No need to get reasonable about it, **Joe_Cool **
But, from what you posted, I doubt the talon could shatter the massive pelvis of a T. Rex.
Sorry. I thought the myth surrounding the black talon was well known enough that I didn’t bother looking for an authoritative site, just grabbed the first thing that matched off google.
Joe_Cool seems to have covered it, though. So there you go.
I’d agree with that. Besides, I don’t think they ever made the Black Talon in 20mm. hahaha
You are all going way overkill on the gun and ammo thing. I say that you get the T. Rex the same way you get any other crocodile. Simply read a boring book by the stream on a warm day until you fall asleep. T. Rex comes up, and being curious, starts to read the book you dropped till it falls asleep. Then you wake up, grab your telescope, look at the T. Rex through the wrong end, pick it up with your tweezers and put it in the match box you brought.
You guys make everything soooooo complicated!
-Sandwriter
p.s. If you need to kill the T. Rex, squeeze hard with the tweezers instead of picking it up.
An M-60 Machine Gun on a tripod. It has a large-enough round and a rather lot of them.
“Crikey! Ain’t she a beauty! I’m going to jump on her head, while Terry grabs the tail!”
Actually, that might not be such a bad idea. If you can get onto its back somehow (lowered by chopper?) it’s not going to be able to reach you with it’s little stubby arms. (heck it might not even notice). Stay clear of the jaws, and maybe backstab it, severing the spinal cord.
Or, lead it into a trap. Pungi sticks, A big net, or (since the tow cables have already been mentioned) two swinging logs suspended by vines. (Triggered by warrior teddy bears, if available.)
I’d go with the Tsurugi of Muramasa. (Valkyries, of course, should stick with Mjollnir…)
Hm. Seems I misphrased. Which is something I often fall prey to. In this case, I was thinking of the massive wound cavities I saw a Black Talon round do into a pile of… well, forensic jell-o or something, and then getting ahead of myself. A few rounds into a hip or crotch, would quite probably devastate the muscle groups of the leg, as it was chasing, creating, with luck, a point where the leg could no longer support the weight of the body. I suspect the pelvis would fracture at that point as the Rex crumpled.
The central point not being the round, but the point of aim, here.
I feel that a headshot is probably a very bad idea, while crippling is probably the best solution.
STINK! What portion do you NOT want to destroy! If you want to keep the head, then choose any artillery weapon and shoot it in the chest. Or at the hips, and then wait for it to bleed to death.
If you weant the whole skeleton, you need some sort of poison.
If you want to eat it and keep the skeleton… hmm. Poison that degrades quickly? Poison that’s harmless to humans (engineered for nerves of T. Rex, I suppoe)
i’d just use a machine gun, shoot the narrow part of its leg until it fell off, then he’d fall and wouldn’t be able to get up. therefore dying of starvation (eventually) once down you could throw some rocks at him just for good measure