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    Quote Originally Posted by Flyblown View Post
    In the back blocks of NZ, on rough hill country farms aways from people that worry about stuff like this, more deer are shot with the .223 Remington every year than all the other cartridges put together.

    I had a rough hill country farm in the back blocks for 30 years. Lived on one for longer. 223 wasn't close too top of most popular used in that time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whanahuia View Post
    I had a rough hill country farm in the back blocks for 30 years. Lived on one for longer. 223 wasn't close too top of most popular used in that time.
    To be fair that thinking about my shooting career that it has been spent in the back blocks fencing that there didn't seem to be many small calibres .
    For myself I take minimum 6.5 for deer as a lot of my shots have to be at distance as can't get closer because of terrain to take the shot.
    I did use my 22-250 on reds for a while but after having a can't find the shot deer moment I went back to my 300wsm or I can always find the deer moment!
    If for some reason your shot gets compromised there's no replacement for displacement.
    End of story

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyanimal31 View Post
    To be fair that thinking about my shooting career that it has been spent in the back blocks fencing that there didn't seem to be many small calibres .
    For myself I take minimum 6.5 for deer as a lot of my shots have to be at distance as can't get closer because of terrain to take the shot.
    I did use my 22-250 on reds for a while but after having a can't find the shot deer moment I went back to my 300wsm or I can always find the deer moment!
    If for some reason your shot gets compromised there's no replacement for displacement.
    End of story

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    What bullet did you use in your .22-250?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gimp View Post
    What bullet did you use in your .22-250?
    63 grain sierra soft point.
    I had had a good run up until I took a marginal shot.
    With the wsm it would have been a found deer

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyanimal31 View Post
    63 grain sierra soft point.
    I had had a good run up until I took a marginal shot.
    With the wsm it would have been a found deer

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    Or an 88 eldm perhaps ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gimp View Post
    Or an 88 eldm perhaps ?
    Na shot was 300m.
    The 300wsm would leave holes the size of your fist at that distance.
    Not so much the 63 grainer

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyanimal31 View Post
    Na shot was 300m.
    The 300wsm would leave holes the size of your fist at that distance.
    Not so much the 63 grainer

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    The 63gr isn't really what any of us that are using heavy bullets would recommend as optimal. An 88gr ELDM would be a much better choice in a .22-250. The thing is that no-one is saying "all .224 cal bullets work great". What's been identified is that some heavy match bullets work extremely well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyanimal31 View Post
    Na shot was 300m.
    The 300wsm would leave holes the size of your fist at that distance.
    Not so much the 63 grainer

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    Only tried it at 150m but my "fast 224" leaves first sized holes in goats

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    Quote Originally Posted by gimp View Post
    Or an 88 eldm perhaps ?
    I just bought a box to try in my 1-8 22-250 barrel.
    Didn't like them as I reckon a 1-7 would be the awnser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whanahuia View Post
    I had a rough hill country farm in the back blocks for 30 years. Lived on one for longer. 223 wasn't close too top of most popular used in that time.
    yes ya right Whanahuia 223 is relatively recent - I think I first ran into it when we got an armalite about 1978 ish for aerial goat shooting - prior to that it had been an old FN in 308 - 12 gauge 9 pellet buckshot was though always my favorite for aerial goat work - culling Southern Te Urewera we ran into a few meat hunters flying in and the 22-250 was popular with them - but the 222 ruled for us on goat operations for years - when DOC started using some contractors goat hunting some had 223 armalites so they were supplied 223 but that was not until 2000 ish - more recent goat hunters for DOC have gone 223 in bolt action rifles and the old 222 have been slowly phased out - but rough hill country would it not be a toss up between 308 and 223

 

 

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