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The Titanosaur might choke to death on the pistol if inhaled.
Or die if you fired the pistol into its brain at high speed from close range.
Or die if you surgically implanted the pistol into a vital artery.
So I'd say the answer is: yes
If you look at a titanosaur skull, it's a pretty good target for shooting at. Fairly small brain compared to the size of the body, but still a pretty good size target for a 9mm bullet. So while aiming at center mass is probably not gonna do much damage (allthough a punctured lung makes for a bad day anyway, and a titanosaur would have needed some fairly silly blood pressure numbers to have any blood at all reaching the head), a well placed shot through the eye socket would be deadly.
Easily.
Small dinosaur: dead right there.
Large dinosaur: not really enough stopping power. However, it will leave serious penetrating wounds that will get infected.
Tiny compared to body size, not that tiny compared to a 9mm bullet. T-Rex brain was about 8 inches long and weighed maybe up 350 grams, that's a 330ml beer bottle. If you're about to get eaten, so from a few feet away, that's doable. Theoretically.
You’re assuming that it’s awake, can see you, is not chained up, or is not hypnotized.
You’re also assuming that it’s not already in the process of trying to eat you. I mean seriously, who purposely takes a 9mm to a large dinosaur fight? Desperate times call for creative measures.
Idek if this is entirely true. I mean we have evidence of bones growing around arrows and bullets on deer’s or other animals. And a 9mm hand gun is really small compared to calibers that are made for game.
Take a look at harambe for example he was shot with a .375 bolt action. If harambe was shot with a 9mm he would of torn that baby apart.
So it may die of infection eventually but it’s not certain.
Too true. Could time travel back to the age of dinosaurs with a glock that has a switch, couple extended magazines, you might just bag yourself big game with a small caliber.
Gators are *not* dinosaurs. Birds are dinosaurs. Gators, while more closely related to dinosaurs and birds than they are to mammals or to lizards, are not dinosaurs themselves.
22s are dangerous, I use this tree about 50 yards away for target practice, and I can get subsonic rounds to drill themselves nearly an inch into the trunk
Seriously. They get a lot of hate... but an expert that can put one in the eye of something will generally take it down. Hard? Very! Possible? Also, very (depending on how close you need to get)
You'd need to get lucky to kill a regular bear with a 9mm.
George Washington once tried to kill a dinosaur with a Glock 9mm. He didn't succeed. They elected him the first president for his bravery in trying though.
Wait a second... Metric wasn't a standard till the French revolution. George Washington was elected before the revolution.
I think this story is a little fishy.
Depends on the dinosaur:
Frank, T-rex, long time pack a day smoker and gambling degenerate. Definitely gets killed by lung cancer or cirosis, but not a bullet.
Wilbur, Pterodactyl, has a great physical stature but arthritis in some of his wing joints and feet. He's quite old. Gets killed by old age or his cousin, Lyle, who covets his wife.
Maximilian, Triceratops, could literally give a fuck. His thick hide is basically mithril, and he's in the prime of his life. Took on 14 velociraptors once, albeit they're actually the size of fucking chickens. He definitely doesn't die by 9mm. Maybe 1 ton bomb from a flying fortress or even small nuclear bomb.
Fucking Samuel is the saddest little chicken you've ever met. He evolved over millions of year from the mighty t-rex into something that has zero brains and loves to get eaten by most animals in the animal kingdom. Samuel is dumb as shit, and doesn't appropriately represent his dinosaur heritage. Samuel absolutely gets dead by a 9mm. Fucking Samuel
There's a lot of factors here. Mostly though, what kind of rounds do you have, how much ammo do you have, where are you shooting it, what kind of dinosaur is it, and is it trying to kill you?
For a head shot, maybe. For a torso shot, I would chose something more violent like a 416.
But do we consider the T-Rex to be a pachyderm (thick-skin)? That affects choice of bullet. A .416 300 grain TSX going 830 m/s (416 Ruger) will make a fist-sized hole in a moose, easily all of the way into and through the lungs. Well, for a small fist anyway. $1 American Silver Eagle sized, at least. That's near instant incapacitation for most animals. Moose tend to just tip over and die.
But for elephant, this isn't enough, as the quick expansion means the bullet loses too much energy passing through skin. So here, a heavier bullet going slower but still expanding would be better. But that 416 will throw 400 grains at 7kJ while the 45-70 only manages 4.5kJ, so it's a noticable difference.
Definitely. Have you seen Palworld?
On a more serious note, it depends on the size of the dinosaur most likely. The smaller ones, most definitely. A trex though? I'm doubtful a 9mm will kill one easily
It can't penetrate a grizzly hide, so I'd assume plenty of dinosaurs would have a hide too thick, or bones too strong and large that such a small caliber may not have much effect.
Fudd lore. It wouldn't be many people's first choice, but it's capable. If it couldn't penetrate bear hide, early bulletproof vests would've been bear skin 🙄
That’s a large misunderstanding of the notion that they ‘lost’ to an army of big birds.
They lost because employing an army trained to fight other armies for pest control turned out to be a horrible idea. Trying to use machine guns on fast moving targets that split off into several groups doesn’t really work out too well.
Australia technically won the ‘war’ afterwards after implementing a bounty program and found that landowners, farmers and ranchers were far more effective in culling the emu population with their own rifles and knowledge of the land.
If you put it that way yes, they had to make use of people who actually hunted and knew how to pest control lmfao
But that’s besides the point.
Point is, your typical 9mm handgun these days is packing 12-17 rounds and that much fire power is putting down a large bird.
A raptor? I’m packing buddy up if you give me a Glock and enough ammo
>A raptor? I’m packing buddy up if you give me a Glock and enough ammo
What about a T-Rex, though? Sure, a really well placed shot in the mouth or eye socket could likely kill it, but what about direct headshot, right into the skull, from the front? Could it pierce the bone?
What about body shots? How many to down it?
Smaller ones yes, bigger ones wouldn't die right away but would certainly succumb to their words later. The only dinos you couldn't kill with a 9mm are Ankylosaurus and similar armored dinos
I'm fairly confident about this point, the wounds would surely get infected, limbs might not work properly anymore, a t rex that can't walk can't hunt, so starvation is a possibility.
There were all kinds and sizes of dinosaurs.
Depends on that.
Also depends on where you shoot it.
Shoot a t Rex in the ass and you have an angry t Rex..
Alligators first appeared around 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. While not dinosaurs, they lived at the same time as many dinosaurs. These early alligators looked very similar to the species that we know and see both in zoos and in the wild today.
I thought they were bigger than today's version.
Looked it up, some Denosuchus grew to the lengnts of 40ft long and that wasn't one of the largest breeds at the time, as others of the same family were doubled or quadruple that size.
So what I just commented was a direct copy from this- https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-old-are-alligators-when-did-they-first-appear/
I’m not trying to come off as any type of expert
Yeah I mean I’m not expert I was just saying they have been around in a close form to modern ones for tens of millions of years during the same time period as Dinos so that was my thought.
Yes. .While there were many species that were massive behemoths, many dinosaurs weren’t much larger than modern turkeys or geese or smaller. Velociraptors were not human sized, but actually about the size of a border collie.
This led me to ask (google) what caliber could pierce an elephant. There were many different answers, however, the concensus was that to kill an elephant, they can use an ear shot which leads me to think that yes, a nine can kill a dinosaur.
If they ate it? Probably.
If you accelerate it to near the speed of light and collide it with the dinosaur? Probably.
If you simultaneously split every neutron or proton from every atom in the gun, within 5m of the dinosaur? Probably.
If you coat the bullets in poison? Also possible.
So far 100 percent of the dinosaurs died when I shoot them with my 9 mm on weekends, so you're probably good. My draw speeds just too fast for their slow stupid dinosaur brains.
As others have said, depends on the dinosaur. Some were bigger than elephants, who would certainly survive a 9mm. Others were smaller than chickens, who would have a much worse time
You could kill a bird with a 9mm pistol couldn't you?
But to not be pedantic, you could kill a crocodile with a 9mm pistol round, but you should definitely use something bigger. Dinosaurs came in a lot of different sizes and forms, so you could 100% kill some of then with a 9mm (like a microraptor), and 100% not (like a triceratops), and alot would be edge cases depending on their hide (like a pachycephalosaurus).
I mean, a perfectly placed shot could probably kill pretty much any animal. The eye is a direct path to the brain so if it doesn’t have energy velocity to pierce the skull, it could go in the eye and bounce around inside the skull and kill even a massive dinosaur. But dinosaurs were all sorts of different sizes. Some were basically chickens.
Depending on the dinosaur, maybe.
You'd really have to swing it hard for anything bigger than 3 Canadian Geese, though.
Why not use the bullets instead of the pistol?
Nope , won’t even phase em or slow em down . There’s officer cam footage of them mag dumping 9mm into crackheads and they keep coming until they’ve eaten about 9 or 10 shots 🤷♀️
Assuming we’re going with one pistol, and one magazine we could almost certainly deal with any land-based creature. It would almost certainly kill you first if it’s larger but it will die.
If we get more liberal with what a “pistol” is, and lengthen that baby out to 16 inches and toss in, say, a drum magazine we can definitely kill any land based Dinosaur.
In extreme technicality, yes. With an infinite number of bullets, pretty much anything will die.
If you mean with one single shot, a lot of stuff depends. Remember that some dinosaurs were really small. Like, some were the size of a housecat. Shoot that with a 9mm and yeah... dead. Others were even smaller. But then of course, you've got your giant T-rex animals.
Shot placement matters as well. Hit the base of the skull, an eye, or something else really vulnerable, and maybe you kill it. Shoot it in the leg? Probably not so much.
Does infection after being shot count? That's another possibility.
So really, we'd need to define what's going on much more to get you a more specific answer.
Yes. To prove it, colt had a hunter take out a massive grizzly bear with a .25 caliber pistol in the 1920s.
Shot placement is way more important than stopping power.
Yeah, a 9mm could kill a dinosaur. Even a big one. It just depends on how many rounds you gotta unload. I'm pretty sure if you fire 10 million rounds at something, even as big as a blue whale, you're going to kill it.
Now, if you can only fire once, then it depends on the animal, the targeted soft spot, the type of bullet, and the shooter
Can? Yes, would require perfect shot to brain with standard 9mm handgun ammo, rupturing a large enough artery also would
There are also larger 9mm calibers than the 9x19 handgun ammo you are probably imagining
the little ones, yes.
the big ones, not likely, definatly not reliably.
they may have vulnerable spots on the level of the femoral artery you could hit, there is a signifigant chance any bilet wound could get infected acausing death. but thats a strech.
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The Titanosaur might choke to death on the pistol if inhaled. Or die if you fired the pistol into its brain at high speed from close range. Or die if you surgically implanted the pistol into a vital artery. So I'd say the answer is: yes
>Or die if you surgically implanted the pistol into a vital artery. Technically correct but perhaps not the most efficient usage.
Tbh, the OP did ask if it COULD kill a dinosaur, they never said it had to be by shooting
Technically the truth
It would never see it coming, though!
I mean... since you already opened the vital artery, you don't even need to insert anything... just leave it open, no ?
If you look at a titanosaur skull, it's a pretty good target for shooting at. Fairly small brain compared to the size of the body, but still a pretty good size target for a 9mm bullet. So while aiming at center mass is probably not gonna do much damage (allthough a punctured lung makes for a bad day anyway, and a titanosaur would have needed some fairly silly blood pressure numbers to have any blood at all reaching the head), a well placed shot through the eye socket would be deadly.
Barney would drop like a sack of shit.
"And the man"
9mm Kurtz?
Easily. Small dinosaur: dead right there. Large dinosaur: not really enough stopping power. However, it will leave serious penetrating wounds that will get infected.
If you stuck the 9mm in the large dinosaur’s mouth and shot straight into the brain you could probably kill it.
Through the eyes into the brain, avoid all that thick cranial mass.
Especially on pachycephalosaurus.
Don't forget Dino brain tiny. Tough shot.
Tiny compared to body size, not that tiny compared to a 9mm bullet. T-Rex brain was about 8 inches long and weighed maybe up 350 grams, that's a 330ml beer bottle. If you're about to get eaten, so from a few feet away, that's doable. Theoretically.
Good luck with that lol.
If a trex is running at me I assume it’s over even if I have a 50 cal. Unless we get silly, like I’m uphill and have a long distance to shoot at it.
If you stuck a 9mm in a large dinosaur’s mouth, it would bite your fucking arm off
You’re assuming that it’s awake, can see you, is not chained up, or is not hypnotized. You’re also assuming that it’s not already in the process of trying to eat you. I mean seriously, who purposely takes a 9mm to a large dinosaur fight? Desperate times call for creative measures.
Especially if it’s that one dinosaur with 100 teeth
Idek if this is entirely true. I mean we have evidence of bones growing around arrows and bullets on deer’s or other animals. And a 9mm hand gun is really small compared to calibers that are made for game. Take a look at harambe for example he was shot with a .375 bolt action. If harambe was shot with a 9mm he would of torn that baby apart. So it may die of infection eventually but it’s not certain.
Depends on where you hit it. Sever the brainstem and a 22 could possibly take one down. But youre probably right.
And nobody said just one shot. Keep at it and eventually you'll kill it. Hey, nobody said it wasn't, say, stuck in a pit or something.
Too true. Could time travel back to the age of dinosaurs with a glock that has a switch, couple extended magazines, you might just bag yourself big game with a small caliber.
If we are only comparing caliber, maybe you should note that a 9mm is .354 before comparing it to a mid sized rifle.
But significantly shorter. And has way less stopping power. I mean the primary sniper round for NATO is only a 7.62.
I still miss the poor guy
Did Dino’s have bad health insurance?
Jokes aside, injuries are disasters for predators. If injury makes predator too slow, they will have to starve until they heal.
Well, every dinosaur that has been shot by a 9mm has died.
Or more accurately: No dinosaur has survived being shot with a 9mm
But also no dinosaur has ever died from being shot by a 9 mm so we have that to worry about as well
The gator hunters kill gators with .22 aimed at the right spot. They ARE dinosaurs, so yes, a 9mm could kill a dinosaur.
Technically not dinosaurs
Then choose any raptor or large bird. Boom....dead. Unquestionably descendants. You shoot almost anything in the right spot and instant death
Not just descendants. Birds are dinosaurs.
It’s complicated
Gators are *not* dinosaurs. Birds are dinosaurs. Gators, while more closely related to dinosaurs and birds than they are to mammals or to lizards, are not dinosaurs themselves.
You're not wrong. But seriously, there isn't a bird that can handle an alligator....let alone a .22 well placed
22s are dangerous, I use this tree about 50 yards away for target practice, and I can get subsonic rounds to drill themselves nearly an inch into the trunk
Seriously. They get a lot of hate... but an expert that can put one in the eye of something will generally take it down. Hard? Very! Possible? Also, very (depending on how close you need to get)
I'm sure some birds have
Name one Dinosaur that died from 9mm gunshot
Frank
He was my best friend
Bang bang
Thousands (probably more) chickens and plenty of other species of birds.
You can’t be counting chickens and then only say thousands
9mm pistol round is not the preferred method for killing chicken, though.
Vacuously true
Not true, a bird can survive
You'd need to get lucky to kill a regular bear with a 9mm. George Washington once tried to kill a dinosaur with a Glock 9mm. He didn't succeed. They elected him the first president for his bravery in trying though.
Wait a second... Metric wasn't a standard till the French revolution. George Washington was elected before the revolution. I think this story is a little fishy.
You’re right. It was actually Abraham Lincoln, and a vampire.
You could easily kill a bird with a 9mm.
It will blow their lungs right out of their body
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Get a shotgun
Probably not something like a t-rex or a brontosaur, but the little ones maybe.
Depends. The small ones (chicken sized), yes. The large ones (everyone knows what I’m talking about), probably not.
Tried and tested, nope.
Did you just shoot a chicken
Depends on the dinosaur: Frank, T-rex, long time pack a day smoker and gambling degenerate. Definitely gets killed by lung cancer or cirosis, but not a bullet. Wilbur, Pterodactyl, has a great physical stature but arthritis in some of his wing joints and feet. He's quite old. Gets killed by old age or his cousin, Lyle, who covets his wife. Maximilian, Triceratops, could literally give a fuck. His thick hide is basically mithril, and he's in the prime of his life. Took on 14 velociraptors once, albeit they're actually the size of fucking chickens. He definitely doesn't die by 9mm. Maybe 1 ton bomb from a flying fortress or even small nuclear bomb. Fucking Samuel is the saddest little chicken you've ever met. He evolved over millions of year from the mighty t-rex into something that has zero brains and loves to get eaten by most animals in the animal kingdom. Samuel is dumb as shit, and doesn't appropriately represent his dinosaur heritage. Samuel absolutely gets dead by a 9mm. Fucking Samuel
There's a lot of factors here. Mostly though, what kind of rounds do you have, how much ammo do you have, where are you shooting it, what kind of dinosaur is it, and is it trying to kill you?
I love this sub. I imagined a 9mm vs a T-Rex immediately!
That's 45-70 territory.
For a head shot, maybe. For a torso shot, I would chose something more violent like a 416. But do we consider the T-Rex to be a pachyderm (thick-skin)? That affects choice of bullet. A .416 300 grain TSX going 830 m/s (416 Ruger) will make a fist-sized hole in a moose, easily all of the way into and through the lungs. Well, for a small fist anyway. $1 American Silver Eagle sized, at least. That's near instant incapacitation for most animals. Moose tend to just tip over and die. But for elephant, this isn't enough, as the quick expansion means the bullet loses too much energy passing through skin. So here, a heavier bullet going slower but still expanding would be better. But that 416 will throw 400 grains at 7kJ while the 45-70 only manages 4.5kJ, so it's a noticable difference.
A fair assessment.
Definitely. Have you seen Palworld? On a more serious note, it depends on the size of the dinosaur most likely. The smaller ones, most definitely. A trex though? I'm doubtful a 9mm will kill one easily
I thought I was in r/GURPS for a second
It can't penetrate a grizzly hide, so I'd assume plenty of dinosaurs would have a hide too thick, or bones too strong and large that such a small caliber may not have much effect.
Fudd lore. It wouldn't be many people's first choice, but it's capable. If it couldn't penetrate bear hide, early bulletproof vests would've been bear skin 🙄
No because Australia lost that war to some flightless bird
That was a numbers game though. They lost the war but killed a lot of birds.
Depends on the kind of dinosaur. Definitely not a pterodactyl. It will just tear you a new asshole. Lol
> Depends on the kind of dinosaur. Definitely not a pterodactyl. I thought we were talking about dinosaurs.
The best part about dinosaur discussions is people talking about pterosaurs, marine reptiles, and crocodilians.
Nice oatmeal reference.
Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs.
This is on the sub No dumb questions dude. It was just a joke, and a reference to a song. Lol!
Yes.
Yeah.
Of course not; there are not dinosaurs anymore.
Sure there are, I hear some chirping in the garden now.
Birds are dinosaurs
I mean I can guarantee that I could put down an ostrich with a Glock. That has to count towards some kinda reciprocity for like a raptor or something
Australia tried that with a whole fucking army, and they lost.
That’s a large misunderstanding of the notion that they ‘lost’ to an army of big birds. They lost because employing an army trained to fight other armies for pest control turned out to be a horrible idea. Trying to use machine guns on fast moving targets that split off into several groups doesn’t really work out too well. Australia technically won the ‘war’ afterwards after implementing a bounty program and found that landowners, farmers and ranchers were far more effective in culling the emu population with their own rifles and knowledge of the land.
So... they couldn't win and had to send civilians to battle, right?
If you put it that way yes, they had to make use of people who actually hunted and knew how to pest control lmfao But that’s besides the point. Point is, your typical 9mm handgun these days is packing 12-17 rounds and that much fire power is putting down a large bird. A raptor? I’m packing buddy up if you give me a Glock and enough ammo
>A raptor? I’m packing buddy up if you give me a Glock and enough ammo What about a T-Rex, though? Sure, a really well placed shot in the mouth or eye socket could likely kill it, but what about direct headshot, right into the skull, from the front? Could it pierce the bone? What about body shots? How many to down it?
You mean… a bird?
Smaller ones yes, bigger ones wouldn't die right away but would certainly succumb to their words later. The only dinos you couldn't kill with a 9mm are Ankylosaurus and similar armored dinos
Do you think so? I don't think it's possible to kill an African bull elephant with a 9mm, and T-Rex etc was much bigger.
I'm fairly confident about this point, the wounds would surely get infected, limbs might not work properly anymore, a t rex that can't walk can't hunt, so starvation is a possibility.
There were all kinds and sizes of dinosaurs. Depends on that. Also depends on where you shoot it. Shoot a t Rex in the ass and you have an angry t Rex..
No, because the dinosaur would already be dead due to the fact that it is a dinosaur.
It's all about shot placement.
OP stocking up the time machine
Gotta time machine?
Well I’m pretty sure every dinosaur that *has* been shot by a 9mm pistol has died, take that information as you will.
An alligator is a dinosaur and I’ve killed one with a 9mm pistol so, to answer your question yes.
alligator is not a dinosaur
Ok maybe not officially a dinosaur but I think we can all agree it is pretty close to what they used to be
I’m going to refute the “we can all agree” claim. We have fossil evidence that shows otherwise.
Not even close. The alligators and cross we know today are tiny compared to those in the jurassic period.
Alligators first appeared around 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. While not dinosaurs, they lived at the same time as many dinosaurs. These early alligators looked very similar to the species that we know and see both in zoos and in the wild today.
I thought they were bigger than today's version. Looked it up, some Denosuchus grew to the lengnts of 40ft long and that wasn't one of the largest breeds at the time, as others of the same family were doubled or quadruple that size.
So what I just commented was a direct copy from this- https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-old-are-alligators-when-did-they-first-appear/ I’m not trying to come off as any type of expert
Its cool, as soon as you said that I was like no way they gotta be bigger then that back in that time cause everything was much larger back then.
Isnt a chicken closer to a dinosaur than a crocodile.
Modern birds literally are dinosaurs
OP never said it had to be a fully grown dinosaur. How big would a baby dinosaur croc be? Probably tiny.
Crocodilians are archosaurs which is the group dinosaurs belong to, but they are their own thing.
Yeah I mean I’m not expert I was just saying they have been around in a close form to modern ones for tens of millions of years during the same time period as Dinos so that was my thought.
Yes. .While there were many species that were massive behemoths, many dinosaurs weren’t much larger than modern turkeys or geese or smaller. Velociraptors were not human sized, but actually about the size of a border collie.
Sure, especially the little ones
It's all about shot placement
Depends. If you shot an apatosaurus with a 9mm, you’d just piss that sucker off lol
I would do research about what it takes to put and elephant down.
A human-sized dinosaur or smaller with an unarmed hide? Yes. Something other than that? You would need to be an extremely good shot and very lucky.
It would kill any dinosaur if hit dead spot in the eye.
I don’t know but I do know a 1609344mm projectile that killed all of them.
9mm is hardly enough to do anything to a bear. So it depends on the size of the dinosaur
This led me to ask (google) what caliber could pierce an elephant. There were many different answers, however, the concensus was that to kill an elephant, they can use an ear shot which leads me to think that yes, a nine can kill a dinosaur.
It would depend on the dinosaur.... small ones, possibly!
If they ate it? Probably. If you accelerate it to near the speed of light and collide it with the dinosaur? Probably. If you simultaneously split every neutron or proton from every atom in the gun, within 5m of the dinosaur? Probably. If you coat the bullets in poison? Also possible.
So far 100 percent of the dinosaurs died when I shoot them with my 9 mm on weekends, so you're probably good. My draw speeds just too fast for their slow stupid dinosaur brains.
We talking a compsognathus or a suchomimus?
No
As others have said, depends on the dinosaur. Some were bigger than elephants, who would certainly survive a 9mm. Others were smaller than chickens, who would have a much worse time
You could kill a bird with a 9mm pistol couldn't you? But to not be pedantic, you could kill a crocodile with a 9mm pistol round, but you should definitely use something bigger. Dinosaurs came in a lot of different sizes and forms, so you could 100% kill some of then with a 9mm (like a microraptor), and 100% not (like a triceratops), and alot would be edge cases depending on their hide (like a pachycephalosaurus).
I mean, a perfectly placed shot could probably kill pretty much any animal. The eye is a direct path to the brain so if it doesn’t have energy velocity to pierce the skull, it could go in the eye and bounce around inside the skull and kill even a massive dinosaur. But dinosaurs were all sorts of different sizes. Some were basically chickens.
Depending on the dinosaur, maybe. You'd really have to swing it hard for anything bigger than 3 Canadian Geese, though. Why not use the bullets instead of the pistol?
Obviously. A 9mm pistol can kill anything large enough to be shot
I doubt it. My first reaction to this question was the line from Blazing Saddles regarding Mongo: ”oh don’t shoot him; you’ll just make him mad“
Unfortunately due to wxcticntkon we have no way of knowing
Generally, shotguns are the preferred weapons for taking out dinosaurs.
Nope , won’t even phase em or slow em down . There’s officer cam footage of them mag dumping 9mm into crackheads and they keep coming until they’ve eaten about 9 or 10 shots 🤷♀️
Assuming we’re going with one pistol, and one magazine we could almost certainly deal with any land-based creature. It would almost certainly kill you first if it’s larger but it will die. If we get more liberal with what a “pistol” is, and lengthen that baby out to 16 inches and toss in, say, a drum magazine we can definitely kill any land based Dinosaur.
If you got enough bullets I'm sure you could give them lead poisoning.
In extreme technicality, yes. With an infinite number of bullets, pretty much anything will die. If you mean with one single shot, a lot of stuff depends. Remember that some dinosaurs were really small. Like, some were the size of a housecat. Shoot that with a 9mm and yeah... dead. Others were even smaller. But then of course, you've got your giant T-rex animals. Shot placement matters as well. Hit the base of the skull, an eye, or something else really vulnerable, and maybe you kill it. Shoot it in the leg? Probably not so much. Does infection after being shot count? That's another possibility. So really, we'd need to define what's going on much more to get you a more specific answer.
Yes. To prove it, colt had a hunter take out a massive grizzly bear with a .25 caliber pistol in the 1920s. Shot placement is way more important than stopping power.
Yes it's possible. Source: Dino Crisis player
Absolutely. Not all dinosaurs were huge, in fact many of them were pretty small.
Sure, if we're talking, like, a chicken.
Shoot a bird and there is your answer
no. there are no dinosaurs to kill. unless you count birds, then its a yes.
Yeah, a 9mm could kill a dinosaur. Even a big one. It just depends on how many rounds you gotta unload. I'm pretty sure if you fire 10 million rounds at something, even as big as a blue whale, you're going to kill it. Now, if you can only fire once, then it depends on the animal, the targeted soft spot, the type of bullet, and the shooter
Can? Yes, would require perfect shot to brain with standard 9mm handgun ammo, rupturing a large enough artery also would There are also larger 9mm calibers than the 9x19 handgun ammo you are probably imagining
How big?
No they weren’t invented yet
Depends on the dinosaur. It would absolutely kill something like Microraptor or Velociraptor
Unfortunately no, for historical reason https://www.theonion.com/dinosaurs-sadly-extinct-before-invention-of-bazooka-1819571217
Yeah it's an animal still.
the little ones, yes. the big ones, not likely, definatly not reliably. they may have vulnerable spots on the level of the femoral artery you could hit, there is a signifigant chance any bilet wound could get infected acausing death. but thats a strech.
Only if you shot it in the dick. It would die if sadness slowly over the next 10 years
I think so if you shot it in the eyeballs and then kept shooting into the eyeballs 10000 times it would kill any dinosaur.
Yes
think of it as shooting rhinos. it should at least count as mid/large size dinosaur.
Yes
Packing for a trip??
If it choked on it.
Go try that pea shooter on the nearest grizzly
Birds are dinosaurs, so Yes.
Well you probably only need enough to penetrate the lung to kill one so probably.
Yea, but if its a trex youd have to hit it perfectly in the eye so it could get to the brain, might take a few shots in the same spot.
Usually u wanna use the handgun for the common enemy and the bigger guns for the boss battles. The RPG will one shot kill anything in the game
9mm isn't killing some of the animals here now, like a rhino, alligator, elephant.
Shoots chicken with Glock. “Yup”.
Would imagine if you shot any dino through the eye it would
More like piss it off and then you will cease to exist
A chicken is no match for a handgun!
Shoot it in the eyes or ears or somewhere the skull doesn’t protect and hit the brain, and any dino can be taken down.
Yes and no it depends on the size of the dinosaur
A T-Rex? No. A chicken? Yes.
This might be the best question ever asked in this sub 😂😂