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.
Samuel Baker hunted elephants in the 1800’s with a 2 bore. Frederick Sealous of Rhodesia used a 4 bore to take 78 elephants, but the gun occasionally doubled and he stopped using it due to wear and tear on his nerves.
Thought anything bigger than .50 was considered a destructive device, i.e., artillery.
This...THIS is why we can’t have nice things...
I want to see it in a snubnose lightweight pistol. The gangbangers will snap them up and kill themselves and their ‘posse’ when holding it sideways, they fire and it takes themselves and half the crew out... while totally missing the target. Win/Win.
Actually it looks like just about the right caliber for using on members of ISIS, hit them in the head with this and you probably behead that at the same time, saves getting your knife mesy.
I saw one many moons back titled “Ahmed vs. the T-Rex” like these, we LOAO at it. Always a good time!
As I said six days ago in the SHTF Rifle Caliber thread my go to round is the 577 Tyrannosaur.
I want to be ready for the Thunder Lizard invasion.
Did you flip over Guam?
I would rather have a properly set up 50bmg, then you have a tool, the .577 is just ego from a bygone era.
If i was in the 30’s and a big game hunter i would have built a rifle off the 50bmg though back then as it was an anti aircraft round. Even light tank.
Without some major recoil mitigation the shooter is in real danger of detached retinas.
20mm Rifle
Now THATS a rifle!
From left to right: .223, .338 lapua, 50BMG, 20MM Vulcan
Montana Armor approved? From Thunderboot and Lightfoot.
My buddy got an AR-10 in .50BMG. It has NO recoil at all. He took the first shot and this 245 lb fellow was afraid of the damage to his shoulder this beast would do. So he fired from a bench and the gun moved about an inch! It never touched his shoulder at all. Now that’s recoil mitigation for you.
This ammunition/rifle is specially designed for professional guides to use as a “stopping rifle”. IOW, when the amateur screws up and only wounds and pisses off the dangerous game, the professional guide uses something like this in a last ditch effort to stop a dangerous and wounded animal. Not really intended for anything but the most skilled users in the most extreme cases.
Here, hold my beer and watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db5n9HqBzR4
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