Thread: Advice Needed: Choosing Caliber for Open Tops Hunting

I'm surprised by all the comments claiming that this caliber or that caliber is too big for Fellow ???
Show me the caliber that when placed squarely through both front shoulders of a Fallow, Sika or Red, leaves much, if any, front shoulder meat salvageable for human consumption, unless your not worried about consuming savagely bruised & bloodshot meat, or worse, ingesting lead and splintered bone fragments.
Pick your "hunting" caliber on individual rifle preference first, then ammunition availability and cost, then caliber.... Just look at the "223 on deer" thread to see what damage the small 223 can do !
If your only going to head shoot or neck shoot your deer, then my post is irrelevant, but who's that good ? ...... rant over sorry ...