"Backfire" is Jim Harmers youtube channel. He is reaching out to a pretty big audience with that challenge.
LOL.
He had one chucklehead that flinched so bad he couldn't see his shots.
Guy was shooting a 8lb .300 win mag and it was a 100round session.
He did not know how to dial his scope and didn't dial his scope. The fact you think this is an example of a mildly competent LR shooter show how clueless you are in this discussion.
I think he's probably typical of guys who THINK they're competent. I've seen way too many of those over the years to think otherwise. There's another guy that has his own youtube channel, saw the Backfire challenge video, tried it on his own at his locale and also failed miserably. He is a long time Western hunting guide and if I remember correctly was using a 7mm Rem. Mag.. I think he got 5 in a row at 600 before he missed a jug. Obviously you can't reliably place a shot in the vitals of an antelope at 740 yards. That was real impressive. Makes one wonder how many animals you've gut shot off camera over the years. Probably a lot more than you'd ever admit to. When are you going to be getting in touch with Jim Harmer so you can take the challenge and prove you're up to it ?
Blackheart,
You’re seriously not gonna tell us that you’ve never made a marginal, non-lethal, shot on a game animal in all of your years of hunting, even at the short ranges you hunt, are you?
The last one was in 2011 and it was caused by a deflection on an unseen twig between me and the deer. I had that deer dead to rights and completely unaware at 30 yards, my crosshairs on it's ribs in the pocket behind the front leg and under the shoulder blade when the trigger broke. The deer dropped like it was hit by a bolt of lightning. When I got up to it, the top of it's head was gone ! WTF ? I immediately knew it was either a deflection or my scope was royally fugged so went back to where I was when I fired and sure enough I found a twig smaller than a pencil shot clean off maybe two feet in front of my muzzle. Given the height of it, I knew it had been below my scope and out of view but directly in line with my muzzle when I fired. I was just lucky that bullet deflected straight into the head of a very unlucky deer. I could have just as easily missed or hit it in the guts instead as deflections are completely unpredictable. The last one before that incident was sometime in the early '90's and was another case of bullet deflection. That time by a blackberry bramble about halfway between me and the deer that caused me to hit it through the hips rather than behind the shoulder where I intended. I was shooting iron sights that day and just didn't see that bramble. At the shot the deer instantly dropped in the hind quarters and started dragging itself away. I pumped another round into the chamber and put it away with a second shot before it went 10 feet.
