[TheLastBoyScout]

Seriously... This is why the GF won't let me watch dino movies anymore.

Assuming you could get a headshot, do you think .50BMG would do it?

Or would it require something like a Solothurn (yes I'm re-reading UC)?

Or would it get into the range of light tank/heavy aircraft calibers (25mm Bushmaster or 30mm GAU-8 Avenger)?

I'm guessing a COM shot requires tank guns...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatosaurus

[MKEITH]

That 50BMG round with the high explosives would probobly do it nicely. Either that or a .45.

[0007]

Mike's 20mm at Anzio Iron Works would probably get 'er done.

[Wayne G.]

Dillon Aero

Locking in 5, 4, 3....;)

[Geronimo45]

Ma Deuce. I seriously can't think of any living creature that couldn't be stopped by that thing.

[tnieto2004]

.50BMG should do it ..

[Officers'Wife]

Hi Boy Scout,

There is no problem that cannot be remedied with the proper application of explosives.

That said if I remember my biology correctly a reptile's head is more heavily armored than any other part of his body the back being second. You would probably be better off with shot to the belly than the head. A 45-70 ball would probably do the trick if fired out of a Gatlin, which ball did the trick would be up to your imagination.

Selena

[MathurinKerbouchard]

.577 Tyrannosaur - Duh!!!:neener:

[Thernlund]

There is no problem that cannot be remedied with the proper application of explosives.

The kitchen is hopelessly dirty. :D


-T.

[The Deer Hunter]

Its all about shot placement. For what its worth, I could take one down with a .22lr if I needed to.

[Thernlund]

I could do it with some wet paper and a straw! :neener:


-T.

[jr_roosa]

If you're going to shoot a dinosaur, shouldn't you be using a cartridge that's been out of production for a while, you know, for consistency's sake?

-J.

[Norm357]

10mm.

Fire up the BBQ!:D

[jerkface11]

A head shot will NOT work on an Apatasaur they have secondary brains!!. So you'd need something with A LOT of penetration to allow you to take a heart/lung shot.

[sierrabravo45]

I would say a Glock 17 in 9mm.

From what the Glock fans have said in other forums, they kill anything and WILL NOT JAM.

Against a Apatosaurus, I feel this is best.:neener::neener:

[Davo]

30MM fo sho.

[230RN]

A 280 mm ought to do it.

[Wes Janson]

I say, just let rip with the Ma Deuce...might not be a 1-shot stop, but sooner or later it's got to get the job done.

[sacp81170a]

Come on guys! The deadly 50 caliber black powder muzzle loading sniper weapon that's freely available without a background check is just the ticket! :neener:

[FieroCDSP]

Not according to the officially licensed Jurassic Park:Lost World spin-off game Trespasser ('98 I believe). The 50BMG's scattered around the game did bo-diddly against Apatosaurs or the fearsome T-Rex :eek:. Then again, if the physics model had scaled up a bit better, it would have been an incredible shooter. As it stands, it's the only game I've ever been able to find that you actually have to line up the sights properly to hit anything with a gun.

[Mousegun]

Now why would anyone want to take down a cute little Apath?

http://webpages.charter.net/vfr800/apoth.gif

[30 cal slob]

.22 LR to center of weener.

[Walkalong]

One stick of dynamite, strategically placed. :cool:

[daniel (australia)]

I think that accuracy would be the important factor, not power, if you were to make the head shot work. After all, the skull is actually not that heavy, and pretty open about the brain, but the brain is tiny - like walnut sized.

Of course, even if you hit it, it might take a while for the rest of the body to realise that someone's switched off the lights - might as well start gathering firewood for the barby, crack yourself a beer, and get ready for the local meat-eaters to roll up:D.

[armoredman]

Heavy phaser rifle.

[jmorris]

.223

(for all the guys that start the .223 for deer threads)

[230RN]

I take back the use of the 280mm atomic cannon --it would leave no edible portions.

But jr_roosa wisely and truly mentioned,

If you're going to shoot a dinosaur, shouldn't you be using a
cartridge that's been out of production for a while, you know, for
consistency's sake?

A 280 mm Anzio Annie ought to do it. And it's sure been out of production for a while.

[TehK1w1]

As Jerkface11 mentioned, the Apatosaurus had a secondary nerve center located on the spine forward of the hips. So even a head shot might leave it thrashing for a while!! I personally would go with a quad mounted 20mm firing AP rounds.

[Animal Mother]

Since were time traveling:

"Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range."

[Funderb]

don't shoot it!
Put a harness and saddle on it and ride it to work. step on the middle manager's car. Poop on the boss'.

[Javelin2235]

My vote goes towards the 76mm (3") gun on the bow of my old Coast Guard ship. Accurate to 8 miles, available with ball, AP, and HE...full auto, roughly 45 rounds a minute-ish. I'd cast a HP or Soft Point projectile, and give them one right in the bread-basket. Then I'd feed 50 people for 2 years...

-jack

[Thernlund]

Make sure to use nitrogen bullets (http://www.maximummovies.net/2005/09/02/a-sound-of-thunder/).


-T.

[mohican]

As shown in tremors, the 460 Weatherby is enough for anything on the planet.......just don't expect your truck to pull it.....

[marksman13]

What caliber for rediculous threads?

[Cosmoline]

I think you could fare pretty well with a whale gun. They're big, but still much smaller than a whale.

On an unrelated note, I remember on one really strange segment of Art Bell's show a fellow arguing that the Apatosaurs were proof that the Earth was smaller in the past, and thus had a lower gravity. I guess cosmic dust and debris are slowly making the planet bigger. Or maybe it ate too many high fat dinos :D

[CajunBass]

Back off, and nuke 'em from orbit.

(Someone HAD to say it.)

[SpeedAKL]

30mm GAU-8A Avenger cannon pulled off an A-10

[Orr89rocz]

This could be a serious animal to bring down without a brain shot now that i think about it. I was gonna say you guys are overthinking this. its only 75ft long at the biggest and most of that is tail and neck. MUCH thicker than elephant i guess but who knows, it may have soft skin and somewhat thick rib bones. Nothing a good solid from a elephant gun like a .460 weatherby, 458 lott, 600 nitro, 577 trex, etc couldnt handle. or could it??

they say those things have massssive lungs since they needed to breathe enough to o2 enrich the massive amount of blood in that animal. wiki says 500-liter, four-chambered heart and 900 liter capacity lungs

would a small 50 cal hole do anything to something that large?? i doubt it... would it crush that huge shoulder bone? maybe ona few shots. the spine looks promising tho but rumored to be very thick. only the biggest loads should be used i'd say. best bet a head shot. head shot is necessry to take out some sort of brain or vessels that supply oxygen to that beast's brain/brains

[Jimmy Newman]

Pshh... they're not THAT big... they only weigh about three times what an African elephant does.

[stevereno1]

apparently, you can kill anything with a .223. Just look at the posts on here about the .223 on whitetails!

[Orr89rocz]

whitetail is like 1/333 the size of a apatosaurus. ENOUGH 223's rounds may eventually kill anything but eh.... a dinosaur?

[Beatnik]

"Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range."

We need destructive energy, not mood lighting. Maybe 40 kW....

Honestly, I'm thinking archery. Custom-made peterbilt truck-mounted ballista, with a 10' x 5" x 1/2" spring-tempered 4130 prod, throwing something light, like 1" OD T6 aluminum pipe, with 8" broadheads.

Clean through both lungs, wherever they are.... then chase it back toward camp with the truck, which, of course, would have to play la cuckaracha.

[sojournerhome]

30.06 or .308 from 300 yards.

[Joe Demko]

Do you want to kill it or destroy it? If your goal is to kill it and keep it reasonably intact for trophy or research purposes, .50 BMG through the heart/lungs will bring it down eventually. You may have to track it for a ways, though. Consider that in the real world the Bambuti (African pygmies) routinely kill elephants with just a spear. Their preferred technique is to sneak up behind the elephant and stab it in the rear leg so that major blood vessels are severed. Jumbo then trumpets and screams and runs and bleeds until he eventually bleeds out. The Bambuti then move their village to where Jumbo fell down and feast on elephant until he gets too putrid to eat. Apatosaurus is several times bigger, but the same basic idea_using a gun_can be applied.

[stolivar]

A T-rex is about the same size as a elephant but just a little bigger. It would not be hard to kill with most big games guns.... They had one at an exhibit next to an elephant to show true size...:what:



steve

[Special_K]

40mm HE



Duh!