223 on deer

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Originally Posted by whanahuia

If its all about shot placement, then Ive shot a 190lb wild boar with a .22 rimfire.

Heres an example of an even bigger boar, somewhere approaching 300lb and my little BRNO 22

Guns are deadly! no matter what the calibre or case.

Are they all equal though and will the New heavy projectiles give performance similar too bigger calibres?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxS88JpOM44

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Crawling under the mingimingi at 8.45am in December when the dogs have been bailing a brute of a boar you do it with a 44mag using 240gr. All you see it a big black blob as it turns towards you. It ends up weighing 189lb. We spent the night under the pines covered in pine needles to keep warm.My mate dragged his dogs around him as well to keep warm. Straight up 1.5 hours to walk to top. Took my mate years to find out how I carried out the boar. Frank Robinson is a top bloke. LOL.

Just back from a couple of nights away. I forgot how important shot placement is . I fouled up my first deer. Gutshot it and put a second through the shoulder all at 60 odd yds with all the time in the world. Thats 12 one shot kills i've had with the .223 and it came to an abrupt end . Ruby tracked it 30 odd metres and a headshot dispatched it. Being not far from camp got the raincoat on and carried back whole.
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Heading out again that evening I didn't have to go far. Sneaking in on this hind I got within 50 Yds. As soon as she fed out from behind the scrub a 69gn tmk hit her like lightning . DOA . The bullet punched through the vitals and left a decent sized hole in her chest .
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Boned everything out and had a heavy pack coming home.

First time out for ages, got out of the truck at 6.10pm and started a hasty walk across the first paddock.
I looked up in the distance and saw some sheep grazing on this side of the fence but also noticed a brown shape over the other side of the fence which I thought would be a cow but as a precaution I lifted the scope to my eye and bloody hell its a deer.
I lay the pack down and took out the range finder 314 meters, righto so got down on the ground and got the perfect rest but the deer disappeared behind a pile of old branches surounded by tall grass but waited and sure enough it appeared on the other side of the pile side on.
Without hesitation I lined up on the front shoulder and sent the 62gr SP on its way, I saw the deer go belly up through the scope (good shit all of 5 mins).

I walked over, cut its throat, dressed it out, then 5 min walk back to the truck, drove over and tossed it in the back.

I thought to myself shit I was looking forward to a hunt and now its all over, I decided to carry on hunting but although I had another one lined up later on it seemed to quickly dissappear not to be seen again, anyway a great evening/night.

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The mighty 223 does it again :thumbsup:

Out for a quick morning hunt. Home by 6:30.
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73gn ELD-M sorted Xmas salami and sausages.

400 yards crease shot. 62 Norma went right through. Didn’t go 10 yards.

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Good looking wobbly country.

Looks Phat!!

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Originally Posted by Billbob

Looks Phat!!

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Great condition. Good grass season in the Mackenzie

Bella looks to be having a ball. When this rain stops there will be animals everywhere trying to dry out.

Fresh snow low down on Mt Hay this morning.:omg:
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Originally Posted by Trout

Fresh snow low down on Mt Hay this morning.:omg:
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9am and I’m still in my sleeping bag. The wallaby probably are too.

lol…@Tahr…… that dog of yrs is a camera hog….no make up ,no accessories…. Quite the boy!!!

150 yds high shoulder. Still killed it ok. 74 Targex.

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Excuse my ignorance. What's a "crease shot"?

Tight in behind foreleg...goes into thick lungs,even better if animal facing angled away from you. The yanks love it,call it meat saver.

6 fellow for the Sako .223 with 77 tmk and 73 eldm not much of a test as all head shot.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4058bd1c79.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9e4d7fa841.jpg

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Tight in behind foreleg...goes into thick lungs,even better if animal facing angled away from you. The yanks love it,call it meat saver.

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@Micky Duck thx

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Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP

6 fellow for the Sako .223 with 77 tmk and 73 eldm not much of a test as all head shot.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4058bd1c79.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9e4d7fa841.jpg

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Slaying them.

Good old mate came out with me yesterday.
Malc got 2 together. 55 grn PMC Bronze @200. He's a good shot - both high shoulder - one went straight down and the other was 15 yds away.

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I got 3 with the 74 grn Targex on the way back to the ute - all with a Sytong XM03-50 thermal. Highly recommended if thats your game. 100 to 250 yards. One was a big Red hind and 2 Fallow. Red looked a few weeks off fawning. Lethal combination for culling and meat collection. Difficult to miss really. The dog is a real asset when floundering around in the dark finding the shot ones. You lose some perspective through the thermal scope so it can be difficult marking where they fall.

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So there are 7 deer in the chiller, including 2 Brian and I got last week. Brian's one was shot with a dirty old 30-06. The rest .223. We will take a couple for ourselves and the rest will go to the soup kitchen. Jumped my '24 tally to 64.

Good dog,just as well you there or old bugger would still be looking.

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Originally Posted by Tahr

Good old mate came out with me yesterday.
Malc got 2 together. 55 grn PMC Bronze @200. He's a good shot - both high shoulder - one went straight down and the other was 15 yds away.

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I got 3 with the 74 grn Targex on the way back to the ute - all with a Sytong XM03-50 thermal. Highly recommended if thats your game. 100 to 250 yards. One was a big Red hind and 2 Fallow. Red looked a few weeks off fawning. Lethal combination for culling and meat collection. Difficult to miss really. The dog is a real asset when floundering around in the dark finding the shot ones. You lose some perspective through the thermal scope so it can be difficult marking where they fall.

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So there are 7 deer in the chiller, including 2 Brian and I got last week. Brian's one was shot with a dirty old 30-06. The rest .223. We will take a couple for ourselves and the rest will go to the soup kitchen. Jumped my '24 tally to 64.

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One of them (the one in the pic with me).

https://youtu.be/X8qBXKlktYo

Took the shot well, how far did it go?

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Originally Posted by charliehorse

Took the shot well, how far did it go?

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Tipped straight out of sight. Less than 10 yards.

Deer don't run far with a dirty old 30-06 tapping their shoulder,well done Brian.

88gr ELD-M from my 22 creedmoor this morning. Impact velocity of around 2750fps. Went in on right side, blew three ribs apart and took out the heart. Quick dash and dead. .223 would have been the same result with the 77TMK no doubt, but the ‘nice’ gun was feeling a bit left out….
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Nice work @Hunter_Nick. That really is a nice looking rifle, tell us about that.

Thanks @Dama dama it’s a rifle I had built a year or so ago, originally a .358 Winchester, but rebarelled this year in 22 CM. While the .358 killed well and spilled a lot of blood, the 22 CM is a lot more fun to use. The 358 barrel is still here so I can go back to it if I want.

The metal work was done by Allen Carr, and the stock is my own work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KU8z9f-o2c&t=14s

That stock is beautiful, great work!

74 Targex. 215 yds. Into the nettles. Young hind.

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Is that onga onga?

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Originally Posted by nor-west

Is that onga onga?

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Yep

Watch the dog after being in that horrid crap and on vets advice, recommendation don't be scared to give them an antihistamine if they get hit badly.

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Watch the dog after being in that horrid crap and on vets advice, recommendation don't be scared to give them an antihistamine if they get hit badly.

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Yes. Bloody hard on dogs that stuff. Seen a few get pretty crook, and died despite going to the vet.

That should have been "one died".

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Originally Posted by Tahr

Good old mate came out with me yesterday.
Malc got 2 together. 55 grn PMC Bronze @200. He's a good shot - both high shoulder - one went straight down and the other was 15 yds away.

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I got 3 with the 74 grn Targex on the way back to the ute - all with a Sytong XM03-50 thermal. Highly recommended if thats your game. 100 to 250 yards. One was a big Red hind and 2 Fallow. Red looked a few weeks off fawning. Lethal combination for culling and meat collection. Difficult to miss really. The dog is a real asset when floundering around in the dark finding the shot ones. You lose some perspective through the thermal scope so it can be difficult marking where they fall.

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So there are 7 deer in the chiller, including 2 Brian and I got last week. Brian's one was shot with a dirty old 30-06. The rest .223. We will take a couple for ourselves and the rest will go to the soup kitchen. Jumped my '24 tally to 64.

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That seems really late for a red fawning??....what would you put that down to Bruce?
Grass in the pictures is behind what we have right now in the top of the south but has also been well grazed.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

That seems really late for a red fawning??....what would you put that down to Bruce?
Grass in the pictures is behind what we have right now in the top of the south but has also been well grazed.

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Just seems ordinary. They fawn up to Christmas. I haven’t seen a fawn at foot yet. Although the fallow are taking over so not seeing so many Reds. One of those Fallow had dropped a fawn very recently which was a bit of an oops. I haven’t done that for a long time. Something to watch for with thermal scopes - makes it trickier.

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Originally Posted by Tahr

Just seems ordinary. They fawn up to Christmas. I haven’t seen a fawn at foot yet. Although the fallow are taking over so not seeing so many Reds. One of those Fallow had dropped a fawn very recently which was a bit of an oops. I haven’t done that for a long time. Something to watch for with thermal scopes - makes it trickier.

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When we had the farm reds would drop November some early some late but generally 15th November was fawning time. That seemed to gell with local wild population maybe a week later.

I am actually in the process of reading this entire thread, it is a novel. I like the odd comment '...there is a picture of it posted in this thread......' Fantastic :)

Anyways, I have not come across it yet, but has anyone been using the Hornady 60gr SP? Reloaders has them for $35/100 at the moment and I was wondering if they may be a good option for deer?

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Originally Posted by inglishill

I am actually in the process of reading this entire thread, it is a novel. I like the odd comment '...there is a picture of it posted in this thread......' Fantastic :)

Anyways, I have not come across it yet, but has anyone been using the Hornady 60gr SP? Reloaders has them for $35/100 at the moment and I was wondering if they may be a good option for deer?

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Only one way to find out...

If your barrel is a slower twist (1:12" or even 1:14") it could amplfy terminal performance.

There has been some stuff about copper bullets needing an even faster twist to increase 'rotational tissue damage' but that's even more full of shit than the whole 'copper bullets don't cause meat contamination' theory.