So which gun would you want to go after Giant Ants with.

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AlexanderA said:
Because of the proportional weight of the exoskeleton, they would not be able to stand up. You cannot make a bug the size of an elephant, or an elephant the size of a bug. The type of weapon to be used would be moot.
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Bringing the square-cube law into a sci-fi/fantasy (yes, we're bridging that gap here!) discussion of giant bugs... Horrors! :D

But to get into the spirit of the discussion...

The flamethrower comes in first place for drop-dead effectiveness -- but if we're defending home and hearth, and there's a likelihood that a van-sized flaming ant will shamble into my house -- uh, uh! :eek:

The M-1 Garand with grenade-launcher is an intriguing option -- but grenades going off within 10-15 feet of the house...? Again... The homeowner in me rebels! :confused:

So I guess we're down to the Thompson -- and just blaze away at those antennas! Plus, Thompsons have always been bad-ass! :)

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aarondhgraham said:
The term "Kill it with fire!" comes to mind.
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Desert Eagle it is!:) If the flames don't work, three hundred and fifty grains of hollow point will.

And I will look completely B.A. slaying Lesser Siberian Giant Ants with my Eagle Pistol.

(Sorry, @Deanimator. These are commie, red ants. Ultimately we will use the more intelligent and docile, though not as large,Greater American Giant Ant, Formicaceae Giganticus Nevadaii, to overwhelm the Red Scourge. Then, with proper training, we will domesticate them and ride them like six wheel drive horses. Taming new terrains unreached before and spawning new sports for the adrenaline fueled. As well as creating a bio network of "Automated Delivery Ants" that can follow chemical highways without roads, "driverless", delivering even in zero visibility.)

I know a beautiful young lady and her children that could use a good rescuing, too. ;)
 
badkarmamib said:
I don't think I would want to trust a .30 or even a .45 caliber projectile against a target that size. Shot placement may be key, but 40mm sounds a whole lot better to me.
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Haven't seen this flic for a long time, but IIRC all they had to do was shoot off the antenna - and I'm sure that would take a lot less power! :uhoh:

Sounds like precision trumps brute power! :thumbup:
 
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I will say that, in my battles with the dreaded Alabama Fire Ant hordes, fire only killed the ants that were caught above ground. Poison only killed the weaker ones, thus rendering the horde stronger and more fierce. The only thing that either killed them or made them move on was to pour gasoline down into their burrows and cover them with weighted plastic sheets.
-Maybe, if they were slightly larger and less plentiful they might be worth shooting... .
 
Chitin isn't so tough as to be a serious bullet proof shield, even on a critter scaled up to 9 feet in length. Not for modern weapons, anyway.

However, penetration might be a problem at angles.

But this is only if one considers the armored head to be the only target of concern...and it's not for ants. There are plenty of joints which represent weak areas, plenty of soft spots which represent weak areas, and chiten itself can be easily fractured. Think crab shells.

I'd also consider the use of permethrin, as a sprayed substance, an applied residual substance, and an additive to the bullets for the penetrating ammunition used.
 
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Since my 45-70 with 405gr Hardcasts will blow through an 8” oak and keep right on going, I “think” I’d be ok. Should it not be sufficient, I would think my M1-A with steel core would do well. If we’re asking for anything I could choose, I think it would be an A-10 or Puff the Magic Dragon.

The truth is, if something like a swarm of those actually did exist, they wouldn’t live long. Especially if the military got involved.
 
I always used firecrackers to excavate the mounds of the large ants around these parts. I think the fire ants knocked them out though, along with the quail and ticks, I don’t miss the ticks though.

For movie ants I’d pick something made of unobtainium.
 
Have none of you seen the movie? Or maybe it's that I saw it on the big screen when it came out. To kill them you "shoot the antenna, now shoot the other antenna". Then gas and burn the nest. Listen to the entomologist even if he is fat and dresses funny. Besides his daughter is really hot.
 
I saw that movie when it first came out, I think it might have been the first thing to give me nightmares.

They were irradiated by nuclear testing in NM, them wound up in the LA sewer system. Worse than NYC sewer alligators, maybe even NYC rats.. Maybe...

Have the focused sun get them via the mirror on the Hubble telescope. If that fails, call Chuck.
 
jeepnik said:
Have none of you seen the movie? Or maybe it's that I saw it on the big screen when it came out. To kill them you "shoot the antenna, now shoot the other antenna". Then gas and burn the nest. Listen to the entomologist even if he is fat and dresses funny. Besides his daughter is really hot.
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Myrmacologist. Not entomologist. "The study of ants." It's SCIENCE man, ya gotta be precise!:neener: ..... ;)

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Double_J said:
The only obvious answer is to take off and nuke the site from orbit. I do NOT want to play games with fire ants that large as the dang things love to swarm my wife and I.
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Campanopus Vicinus. .... carpenter ants, not fire ants. I repeat; it's SCIENCE, man! Ya gotta be precise!!!:neener:.....



Ok:confused: I used THAT line up real fast .... where can we go from here ....:D:uhoh:
 
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