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I'm only shooting 55gr SP's now, but when my last three are gone, I'm switching over to the 64gr Speer Gold Dot SP's, that also shoot amazingly well in this gun.
Absolutely amazing caliber.
I have had good success with 62-64 gr SP bullets on deer and hogs. I've got a couple thousand Winchester 64 gr Power Point bullets I snared up at a gun show a few years back, they are the cat's azz. Great thread, btw.
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Sweet, congrats on the critters, i was at the other end of the spectrum this evening, put 30 rounds through my 45-110 Sharps bull gun, 1 2 3 4, 4 3 2 1 hundred yards on steel gongs with 530 grain paper patch bullets and black powder, I fell in love with it all over again.  i like to shoot volcanic boulders. with the 223 you can a 'ping'. with a 45.70 you get shrapnel much more better. You should see/hear it when a 715 gr paper patch or 750 gr grease groove bullet from my 50-90 Sharps lands, they both carry about a 338" meplat. 
Trump Won!
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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I will add, that the .223 will NOT result in a DRT animal if you shoot heart/lungs. I shot one buck last year in the neck that, of course, dropped on the spot. All the other game made it 30-45 yards before piling up.
The bigger calibers can take a high shoulder shot and drop them instantly. The trade off is worth it for me (so far).
All my shots are 250 yards or less. I'm not comfortable with the killing power any further than that - yet.... I've had more DRT with a 223AI than with anything else I've used.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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5.56 or wylde chamber 1-7 or 1-8 Light weight barrel, free floated with a decent fore arm, good bolt carrier group, your choice of uppers/lowers, Geisslee SSA-E, LMT sophmod stock, seekins rings, and maybe that tract toric for a hunting gun or the SWFA 1-6 for other uses.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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I will add, that the .223 will NOT result in a DRT animal if you shoot heart/lungs. I shot one buck last year in the neck that, of course, dropped on the spot. All the other game made it 30-45 yards before piling up.
The bigger calibers can take a high shoulder shot and drop them instantly. The trade off is worth it for me (so far).
All my shots are 250 yards or less. I'm not comfortable with the killing power any further than that - yet.... If you can't find game that went 30-40 yards you have no business... actually about how far most deer went with 257 wtby...for us anyway. Regardless IF you use good bullets ( a lot of 55 sps are NOT good bullets IMHO) the 223 kills well. But its not a boy scout round.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Campfire Savant
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Campfire Savant
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I have a Rock River Varmint. I load the 62 Barnes TTSX. It will punch through a 200 lb pigs shoulders at 200 yds. I have killed dozens of pigs with it. I have some power points and Bear Claws to try. I'm sure they will work fine too. You can't go wrong with the 62 Barnes. I have better tools to deer hunt with, but I wouldn't be afraid to use the 223.
I have a bunch of pig pics posted in trapping. Sometimes we catch 30 in a weekend. Sometimes none. It's hard to get trap gates set without leaving scent.
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