Ask this guy, he seems to have bagged one!
Mark
What caliber would a white exploiter use for a triceatops?
57 mm or larger. Just to be sure.
The sport was in shooting a mature specimen with a ceratopsid arquebus of .50cal or larger. It often took several hits by a party of hunters to bring one down. The difficulty in a quick kill was in reaching their tiny brains or other vital organ. But the collapse of the species was due to gatherers raiding the their ground-level nests for eggs.
Oh, and it was the Conquistadores and the following Spanish settlers that critically reduced the North American Triceratops. When this occurred, North American bison filled the niche held by the Triceratops. When our nation’s pioneers fanned out West, they depleted the bison and wiped out the remaining dinosaurs.
Ask this guy, he seems to have bagged one!
Mark