If you could hunt one dinosaur

fantasy

I'm not taking my chances with an Elephant that is trying to EAT me. Especially one that could (however unlikely we assume it may be) have multiple hearts or some other funky evolutionary branch that we don't know about.
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Hmmm. We are not starting to forget that this is a fantasy, are we? None of us are taking any chances with this hunt no matter what.
Pete
 
I haven't thought about this much but I don't see why a .458 Winchester Mag or .458 Lott wouldn't do the job for most Dinos. You might want a Quad M2 .50 BMG for backup though.
 
I've often wondered what they would taste like. I think they wouldn't taste all that great, kind of fishy. Maybe the browsers would taste better.

I agree with the triceratops nomination. Anything with a big horney head would be awesome. Something somewhat slow, so you could get a little close. That would eliminate the raptors.

I've gotten a little recoil sensitive in my old age so I would be limited to whatever a .308 would kill. I might get a 30-06 if I had the occasion to go on a jurrasic park safari.
 
Qoute from Uncle Buck:

I would hunt the smallest ones I could find, because:

1. I would hate to waste all that meat.

2. Field dressing it would be a mess.

3. I would wear out a blade trying to cut it up into bite size pieces.

4. I would be screaming like a little girl while running away from that thing.

What would I use? Stealth! Maybe I could sneak into HogDogs camp and swipe a few crocosaures staeks.

You forgot one: Unless you have a meat market, you would have to build one heck of a freezer to store the meat.
 
Hmmm. We are not starting to forget that this is a fantasy, are we? None of us are taking any chances with this hunt no matter what.
Pete
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Obviously. However, a question was asked, and no matter how fantastic and far fetched it seemed, I tried to cover all bases. Isn't that tactical thinking?
 
Ice Age or Dino Age?

If I had a time machine to go back to the Dinosaur Age, I wouldn't waste it on the Dino Age, and go the the Ice Age, for the Sabertooth Tiger. Even if I froze/got mauled to death, I would hunt in Alaska or Siberia, where the likeliness of keeping the corpse frozen and preserved for a few million years would be the most. If I made it back, then what a fine trophy that would be. Not that I could possibly fit it in my current house...but if in this fantasy, I could afford a hunting expedition to the Ice Age, then I could probably afford a bigger house.
 
I'd go fishing for a megalodon, baddest fish ever
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Definately one of the medium-sized Raptors, like the Deinonychus. With extreme visual acuity and agility, it is in a sense hunting you as well... Its like a 10 foot tall, P.O.ed rooster. Have you seen how much damage a rooster can do?

BG
 
I'd go fishing for a megalodon, baddest fish ever
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Boy, do I have a movie for you: Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.

The best viewing method is what I use for "B" movies (or lower quality).

Code: 
Watch the first five minutes.  (Laugh)
Skip to the middle, and watch 5 minutes.  (Laugh, scratch head)
Watch the last five minutes.  (Laugh)
--Be glad you only lost 15 minutes of your life, rather than 120.--


I think I might go with Diplodocus. Herbivores taste better than Carnivores. And who could turn down a 175 foot long, 125 ton trophy?
 
Something that won't eat me in case I miss! Compsognathus would be acceptable. They were roughly the size of a chicken from what I read. :D

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I would hunt whatever was close, but I would have to have the trusty old barret 50. Anything less and I would be deathly afraid!! Well, I still would be with the 50 cal but there would be a big dead stack of dinosaur bodies all around me. Then of course we would have a big kegger and cook a bunch of dinosaur legs on the bonfire!!
 
XD Gunner said:
Can anyone prove that? No. My statement still stands. I'm not taking my chances with an Elephant that is trying to EAT me. Especially one that could (however unlikely we assume it may be) have multiple hearts or some other funky evolutionary branch that we don't know about.
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One of the large predators, I do not recall if it was a Tyrannosaur or not, was found with part of its organs fossilized. The heart was similar to that of a bird, and it had only one. If I recall correctly, a dinosaur of the two-legged herbivore variety was found extremely well preserved, skin and all, with its organs very much intact and complete. One heart, again more like a bird's (as opposed to a reptile, which I think it has been confirmed dinosaurs are not), only one brain, etc. The layout is fairly conventional. What it comes down to is not so much strange things like what you suggest, but rather, where, precisely, are the vital organs located. Even though we know the brain is in the skull, it is included if you have not studied the skull, since they were small and located deep in the skull, much like it is hard to brain an elephant. I think this is less problematic with the two-legged dinosaurs, which probably are configured much like birds on the average, but with the four-legged sort, like brontosaurs, I think we can be far less certain, especially since none of these have been found with the organs intact. I think it is very safe to say, though, that a T-Rex will not have features such as those you are concerned about, and it is extremely unlikely that any dinosaur does, since nature on Earth seems to have not been much in favor of it, especially with larger animals.
 
A little thread drift in this World of Silly: Visualize Noah's Ark, with the animals approaching two-by-two.

In a tree stand, hogdogs turned to me and said, "Hey, this is a great place to hunt!"
 
Hahahahahaha!

That is something he hogdogs would say.

Back to the thread...I would hunt the largest raptor...more likely a triceratops though. They are just too cool.
 
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