Boom. Head not shot
A man goes deer hunting with a .50BMG (Why, I have no idea). He takes the shot at the deer and misses. But the deer still dies. Yikes.
Scroll to about the 3 minute mark.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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December 13th, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Hitting it with a .50 BMG, you save time cleaning it. You just scrape the meat off the surrounding trees.
December 13th, 2017 at 7:07 pm
My brother hunts whitetail with a 12 gauge slug gun. He hit one in the tip of its lower jaw, from the side, and essentially broke its neck. Big bullets hit hard.
December 13th, 2017 at 7:23 pm
Doesn’t give the distance of the shot. Apparently didn’t do a close inspection of the head afterwards, ’cause he definitely hit it. That bullet would have held together and probably skipped off across the next two counties too.
Dumb. He never fesses up either. The video stunt is first and foremost. “Now much more extreme can we be?” seems to the the challenge nowadays.
There are very few places, if any, that I’d feel comfortable with the stray bullet issue when hunting with a 50 BMG (to say nothing of lugging such a contraption around). At a fixed shooting range, or plinking in the mountains, you can make sure you have a good backstop. In hunting, not so much. That’s one reason why I hunt with a muzzleloader shooting round ball. Kills ’em just as dead, and the lead ball has a BC of around 0.02 as opposed to 1+ and a MV of around 1800 as opposed to 2700.
December 13th, 2017 at 7:33 pm
@Ravenwood; not true. Don’t fall for the bluster. The 50 BMG’s velocity is less than some of the 30 and smaller caliber magnums, and unless there’s an expanding hunting bullet for 50 BMG that I don’t know about the bullet will pass through without deformation, causing relatively little damage for its tremendous kinetic energy, then it’ll keep right on going, carrying most of its energy beyond the target and into the wild blue yonder.
It’s made for breaking hard targets (vehicles, bunker walls and such), not hunting. It can make a good sniper round for long distance because of its extremely high BC, though that is a tertiary role for the cartridge.
December 13th, 2017 at 8:39 pm
I used to shoot 50 back in the 90’s. We used soft tip 850 gr turned brass bullets at about 2200 FPS for hunting back then. There are definitely expanding 50 cal bullets. Hornady has even had them in AMAX for years.
December 13th, 2017 at 9:46 pm
Obviously compensating for the size of his brain.
December 13th, 2017 at 10:40 pm
Does this guy actually believe that the projectile “created so much vacuum that it sucked the eyeballs out of the doe” as it went past?
Is that because of the mass of the projectile? Because muzzle velocity is about the same as my 0.270. And I’ve never sucked the eyeballs out of any mammals with near-misses from it. Just received some startled side-eyes from a couple of groundhogs.
What a goof. He might as well theorize that the awesome power of the 50BMG generated antimatter particles, or opened a portal to Hell.
More likely: It passed cleanly in one eye socket and out the other, or in the mouth and out one of the eye sockets, and the pressure change reduced the largely liquid and incompressible contents of the skull to a jelly that stymied his expert forensic investigation.
December 14th, 2017 at 12:41 am
Sweet, another example of gun owners being their fucking worst possible enemy.
God damn some people are stupid. I’d unlink the video of it was my site, this is exactly the type of stupid shit that gets turned around on us.
All risk, zero reward.
December 14th, 2017 at 3:03 am
Guy obviously never watches Demolition Ranch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHpe5Z93wM
this guys claim makes no sense from a physics perspective, because any energy lost to the shockwave is energy you cannot deliver to the target. If the 50 BMG really had a shockwave so powerful it could kill from concussion alone it would probably have an effective range measured in the tens of feet, instead of the thousands. Guy hit the deer. May have only been a glancing blow, but he connected or the deer would still be alive.
December 14th, 2017 at 9:19 am
If you do a YouTube search there are a handful of other 50 BMG hunters… From poodle shooters on up to deer.
This is not hunting. This is literally using the killing of an animal for nothing more than entertainment. If Peta ever gets wind of these videos we hunters are fucked.
Also, I will reiterate what was already stated about shooting 50 BMG without a proper backstop. I don’t know what the entire situation was for this hunt, but we are not talking about a 500 yard radius… we are measuring 50 BMG in miles… and this guy was certainly not shooting from an elevated stand. Some of the other You Tube vids of these guys hunting deer with 50 BMG have them shooting up hill at their deer that was silhouetted with no backstop whatsoever.
These guys are not hunters and need to be shamed by the hunting and firearms community for disgracing these animals for you tube views and for the outrageous display of negligence with a firearm.
We should be policing our own here.
December 14th, 2017 at 11:31 am
tl;dr
This guy sucks.
December 14th, 2017 at 1:06 pm
Joe – While I’m not a fan of the video, and don’t think the 50BMG is an appropriate caliber for whitetail; we are talking roughly a 500 yard radius.
If he’s zeroed his 50 BMG at 100 yards at 500 yards he’s in the dirt with 42 inches of drop.
http://www.shooterscalculator.com/ballistic-trajectory-chart.php?t=9ef65115
Whereas the .30-06 is roughly 55 inches of drop at that same 500 yards. (depending on zero).
December 14th, 2017 at 2:56 pm
A few years ago we had a couple of peckerwoods decide that three round hay bales would stop a .50BMG. They managed to hit a horse 800 yards the other side of the target. Put the same bullet through the roof of a farm house at the 1200 yard mark. Then the same bullet killed a dairy cow at the 2500 yard mark..and it kept right on going. They were DAMN lucky no one died. The two peckerwoods? They were shooting from a table in there very own subdivision back yard. They thought it was funny until they got the bill. 20,000$. One of the local cops drove out with the commonwealths Att. a week later and told them that had they killed someone the charge would have been murder2. The rifle got sold right after that,and the two peckerwoods got REAL small.
December 14th, 2017 at 3:03 pm
So, another youtube jackass who is bragging about not being able to hit a target.
Not a sportsman, not an ethical hunter, not a friend of the 2nd Amendment.
December 14th, 2017 at 5:41 pm
@Chris; bullet drop has nothing to do with this. If you’ve fired a rifle much at all, you’d know that a bullet must hit at something approaching 90 degrees or it will likely skip back up off the ground and keep going. If fired level, and its normal drop brings it into anything approaching level ground, or a slope well under 90 degrees, chances are it will skip and keep right on going. It takes a lot to dissipate more than 11,000 foot pounds of kinetic energy.
I’ve seen a 50 BMG round skip off of a club range berm (it HIT the rifle berm), go almost straight up, waaay into the air and fall hundreds of yards over to one side and behind us. You see things like that when you shoot tracers, which I’ve done in multiple calibers from 22LR to 50 BMG. You think you’re keeping all your shots in the berm, or whatever, but I promise you, you aren’t.
More often than that I’ve seen where idiots at the range bring the target up close to the shooting position (far from the berm) rather than moving closer to the berm, and end up skipping round after round out of the range and into the wild blue. That rifle range got shut down, because all the rules and warnings can’t fix stupid.
The only reason more people don’t get hit by stray bullets is the law of probabilities; far more space is unoccupied than is occupied. It’s not because the stray bullets aren’t there.
If you believe that the bullet’s trajectory means it touches down at x distance and somehow stops dead when it kisses ground, you are part of the problem. Best you re-think it. It’s real, real easy to demonstrate.