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.