Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP

Awesome little bullets those.
You liking that scope.

Sent from my CPH2145 using Tapatalk

Yes I am. It's a good day scope for conventional hunting and covers the culling and meat gathering too. Can be a bit fiddly but manageable. I like the vids (as you can tell).
I will post a day time clip (6pm in the evening actually - last night). It's proof too that I dont shoot everything. I guess the biggest disadvantage is that you wouldn't want to put it on anything too heavy recoiling.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Yes I am. I guess the biggest disadvantage is that you wouldn't want to put it on anything too heavy recoiling.

I think i read somewhere that they can be used on rifles up to .338, i have just put 1 on my 6.5AI,Haven't sighted it in yet, hope to in the next couple of days.
if it doesn't work out i have a 22-250 that it can go to.

Originally Posted by HUNTY

I think i read somewhere that they can be used on rifles up to .338, i have just put 1 on my 6.5AI,Haven't sighted it in yet, hope to in the next couple of days.
if it doesn't work out i have a 22-250 that it can go to.

Let us know how it works out.

I guess a suppressor would help.

Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP

Only about 250m max

Sent from my CPH2145 using Tapatalk

I shoot the Hornady 55gn SPs exclusively in my Sako .222. I no longer shoot fallow in the lungs for meat as they bruise very badly. Only head or neck shoot now. When I did use to lung shoot I would avoid the heart shot because if the heart isn't pumping the deer take longer to bleed out and go further. They are definitely dead but can be very hard to find. A lung shot deer will usually only go 20 - 30 m. I also only shoot the .222 out to 220m max, preferably under 200m.

74 grn Targex at 230 yards. Front on at slight angle - exited front of shoulder. Bang flop.

This is interesting. I took this vid screen shot from the moment I pulled the trigger.
She dropped on the spot but flapped around a bit so I neck shot her as a quick finisher (74 Targex). I wondered why she didn't die quickly.

When I butchered her the shot was a bit high going through just under the spine. Never a good shot.
If you have a look at the pic the first hash mark above the dot is 2" and at 140 yards thats approximately where the bullet should have struck, and it did. Hence the outcome.

NICE ONE

The irrepressible .223 and 74 Targex. 250 yds. On the way home last evening after looking for a decent stag. Terrible cully looking thing.

It’s such a great cartridge, especially in the right delivery system. It’s my go to now, and it’s the only rifle that I’ll use this roar. Shot a hind on Wednesday night with it under the light (private land pest control) quick shot in the neck and it was all over. (No photos as we were on a mission), A wicked thump echoed back through the still night air- such a deadly combo with the 80gr ELD-M.

Everywhere it goes it converts the non-believers.

Nice going, hope to put a Sika stag on the deck over the next few days with the 80gr ELDM. Will post up if successful

Originally Posted by Tahr

Yes I am. It's a good day scope for conventional hunting and covers the culling and meat gathering too. Can be a bit fiddly but manageable. I like the vids (as you can tell).
I will post a day time clip (6pm in the evening actually - last night). It's proof too that I dont shoot everything. I guess the biggest disadvantage is that you wouldn't want to put it on anything too heavy recoiling.

That is poetic licence ? For someone whom has posted more dead deer than anyone else on this thread. LOL.

Originally Posted by TeRei

That is poetic licence ? For someone whom has posted more dead deer than anyone else on this thread. LOL.

You and your mates shoot plenty, but you just aren't as blah blah as me.

@Thar I'd be over the moon to get such a "terribly cully looking thing" like that.

Shot a few fallow last weekend been with the Hornady 55 grn SP and 77 TMK started boning them out today.
Man what a mess these little guns make
Picture 1 77 TMK full penetration pic 2 55 SP

Sent from my CPH2145 using Tapatalk

Hornady do 2 slightly different 55gr soft points. One with a small boat tail.and cannelure and one flatbase without.
Any operational difference when using them?