mentioned, but I think I'd prefer more modern weapons. A large bore revolver, for instance. A semi-tamed pack of dire-wolves to run it with would be nice, too.
I'd like to hunt from a chariot with hunting cheetahs. It's good to be king.:D Lion from a chariot, too, as long as there's a modern Emergency room nearby. I don't think Simba was much impressed by royal blood.

In a more modern setting, I'd have liked to have hunted Africa, 100 years ago. I sure can't afford to, now.
I'd like to take an American Bison, from horseback, with a bow.
I read a book many years ago by Zane Grey where they were running cougars with dogs. When they treed, they didn't shoot them, they roped them. What a blast. South American Jaguar with dogs would be a blast anyway you took one. In the Capstick story I read, they used spears.
Anything that is big and mean and pays a bounty, like grizzly in the late 19th or early 20th century. A man's got to make a living after all. Commercial hunting for croc around the same time always sounded "interesting", too.

Some fantasy hunts can come true. For years, I wanted a black bear, up close and personal, with the dogs going nuts. I got one several years ago with a .44 mag.
All this talk of hogs and dogs and knives and stuff around here has been making me green. We don't have many ferals around here but they do in SC. I see a road trip in my near future. I think I'll take my .44, though, and save the knife for a future "fantasy". Maybe next year. :D

If I can make it to Alaska and if I get to take at least one western hunting trip on horseback, I think I can die a contented man.

So much game, so little time.

[bigbore442001]

Hmm. A fantasy hunt. I would say to go back to the Pleistocene Epoch AKA Last Ice Age and hunt the megafauna such as the woolly rhinoceros, mammoth, saber tooth tiger with some high powered specialty hunting handguns. I'd have a 500 SW or 500 WE on my hip at all times in that situation and have something like an Encore for the long range shots in the same caliber.

Modern Day, if it were possible, to hunt the Arctic Circle from Greenland to Siberia with my TC Contender .

[sm]

1. The Old Man And The Boy - Robert Ruark.

I want to be a part of these sharings.

2. Ruark's Safaris and fishing trips.

3. Teddy Roosevelt

4. Hunt with my buddy Spinner here on THR in New Zealand

--

Before I die:
I want to hunt Pheasants with a Blackpowder Double barrel shotgun. Southern Gentleman hunt quail and

I want to head to Central/ South America and shoot doves until I melt the barrel off a shotgun - grab another gun and keep repeating.

:)

[12-34hom]

Game hunted - Rats at local landfill.

Weapon -Custom shop - Remington 40X - Caliber 222 Remington.

Ammo - Hand loads - Bullet - Nosler Ballistic tip - 40 grainer's

Scope - Leupold 6 + 20 - 1/8 MINUTE DOT.

Red mist society.

12-34hom.

[Spinner]

I'd love to go hunt South American dove and I'd be pretty keen for an African safari and I'd love to go hunt deer with my dad (pity that ain't gonna happen since he died in 1989) but for pure fantasy hunting it would have to be .....

... the Jabberwocky! I can just imagine sitting quietly under the old Tumtum tree and hearing that old Jabberwock come wiffling through the tulgey wood seeing those eyes of flame and hearing that thing just a-burblin' and a-whifflin'. I figure I'd forgo the vorpal sword though and give the manxome creature a couple of 470 NE from a fine double gun .... that oughta do it some serious damage. Gotta use enough gun ya know. :D

Anytime you wanna come down here sm (or anyone else for that matter) and give some southern ducks, swan, geese, quail, pheasants, deer, goats, thar, chamois, pigs, wallabies, wild sheep, wild cattle, rabbits, hares or possums a shot, or even if you wanna give some trout, salmon or some excellent eating sea fish a tickle-up you just let me know. Got a cocky little pheasant rooster taunting me about 100 yards from my front gate that could do with some lessons too :cuss: :banghead:

Let me know and I'll leave the light on for ya.

Spinner

[Metapotent]

I am very impressed with the answers.

I asked my friend the same question and he said:

"The game would be Al-Qaeda and I'd give them each a knife, a knife for myself, and see how brave they are when meeting Allah isn't as convenient as pushing the button on a bomb, but that their only means of death is a cold, razor sharp Ka-Bar"

My friend is crazy like that, but I think I share his sentiment.

[phantomak47]

Some Good Deer hunting is all I want, since I cant get a lease for under 2,000 where I am at.


Hunting is going to be only a rich mans sport soon.

[HankB]

Well, since some folks have already decided to accompany Teddy Roosevelt, I'll choose to accompany John "Pondoro" Taylor on what he described as "The Great Tana Raid." (Given Taylor's rumored personal preferences, :what: I'd insist on my own tent!) Hiking the length of the Tana river, shooting elephant and rhino, large organization of natives both to haul the ivory and act as decoys for the game wardens . . .

Something less illicit would perhaps involve teaming up with W.D.M. Bell on his first excursion to the Kidepo valley . . .

For far-out fantasy hunt, perhaps bagging Godzilla; I figure one shot from the U.S. 280mm Atomic Cannon ought to do the trick . . . (But then, I'd have to build a stadium-sized trophy room, just for a shoulder mount . . . and it would probably be glowing in the dark, so I wouldn't be able to safely get close without lead underwear!) As for lining up the shot, I'd have to ask the people of Japan for the loan of Tokyo as bait . . .

[NailGun]

Hmmm....Fantasy Prey.... Since I have no way to post my poorly edited photo, you will just have to use your imagination on this one. Bird One: Large fat old Emu in molt, having the head of Dianne Feinstein..snarling and drooling. Bird Two: Big ol Ostrich with the head of Sarah Brady, dragging the US constitution tied to her left leg...through the mud. Weapon: One stone. Rationale: ... It may indeed be possible, lets give it a try. :D

[Geno]

One of the Rocky Mountain states, having to reach the base camp via horse-back. To be there for 1 month, hunting black bear, grizzly bear, mule deer, whitetail deer and maybe even elk.

Doc2005

[Cosmoline]

Hunting dinos would be on par with hunting ostriches. Not too interesting. I'd go for mammoth in a heartbeat, though. And since there are a few teams trying to revive their DNA from the tundra I might get my wish some day :D

[birddog]

I'd bullseye womp-rats in my T-16...they're about a meter across....

[Brian Williams]

I want to hunt Stobor on some out of the way planet, with a knife and a pointy stick. Maybe using something like a Colt Woodsman to take them out, would want a lot a mags loaded and ready.

I would not mind have to go to Deathworld and learn to shoot a one of their blasters.

Real life a prarie dog shoot in the west would be great.

[Working Man]

Fantasy...

No one has said it yet so how about one of the Aliens from Alien.
Weapons: bolo, high powered bow, and a spear. Also a hammer type weapon
for up-close defense.... don't want one of those bleeding on ya.

How about a dragon "small" (under 5,000 lbs).
Weapons: Piercing sword, Great Ax with top spike and back beak, lugged war spear,
and high powered bow all made from modern materials.

....after all this is fantasy.

[birddog]

No one has said it yet so how about one of the Aliens from Alien.


I don't know. Give me a sabretooth or a dinosaur any day. If you screw up, all they're gonna do is eat you. But hunting something that will attach to your face, lay an egg, and eventually explode out of your abdomen?....Umm, no thanks.

[Metapotent]

Quote:
No one has said it yet so how about one of the Aliens from Alien.



I don't know. Give me a sabretooth or a dinosaur any day. If you screw up, all they're gonna do is eat you. But hunting something that will attach to your face, lay an egg, and eventually explode out of your abdomen?....Umm, no thanks.

Haha very true. Plus, if you shoot it or injure it at close range you get acid-like blood on you that burns your flesh off of your bone.

[kevin-45]

"Haha very true. Plus, if you shoot it or injure it at close range you get acid-like blood on you that burns your flesh off of your bone."

Which is why you pack a flamethrower. It doesn't peirce the skin so you don't have acid-like blood burning your flesh off.

[Diamondback6]

I thought the point was bringing home a trophy?

Target: UCMP 118472, the largest (extrapolated from size of fragments) known specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex, at approx 23 feet tall, and by general theropod proportions, approaching 60' OAL. (Nobody's ever found a complete tyrannosaurid tail, not even on Sue, so length is always a guess, and most large theropods trendline out at about a 40% OA height-to-length ratio.) The sole fragment that constitutes 118472's a partial maxilla that, while distinctly and unmistakably T. rex, is significantly larger than any other.

Weapon: a shoulder-fired recoilless-rifle or antitank rocket, modified with some kind of rapid-acting neurotoxin payload added to the warhead, along with a liberal dose of the hemotoxin from my scaled namesake. Either way, once it's down, that big beast's not getting up. When you're talking about the single greatest known land predator of all time, only a Darwin Award candidate takes chances, right?

Shooting platform: a modified Chinook or Pave Low, shooting from the rear ramp, at an altitude of ~150 feet.

Aimpoint: brainstem-shot, where else? Those thick ribs make heartshots dicey, and even with super-high blood-pressure, a bleeding-out rex would still have enough time to inflict unimaginable damage before dropping. Massive skull makes conventional small-arms unlikely to penetrate--imagine a near-solid mass of bone almost the size of a complete human body, with a strike zone at the center approx 1/2 the size of a human cerebrum. Armor-piercing explosives have a low chance of nonpenetration, though. I wouldn't want something as small as a LAW-80 for this one...

[Metapotent]

DiamondBack, you forgot about the Allasaurus (spelling). The fossils of this dinosaur showed that it was a greater predator than the Trex because it wa bigger, faster, and had use of its front legs/arms.

[HankB]

Shooting platform: a modified Chinook or Pave Low, shooting from the rear ramp, at an altitude of ~150 feet. Be careful of the backblast from your recoilless rifle or rocket launcher. :eek:

[duck_god1982]

This is one that will come true. My brother, a buddy,and I sitting in a duck boat in Mo. hunting green heads with winchester super x2 that would be the best hunt I can imagine

[Rupestris]

I'm usually not one to anger folks but for this one, my fantasy hunt would be one of China's Giant Panda.

The idea alone is enough to give most animal rights people a stroke. Can you imagine the look on their face when I come out of the bamboo dragging ling-ling out teats up? :evil:

[birddog]

I'm usually not one to anger folks but for this one, my fantasy hunt would be one of China's Giant Panda.

I guess I'll go ahead and say my TRUE fantasy hunt, since you've crossed the barrier into questionable ethics: Koalas with a spear. They may be slow, but I'll bet they are tough little buggers.

:evil:

;)

[cmidkiff]

Complete fantasy?

Wouldn't mind tagging along with Henry Bowman on a few of his hunts...

Pardon me, I gotta go feed the pigs.

[Rupestris]

since you've crossed the barrier into questionable ethics:

LOL! :D

I guess there's a first time for everything. I only chose the Panda because I'm not quite sold on the existance of Sasquatch, Chupacabras, or Ogo-Pogo yet :p

[Diamondback6]

DiamondBack, you forgot about the Allasaurus (spelling). The fossils of this dinosaur showed that it was a greater predator than the Trex because it wa bigger, faster, and had use of its front legs/arms.

No, sir, I didn't. Even the monster Allosaurus amplexus from Oklahoma was only about 40-45' IIRC, and wouldn't have had as much total tonnage.

Re forearms, the trendline through the record of T. rex specimens indicate that the forearms were on their way to total los,, because the rex was specialized for a single attack against very large, very dangerous game: using that body mass to drive the Jaws of Death into contact with the target's weak flank with maximum force and then cripple or kill with a single bone-crushing bite.

It's like a knife-fighter versus a guy with a weighted baseball bat for comparison. The amplexus is more dangerous to smaller game and in a protracted fight, but if the rex connects on the first strike, it's over.

Be careful of the backblast from your recoilless rifle or rocket launcher. :eek:

Sir, that's part of those modifications. I'd have a very short, at least 2-ton-rated lifeline tying me to that lowered rear ramp, laterally across the chopper's centerline, with a blast-deflector rigged to protect me and the aircraft/aircrew from getting scorched.

Very good points to both of you.

Incidentally, my preferred source on carnivorous dinosauria is Gregory Paul's Predatory Dinosaurs of the Worldi Expensive and difficult to find, a little dated in some spots, and very high-level digestion, but very good technical info. His reconstruction of the pred-dino family tree is rather unorthodox, but what I've seen of the bones seems to back up his reinterpretation in the areas I've checked. Also, Robert T. Bakker's work, especially The Dinosaur Heresies, makes very good reading for those interested in this field.

And to keep it gun-related, I think a well-placed .50BMG would do for any allosaur short of A. amplexus.

[Metapotent]

I only chose the Panda because I'm not quite sold on the existance of Sasquatch, Chupacabras, or Ogo-Pogo yet

You know this is a fantasy hunt...You can hunt Sasquatch, Chubacabra, Ogo-Pogo, Barney the Dinosaur, Frodo Baggins, anything...

[usmccpl]

We can hunt Barny here. Is that hunt booked yet if so I will settle for the Teletubbies.Weapon of choice 240G 7.62 backed up with mark19 HEDP dont want them to survive this.







one shot one kill

[Rupestris]

You know this is a fantasy hunt...You can hunt Sasquatch, Chubacabra, Ogo-Pogo, Barney the Dinosaur, Frodo Baggins, anything...

[Ace Ventura] Rrreee-heee-heeeeee-eallly? [/Ace Ventura]

In that case, I'd like to book a Spring time hunt in New Mexico for Chupacabras!

A night hunt of course. I'd use a Savage 12VSS Varmint in .22-250. Optics would be an ATN Gen 4 Crusader.

[~z]

I’d like to hunt that big flying dog/dragon critter from that movie The Never Ending Story not sure how, probably beat it to death with a phone. Then of course I’d feel compelled to eat it.
~z

[Karbon]

I would love to enter the Jurassic Park with a U.S M1A2 Tank and fire the sabot rounds at real big ones
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Nearly my thoughts...BUT

I'd be after the angry, stubby armed one with a Bowtech Tribute.:evil:

[Working Man]

You know this is a fantasy hunt...You can hunt Sasquatch, Chubacabra, Ogo-Pogo, Barney the Dinosaur, Frodo Baggins, anything...


Oooo, Oooo [-jumping up and down, flailing arms-]....
Can I change/add to mine?

1) Barney the Dinosaur... weapon: Aqua Net hairspray and a Zippo.

2) Frodo Baggins... weapon: ball-pean-hammer.

[Rupestris]

2) Frodo Baggins... weapon: ball-pean-hammer.

I hear that if you hit 'em on top of their head just right they turn into a gold coin. :D

[lamazza]

Tyrannasaurus Rex with a chain gun

[SHOOT1SAM]

For me it would have to be Vampires & Werewolves, shooting a 10mm, loaded with.........Silvertips, of course!!

Sam

[tuna]

I'd like to show the silly English Ka-nig-ets how it is done.....

What could impress fair maiden more than me with a double barreled 4 bore howdah pistol in each hand riding up, slaying the dragon to rescue her, then we ride off into the sunset.


The fantasy is that I could -
a) fire a 4 bore one handed, twice
b) do it again left handed


Failing that, I'd go for the mythical white tailed deer, that supposedly exist.

[Dr.Rob]

Shooting a dino from a helicopter is hardly hunting.

It's not even sporting.

It's one thing to take as much rifle as you can handle and quite another to blow your quarry into steaming chunks.

Maybe this is why we can't find an intact T-rex. All you rocket launcher wielding yahoos have gone back in time and left nothing but scattered splinters of once majestic beasts.

On a lighter note, I think a good turn of the century African hunt with an Express rifle would be grand ala Teddy's museum safari.

A good bolt action .425 Westly Richards should do the trick.

Sabertooth with a double rifle would definitely be a challenge.

As for dinos... I'm sure it's prudent to have a BAR full of armor piercing bullets on hand for defensive use... but for hunting it seems a tad overkill.

[12GA00buck]

Mammoth with double barrel .70 nitro express with 1000 grain loads:D

[1911 guy]

My fantasy hunt would be chupacabras. The ultimate varmint hunting! I'd probably go with a .308 because I don't want a wounded one sneaking up on me and sucking me dry or eating me. Mexico seems to be the reported "hotspot".

Now what I'd like to do in real life.
1) GPS start and stop waypoints at either side (east/west) of Wayne National Forest here in southern Ohio.

2) Hike through as fast as possible, caching canned goods and water, adding waypoints for caches.

3) Take my time and hunt/hike through at my leisure. Small game could be consumed on the way. Squirrels, rabbits, grouse and who knows what else are in the deep stuff. Hardly anyone ever goes more than a mile or two in. It's hundrdes of miles square.