sup /k/,
i have an odd request that i hope you can help me with, i'm considering hunting marine mammals and after thinking about it realistically for a while that there is no way i'd be able to reliably kill the ones i'm after with a headshot and then recover the body, which was my initial plan. i was considering industrial shotgun slugs for the job and was looking forward to seeing head explode, but realistically i need to use a harpoon. i know nothing at all about harpoons, so i'm wondering if anyone lurking /k/ might have a link or some first hand experience which sheds more light on the topic than the wiki page does. can you even buy harpoons?
but why
controlling nuisance animal population in order to maintain mother nature's perfect harmonious environment in perfect balance, but also i want the skins, meat and bones.
So you are hunting sea lions?
>a matter that should not be taken lightly
>These images have been reviewed and determined real
>someone was assigned to look at meme images of fat fricks.
harpoons are tools for catching marine life, not killing it. In the classic case of whaling, they'd harpoon the whale, the whale would swim around for a while trying to get rid of the harpoon, then eventually the whale would get tired, at which point the whalers would kill it with a lance.
Anyway, to answer your question, there's easily found info about what caliber firearms are recommended for whale euthanasia. There's some document out there from canada or norway or some other country's fisheries department. It covers calibr and shot placement for various marine mammals.
thanks, that lead about the firearms recommendations is exactly the type of info i was looking for.
Imagine the smell
Reminds me of that fishing village level in XCom
>Site Recon
Chryssalids are fun
Modern scandinavian harpoons have a warhead with a 100+ gram PETN charge. This is the equivalent of a large hand grenade. You can read studies about hydrostatic shock in whales online btw.
Wow, that's fascinating. Got any links ?
>Modern scandinavian harpoons have a warhead with a 100+ gram PETN charge.
On a professional whaling ship? Yes, of course.
But that's obviously not what OP's asking about.
What you want to rig up is some sort of harpoon-shotgun.
Basically make it so the shotgun blast also triggers a harpoon release. Or maybe even dual wield them, harpoon in one hand, shotgun in the other. Or make it so this harpoon-shotgun device fires the harpoon and then half a second later the shotgun goes off.
It might take a bit of tinkering but it's doable.
I practice at Walmart and got gud.
Buy a steel lunette eye then bolt it securely to the bed of your truck. Apply frosting to make it look just like a donut. The whales will lock on like snapping turtles and not let go.
You can throw straps if DOT cops are an issue or just drive home then slice them up in your shipping container for profitable sale as imitation crab meat. Save the guts, tampons etc as chum because nothing gets attention quite like dumping bear bait in a Wallyworld parking lot.
Yeah.
You could buy a Kongsberg 90mm Whaling harpoon cannon on EBay for iirc $30K
>SeaShepherd eco-nutcases did it back in 2008
>imported it into Straya to mount it onto their anti-whaling boat "as a PR stunt"
>box had a fully functional cannon, a few harpoons, and enough cart cases and primers for about 20 shots
>obviously going to go shoot it out with the Jap whalers off Antarctica
Unfortunately Customs had no sense of fun and confiscated it all - but didnt have the balls to prosecute eco-hippies
Tfw we had to assemble and test-fire the cannon for 'video-evidence' that it wasnt just a movie-prop like their fat PR tried to claim.
>you need a seperate charge inside the warhead that explodes after impact - we had to find an old whaling guy from when Straya still did whaling decades before to ask, he said its just on a timed length of fuze not an impact fuze like an AT shell as it just has to pop the whale's brain some time after you hook the harpoon in to stop it just diving deep and staying down - once dead it will float up - in the old Moby Dick days they just threw the sharp harpoon and had to hold on to miles of line until the whale bled out eventually
One of these.
The head of the harpoon is just a screw-on carrier that 'explodes' a blast of gas from the explosive charge out the 4 vents around the base after its inside the whale.
Nowadays they use a purpose-built "grenade" charge that screws on to the harpon front and is activated by a pull-wire on a hook snagging on the whale's skin as it hits
>https://nammco.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/manual-baleen-whales-grenade-and-harpoon.pdf
As a backup rifle they have a minimum .30-06 with FMJs to get thru bone but preferably .338/9.3mm or .458
This was the guy who sold it to them.
He had the same pictures on his swedish-chef-english typed instruction sheet on how to put it back together
>https://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2009/10/whale-gun-pics-deck-mounted-whaling-harpoon-gun-sale-gunbrokercom/
Tfw they wanted to stick a sharp harpoon on the front of a boat called "Steve Irwin"
>Crikey!
get a harpoon rifle.
some of the older harpoons are powder actuated
I've also seen a few hand held types that look a bit like a blunder bus
I wish whales could be hunted at a carefully managed level so that future generations would always have access to them