Thread: 223 on deer

Shot a couple this afternoon with the 75gr black tip that Hornady supplies to AAC for their Saber Blade Black Tip. Midsouth Shooters Supply had these bullets as a component and I bought 1500 of them. They worked today but I’m not 100% sold yet. I’ll need a few more kills to give them the thumbs up.

#1 was 220 yards kneeling shooting off of my garden stake shooting sticks. Put it in the neck while she was facing me. She was very heavy weight wise and had a big neck and head.



#2 was 140 yards broadside and put it in the shoulder. She went about 50 yards and I found her lying on the fenceline against a log. I actually pulled my truck up to the fence line and went into the woods looking for her and came back out and found her 20feet away from my truck. Her coat blended perfectly with the wet logs and brush. This one wasn’t quite as heavy as the first one but pretty close.


Rifle deets: Savage Hog Hunter 223 20”, Athlon Helos 2-12, MDT Fieldstock, Griffin Armament Recce 5 suppressor.

Holiday Hunt for antlerless deer closes the 31st so I’ll be back out tomorrow before the weather turns to crap and call it done. No bucks worth shooting this year and we are overrun with doe. The neighbors don’t shoot them and 2 weeks ago I had 17 doe cross the road in front of me while I was driving from my property to my parents farm next to me.