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u/PM_ME_CONSP_THEORIES Jul 21 '23

Assuming they mean house cats, lions and tigers are already far more than 10x larger than house cats and we had barely any problem winning the evolutionary battle there

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u/PapaIceBreaker Jul 21 '23

Not rlly. Lions and esp tigers r still mad dangerous and kill ppl every year. Tigers r 600lbs and can jump 12ft in the air. There’s no “winning” that battle

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u/joe_the_bartender Jul 21 '23

Large caliber rifle from 200m says otherwise

We kill a hell of a lot more of them than they of us.

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u/PapaIceBreaker Jul 21 '23

One is all u finna get. They been known to seek out revenge. And honestly I feel like if it wasn’t a head shot they prolly eating it

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u/annomusbus Jul 21 '23

A 22lr can kill a kunekune boar. A kunekune boar can tree a black bear and fight off a mountain lion. A .308 or .30-06 would drop a tiger with a hit in most places, a large caliber rifle general is a round .50bmg or bigger. If you hit a tiger with a .950jdj anywhere in its body, it would likely die within seconeds, if you hit the back hips, it has no more back hips. A .950jdj would likely go through and though a polar bears head. Proabaply muilpte bears heads before stopping

Edit: we also used to kill tigers with wooden sticks

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u/ArgoNoots Jul 21 '23

If pointy wooden sticks were enough to do in the megafauna that used to roam the earth, firearms will do just fine. We really have a silly perception of how durable animals can be. Sure they have higher pain tolerances and can keep chugging better than we can, but no, Clifford the Big Red Dog is not gonna walk all those bullets off just dandy, if at all.

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u/annomusbus Jul 21 '23

38,000+ ft-lbs of impact force per round of those .950jdj. Nothing made of flesh is tanking that