Originally Posted by Sasha_and_Abby
ABSOFRIGGINLUTELY

I have taken an awful lot of deer and hogs with it out to 250. It runs out of steam further out... You can kill a deer (or hog) with just about any caliber as long as YOU make the correct shot placement.

NO BULLET or CALIBER will make up for a poorly placed shot.

My fellow South Carolinian is correct. The first deer I killed with a rifle, in 1967 was drt at 200 yards with a Norma 50 grain factory loaded.222. The most recent deer I killed with a 22Cf was a large wt buck at 275 -300 yards with a 65 grain SGK. It’s not what you shoot them with, it’s how you shoot them. I am not so desperate to kill an animal that I blast away with Hail Mary shots at running deer in the woods. I’ve seen plenty of deer wounded and lost by those who do, usually excited kids shooting too much rifle. Just about any reasonable.223 load will work just fine.


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