Thread: What's your pet Sika load?

Originally Posted by Tahr

Yes. My experience with the 222/223 meat hunting was that the neck shot ones were mostly still flapping their heads around or still alive when I got to them and needed finishing with a knife. I soon got sick of that. It takes a hit right in the neck bone to really flatten them. So I stepped up to a 308 and that fixed the problem, marginal neck shots included.

My experience with all calibres tells me if you dont hit that neckbone the animal has a fair chance of getting away. I have spent more hours on my hands and knees blood trailing 308, 270, 30 06 than I care to remember as well.

Its going to be many years before any single other rifle calibre kills more sika than the 222/223 222mag. The 303 is possibly the nearest contender at the moment.