Hunt Pennsylvannia deer from NJ.Deer huntin with a 50 bmg?
The result would be a very big hole, even with FMJ bullets. An FMJ will tumble after impact and turn sideways during penetration, and basically will act very similarly to an expaning bullet that doesn't fragment.
The entrance hole will be just over 1/2'; in diameter, and expect the exit to be 4'; or more.
You will lose a lot of meat with that gun, but it wouldn't ';explode'; the deer, either.
One of the guys here on YA did it, and he reported the results were lackluster. I mean, yeah, it killed the deer outright, but basically it was a 1/2 inch hole through and through. The deer didn't explode or burst into flames. I BELIEVE he said that he setup his spot to shoot downwards into a valley so he had plenty of backstop. If not, you're talking thousands of yards of effective range.
Just some thoughts, though. Technically, there's nothing really wrong with using a .50 BMG for hunting deer. I mean, it's GOING to kill them. I think it would be similar to shooting them with a dangerous game rifle round in the .400 range. Remember, most dangerous game rounds are solid slugs and meant to penetrate deep inside in order to hit something vital. I'm talking African dangerous game i.e. elephants and whatnot. BIG dangerous game.
With regards to zero energy transfer because you get 100% penetration, that's not terribly accurate. If energy transfer killed, bullet resistant body armor wouldn't work because you get 100% of the bullet's energy. Remember that a bullet has no more or less energy than the recoil of the weapon. If energy transfer killed, more shooters would die than targets. Okay, yeah, that's tongue in cheek, but it models well.
Bullets kill by turning off the lights (nerve or heart), medical shock, or sanguination. That's about it. Energy transfer might help some in medical shock but any damage from ';energy transfer'; pales in comparison to effects from bleeding and damage through a long, deep (and big) hole. I beg everyone to study the FBI wound and ballistics studies to verify this. What we all (me included) thought killed targets for years really isn't it.
The .50 BMG was meant to shoot through obstacles in order to hit hard targets. The deer is basically what it's meant to shoot through in order to hit a Jeep or something else. That being said, naturally, it will do fine hunting about anything moving on Earth.
only if you were over a 700-1000 yards away, if you went for a lung shot at lets say, 300 yards, you'd probably make a hole the size of a diner plate for the exit wound, the bullet actually needs to slow down a bit before it won't just destroy the deer's body like this, you can try FMJ bullets, the half inch hole that's made with these would be sufficient for shooting at closer ranges, but then you might as well buy a .308 winchester or a .338 lapua magnum for this instead of wasting money on a 2000+ dollar gun that destroys the animal at closer then 700 yards, they use it for elk now and this is the minimum range that the guides will except for this specific cartridge, unless they want to lug only half a elk down the hill, not worth it.
people are hunting with it, but at extreme range, from mountain to mountain minimum, any closer and they need to walk farther away so there is some meat left, the .50 bmg is way over powered for anything under a elk at extreme ranges, you could try moose in alaska from the top of a mountain and the moose at the base of the other, probably would work, no good for bears, would probably make a hole in the pelt that's too big to fix.
A friend of mine actually killed a deer with a .50 BMG. Of course he was in the service during war time in a combat zone and he was ordered to fire at an unidentified target. Turned out to be a deer and they found it in several pieces. Of course, he fired a heavy machine gun in full automatic mode. My brother tells me also of a hunter at a hunting ranch he worked at long time ago; the hunter had a .300 Weatherby Magnum (much 'weaker' than a .50 BMG). The hunter shot a deer and the neck-shot decapitated the deer.
Biggest caliber I would use on deer is the .375 H%26amp;H Magnum and this is a real over-kill. If I were out hunting bigger game with my .4-5-8 Win. Mag. and I spotted a suitable deer I would probably take the shot but otherwise I'll stick to one of my smaller rifles. I consider the .25-06 Remington the ideal deer caliber.
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Not necessary or needed.* Unrealistic to even consider it.* No it wouldn't explode, it would be more dangerous towards other Hunters who might get in the line of fire.*
Why not ! Do it and tell us the results...who knows might start a whole new way to hunt and then we all gotta have a rifle in 50BMG!
That would be a sight to see, my guess an exit wound thats bigger than a basketball!
overkill.
no!no!no! their full metal jacked no expansion means no energy transfer
lol i know your not hunting with it, but...do you want meat with that...to bad... the results? NOTHING. nothing left at all
A bucket and a sponge.
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