Sniper pics or just Rock-chucks?

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I, along with probably most of the guys here have probably received this email a dozen times. There are a few versions, variously discribed as Canadian or American snipers using 50 cals on Taliban. Does anyone else think its bullsh*t? Similar videos used to circulate, but they were usually titled as Rock-chucks with a .300 Mag or something like that.
I don't believe that anything shoulder fired could throw a 150 pound man like that. If a 50 BMG could do it, then a 20 pound coyote should get serious airtime when shot with an average hunting rifle. It just doesn't happen. On the other hand, that's exactly what I've seen a thousand times through the scope of a varmint rifle. Does anyone else think its a crock? I'm tired of deleting these things from my email.:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfv5WxPl9bQ
 
I don't think that a bullet- even a 50 cal bullet- coudl BLOW a man UP. Blow through, mangle, yes. But explode? No.

We had a member here who shot adeer with a 50BMG last year, it didn't blow up.
 
yeah but the snipers to my understanding arent using an AMax and the deer was also a complete mess (if were talking about the same deer)
as for the vid who knows
its still cool
 
Dogleg said:
I, along with probably most of the guys here have probably received this email a dozen times. There are a few versions, variously discribed as Canadian or American snipers using 50 cals on Taliban. Does anyone else think its bullsh*t? Similar videos used to circulate, but they were usually titled as Rock-chucks with a .300 Mag or something like that.
I don't believe that anything shoulder fired could throw a 150 pound man like that. If a 50 BMG could do it, then a 20 pound coyote should get serious airtime when shot with an average hunting rifle. It just doesn't happen. On the other hand, that's exactly what I've seen a thousand times through the scope of a varmint rifle. Does anyone else think its a crock? I'm tired of deleting these things from my email.:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfv5WxPl9bQ
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It is NOT a 50 cal and people, I can not tell you what it really is as I don't know. I have been shooting 50 cal for 40 plus years now and unless they were using HE rounds ( highly unlikely) this does not happen. I hunt with my 50BMG and it does rock an animal pretty severely but does not blow them up, except maybe in Hollyweird. A poorly placed shot ruins about the same amount of meat as a 270 shooting Btips. I really wish these types of BS would cease as they only further the BS surrounding the 50 cal, which with people like Wendy Kookier, Alain Rock and Arnie, Diane Feinstein and a few others around , is a BAD thing.
KK
 
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knockknock said:
I really wish these types of BS would cease as they only further the BS surrounding the 50 cal, which with people like Wendy Kookier, Alain Rock and Arnie, Diane Feinstein and a few others around , is a BAD thing.
KK
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it right there partner.;) To many things get brought up and discussed that should just be left discussed in the Gun shop or Beer Parlor. We just slit our own throats discussing it on the WWW.:(
 
knockknock said:
I I hunt with my 50BMG and it does rock an animal pretty severely but does not blow them up, except maybe in Hollyweird.
KK
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You talking about shooting a deer center of mass or in the head with .50? I'll assume you were shooting on the body as my argument rests on that. I have never hunted with a .50

A human head weighs allot less than an entire deer.

The human head isn't put together nearly as well as the body of a deer either. I think a head shot with a .50 cal is gonna suck enough brain material along to make it come apart pretty good.

I have no opinion on the first shots, but the very last one sways me in both directions..

On the human side if you look closely, you can see the thing that blows up moves from left to right in the frame and stops behind those rocks just before it gets shot.


On the BS side, the guy whistles (and the other guy grunts) right after the camera reels in. I would assume professionals don't do that after a shot in hostile territory, especially after you just fired a BFG. You keep quiet and listen for what's coming.
 
Dogleg said:
I, along with probably most of the guys here have probably received this email a dozen times. There are a few versions, variously discribed as Canadian or American snipers using 50 cals on Taliban. Does anyone else think its bullsh*t? Similar videos used to circulate, but they were usually titled as Rock-chucks with a .300 Mag or something like that.
I don't believe that anything shoulder fired could throw a 150 pound man like that. If a 50 BMG could do it, then a 20 pound coyote should get serious airtime when shot with an average hunting rifle. It just doesn't happen. On the other hand, that's exactly what I've seen a thousand times through the scope of a varmint rifle. Does anyone else think its a crock? I'm tired of deleting these things from my email.:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfv5WxPl9bQ
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It's been proved BS .
Cat
 
Blackthorne said:
You talking about shooting a deer center of mass or in the head with .50? I'll assume you were shooting on the body as my argument rests on that. I have never hunted with a .50

A human head weighs allot less than an entire deer.

The human head isn't put together nearly as well as the body of a deer either. I think a head shot with a .50 cal is gonna suck enough brain material along to make it come apart pretty good.

I have no opinion on the first shots, but the very last one sways me in both directions..

On the human side if you look closely, you can see the thing that blows up moves from left to right in the frame and stops behind those rocks just before it gets shot.


On the BS side, the guy whistles (and the other guy grunts) right after the camera reels in. I would assume professionals don't do that after a shot in hostile territory, especially after you just fired a BFG. You keep quiet and listen for what's coming.
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Headshot on an elk takes alot of the head off, not all, but still a NASTY wound, but an 800 gr BTSP will do that. The military is supposed to use FMJs or APITs which have extremely little expansion characteristics.
A broadside shot on most big game animals gives you 1/2" hole in and usually about a 3" exit hole, with alot of tissue missing from the body cavity
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KK
 
Amphibious said:
the original posters video has been kicking around for a couple years. it is varnmit hunting, nothing more.
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Hunting Rock Chucks with a 6mm Rem AI, IIRC.
 
I watched that video a few years ago on hunt101.com. IIRC, it was filmed in the Nevada desert shooting rabbits using either a .338 or .300WM. Great shooting, but a bogus title.

-Jason
 
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