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lancaster
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shooting a nilgai antelope with a 50 BMG
      #369336 - 18/09/22 04:34 PM

look by yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1XNqXxYj04

he shoots a nilgai with a 50 BMG and the antelope instead of collapsing like an old house in an earthquake runs and runs before it stops and die slowly. the best is to see this guys face and how surprised he is about his success. I am sure nilgai were shoot with a 223 rem and die quicker before.

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Re: shooting a nilgai antelope with a 50 BMG [Re: lancaster]
      #369341 - 18/09/22 06:25 PM

FMJ?

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Re: shooting a nilgai antelope with a 50 BMG [Re: NitroX]
      #369344 - 18/09/22 07:37 PM

fmj or not a .50 caliber bullet with 11000 joule must have some impact
don#t you think so?
but best is how surprised this guy is the nilgai was realy dead in the end.

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Re: shooting a nilgai antelope with a 50 BMG [Re: lancaster]
      #369351 - 18/09/22 10:02 PM

Used the 50 BMG on rock chucks some years ago. Very unimpressive. Just bore a 1/2" hole right through them They never moved, The only way we knew we hit them was, well they never moved. We killed a couple and finally went back to the 22-250's for drama.

Later that same year the owner of this gun, shot a deer with it. He said because of what he saw on chucks he aimed for the shoulder bones. The shot bore clear through. The meat was not bloodsjot , rather it was contaminated by bone fragments. He used some sort of softpoint/expanding bullet, becasue FMJ's were illegal. Don't know what bullet and can't ask my friend as he passed away in 2018.

We stopped shooting the gun on the prairie after seeing how many times and how far those 50 BMG bullets skipped. We were shooting surplus ammo and one turned out to be a tracer. The bullet skipped far and high for a long time.

Went to a Machine Gun shoot out near Guymon OK a couple of years ago and saw that again---those 50 BMG bullets skip forever. They stopped that shot after somebody fired bunch of tracers and started a giant prairie fire.

That 50 BMG is a powderful long range cartridge, but not suitable in my experience for hunting.

It's a dandy war gun I hear.

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Re: shooting a nilgai antelope with a 50 BMG [Re: DoubleD]
      #369353 - 18/09/22 10:37 PM

Quote:

Used the 50 BMG on rock chucks some years ago. Very unimpressive.




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Re: shooting a nilgai antelope with a 50 BMG [Re: lancaster]
      #369373 - 19/09/22 09:52 AM

What a load of bullshit, couple of old farts getting off on shooting an animal from a hut with a "real man gun". I suppose they can't get off any other way so have to amuse themselves with this.

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Re: shooting a nilgai antelope with a 50 BMG [Re: eagle27]
      #369377 - 19/09/22 03:20 PM

you have to unscrew the muzzle brake, then shoot it from the shoulder to make it a real man gun

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