New hunting tool

[Questor]

I wonder what he can do on whitetails out to 50 yards?...

In Las Vegas in 1996, Jason Zuback, a pharmacist in Drayton Valley, Alberta, won his first RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship. The purse for his 320-meter-long (351-yard-long) drive in this competition was US$35,000. Zuback was no one-shot wonder: he went on to win another three consecutive championships (1997–1999).

Not surprisingly, in 1997, Zuback left pharmacy for golf. He has since competed from Japan to Mexico, and is on the team of The Pinnacle Distance Challenge, which pits long drive champions like Zuback against qualifying recreational golfers.

Zuback is now known as Golfzilla, a name he received in Japan. He earned the name for a trio of reasons: the ferocity of his swing speed (262 km/h or 162 mph); the distance of his longest competition drive (428 meters/468 yards); and the fact that he's blown balls through telephone books. He also gives motivational talks to financial, fuel, and pharmaceutical corporations on how he has achieved international success and on his knack for producing his best shots under pressure.

He has appeared in Golf Digest and People magazine, on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and in TV ads for Pinnacle's Drive Around The World campaign, shot at Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower.

Despite his golfing adventures, Zuback maintains his license, because he believes it's good to have as a backup.

[S.B.]

For the life of me, I can't see the connection to handgujn hunting in this article?

[nickE10mm]

hehehe.... funny.  I'm sure it would do some damage but lets face it, penetrating a deer's vitals would be a lot harder then penetrating a phone book........    

.....right?  

 :shock:

[jar-wv]

Interesting in some respects. How far away were the phone books and how thick were they. This kinda boils down to the Taylor KO formula. Where at some point a 100 mph fastball has a higher KO number than a 44 mag. Interesting to think about. On the other hand is the speedy bullet crowd. Till it gets to the point where if you shoot a rat with a needle at 6,000 fps with some kind of incredible ft lbs of energy and the needle will pass right thru and the rat will continue on his merry way. Am sure I'm gonna get slaughtered on this one, as I have done "zero" calculations before posting this.

In answer to the question. At 5 yds he would probably penetrate to the vitals with the golf ball. At 50 it might break a rib or two but not penetrate.

jar

[S.B.]

That's my point, with soo many variables how does anyone come to senceble conclusions?

[wyocarp]

Maybe someone should take him hunting and try it out.  Maybe if he is accurate enough with the 160 mph golf ball, he could knock the animal unconscious with a head shot and then just walk up and cut it's throat.  I'd suggest trying it first on something that doesn't get too mad, like a rabbit.