Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Reasons to pick a 223 over a 22-250?

How many large whitetails have you killed? Over 225 in weight and 160-180 score wise, age 6-8 years old?

OK guys lets get back to the answer. I have a Ruger American Predator in 223 on a brown truck. It has 1-8 twist rifling. Ok so what is the choices of best bullet to use for deer. Thanks for the help.

Geez.. how many tags you get a season?

Three bucks per season and up to to does per day. Season is about 90 days long. Also one deer in another state.

Off hand I can think of at least a dozen, thats just a start..

I like any of the TSXs or TTSXs�.


Lots of other good ones out there now too...

OK, appreciate it if you could list 7 or 8, thanks,

The heavy weights work better with the 1-8 twist?

They ALL work in the 1 in 8 twist�take your pick.Im shooting 55 TTSXs in my 1 in 8

Extra weight does not necessarily equate to extra penetration with TTSXs, Ive shot a literal ton of game with the 50 grainers, and never recovered one�.

I've got 55 gr. TTSXs ready to try, more 65gr. GKs that I know work.. Wanna try 70 gr. VLDs, 55 gr. Horn SPs, 60 gr. BTs, 64 gr. Power points..

55 and 60 gr. horns work and so do 64 pp�.but Id be a tad skeered of a conventional CNC bullet in a 1 in 8. Mine spun a petal off a TTSX going through a javelinas tiny little brain. Petal ended up in a shoulder, rest of bullet still flying around somewhere I suppose�.

Horn 55s work good in a 1 in 12�.

Ive shot lots of critter with TSX and TTSX out of a 308 and only recovered one, which went through 4 feet of wild boar. Ill try the 55 gr TSX bullet and see what happens. Thanks for the suggestions.

I'd UBER say heavier always trumps lighter because the 53's and 55's have been recovered by this guy at less than UBER range.

GFY.


Travis

OK we have a heavy weight and now a lite weight (opinion). Who is who?

I'd say you have ample opportunity to start testing..

Tom is right just about everything works in a 1-8". I've used the following.

53 TSX
55 TSX
55 Sierra GKHP
60 partition
63 Sierra SMP
64 nosler bonded
64 power point
65 Sierra GK
75 swift

Funny thing is they all worked fine in my 1-8". Lately I've been using the 64 Nosler's the most.

62gr TSX/TTSX

Ill shortly be trying those in that 1-10 twist '250 RAR we discussed some time back.

It'll be interesting to see how they shoot as Barnes's states the 62 TSX needs a 1-9", and the 62 TTSX needs a 1-8". It wouldn't surprise me if they shot just fine, keep us informed please.