True Story Jim Burnsworth gets dumber. 50Cal vs Deer

[haugenna]

I just got done watching Western Extremes to see what that moron was up to.  I couldn't believe it when he was talking about his big 50 BMG vs a deer.  Just when I thought he couldn't get any dumber, he shoots a deer with his 50 cal and boasts his big ego the whole way.  

The first buck he shoots at he misses completely at 996 yards, blames the gun of course, resets the zero and then shot a deer at 900 yards.  

To start this off, I am not against long range hunting at all.  He is not a good role model for the sport of hunting.  The worst part of it is that it is televised.  If someone wants to do this, then to each their own, but televise it and show the whole world that you are an idiot and give someone the opportunity to lump all of us in with him. This is right up there with the tranquelized elk he shot last year.

On top of all that, he sets up his range in the beginning of the show and is shooting out of the bed of a pick up truck, which is illegal as hell.  What a moron.

[PacificNWhunter]

I don't have tv so I  did not see this first hand, but a few guys at work were talking about it. 

[Wacenturion]

To me, that show really projects the wrong image of hunting.  Just my 

[MagKarl]

I saw a few minutes of that one too. The deer was too far out to get a yardage measurement, so one of his crew moves forward several hundred yards to a pile of round bales.  Gets the range, then ranges back to the shooter, they add it up and then take the shot.  WTF?  If you can get x hundred yards closer, why not?  When the most important part of a shot is the distance I'm not the least bit interested, unless it's getting real close, then I'm all in.  I don't get it.

[haugenna]

I saw a few minutes of that one too. The deer was too far out to get a yardage measurement, so one of his crew moves forward several hundred yards to a pile of round bales.  Gets the range, then ranges back to the shooter, they add it up and then take the shot.  WTF?  If you can get x hundred yards closer, why not?  When the most important part of a shot is the distance I'm not the least bit interested, unless it's getting real close, then I'm all in.  I don't get it.

Good point.  He had every opportunity to get closer to kill that buck effectively.

[Alan K]

Haven't seen the show, but doesn't bother me one bit. 

Everyone enjoys their own style of 'hunt'.  Some people get a rush from getting close to an animal and making a shot, some people get a rush from making an amazingly long shot.  To each their own. 

There are a lot of things people do hunting related that I don't do myself and don't necessarily agree with, but if that's what they want to do, who am I to knock them?

 

[CSOUTFITTERS]

Ive seen the show and it makes me sick.  Just goes to show that even with high dollar equipment they can still miss, but of course its never the shooters fault, it must have been the $1600 swarovski scope that caused him to miss.      What the show doesnt show is how many animals he wounds doing this.

There is only one reason why a guy needs to shoot these ranges and our boys in the midde east are doing a good job of it.     

[jackelope]

especially with a friggin anti-tank rifle.
maybe thats a bit of an exxageration, but what the F do you need to shoot a deer with a .50 for?

[Dmanmastertracker]

 Can't recall the name of the show, but just yesterday watched a show where the shooter took a fairly crappy shot with a bow at a deer from a blind and said "first off, I want to say that shot was quartering torwards me more than I would normally like". So, "normally" being when? Any time your not on camera? Why the hell isn't it all the time? Either you have truly learned that is a shot you don't take, or you haven't, there is no such thing as "selecting" the right time to take a crappy shot. Different if you just foul up and don't complete an ethical shot by human error, that's just a consciously bad decision, I agree.

[Alpine Mojo]

I watched that episode too.  Jim is a moron.

Kinda reminded me of the CO elk hunt on Steve's Outdoor Adventures where it took him 3 shots from 200 yds to gutshot a skylined elk, followed up with congrats from all his buddies on what a great shot he was. 

[hunt4]

Can't recall the name of the show, but just yesterday watched a show where the shooter took a fairly crappy shot with a bow at a deer from a blind and said "first off, I want to say that shot was quartering torwards me more than I would normally like". So, "normally" being when? Any time your not on camera? Why the hell isn't it all the time? Either you have truly learned that is a shot you don't take, or you haven't, there is no such thing as "selecting" the right time to take a crappy shot. Different if you just foul up and don't complete an ethical shot by human error, that's just a consciously bad decision, I agree.

In defense the guy narrating the show was NOT the shooter,  I think he was doing some damage control (Limiting the emails) because it was a horrid shot but it did go threw the shoulder blade it worked
Not sure of the shows name but it is the little skinny blond guy that never shuts up in his tree stand (irritates the F out of me)

[Dansk]

I think he shot that show on an indian rez in the Dakotas.

[Alpine Mojo]

Yes, it was filmed on an Indian Reservation in N.Dakota.

[haugenna]

Yes, it was filmed on an Indian Reservation in N.Dakota.

OOPS!!!  Forgot about that. Disregard my comment about shooting off the truck.  That is standard operations on the rez. 

Sorry, couldn't resist. 

[timberghost72]

especially with a friggin anti-tank rifle.
maybe thats a bit of an exxageration, but what the F do you need to shoot a deer with a .50 for?

Thats what I was thinking when I was watching this show.   My wife even thought he was a moron.  What I would like to know is how much meat is destroyed with a .50 cal.  That is a big hole and probably an even bigger hole on the exit side.  How much blood shot would there be.

[wrangler]

especially with a friggin anti-tank rifle.
maybe thats a bit of an exxageration, but what the F do you need to shoot a deer with a .50 for?

Thats what I was thinking when I was watching this show.   My wife even thought he was a moron.  What I would like to know is how much meat is destroyed with a .50 cal.  That is a big hole and probably an even bigger hole on the exit side.  How much blood shot would there be.

lol you think they actually took any meat? i would bet my house that carcass didn't move 2 feet from where it dropped, untill the coyotes started gettin to it anyhow...

[littlebuf]

Yes, it was filmed on an Indian Reservation in N.Dakota.

OOPS!!!  Forgot about that. Disregard my comment about shooting off the truck.  That is standard operations on the rez. 

Sorry, couldn't resist. 

now i understand he was hunting in the traditional style of the native American just like they do here. budwiser,pick up beds and 50 cals. what a beautiful culture.

[timberghost72]

especially with a friggin anti-tank rifle.
maybe thats a bit of an exxageration, but what the F do you need to shoot a deer with a .50 for?

Thats what I was thinking when I was watching this show.   My wife even thought he was a moron.  What I would like to know is how much meat is destroyed with a .50 cal.  That is a big hole and probably an even bigger hole on the exit side.  How much blood shot would there be.

lol you think they actually took any meat? i would bet my house that carcass didn't move 2 feet from where it dropped, untill the coyotes started gettin to it anyhow...

Don't know if he took any meat.
Just wondering what a .50 cal. would do to a deer sized animal

[littlebuf]

actually a 50 cal is no longer sub sonic after 800 yards so the damage may not have been horrible. I'm sure there was still a huge hole and blood shot but it would be real bad inside 5 or 600. oh and yes this guy is a full on jack ass

[Dmanmastertracker]

I think he shot that show on an indian rez in the Dakotas.

 I was going to say, Burnworth may be human like a lot of folks, but there's a lot worse out there, I wouldn't think he'd blatantly break the law from watching his show's, he seems to have integrity to me, though the shot does sound ill-advised.

[haugenna]

I think he shot that show on an indian rez in the Dakotas.

 I was going to say, Burnworth may be human like a lot of folks, but there's a lot worse out there, I wouldn't think he'd blatantly break the law from watching his show's, he seems to have integrity to me, though the shot does sound ill-advised.

Integrity and Burnsworth don't belong in the same zip code.  I can't prove he shot a tranquelized elk but it might as well been a barnyard pet the way it let him "sneak" up on it.  The animal took two arrows in the vitals without moving a muscle.  Just sat there and looked at him wondering when the feed bucket was going to show itself.   

I saw him get more excited for the rag horn he shot the other day b/c it appeared to be fair chase.  Kudos to him for actually working for the animal.  The other 50 some elk he shot that he mentioned on the show were probably like shooting fish in a barrel. 

[MikeWalking]

Ive seen the show and it makes me sick.  Just goes to show that even with high dollar equipment they can still miss, but of course its never the shooters fault, it must have been the $1600 swarovski scope that caused him to miss.      What the show doesn't show is how many animals he wounds doing this.

There is only one reason why a guy needs to shoot these ranges and our boys in the middle east are doing a good job of it.

Amen to that last part. A .50BMG at 900+yds isn't hunting, it's showing off, in a sick way. You better be starving before saying you need to do that.

Even if it doesn't bother you, if you wont "knock it"   You, We, need to always think of who else will see this stuff and what it may do to our sport.

Protect your sport.

A lot of places I "played" as a kid, dirtbiking, shooting, etc are gated off now because no one thought about that concept. Some hunting lands too, I imagine.

[jackelope]

he does a lot of high fenced hunting with 50's. i saw another show where he used one on a bison. another awesome show...not.

[bearhunter99]

I personally don't care what other people do with regards to what floats their "boat" while hunting.  I DO care when what they are doing is televised and being used against the rest of us and I DO care when they cause animals to suffer needlessly.  It is really no different than the *censored*es out there shooting at deer from 100 yds with their bows.  They are not "hunting", they are "shooting".  That being said the main thing that bothers me is televising this and continually giving the antis all the ammunition they need to screw the rest of us.

[Dmanmastertracker]

I think he shot that show on an indian rez in the Dakotas.

 I was going to say, Burnworth may be human like a lot of folks, but there's a lot worse out there, I wouldn't think he'd blatantly break the law from watching his show's, he seems to have integrity to me, though the shot does sound ill-advised.

Integrity and Burnsworth don't belong in the same zip code.  I can't prove he shot a tranquelized elk but it might as well been a barnyard pet the way it let him "sneak" up on it.  The animal took two arrows in the vitals without moving a muscle.  Just sat there and looked at him wondering when the feed bucket was going to show itself.   

I saw him get more excited for the rag horn he shot the other day b/c it appeared to be fair chase.  Kudos to him for actually working for the animal.  The other 50 some elk he shot that he mentioned on the show were probably like shooting fish in a barrel. 

 I guess I've never seen the shows your talking about. I've seen at least a half dozen of Western Extremes, one he hunted fair chase elk in the BC Rockies, fair chase elk in Montana and a couple other States, all on public land. I've always thought he was a good shot with a bow compared to many of the other joker's you see on TV lobbing arrows from 100yds.

[carpsniperg2]

i do not care for his show for many reason. BUT! let me tell you to each there own i see allot of people blasting long range shooting and what do you need to shoot a deer with a 50 bmg for. thats all fine and great but if you bash them you are bashing me! i own and shoot a 50bmg and am not affraid to to say wtf to people that blast others for there choices of weapons. small crap like this with other blasting others on there weapons and choices is what divieds us. a 750 hornaday amx put threw the rib cage of a deer at 500-1200 yards does about the same as a 30-06 or 300 at 0-500 yards very little meat lost. now if you shoot them in the shoulder that is going to waste allot of meat but the same would be true with any magnum rifle used by most hunters when a animal is hit in the shoulder. everyone can hunt as they please it is a shame that even though there might be 999 good hunters the 1 bad stands out and makes us all look bad. to each there own guys.

[Dansk]

The real kicker is that all these shows - all of them - make money from the sponsers and advertisements.... ALL from big name hunting companies and big NFP organizations.  It suprises me that the sponsors back and support many of these shows- FNAWS, RMEF, MDF, SCI, etc..... you see them all in credits on one show or another- not to mention rifle and ammunition companies as well.  I would think they would only sponsor shows that epidomize only the highest ethical and morale standards of the sport.

[wrangler]

on a simalar note did you see that dude from best of the west drop that elk in its tracks with one shot for 890 yards? i forget his name but he seems like a pretty straight up dude from what iv seen and read. this was the real deal, they did a lot panning with the camera and showed the terrain very clearly, it was a legit 900yd shot and this dude anchored him. it was impressive to say the least. not sure what he was shooting, prolly a .338cal wildcat of some kind. either way, good for him, it was awesome. 

[carpsniperg2]

allot of the guys from the best of the west are very good shots they spend the time practice and make great shots. they like the 264 7mm and 300 cal is what i see them shoot allot. they have some great shots but they still do miss from time to time like we all do.

[Alpine Mojo]

now i understand he was hunting in the traditional style of the native American just like they do here. budwiser,pick up beds and 50 cals. what a beautiful culture.

At least they had the decency to clean up their empties before the camera was turned on.