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.50 would take down a rabbit, too. But you could do the same with a .22 and actually have a body to recover. It's still overkill even on a grizzly or moose.
You clearly haven't been hunting ever...there is literally a season that's just muzzleloader rifles and they're almost always 50cal.
I hunt semi-regularly. I just don't use a god damn .50 for it because it's totally unnecessary and I don't wanna lug a gun that big around.🤦♂️
That dumbass Desert Eagle y'all got after seeing The Matrix or the Barret to pretend to be God from NAVY seals just be burning a hole in your holster. You wanna see some shit explode. You wanna have fun. You wanna exercise your rights as an American. Don't tell me you need it for hunting.
The 2nd isnt for hunting, I have a DE, it's a collection piece and comes out when people want to shot it. It's a completely waste of a gun. Its two big and way to heavy for anything daily carry. And no one I know carries one, hell I highly doubt anyone really carries one. They're not cheap either. And 50cal muzzleloader season is just fine for hunting, it seems most of you got your knowledge about 50cal from movies... it's a large round but it's not going to blow a deer apart.
For a muzzleloader hunting, the firearms are generally not designed for use with smokeless powder. The higher pressures generated could cause fatal failures. Generally, "real" black powder or a black powder substitute like pyrodex is used. These both burn more slowly and generate less pressure than modern smokeless powder, resulting in lower muzzle velocities.
In order to hunt ethically (not to mention legally), this necessitates taking the "classic" approach of throwing a bigger bullet to make up for the impact of velocity on the muzzle energy. Hornady's data shows that it takes a .50 caliber, 250gr bullet to reach the muzzle energy of a .308 caliber, 175gr load.