One of the posts I had fun with a while back was the one about hunting a T. rex. In it, we discussed a letter published in GUNS Magazine that was inspired by the choices of armaments in Jurassic Park, and a rebuttal letter that kept the conversation going.A new comment entered last week tells us to check out rexGun by Dr. Stephen W. Templar.
Interesting--I haven't read it (yet) but I'm intrigued, and the Amazon site allows you to preview some of the book's contents, which include considerations a hunter would need to assess for any large dangerous game animal tailored to what we know/assume about T. rex.
I bring this up now because it dovetails nicely with an idea I had a few weeks back watching The History Channel's very cool series, "Jurassic Fight Club." My thoughts immediately went back to our prior discussion.
Tell me "rexHunt" wouldn't be a fascinating show.
You could interview world-renowned big game hunters, perhaps experts who write for gun magazines--I'd think they'd jump at the publicity--who would propose what they'd use and their preferred tactics. You could show ballistics/cavitation results. You could interview world-renowned dinosaur experts, who could provide the information about the creatures' capabilities, habitat, probable behaviors, etc. And then you could show the CGI results of combining known and best estimate factors together--perhaps determined by putting the hunters into a computer-generated scenario simulator that would compute where they hit the beast, if they did, and what effect that would theoretically have--and having it all acted out like a movie scene. Perhaps some of them would not "survive," and perhaps the one(s) who did would have crowing rights.
I think it would be a hell of a show, assuming, of course, it didn't overly horrify the antis into stirring up enough PR heat to strangle the idea in its crib.
And why limit it to T. rex? We could see hunts planned and carried out for a Velociraptor, factoring in the added dynamics of a presumed pack animal, or Triceratops, with its armored skull and massive bulk...
Not that I have any real hope of seeing this actualized. Ah well...it's not the first time I've indulged in a televised fantasy...
[And no, I'm not endorsing attempting a headshot with my graphic--it's just an illustration for cryin' out loud...]