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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
ATR- I have never actually seen anyone use a 50 cal for hunting, is it just the thrill of the kill, or do you actually find a couple scraps of meat that are edible when you are done with it?
I can see using it on coyotes or gophers, turning them into highspeed pink vapor would be cool but deer?
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You will find MORE meat damage using a 243 than you will with a 50.
As you can see from the photo that deer is blown ALL apart, despite being shot at what I consider very close range, just over 750 yards
The damage is even less at 1 mile plus.
Small game certainly DOES get damaged, but then again I could care less where on the body I hit a gopher.
Big game MUST be shot fully broadside so as to only damage ribs and lungs/heart. There in lies the ethical part, a vast majority of normal hunters will not pass on a shot that is possibly questionable, where the vast majority of truly extreme long range hunters pass on far more shots that they ever take.