Realism, How far should it be taken

I can’t be 100% certain, but the first shot looked like a clear warning shot, meant to miss. Either that or he was aiming for the thing’s ass (which would be… ummm… I don’t know a word for that level of stupid :slight_smile: ). In either case, he sure as hell didn’t wait very long to deliver the following 4 :expressionless:

I can empathize with the guy’s fear (I’ve already said I’m a “lightweight” and I’d prolly piss myself if I got kicked by a moose), but his decision making processes are all kinds of messed up. I’m on the wagon that that situation could have easily gone down with nobody hurt. The guy’s a dick and a dumbass… but not explicitly for shooting the moose. :wink:

Well i have all sorts of dangerous animals in my state bear, mountain lions, moose. The only deadly creature ive ever come face to face with is a rattle snake i have been closer than 3 feet to them more than once luckily they never bit me but when you when you hear the rattle and see it rearing back you get pretty terrified.

Moose are incredibly territorial and would have charged him regardless they kill more people in north America then any other animal. Had the guy turned around it could had charged him or the guy behind him. When he shot it you could clearly see it coming in for a second charge moose are not deer or elk they are very very dangerous animals.

nobody was hurt. the moose isn’t a somebody, it’s just a wild animal.

I haven’t played ME3 so I cannot judge that but if you described that correctly it’s actually one of the good approaches to the matter.

I am back at my basic point that relationship isn’t a zero-sum winnable game. It’s good for Barney Stinson chick hunting but that is an intentional caricature in itself.

Again, I have no problem with sex scenes, I don’t even have problem with efforts of gamifying relationship. What I have problem with is reduction of such a complex ever-unstable thing as relationship, which require huge amounts of subtlety, into a system with “Yay! You won the relationship with this person! Here, have this reward.” The reward being a sex scene usually.

And yes these clumsy attemps, for me, are still even better than throwing sex scenes into game just for the sake of it without giving any proper context and trying to be all serious about it (Metro Last Light for example, which is otherwise fantastic game)

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Uh, I’ll bet the guy was hurtin’ a bit after that kick :wink:

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That is why I always take a pistol to the woods. Not bears so much in the Czech Republic, but wild boar, stray dogs and horny male deer. Actually this very summer a guy shot an attacking dog with his 9mil pistol on a spot in the mountains (parking lot at the beginning of a hiking trail) I went just week before.

Who the hell takes a high powered rifle just for a walk/ride in the woods? I carry my 9 mil because I prefer 14+1 on tap and 16 on reload in case I need it with the gun being light enough that I don’t really know I have it. Sure, having a .44 revolver would be probably a better option (and I know a guy who takes it to woods casually), but that is too heavy for me and too cumbersome to reload.

But more importantly, the only way that will 100% stop a raging animal is hitting the central nervous system in the area of neck or higher. Then it doesn’t matter whether it is 9mil, 44 or L115A3.

I am not a hunter myself but I know personally a group of 5 guys who went hunting and were caught off guard by raging wild boar in a moment when the group was tightly together, just walking and speaking. I guarantee you that they would gladly change their hunting rifles for 9 mil in that moment. Unfortunately one got shot to leg before the beast was successfully put down.

You being British, you probably meant your plastic replica of L115A3 to use it as a club and beat the moose to death…?

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no way would i trust a 9mm against a bear or any other large animal , he was by no means taking a casual stroll in the woods . he was in dangerous territory with moose all over the place . if the moose actually went for him he would of lost

yea thats exactly what i meant mate

yea but at least take the thing home and eat it so there is some sort of purpose to it

He might not have been able to actually take it home. You need to buy tags and im not sure if you are allowed to take animals that attack you. But im almost positive some wolves or cougar or bear had a nice meal.

He also could have been very far back country. So far back that dragging a 700lb dead moose back with you would be difficult if not impossible even with the aid of a snow mobile.

Lol

Yeah they are a huge problem in America their population has exploded and they can get fucking huge as hell.

Well bears are very scared of noise so just firing near it could scare it off. Most large animals are scared of noise but not moose.

Oh man imagine that luau you could have with that savage.

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Yeah you would be eating good for weeks after :wink: They get pretty much the same size as like a fucking grizzly bear but there are millions of them and they are far more agressive lol.

Hell no not that thing Id invite the whole Goddamn state, that’s like mythical creature status.

Texas is getting overrun by these things and their only predator/competition is humans.

I would like to read this version of animal farm hahaha would have been a shorter book.

Hahahaha yeah i kinda have he same situation in my state except its with elk, deer and mountain lion. But yeah its almost hard to believe a fucking pig can get that big

too much of a gamble . it may run off or you may just piss it off so id rather have a weapon im confident with than one where its 50/50

Well i suppose everyone has a preference. But noise does work on bears majority of the time. There are very very few bear attacks in the U.S because bears are really just pussys. The most they really do is knock down trash cans moose, cougars and boars are the ones you have to worry about.

none of them i would trust a 9mm with to be fair i wouldnt even trust a 9mm on a crazed druggy .

Depends on the drugs, Ive seen footage a man on PCP dude was hulked out.

Stoners more then likely can be deterred with cupcake.

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haha well we could try throwing cup cakes at them i suppose .

personally id go with a .45 or maybe a .40 if you want more rounds to play with . wouldnt touch 9mm too weak in my opinion but thats a whole different debate

Depends on where you hit it there are plenty of stories of people stoping a bear with a 9 mm but i would rather use a .45 if i was going into bear country.

id personally go with a rifle anyways but down to pistols deffo has to be the .45 .

never been a fan of the glock always preferred the browning with .40