What caliber for Jurassic park?

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If their vitals are hard to get at, maybe an effective solution (not for cleanly taking them as game, mind you - just to try and get you out alive) would be a large volume of reasonably powerful, reasonably accurate fire directed quickly and repeatedly at the head, neck, and face.

I'll nominate the MG-42, fired from its bipod, or braced on the back of my assistant gunner.

Even if you couldn't kill the darn things, you could turn their faces to mush pretty fast.

If you can drag around a mini gun and an ammo backpack, a la Jesse Ventura's character from Predator, more power to you.

Just remember, when facing the Dinos: "If it bleeds, we can kill it."
 
I have often thought on this actually...we all know of their small brains, an T-Rex is probably a lot like crocidiles, reptiles, not mammals. So we need something that will tear them up real bad...I like the .50 Browning or the 20mm, as long as theres more than one of us helping to drag it around. I would think a 40mm grenade launcher like the one on "Predator" would be cool, but a real stopper also would be a really good Flame Thrower..that will get T-Rex thinking an you can throw a Raptor on the barby,...well done.
 
I refer you to this thread, wherein I and others have already discussed the topic.

In part:

PercyShelley said:
Somewhat discredited; those big nerve bundles in the pelvises of thyreophorans were not illusory; according to what I've read ostriches have them too. Maybe dinosaurs could run around for a few seconds like chickens if you removed their heads?

spiroxlii said:
It wouldn't surprise me if ostriches have them. If you're taking apart a chicken or a duck or a turkey (look next time you make a turducken), you will find fairly large ganglia shielded by the pelvis. They look like two little brains, one on each side of the pelvis.

If a dinosaur's nervous system were distributed in the same way that a modern bird's nervous system is, then taking out the head/brain may not put the animal down right away. It could move its limbs like a chicken with its head cut off, but it's not like the dinosaur could think or intentionally attack you with its actual brain destroyed. You could get hurt by the flailing if you were too close, though.

If you've ever watched a chicken with its head cut off run, you know that it does a decent, but not excellent job of keeping its balance. Once it falls over, it may keep flailing, but it doesn't right itself and get back up. I would imagine that if a big dinosaur were able to function after its brain were destroyed, it would have even more trouble staying balanced, since it's more massive and has a higher center of gravity than a chicken.
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Of course, once Jurassic Park opens up a game reserve to hunters, there's always the possibility that those dinosaurs will somehow escape the reserve and make their way into a populated area. I addressed that as well.

spiroxlii said:
I am the Sergeant of a three-man Rapid Tactical Force at one of America’s largest indoor retail shopping areas. If a dinosaur ever entered my workplace and started helping itself to human snacks in the food court, I would have to swoop in to save the outgunned SWAT pansies. Roaming packs of Tyrannosaurs are almost as bad as the new Neo-Nazi branch of MS13 that has been using sawed off .50BMG sniper rifles to try and kill me in the parking lot.

I would tactically crabwalk (because that puts your center of gravity closer to the ground, making you harder to knock over) while slicing the pie into the food court. A few flashbangs would daze the dino while my squadmates on all terrain armored golf carts attacked from multiple avenues of approach using TOW missiles and Soviet surplus Atoll missiles, which are way superior to the AIM-9 Sidewinder. I know, because my team used to use Sidewinders, but they kept malfunctioning. We'd get good tone, but when we tried to launch, the missiles would just fall off their pylons or fail to track their targets. The Atolls never fail us. My team practices by firing at least 500 missiles per team member per night at a local indoor range.
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Any of you ever had a rex skull at your own eye-level? I have, and studied it*, so I can speak from some experience...
*The owner of a local rock-shop helped dig out the Fort Peck rex, so she was able to arrange for some casts to be available to her for sale. She also got a laugh out of the fact that having that skull in and letting me examine it gave me ammo for threads just like this one...:D

First, the brain is roughly the same total volume as ours, and the cerebrum would be approximately the same as a human occipital/parietal/temporal lobe combo, or about 2/3 of our "thinking part".

Second, the braincase itself is a massive, solidly built structure, as it's also the "keystone" the entire skull is built around. The rest of the skull? Well, when you consider that it was designed to deliver bone-crushing bites with a likely impact force of several tons... there are a few openings, but the bone is very thick--most of the "struts" in the one I examined looked about as big around as my wrist. You're not gonna get through it to the brain with even most big/dangerous-game rifles.

So... start with something rated for "bull elephant" at minimum, and even then I think you're erring on the low-side. As for me, I'll take a 30mm M230 Chain Gun... and its attached AH-64 Apache.
 
Oh come on, guys. Is it possible that you are all that dense? T-Rex has to bad taken on with high velocity, low mass stuff. If you aren't using a 5.7x28, you don't have a chance.
 
Oh come on, guys. Is it possible that you are all that dense? T-Rex has to bad taken on with high velocity, low mass stuff. If you aren't using a 5.7x28, you don't have a chance.
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Gaiudo,

You should know better than that..:rolleyes:Everyone knows that slower penetrates better. Randy Garret has proven it time and time again. A 500gr lead hard cast bullet @ under 1600FPS is going to be your best bet. I figured you'd have known.. Sometimes I just don't know what's wrong with you.:cool:
 
I say we throw this thread out to the handgun crowd and start a 9mm vs 45ACP fight! Those are always fun to watch. Oh, and the .40SW fellas will jump in and claim to have the perfect compromise, of course. ;)
 
A Glock 7 of course. Might as well use an imaginary gun since this is an imaginary scenario.

P.S. -I thought you couldn't discuss theoretical situations. Doesn't Dino hunting line up with zombie scenarios.
 
The effort is well underway to clone a mammoth from frozen tissue samples. :) Hunting extinct animals one day is farfetched, but perhaps not AS farfetched as zombie hunting.
 
"Hunting extinct animals one day is farfetched, but perhaps not AS farfetched as zombie hunting."

spiroxlii, you've obviously never met the average UK Labour voter.
 
I'd think that for most of the smaller stuff (velociraptor and smaller), .243 or .270 would be fine. .308 semi-auto might be a nice bit of insurance.

For an all-around rifle, I'd stick to .375 H&H, open sights.
 
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