The only issue I see is what if the tiger charges instead of pouncing?
Hmmm, I'll work on that one...
Barius
Hmm, taking my idea here from medieval warfare, if he's charging,
plant your spear at a lower angle, and put the base so it is pressed
tight against the corner your foot makes with the ground beneath it
... but that's assuming you're in open field, which isn't the
likeliest place to run across a tiger, let alone a man-eater. You're
most likely to run across a man-eater in a jungle type environment,
which usually involves tight closed spaces, with the added
disadvantage that a tigers don't often charge or pounce when hunting
humans, rom the few accounts I've run across. They appear from
nowhere, pound their prey with their paws/claws and then proceed to
drag them away to eat, making a great deal less sound than you would
need to effectively keep track of them, or even realize they're there
before it's too late.
My tip would be to, if possible, gain any knowledge of a local
man-eater you can in any area you travel and avoid those areas that
have, or for that matter have had them. Barring that option, keep a
good hot fire going in camp, and stay near it at night, while walking
in groups of three or more during the day, making enough noise to
sound even larger, if you're not restricted by other matters as to the
sound you can make.
Look at the situation of a housecat and a mouse, no cat I've had takes
the open approach, from the point of view of the mouse, they always
slink up silently, watching the mouse to start, figuring out how to
get close without being noticed, and once it feels it's close enough,
it pounces. The mouse never has time to realize the cat's there before
it's caught. Lions will, to some extent, try to lay low, and catch
prey unaware, but they don't have much advantage in camoflage or much
consideration for the potential of their prey knowing how to fight
back. Tigers, on the other hand, are designed to vanish in the jungle,
and they will stalk their prey, waiting for their chance to take them
unaware, and when hunting humans, they seem to have an understanding
of our behavior, something no lion has ever appeared to posess. Lucky
us, not all tigers are "man-eaters", those that are have been driven
to it by some factor in their environment, lack of food or a medical
problem (broken teeth, for example). The best connection of a tiger to
anything else I can think of, the traditional image of the Ninja, if
you see or hear them coming, it's already too late.
As for what weapon to use, I'd have to go with an assault shotgun,
preferably pump-style to maximize your rate of fire, as one blast
isn't likely to kill it unless it's very close, and very well placed.
If you need something smaller, nothing less than a Desert Eagle .50 or
HK UMP45 (.45 submachine gun made by the same company that produces
the famous 9mm MP5). Loaded, of course, and with a lot of practice on
dropping the safety *as* you bring it to bear, you won't get two
chances to line up a good shot.
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Joshua M. Murphy
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