Originally Posted by Foxbat
The problem with the internet is a couple guys that are very experienced at putting a marginal cartridge in just the right spot, can make it appear that anyone or everyone will have the same results.





yeah....like eleven year old kids?

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And that was a Hornet, not a .223, which is a magnum by comparison. Whitetail deer are small, fragile animals and aren't at all difficult to kill. Most don't outweight the enemy soldiers that 5.56 rounds have been killing for almost fifty years, and deer don't wear body armor or have an ideology that compels them to fight on when injured. So its kind of silly to say a .223 with good bullets is some kind of expert's gun on deer.

But it is equally silly to suggest that there is no qualitative difference between the performance of a 55 grain TSX or the like at 3300 fps and, say, a 150 grain BT at 3000 from an '06. There is a significant difference. Once they're dead, they're dead but the '06 is definitely more.....well, authoritative.

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