Re: Man vs. T-Rex: What Gun Would You Need to Beat One?

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:35:53 -0400, Rhino
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On 2025-07-01 1:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jul 1, 2025 at 9:36:42 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

On 2025-07-01 12:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Jul 1, 2025 at 9:01:33 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
  wrote:
 

  On 2025-07-01 1:58 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>

    Testing the effectiveness of various firearms on a T-Rex, from the
smallest
    handgun (.22 pistol) to the most powerful rifle in the world (the 950 JDJ,
    which shoots a 2400-grain round that produces 30,000 foot-pounds of muzzle
    energy and 300 pounds of recoil):
   
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pf6E8yjMAI&t=2s
   

  I don't know how he managed to keep standing after experiencing the
  recoil of the larger calibre weapons. His shoulder must have been in a
  terrible state....

 
  After every range day, my shoulder was always black-and-blue with bruises
from
  firing the 12-gauge shotgun with rifled slug instead of buckshot. Shoot that
  ten times in a row and you'll be aching for a week. Nothing I'd rather have
in
  a firefight but I could do without shooting it at targets.
 

Why is a shotgun your first choice in a firefight? Clueless civilian
that I am, I would have thought that something with great accuracy,

 
A shotgun firing a slug (not buckshot) is as accurate as any rifle and can
reach out and touch you with precision from a lot farther away than a pistol.
And it has the power to send that slug through the engine block of a car so
there's not a lot of things the bad guy can hide behind that will protect him
from you.
 

I didn't realize shotguns were particularly accurate, let alone that a
slug could go through an engine block. Now I see the appeal!

Consider that they use shotguns loaded with bird shot to take down
birds that are off in the distance while the shot is spreading. Where
shotguns are particularly inaccurate is with the sawed off shotgun
with the short barrel. That is weapon that's useful in a home/building
with lots of rooms, but not so much if you are outside.