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223 is good enough for deer.

deersniper

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  • Feb 22, 2007
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    What kind of pussy deletes their own thread lol

    I had additions

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    But if you look at the adds you will notice that none of the shown bullets encountered anything as tough as the mighty coyote! I think that shows they know that those bullets are not up to the task--

    I hope that my new 50bmg shows up this week- I have a coyote out in the field that I'd like to re-home.... but don't want to just piss him off with a 223.
     
    Killed a small buck yesterday with the lowly .223 at about 75 yards. Hard quartering-to, almost head on. 16" AR platform, 65gr Sierra GK. Bullet entered just inside of left shoulder, shattered said shoulder, made gravy of left lung, took out the top 1/3 of his heart, exited top rear of right hind quarter. No blood trail to speak of. Luckily, he bolted (on 3 legs) about 40 yards and crashed. Yeah, .223 is much too small.
     
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    They'll do the job.

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    I had one of those as a "pet" I planned to eat it but the hippy neighbor kept letting it out when I wasn't home and it finally wandered off.

    It had a color mutation and was white and bright red colored like a half albino or something but it was definitely a javelina and not a mix.
     
    I shot a pig with the 75gr Hornady Black. 50-70 yards maybe? Dropped in its tracks and was shooting a fountain of blood when I got to it. I was super impressed.
     
    We went crazy today, I let my kid shoot a whitetail with the tiny little varmint cartridge called 22-250.
    Had a doe run into us at 70 yards, and he punched one through the throat, taking the jugular, esophagus, and spine.

    We had backup rifles ready, but he got it done with a .224 bullet and we didn't have to track it a single step.
    Oddly it seemed to drop just as fast as the whitetail buck he shot last weekend with a 6.5 Creed.
    That one wasn't giving him any options so he popped it in the neck. Hit a little high and took just the brain stem. I've never gutted a deer that looked so immaculate inside. Quite literally fell on his own tracks.
     
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    I shot a pig with the 75gr Hornady Black. 50-70 yards maybe? Dropped in its tracks and was shooting a fountain of blood when I got to it. I was super impressed.
    I went to the 75gr hornady black for night hunting pigs. Kill rate increased substantially.
    We went crazy today, I let my kid shoot a whitetail with the tiny little varmint cartridge called 22-250.
    Had a doe run into us at 70 yards, and he punched one through the throat, taking the jugular, esophagus, and spine.

    We had backup rifles ready, but he got it done with a .224 bullet and we didn't have to track it a single step.
    Oddly it seemed to drop just as fast as the whitetail buck he shot last weekend with a 6.5 Creed.
    That one wasn't giving him any options so he popped it in the neck. Hit a little high and took just the brain stem. I've never gutted a deer that looked so immaculate inside. Quite literally fell on his own tracks.
    22-250 was my favorite for years. Mostly shot the 55gr core lokt. It shot that ammo as good as any of my handloads. Head and neck shots are great. I hate dealing with that mess in the body.
     
    I know a guy who was trying to head shot a doe with a 300 weatherby. He killed it in one shot but they couldnt figure out where the bullet went. The skinned the head and found he shot it in the nose, the bullet went into the brain scrambled it then out the ear.
     
    I know a guy who was trying to head shot a doe with a 300 weatherby. He killed it in one shot but they couldnt figure out where the bullet went. The skinned the head and found he shot it in the nose, the bullet went into the brain scrambled it then out the ear.
    I knew a guy that head shot a doe with a 300winmag and a 125gr Speer hollow point. He could find where his bullet went either. Or the head for that matter.
     
    Arizona fudds think they need a 300 win magnum to kill the 98lb antelope things that are all over the place out here.
    A guy at the bench next to me a few years ago out at Ben Avery was trying to sight in his 300 WBY for a white tail hunt 🤣
     
    I dropped a whitetail in his tracks with a .223 at 40 yards or so a LONG time ago with a 55gr softpoint. Nowadays, I would prefer to have a heavier bullet. Known plenty of folks that only hunt deer with a magnum of some sort. Don't know why they think they need that to kill a deer. I shot a really nice buck 2 weeks ago with a 50 cal muzzle loader, 180gr patched round ball dropped him in his tracks.

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    Yeah. That one was from south Texas. Looks like a pig has teeth like a dog. Gotta be some kind of failed experiment.
     
    I dropped a whitetail in his tracks with a .223 at 40 yards or so a LONG time ago with a 55gr softpoint. Nowadays, I would prefer to have a heavier bullet. Known plenty of folks that only hunt deer with a magnum of some sort. Don't know why they think they need that to kill a deer. I shot a really nice buck 2 weeks ago with a 50 cal muzzle loader, 180gr patched round ball dropped him in his tracks.

    Branden
    Friend of mine strictly hunted deer with a magnum for years. But it was a 22 magnum so I'm not sure that counts ?
     
    Hell years ago I was at a range and some guy was sighting in his 30-378wby for whitetail. Got out of his lifted f-250 no less.
    I’d say he is definitely compensating for some short-coming. I might have mis-spelled ‘coming’.