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I filled my doe tag once with a cast bullet from out of a .257 Roberts. A case of walking out the back door into the woods and realizing as the sun was coming up, and a deer was sneaking past me, that the ammo I managed to grab was a fist full of cast loads I had been playing with in that full-stock M1952 Mannlicher-Schoenauer. Soft cast 100 grain RN bullets at around 1600 fps will definitely do the job. Not a dramatic kill, but she expired within seconds and maybe 50 feet from where I hit her.