Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting At Ingwe's urging, a ".22 centerfires are no good for deer thread"

I shot one deer at 340 yards with my .223 years ago and while it did kill it the internal damage was waaaay less than when you shoot one sub 200 yards. It's the only deer I've ever shot past 200 yards with a .223 and the only one that went over 100 yards before it fell. In fact, no other deer I've ever shot with a .222 or .223 has ever gone more than 50-60 yards and that has to be approaching three dozen specimens by now. Consequently, I'm with ingwe on keeping the .223 within 200 yards on deer.