Thread: 22 magnum on reds

Ekkkkkk 22 Magnum on deer I sold my 22 hornet after neck shooting a goat at 100 yds with winchester factory ammo & had it run off screaming with a shallow splash wound. In perfect conditions I probably would but my personal imposed minimum calibre choice is 223.

anything is better than a bow...even shooting at 350m

Originally Posted by sakokid

anything is better than a bow...even shooting at 350m

explain?

Originally Posted by sakokid

anything is better than a bow...even shooting at 350m

Your joking right?


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.17 HMR, .22 mag/LR capable of downing deer?
Yes.

Ideal?
No.

man we could talk about this all night. I myself would not use a 22mag on deer. yes it could drop a deer, but that's what I have got my 7mm for. save the 22mag for possums, hares, rabbits, and the odd goat.

One of the yarns my old man brought back from Africa was of an elephant poacher who was shooting them with a .22lr, he would wait for the beast to step forward with the front leg an pop one through the soft skin into a major artery and follow it till it bled out...

That poacher must've had bigger balls that the elephant to follow up a wounded one

Originally Posted by Barefoot

That poacher must've had bigger balls that the elephant to follow up a wounded one

I have heard that story too, although the version I heard was it was an experienced PH doing it as a bet, think it may be a bit of an urban legend.

Karamoja Bell however did shoot and kill over 1000 elephants with a 7x57 Mauser with military ball ammo, do believe he wounded a shitload too!

Its in one of a very popular African hunting writers books of a boy downing a elephant on the spot with a very lucky 22lr pill down the ear canal.
Not recommended from memory he got a hiding from the old man.

Iv shot deer with 22lr 222 223 243 etc etc
Not knocking it but dont recommend it.
Allways wanted to touch a wild deer, got to within a hairs breath of slapping a hind two years ago close enough? I have seen fawns wild on public land I could probably have picked up but growing up on a deer farm knew to leave them the hell alone.

if you touch deer and write it on here the anti touch the deer tards will re school you on morals.............bunchof fucking high and artificially mighty cocks on here at times!.......were hunters......we kill.........ethicly or not its a dead aninal and there is a miss or gut shot just waiting to happen no matter what caliber .......keep that in mind.

I thought the discussion was carried out quite calmly with some good points on both sides, the point of a forum is to discuss different people's opinions and views.
Sorry, didn't realise that expressing your opinion was getting high and mighty, will keep that in check in the future.

Only now afer 37 posts has it started to get a bit insult slinging.

lloydcj your original post said stuff all about enjoying bush hunting, to come and say that now is ridiculous.

Carry on boys, 22s on scrub bulls sounds great!

Yeah your right spud, had a bad day and stand corrected, can't wait to get back to n.z. And take the 243 out again

It trust many hunters out there having an oppurtunity present itself within 50 yards, a rimfire rifle in hand, would give it go (hopefully they know there rifle and own capabilities). In saying that probably not the best to encourage Joe Blogs to pick up his $50 plinkster and venture off into the Fiords to take down a Wapiti Stag.