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I've used some 52 grain (Sierra ?) slugs for fish in a barrel doe hunts. Close order shots and I try to take the head off aiming just below the chin. Always a slam dunk. Out in big sky country after bucks, I step up to at least 0.24 caliber with heart/lung placement.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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First two deer I killed with a 22.250, one was at 100 yds, and that was shot using a Barnes 53 grain Blue Colored tip bullet
and the second was one shot at 200 yds, running away from me... so I shot over its tail and hit the back of its neck.
Dropped him on the spot, head over teakettle. Quarter sized hole in the back of its neck, but hit the spine. Exit out of the front of its neck, was like an open book. That bullet was a Speer 70 grain SMP.
I use one sporadically, but when ever I do, and I come across a volunteer, the 22.250 has never failed not to kill them DRT.
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Campfire Outfitter
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I've read well over 1,000 posts on the .22cal. for deer. I disregard the hunters that would never do it and listen to the ones and their pictures of the ones who do it. I came to realize that the bullet does something to the vitals of the animals that does not do what my .270 Win. ever did. I just plain makes the vitals a blood bath. I never uses a 22 cal. for deer. However, I have seen a difference when I went from my .270 WIn. to my .243 WIn. The .243 Win. is much the same.. Last year I made my very worst shot on a deer. Still can't believe I dropped it right there ,, flopped around some and died. Bullet went in just north of the guts and under the tenderloins.. Nothing but blood in the cavity. A 100 gr. Rem. coreloc with 40.5 gr. IMR 4350. Not exactly a hot load , 25 yd. shot. I am sure a " marginal shot" is actually more effective with a 22 or 24 cal. than a bigger cal.. A .270 Win. /130/150 gr. is more suited for elk, bear and moose. If a .270Win/ 150 gr. is suitable for moose and elk, then a 223Rem is suitable for deer. I am interested in 223 Rem . cause the day may come when powder , bullets and cases may be much more expensive . IMR is $65 lb.. and many components are still hard to find, but the 223 Rem. is still all over. A light .223Rem, for Wis. marsh hunting should be a very good combo with 50yd . shots max. No wind drift to worry about neither. You’ve hit the nail on the head with your thoughts on the 223! It’s everywhere and affordable even in todays times. Highly effective too.
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