.223 deer bullet

[CarryCauseICan]

Took 2 Bucks a couple years ago with a .243, @ 120 yards. One dropped where it was ( double lung ) and the other went 40 yards. Hope to take one this year with a .223!

After you get a couple with the .223, try a 17 hornet! Seriously though, you have a .243 and want to switch to a .223?

No doubt most cartridges will kill a deer, plenty of deer have been dropped by the good 'ole 22 lr.

I sold my .243 and recently picked up an AR. I would like to take one with it. I've been hunting deer for twenty years, I bow hunt from September to January, I slug hunt for 9 days straight. I feel comfortable doing it. Not like rifle season is my only chance at a whitetail. I have time to be picky with my shot.

[OldmanFCSA]

Deer are well documented as the world toughest animal. If you hunt them with anything less than a .50 BMG you are not an ethical hunter. Personally I call in air strikes.

I use Incendary rounds in my 50BMG for deer hunting.

Kills, cleans, and barbeques all in one shot.



Just kidding of course.
Never have shot a game animal with a 50BMG, unless prairrie dogs count. They're a tough kill sometimes, especially if you purposesly aim low to bark them ............

[OldmanFCSA]

I have a 7.62X39 Upper for my AR-15 Lower with red-dot type sight that I think would be perfect for deer hunting, were I ever to go again. 30 round magazine is probably overkill for deer hunting and exhibits the wrong image, but is only magazines I have for that Upper.

[grousemaster]

I have a 7.62X39 Upper for my AR-15 Lower with red-dot type sight that I think would be perfect for deer hunting, were I ever to go again. 30 round magazine is probably overkill for deer hunting and exhibits the wrong image, but is only magazines I have for that Upper.

Aren't we limited to the 10 rounders?

[OldmanFCSA]

I have a 7.62X39 Upper for my AR-15 Lower with red-dot type sight that I think would be perfect for deer hunting, were I ever to go again. 30 round magazine is probably overkill for deer hunting and exhibits the wrong image, but is only magazines I have for that Upper.

Aren't we limited to the 10 rounders?

If I were to put in a magazine block similar to a plug in a shotgun, would that be legal?
I know if stopped it would have to be proven that quantity can not be exceeded.

[plblark]

He's asking a question, not making an assertion of fact.
here's a link to the current regs book. look through and see if you can find the ammunition limit. I didn't see it.

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/rlp/regulations/hunting/2011/full_regs.pdf

[Holland&Holland]

No limit for deer hunt'n boolits. But I like to rub bacon grease on them first, flavor's the meat.

[gunther274]

Sorry I took my ball and glove and went home. I should have figured it would have stirred some hate.

[JJ]

Sorry I took my ball and glove and went home. I should have figured it would have stirred some hate.

Meh, let the haters hate.

223 works just fine.

But there are a ton of people that think that only a 30 can kill a wittle'ol'deer.

Remember they are as sneaky as a waskilly wabbit.

[stesch_s10]

Where I hunt, all my shots can be under 100-150 yards. With that being said my wife shot a doe in the lungs from 70 yards away with a Hornady Match 75gr HPBT, 23.0gr of Varget, COAL 2.270. Coming out of my .223/5.56 Spikes AR15. Clear path, no obstructions. You could hear the bullet WHUMP when it hit. The doe jumped, ran 40 yards and crashed. We recovered a sliver of bullet from her doe.

I took a doe at 50 yards with the same gun and load. She was hit in the top lung and bottom heart area. Again you could hear the bullet WHUMP and the doe ran 50-60 yards and crashed. No pieces recovered.

Would I recommend using it for a deer round.. eh its kind of small. But where I hunt its perfectly fine. I am comfortable and confident with my AR15. I used to hunt with my dad and we would shoot his .280. We would take them at the same distance and they would either drop dead from a great shot, or run the same amount and die. Either way its all about shot placement and confidence with your rifle.

[goalie]

Barnes TSX or TTSX. Fast.

Shoot through a shoulder and it's like a lightning bolt.

The big downside is the wasted meat. Lots of it. I prefer something bigger and slower through the lungs/heart, but I have to say what I have seen done with the new monolithic bullets has made a believer out of me in terms of effectiveness even if the efficiency (wasted meat) leaves a lot to be desired.

I used to think the .243 was about the basement for deer, but seeing is believing. I still won't do it myself though. I have too many larger rifles that shoot well and don't kick all that much to be messing around seeing how small of a bullet I can kill a deer with......

[user293]

Sorry I took my ball and glove and went home. I should have figured it would have stirred some hate.

weak sauce

[Paul]

If your bullet doesn't do this to a deer, it's too small!

[gyrfalcon]

So what do you folks think of .25ACP for hunting deer? It's perfectly legal to use in Minnesota.

[user293]

So what do you folks think of .25ACP for hunting deer? It's perfectly legal to use in Minnesota.

i shoot at deer all the time with my .25 problem?