Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What's the better .223 deer bullet

A doe from last season with my brothers American and 62gr. Bear Claw. Shot was just over one hundred yards. Inside the left shoulder and out the right ribs.

10gauge,

Why do you need to drop down in weight?


I missed this question while typing aother post. My Browning has a serious dislike for anything over 55 grains and really prefers 50s.

10-4.

Is that 50 or 55 a poly tip or lead tipped?

Just asking as many poly tipped 55 are longer than an SP version of same weight. More of a length issue vs weight.

The only plastic tips I've shot out of it were Hornady 40gr. Vmax. It liked those very well. Every thing else has been lead tipped.

The bullet shot out of it most over the years was the Hornady 50gr. SXSP. Killed praire dogs, crows, a hand full of woodchucks and a few coyotes with it.

In my old age I'm starting to like these smaller calibers for deer hunting, thus the interest in the bullets.

I have never had a sp bullet out of the 223 exit. Used 55 gr Hornady, 55 gr Remington, 63 gr Sierra, 70 gr Speer. Barnes have given me exits but A little to much running with lung shots. Will have to give those Bear Claws A try.

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My answer is NONE! Use an adequate deer caliber! Not a LADIES GUN!

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This schitt is never not funny!

I ain't never met anybody from Long Island that knew their ass from a hole in the ground.

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I hate to see grown men cry!

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Because it takes so much horsepower to kill a 200# animal

I'm not the worlds biggest advocate for .22 calibers, but how bout you post up a photo of what type of gun you use, the ammo and a game animal taken with it.

I'm pretty sure the one I posted shows plenty of damage. I can tell you the deer dropped where it stood and almost completely bled out on the ground.

I'm sure the pictures you're going to post will obviously show more acceptable damage.

Pics or it didn't happen!

Of course a 223 will kill deer. Why waste an excuse to buy a 257 Roberts?

Don't tell this guy that a 60 grain Partition wasn't adequate.

HI! 10ga.
Your handle is 10ga mag.----why are you pushing the heaviest gauge scattergun when you could use a BB Gun? 1 BB=17 cal. (would be listed as 0 size shot (not buck)----That should be all that you need?


Pick a cal. or gauge that is efficient----Not to Big, Not to Small!

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Abolt,
Shot many deer back in the day when the limit was 1 deer a SEASON in N.Y. State! A few 8 ptrs which were considered very nice for N.Y.!
Calibers .357 RM pistol, '30-30, 30-06, .35 Rem. .358 Win.----Some with cast bullets.
We hunt woods/forests here, if a deer is not well hit we can easily lose them!

We hunt here, not snipe from elevated stands with heat, A/C, wet bars, full kitchens and flush toilets!

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Are you implying that it isn’t possible to hit a deer well when using a .224 caliber rifle?

I’ve never shot a deer with anything bigger than a 458 Win or smaller than a 222. And I’ve never shot anything bigger than an elk with a 22 centerfire. Probably not talking anything much over 400-500 head of animals killed discounting varmints like coyotes and Pdogs. If you hit them right it doesn’t make much difference what you’re hitting them with in my experience, hitting them right is the important thing. And when a good bullet from a 223 will give over 2 feet of penetration and leave a 2” wide wound channel the margin for error argument doesn’t hold much water with me.

You're a badasss. Are you Blackheart's twin brother?

I sure got you guys going!

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