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    All good advice above.
    The 223 is a capable round on deer with appropriate bullets and placement.
    It does run out of energy pretty quickly tho and it doesnt have a hell of a lot to start with so while anyhing is possible a long range deer caliber it isnt.
    Its a good 200m cartridge on deer and while I and others on here do shoot deer further than that I dont think any of us would recommend it for any further especially to someone starting out.

    Mickys 3 inch circle is a good one.....when you can get every shot inside that circle everytime thats how far you can shoot.

    Shortening the barrel will lose a bit of velocity and hence energy.....do you need to shorten it? Are you bush stalking?
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    Quote Originally Posted by veitnamcam View Post
    All good advice above.
    The 223 is a capable round on deer with appropriate bullets and placement.
    It does run out of energy pretty quickly tho and it doesnt have a hell of a lot to start with so while anyhing is possible a long range deer caliber it isnt.
    Its a good 200m cartridge on deer and while I and others on here do shoot deer further than that I dont think any of us would recommend it for any further especially to someone starting out.

    Mickys 3 inch circle is a good one.....when you can get every shot inside that circle everytime thats how far you can shoot.

    Shortening the barrel will lose a bit of velocity and hence energy.....do you need to shorten it? Are you bush stalking?

    oh perfect thanks for that that's sort of what I'm gathering from it but by the sounds I should be able to get the distance I need out of it still after a bit of practice and mucking around. perfect thank you for that will be needing to do a bit more target shooting for practice thank you heaps, that's good to know I don't really need to shorten it as such not doing any bush stalking was just curious.

 

 

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