RE: What would a 50 bmg do to a deer or elk...
Haha ....Rebel I love your attachments, they've sent me rolling more than once. Here's what I think. At a 1/2 to one mile the only thing it would do to the elk/deer is give them a decent chance at another day to go about there business. The 50BMG isn't that insn't exactly flat shooting (if you zero at 1Km its 112"low at 1200!) Most sportsmen, myself certainly included, are not capable of lugging a 30lbs gun during a stalk and then getting sub 1MOA accuracy AND having the range dead on.
Lets say you hit the thing...ever shoot a watermelon with a .300?