Thread: Good caliber to start hunting with?

[QUOTE=Dougie;344553]Okay okay I'm just being a cocky shit. But bar my first ever deer (neck shot with a .243), I've not had one get up. I've shot two red deer with my .223 now.

HOWEVER - I have had goats get up. I've taken pop shots and misses and shot uphill and downhill and yanked the trigger and had my heart leap out of my chest and gut shotted and did I mention miss? And had shit position and rushed shots and done dumb newbie shit.

My point is, and I'm a little sorry to say this Goats, but I'm glad I had two years between my first deer and the other four. I conducted a lot of my education while hunting goats. Because I have shot five deer does not mean I have only squeezed the trigger five times. I have fired probably over 1000rounds through my .223 and maybe over 100 in the direction of something tasty.

I'm a geek and a cocky bitch and that's why I like flying the .223 flag and giving people some stick

But by no means am I a complete and total noob anymore. I have SO MUCH to learn but I think now I have a little sample of some things to teach, too. It would selfish of me not to share that.

And because of my experience on goats, I have let deer walk. I will not shoot unless I'm shooting to kill. I have not shot at every deer I've seen, far from it. I am (trying to be!) a responsible shooter.

Cheers.


Its hard to find the perfect woman lol. Sounds like you doing just fine, always learning and gaining experience as we go along. You fly that 223 flag, im flying the 243 flag lol. Other muppets want fly a bigger flag but each to there own haha