Fighting sea monsters 1 - Megalodon

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So you are out in the middle of the ocean in a small boat(10ft by 8 ft). Its a calm day but all of a sudden you sea a giant shark out heading right towards you. You identify it as the ancient mega-shark Megladon. The shark is about 20 seconds from your boat and it is hungry.

You have a pistol and your girlfriend is sitting next to you.

What do you do?
 
I stop imagining the situation
 
Save shark, shoot pistol, eat girlfriend.
 
Shoot a few bullets into the girlfriend so that she bleeds profusely but is not dead yet, and then throw her overboard. Use the distraction to sail away while the shark devours my helpless and flailing girlfriend.

Get a new girlfriend once I reach shore.
 
Assuming shooting the shark easily kills, it's trivial; do so, everyone is saved. Then the next course of action is to whip out my cell phone and become famous for the scientific discovery.
 
You wouldn't even stop a grizzly bear with a pistol. The shark's muscle and body tissue would absorb any shots and unless you can get it right in the eye, you're done.
 
Perfection said:
Well, it would depend on the pistol. High powered pistols can take bears.
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You can mortally wound it but unless you get the heart, take out a crucial shoulder or knee joint to stop its movement, or get a direct head shot, the now-furious bear will still live long enough to kill you before it bleeds out. And hitting a target the size of a bear head with a pistol is hard enough, let alone when it's bobbing up and down and moving at 30mph.

It's definitely possible but you'd have to have pro skills, or be lucky.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeifer_Zeliska_.600_Nitro_Express_revolver
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this pistol can stop an elephant
 
If you shoot the shark in a sensitive area like the eye it should buy you time, or if you're really lucky, make it leave.
 
pau17 said:
You can mortally wound it but unless you get the heart, take out a crucial shoulder or knee joint to stop its movement, or get a direct head shot, the now-furious bear will still live long enough to kill you before it bleeds out. And hitting a target the size of a bear head with a pistol is hard enough, let alone when it's bobbing up and down and moving at 30mph.

It's definitely possible but you'd have to have pro skills, or be lucky.
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I'll agree that it isn't easy, and you'd likely need to get off multiple shots, but it can and has been done.
 
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