Originally Posted by
Baldeep Inminj
Lets look at the facts from your video.
1. A lifetime and highly experienced PROFESSIONAL hunter shoots a deer from 50m.
2. He has a scope, bipod and a rifle on a steady platform.
3. The professional hunter then MISSES?!
4. You see the puff of debris when the round ACTUALLY hits
5. The round hits in the eye and passes straight through the other eye and creates very little damage, because.... physics.
I have stood 3 ft from 105mm Howitzers going off, my arms are still attached.
I have had 7.62mm whizz past my head at close range, no pressure wave of even the remotest of significance felt.
Had an IED blast go off 100 ft away, limbs still attached.
122mm mortar land 50ft other side of a blast wall, no lost limbs.
Seen numerous gunshot, blast injuries. 100% involved a direct hit.
To have sufficient shockwave you would need a HUGE pressure wave caused by insanely fast projectiles traveling WAY faster than a .50 cal.
Also, a point to consider, a .50 has a similar fps as most normal hunting rounds, which means a broadly similar shockwave. The power of a .50 comes from E=mc2.
It is the rapid stop at the end that does the damage, not the pressure wave.
Mythbusters experiment results