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Old 16th Feb 2021, 03:08
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Originally Posted by heights good
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.

It is the rapid stop at the end that does the damage, not the pressure wave.
The puff is from the tree that the bullet hit right behind the deer. A 50 cal slug is a half inch in diameter - if it went in one eye and out the other, would the eyes still be there? I think not...
It looks like he missed slightly high - easy to do if you're closer to the target than you estimated.
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