Crocodile Defense Thread

[Rammer Jammer]

Has anyone here seen the new movie "Primeval"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeval_(film)

It's based on a real man-eating crocodile called Gustave located in Lake Tanganyika, Burundi, Africa. :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_(crocodile)

He's 20 feet long (6 meters), weighs 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms). Apparently he's hard to kill as well.

What would you want to use if you were going to hunt him?

 

[t-star]

it's apparently not a real tough hide to get through so much as making the shot count- ie the brain area is real small , just aft of the eyes and about the size of a walnut- hitting anywhere else doesn't seem to count as accounts of wounding seem to abound, but the croc/alligator just ignores the wound and goes about it's business- similar to killing a shark or other "primitive" lifeform-

 

[summerside sniper]

30-06 to the eyes. Take out the eyes and he doesn't see. Can't see, can't kill. Same with the mouth. Destroy the mouth, can't eat.

 

[CV32]

25mm Mk 38 Bushmaster

 

[JifeLacket]

Ill put that in my canoe

 

[geologist]

.303 Brit, that's what my Aussie buddies in Queensland say does the job.

 

[Scott_N]

I kind of liked that movie. I'd want to use a few sticks of TNT.

 

[Gatehouse]

I'd use a 22-250 and nail him in the brain as he dozes on the shore...Like is often done when hunting crocs in Africa.

 

[Amphibious]

.50BMG bangstick. they exist and are used on crocs frequently.

 

[Gatehouse]

.50BMG bangstick. they exist and are used on crocs frequently.

Don't you have ot be a bit close to Gustave to use that?

 

[Amphibious]

http://www.beco-products.com/beco_catalog.htm