Thread: Max ethical range on a 7.62x39 bolt-action for deer

From my small personnel experience, I would limit my self to deer with in 100 kg and with in 150 m.

And the issue is not with all the well place shots that are going to kill fast, it is when your shots will be in a marginal zone and you have to track your wounded animal a fair distance. It definitely hasn't got the knock down power of a 308.