Look, if you kill one in the water, he sinks and can't be recovered. And if you kill one on land... Well, the only trophy is that little head on the top of that long neck.
9 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp classic radio drama series.
You can hear this line at 00:14:04 in the radio play.
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- And they're the big ones. They look something like the Brontosaur.
- Why not?
- Well, there's no point to it, and it's not sporting.
- You can't bring that whole beast back because he weighs thirty tons or more.
- That museum in New York got one.
- Oh, yes.
- But they sent a party of forty-eight to the Early Cretaceous with a fifty-caliber machine gun.
- They spent two solid months hacking and sawing the carcass apart and hauling it to the time machine.
- I know the chap on the project, and he still has nightmares in which he smells decomposed dinosaur.
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