Posted on 12/21/2015 1:55:18 PM PST by w1n1
Hunting: It is an age-old dance. It is a sacred covenant between the predator and the prey .. and the guy bristling with a half-dozen giant cannons and sporting only the most advanced cloaking technology. Sure, it's not "fair" to the animal, and sure there's no "sport" in it, and sure it makes you "kind of a dick," but answer us this: If deer like living so much, why didn't they invent high explosives, huh? If that logic made sense, well then, buddy, have we got some stupidly overpowered hunting gadgets for you:
.577 Tyrannosaur Rounds The .577 Tyrannosaur round is, well, let's just say they don't name something "the T-Rex" because of its subtly engineered grace.
It's a bullet so large that you can't actually use it. Here's a clip of people trying to fire it: 
About the fifth time a loaded rifle goes hurtling out of a man's hands and careening around a roomful of people, you get the feeling this might not be entirely safe.
But hey, it's still a fine weapon: After all, the problem isn't that it doesn't kill what you’re shooting at, just that it quite possibly kills you and all of your friends in the process. It's kind of the same process as a honeybee leaving its stinger - just replace the stinger with high explosives and the honeybee with four drunken idiots.
The round was originally designed to stop the headlong charges of big game, but we’ll let this review speak to its effectiveness there: "It is not at all clear that [the T-Rex Round] will kill an elephant or a buffalo or a hippo any better than a well placed hit from a 470, and, of course, it will not do anything with a badly placed hit except annoy the recipient." See the video here.
Most of these boneheads don’t even know what they’re doing to begin with. Lean into the shot . . . not away from it.
This has your name all over it.
are half the guys in those shots Arabs?
I jammed one of those rounds into my Mosin Nagant.
Wound up sinking two islands and a couple Asian airliners.
I figure I’ll save them rounds back for an emergency.
I think they were leaning into it when they started.
What’s the big deal? You’ve still got a thumb, and apparently all your fingers. Brush it off and chamber another round.
Dead is dead, is it not?
there will be nothing left of whatever you hit.
I like it. The round would be great in hollow point, or even doctored with a little mercury sealed into the bullet to take the targets temperature in combat.
But as a hunting weapon, the rifle in the video was not set up for heavy recoil, needs a forearm sling wrap and a thick recoil pad on the butt stock. Anyone weighing under 180 lbs ( like the MUZZIES) should not fire that rifle, and many in the video did not know how to stand into the gun when firing it.
A rifle like that sorts out the men from the boys. If you do not have the right set up for the rifle or good form, you are effed with a solid punch to shoulder and cheek.But properly set up with a good heavy duty scope, that thing would turn a bull moose right over, upside down, stopped in his tracks with all four hooves to the sky, with an accurate heart, head or neck shot, no walking or running 100 feet before piling in.
>>Wound up sinking two islands
Tell me you didn’t capsize Guam! We were warned this might happen.
Before centerfire cartridges were in widespread use some dangerous game hunters used a 4 gauge muzzle loader, meaning they were shooting a 4oz solid lead ball. I saw one of these 4 bores along with one of the lead balls. It was wince inducing just looking at it, can’t imagine loading a couple of handfuls of black powder and actually firing the thing off.
I lost my satellite connection last night. It was you, wasn’t it?
Just tipped it a bit, rinsed it off.
Gooney bird crap building up and all..
Yes.
750 grains at 2640 feet per second. That's only a couple hundred feet slower than a .50 BMG. That rifle is probably in the 11-13 pound range, where as a Barrett is about 30. That works out to a recoil of over 200 foot pounds, where the .50 BMG is under 50.
.50 BMG: 750gr bullet @ 2820fps
.577 Tyrannosaur: 750gr bullet @ 2480fps
Well ... there's your problem. Compare the rifles in the video to a Barret .50 cal. The rifle is set up all wrong for that kind of round.
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