I am nominating this for MOST DISAPPOINTING VIDEO. Where was the running or mauling or attack? That should be re-titled to "Helpful guy gives PSA to people closing in on barely visible bear-shaped thing."
It’s more like a “How can THAT many full-grown adults be that stupid?” video than action video. In Alberta I saw some fat woman get twenty feet from an elk to get a photo. You know, those sweet little 1400 pound forest bulls with a tree of swords growing out of its skull? I think these idiots never stopped watching old Disney movies, so they assume you can just hang out with impulsive killers (with no emotional attachment to the quality of life) while inside their own kitchen.
I feel pretty confident I could grab the horns and twist their neck into that fall over position if I had enough beers in me. You see rodeo guys do it all the time with bulls.
Steers. They do it with steers, and they do it while jumping off a horse at full gallop. A steer is castrated, about a third of the size of a bull elk, and most of them are relatively tame. That being said, I really think you should try it. Video or it didn't happen.
You're aware of how many and how successful the Jackass Movie franchise is, right? We're really simple creatures and enjoy watching others do stupid shit.
Oh look... Bobby Hill grew up and went back to La Grunta and took a .50 cal with him. Sure, no wasted meat on the doe, but the guy 4 miles behind it just got hit with the thru-and-thru. The permanent picnic tables, shooting tables, and feeders shows that it's a deer farm... no hunting at all. More like "live target practice". Personally, I won't go any higher than a .30-06 for deer, moose, or bear, and that's because most areas I could be reaching out some 300+ yards. As fun as shooting a .50 cal is, and how much I would LOVE to have a .50 BMG, it just feels wrong on so many levels to go hunting with one.
Depends on the range, really, but sure... for what would be normal, sane, reasonable hunting conditions, they'd be comparable. I basically have one hunting rifle... bought it new when I was 16. Browning A-bolt in .30-06, with the composite stock. I put killer glass on it, for sure (Leupold VX... a 3-15x56mm thing that just fucking KILLS in low light), but it's only been that one rifle for 30+ years. I went with my .30-06 because it's pretty well flat for a few hundred yards and then just falls out of the sky, and is big enough to handle every hunt that I could see myself ever doing. I love that rifle. .243 would be quite similar, but I'm not sure I'd want to use it on something bigger, like a moose. For that, I'd rather have my 180 grain .30-06 vs a what... 90(?) grain .243. And I can walk through the fucking mountains for miles carrying my A-bolt (got the composite stock because it's so light and rugged, no warping, etc)... I'd like to see any bench-hunter do that with his BMG.
i w Same. My "hunting" rifle (as opposed to my vermin exterminators) is my AR-10 in .308/7.62X55. I went with the AR platform because it's so easy to modify for different hunting setups and conditions, whether it's a red dot and streamlight for hogs, or a bipod and scope for deer and the like. My thinking with the .308 though, is as far as the range goes, the cartridge can out-shoot my skill level (or at least my comfort level in humanely taking game) but it isn't so powerful as to make it uncomfortable to shoot or unethical as far as ruining too much of the meat of the game. And like the 30-06, I can go into any sporting goods store in bumfuck america and buy a few cases of .308 ammo. I get that the .50 BMG guy was doing "ranch management" and culling deer, but you should at least shoot ethically in order to save the most meat so you can donate it to a food bank or some other charity.