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Our deer aren't very big does 80-110lbs bucks 110-150lbs I have plans for an 8 twist T3 223 to try out myself. Figure on a partition or tsx of some flavor. My 1-10" T3 does this with 50 TTSX. P
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If it works on African buffalo, it should work fine on mule deer.
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If it works on African buffalo, it should work fine on mule deer. We're gonna need the story on that! The Ultimate Stunt Shooter!
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"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Good one, but you should've let it ride a little longer, talked about shot placement, premium pills, and so on and so forth.
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Even a .22lr can and has killed deer. Any doubt of that, check with your DNR. It is a common poacher's weapon. Sound doesn't carry as far. I personally have never used the .223, but my cousin has taken quite a few deer with both a .222 and a .223. I have no doubt it is effective. You could not use it here, legally, but it would get the job done. Shot placement matters more than bullet used.
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the only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker, is observation. all the same data is present for both. The rest, is understanding what you're seeing.
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I personally have never used the .223, but my cousin has taken quite a few deer with both a .222 and a .223. My cousin ingwe has killed a sh*tpile of deer with the 223 but that was before he married my other cousin Gladys. Back when he had teeth. He says headstamp is the most important.
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Here is a question for the group, ever had a bullet hit a 1 inch or so diameter sapling you did not see in your scope before it hit the deer? I have wondered and don't know the answer for a 22 caliber 75AMAX or 77TMK. I have killed deer and pigs with the 62 TSX and the 75 grain Swift scirrocco and the 223 gun. The deer I killed this year was walking at 80 or so yards and the .308/150 cup and core bullet center punched a small sapling before entering his neck. I don't know if the 75AMAX or 77TMK would have made that journey thru the sapling and the neck? Thoughts?
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Yep. Thats what "brush" guns are made for. Shoot brush with them Shoot deer with .223s
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Killing a deer with a tree-08 is pure stunt shooting
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Schit happens...
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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Here is a question for the group, ever had a bullet hit a 1 inch or so diameter sapling you did not see in your scope before it hit the deer? I have wondered and don't know the answer for a 22 caliber 75AMAX or 77TMK. I have killed deer and pigs with the 62 TSX and the 75 grain Swift scirrocco and the 223 gun. The deer I killed this year was walking at 80 or so yards and the .308/150 cup and core bullet center punched a small sapling before entering his neck. I don't know if the 75AMAX or 77TMK would have made that journey thru the sapling and the neck? Thoughts? I've had this happen twice once with a .22-250 and once with a .308 coincidentally, I didn't hit either deer. Like Scott and Tom said above, don't shoot trees shoot deer.
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Here is a question for the group, ever had a bullet hit a 1 inch or so diameter sapling you did not see in your scope before it hit the deer? I have wondered and don't know the answer for a 22 caliber 75AMAX or 77TMK. I have killed deer and pigs with the 62 TSX and the 75 grain Swift scirrocco and the 223 gun. The deer I killed this year was walking at 80 or so yards and the .308/150 cup and core bullet center punched a small sapling before entering his neck. I don't know if the 75AMAX or 77TMK would have made that journey thru the sapling and the neck? Thoughts? You were lucky. Don't count on it going that way again whatever the cartridge.
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you guys must hunt under pristine conditions and nothing like a walking deer in early light ever happened to you, so you can post your "don't shoot trees" comments. Reality sucks outside the campfire and the internet, sh-t does happen and if the deer is walking at the edge of a thicket, sh-t is more likely to happen, or you could just let him walk. I chose to shoot.
Now back to the original question, just for the fun of it, do you think your 75Amax or 77TMK would make it through a 1 inch sapling into a deer neck as well as a 150 grain 308 bullet would?
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Is'nt the A max a match bullet?
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you guys must hunt under pristine conditions and nothing like a walking deer in early light ever happened to you, so you can post your "don't shoot trees" comments. Reality sucks outside the campfire and the internet, sh-t does happen and if the deer is walking at the edge of a thicket, sh-t is more likely to happen, or you could just let him walk. I chose to shoot.
Now back to the original question, just for the fun of it, do you think your 75Amax or 77TMK would make it through a 1 inch sapling into a deer neck as well as a 150 grain 308 bullet would?
I hit a finger sized limb betwixt me and a deer with my .243 a few years ago. Killed the deer deader than shyt. Blew the top of it's head right off actually. Only problem is, I was aiming behind it's shoulder. You were lucky just as I was that day. The deer, not so much.
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