WWM,W&HD?
What would Marshall, Will and Holly do?
StG
Find yourself a whole bunch of them and make a noise like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, scaring them into a box canyon where they all mill around in indecision. Then drop rocks on them.
Or find yourself a brontosaurus trail and dig a humungously deep pit.
Or grab an elf longbow and wait in hiding until one comes by, then scamper up its tail, over its back, and up the neck, and fire a double-arrow shot right through the base of its skull… and then go sit on its back until the penny drops.
Or find one, jab it in the tail with a pointed stick, wait for twenty minutes until it notices and gets spooked, and then just keep it running until it drops. It’s a reptile, it can’t manage its waste heat as efficiently as a human. In the long run you must be able to run it down.
After watching “Futureweapons” on the Discovery Channel last night, I have to think that one of those Accuracy International AS50s would do the trick nicely.
Some kind of 50 cal bonded softpoint would probably do just fine, and with a 5 round semi-auto capability, you can have quick follow-ups.
You might have to get kind of close- within 200 yards or so, to make sure you punched a deep enough hole in it though.
First off, Tyrannosaurs are Cretaceous. Brontosaurs are Jurassic. Different eras. You meant to say “Allosaurus”.
But Allosaurs almost certainly didn’t prey on adult sauropods, any more than lions prey on adult elephants, hippos, rhinos, or cape buffalo. These herbivores have grown so big they have nothing to fear from any predator. They’re more likely to behave aggressively towards predators than fearfully. Or more likely, since they have brains the size of a walnut, not react at all to predators. Or anything. Nobody’s home in that little brain. In a sauropod we have an eating machine that is probably nearly immune to outside stimuli. These things are alien, in a way that predatory dinosaurs aren’t. There’s really nothing even remotely similar to them today. We can pretty easily imagine predator dinosaurs going about their business, but a sauropod? Maybe something like a whale shark? Even the dumbest herbivores today, like sheep, have a brain many times the size of a sauropod’s brain.
Would’nt shooting them with nitates used in sausage making kill the beast, but leave the meat useable for food? Most people here are assuming almost no waste to mean we have to eat the meat, which is a fallacy.
I’m in favor of the old-fashioned approach.
Light a grass fire to panic the herd, then run em using noise from bullroarers, horns & etc, then chase em over a cliff edge.
Afterwards, we finish em off with our hand axes & flint tipped spears.
HEY! It worked with Mammoths, & they had more brains.
FWIW John Varley postulated bronto farms (on the moon of all places) in his excellent novel Steel Beach. IIRC the concept of harvesting the beasts never comes up but it is shown that brontos are not very fun animals to be around in a stampede…
You need the blade and scissors??!?!
Punk.
-Cem
Oh, please. You’d be lucky to even have the toothpick. When I was a boy, back in Bedrock, we hunted brontos with nothing but balls, brains, and moral superiority.
You needed balls and brains??!??
Punk.
Remind me to tell all of you kiddies how I once save the King of England with only a safety match, moral superiority, and a picture of Strom Thurmond!
-Cem
You needed Strom Thu…
Aw, to hell with it.
And we were thankful!
But if you try to tell that to the young people today, they won’t believe you…
Mostly, we were thankful you got rid of the photo of Strom.
also good for those who insist the millenium started midnight between 2000 and 2001!
You’re not bringing this debate back, are you? There are two kinds of people: those who think the 21st century started on 1/1/2000, and those who can count. 
And I had patted myself on the back all day for thinking I had remembered that line!
You see, this is why I love the SDMB. The finer points of Sauropod anatomy and behaviour juxtaposed with cheesy sci/fi, bliss.