06-10-2015, 12:53 AM | #21 | |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
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Poachers might find that buying a cheap automatic rifle was less conspicuous than buying an elephant gun.
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06-10-2015, 12:58 AM | #22 |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
Most probably, they use whatever gun is at hand. A komodo dragon is comparable in weight to a human, and is presumably vulnerable to the same things.
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06-10-2015, 01:38 AM | #23 |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
I don't think that follows between biological classes at all.
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06-10-2015, 02:59 AM | #24 |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
Bone and muscle are bone and muscle. It's typically a lot harder to shoot the brain of a reptile, since it's much smaller, and the mechanics of going into shock might be extremely different, but gross tissue damage just won't vary that much.
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06-10-2015, 05:13 AM | #25 |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
How are TL 8 people going to run into dinosaurs? This matters because you asked about poaching, which is illegal hunting.
What form do you need the body in? Are you only looking for one particular body part, for example rhino horn for "medicinal" purposes? Do you need to sneak an entire body out? And how do you conceal your operation from the government? As others have pointed out, hunting a dinosaur is probably easy, but watch out for the scavengers and even the equivalent of body lice and fleas.
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06-10-2015, 06:28 AM | #26 |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
Let's narrow it doen. We're hunting Triceratopses for the horns. They make men mighty! They can be up to three feet long, so any Holdout thing that works for elephant tusks should work for this.
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06-10-2015, 07:11 AM | #27 | |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
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More seriously, I'd want to know what my goal was. Am I trying to clear an area of predators to establish a village? Am I hunting for meat? Am I looking to capture one for a breeding program? Do I need something to accent my enormous foyer? Those various goals will provide very different answers to the question about gear.
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06-10-2015, 07:23 AM | #28 |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
Ignore the "hot blood/cold blood debate". The cold blood side doesn't have a leg to stand on. Mostly because dinosaurs have legs like mammals or terrestrial birds rather than lizards
A critter that runs like an ostrich needs a metabolism like an 0ostrich and a creature that spends all day on its' feet eating trees like an elephant needs a metabolism like an elephant. A creature that spends most of its' day flopped on its' belly like a reptile doing nothing is the candidate for a reptile metabolism. What the cold blood argument actually stands on is conservatism and a simplistic "dinosaurs are like reptiles" argument. It's really only dinosaur skulls that are like reptile skulls.
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06-10-2015, 07:34 AM | #29 |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
Given that a triceratops is in the same weight class as an African elephant, the same techniques will work fine
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06-10-2015, 08:25 AM | #30 | |
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Re: How would you equip a dinosaur poacher?
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Frontal head shots at an elephant are actually quite hard and they might be even worse with a triceratops.
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