How many 40 S&W rounds does it take to stop a tiger?

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Here ya go; a tiger in action against guys on an elephant.
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I'm not suprized that a Tiger can move that fast, what I found suprizing is just how fast those Elephants scattered. I didn't realize they could wheel and run that fast.
 
Its just an animal folks they eat breath and bleed just like humand thay dont have a magical force of protection or mythical "cant kill em staminia" a simple lung(if it gets into the plural space) hit with a .22 rim fire will eventualy kill it. point is 1 will do it if it hits a critical system.........although when lives are at risk more is better.
 
I'm wondering if the cops might have had a shotgun or shotguns, but elected not to use them due to the danger of hitting the victim that the tiger was munching on. This assumes they only had buckshot of some sort, no slugs.

I think 12 ga slug would have been my choice, if I had the choice. But you go tiger hunting with the guns you have, not the guns you wish you had.

And was it 22 shots fired, or 22 hits on the tiger?
 
I remember an interesting documentary about a tiger in Russia. A man in desperation during the winter took some of a tiger's kill. The tiger had left the kill to come back later.
The tiger hunted him, and killed several people he visited. Eventualy people would not let this man visit them.

A team from afar was put together to hunt this maneater. They spent some time tracking it and when they finaly got close the tiger jumped out at one of the men in the group GRABBED HIS RIFLE and was shot while on top of the man by others in the group.

It turns out that the tiger had multiple bullet wounds from previously being shot on more than one occasion. The tiger had learned exactly what a gun was, and had learned to be stealthy and disarm its victims prior to killing them. Evidence of other victims was found to support this.

I tried to look up the story to link it but now its hard to find many things about a tiger on the search engine not related to the SF incident.

In the SF incident the tiger skipped people closer, going around others at the zoo to specificly target the 3 men that were taunting the tiger. This was not a savage braindead attack, but had calculating specific intent to harm the men making fun of it, and tracked them down.
 
Lucky it was not the Rhino that got out.

I'm with some of the rest of you, I would guess the kid was provoking the loose tiger. I don't feel too sorry for him.
 
I'm with some of the rest of you, I would guess the kid was provoking the loose tiger. I don't feel too sorry for him.
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No it is not a guess, witnesses report that the very same 3 men who were attacked were taunting and teasing the tiger while it was in its pen, not loose.
The tiger couldn't take it anymore and showed a display of acrobatics that none previously had. It leaped over a large moat, and then up a good 12 foot or so ledge and attacked one of them, killing him.
The tiger ignored other people close to it and then proceeded to stalk the other 2 who had been a part of the 3 man teasing group, as it went around other bystanders without harming them.
It then caught up with them and delivered what it felt was vengeance.
They were found 300 yards from the spot of the first guy.
Police eventualy arrived to find the tiger merely sitting next to one of them. It had not killed him and was no longer trying, keep in mind this is a domestic tiger, think big cat with toy mouse that it was upset with.
Then when the police arrived the tiger realized its time to toy with/retaliate against the person was about to come to an end and it went to the victim to attack him again.
When police approached the tiger realized they were a threat and gave its attention to them at which time they realized they were in danger and opened fire.
All around a tragic situation. Some immature teens were harassing a tiger and the tiger was able to get loose and be a tiger. Human life was lost, and the tiger was put down.
 
I remember an interesting documentary about a tiger in Russia. A man in desperation during the winter took some of a tiger's kill. The tiger had left the kill to come back later.
The tiger hunted him, and killed several people he visited. Eventualy people would not let this man visit them.
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True story. It happened more than once. My grandparents (Long Deceased) who are from Russia, have told me of incidents like that. Once a big cat gets your sent, your meat.
 
The officers used handguns in that fight since that is all they brought to that fight. If they had known they would fight tiger that day I bet they would have brought hunting rifles in 30-06 or the like. But what they fought with was what they carried every day. They won (lived) because of massed fire (and the providence of God, and hopefully their training helped).

If you ever need to use a gun to defend your life it will most likely be the one you actually carry each day. This reinforces for me to be completly competent with the firearm I actually carry each day.

First law of winning a gun fight(living through it): Non attendence.
Second Law: Bring a gun, Bring enought gun to do the job.
 
TAB,
QFT! I'd guess they emptied the magazine(s) and maybe reloaded again and emptied again.

I'm not accurate until i'm out to about 25 yards. Then I start drilling MOA pretty easily. Its not wonder why I favor rifles.

As for the police, some tactical training might be a little helpful. Even if its with a air pistol.
-bix
 
I'd want tank :mad:
hand some friend got ordered to take out puma/jaguar big cat in belize was eating villagers goats.
never having hunted anything and not impressed with going through a jungle looking for a large kitty
drew two claymores an gpmg (fn mag) and m16's
brought a goat placed claymores covering goat when goat screamed detonating claymores and opened fire fire from the trees:eek:
pity CO was looking forward to a rug :mad:
 
Ready2Defend writes"

First law of winning a gun fight(living through it): Non attendence.
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First law of winning a gun fight, "Hit what your aiming at and pray"....:rolleyes:
 
a simple lung(if it gets into the plural space) hit with a .22 rim fire will eventualy kill it.
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I'm sure that'd be a very marginal point of satisfaction for the shooter, who would just as likely end up in the beast's belly as not, after the fact. (The videos of people on safari, hunting lions and making only wounding shots come to mind - the lions attack when inured, and from what I understand, tigers are a bit more ferocious.)

By the way, the wall it climbed to get out was only 12.5 feet.
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That's hardly anything, judging by the video of the guys on the backs of the elephants. That specific tiger probably jumped at a good 10+ feet, and I suspect that a cage with only 12' walls, with the viewers above the beasts, would be no problem for a tiger to get out of, especially if there's something near the top for it to grab onto dangling into his enclosure - like an arm or a leg, as is reported in this case.

The captive tigers I've seen have all had fully-enclosed cages with 20' heavy fences, and a substantial barrier between the beasts and the people, with no possible way for a tiger to get out, or for a viewer to get in - short of with a key or bolt cutter.

I smell a very, very big lawsuit against the zoo cooking.
 
Sounds like the SFPD got lucky. If the charging mechanism of a big cat like a lion or tiger is tripped..... well, many a big game hunter was known to recommend .375 H&H for lions and tigers normally, and field artillery for one charging you.
 
If unarmed and faced with a Siberian Tiger I would probably do Darwin proud by scampering up a tall tree and shrieking unitelligibly while throwing feces at it.
 
If unarmed and faced with a Siberian Tiger I would probably do Darwin proud by scampering up a tall tree and shrieking unitelligibly while throwing feces at it.
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Seeing how fast they are and how well they jump in those videos, I'm afraid that's a race you wouldn't win. I'd roll up in a little ball and try to smell as bad as possible. Shouldn't be too hard after crapping my pants...
 
cats don't take a lot of killing. a .40 would probably do just fine.
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A bobcat (40 lbs) or Puma (150 lbs) is relatively easy to stop with a few duty bullets.

Tigers (300-800 lbs depending on species--male Siberians have been weighed in at over 800 on occasion), Lions (500 lbs for males), and Jaguars (200-300 lbs) are a completely different ballpark. Siberian Tigers especially are about the most powerful cats on the planet, and have been observed hunting bear before.

I wouldn't be betting my life on a .40, even if it was a smaller than average Siberian as this female was.
 
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