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.
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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.
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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