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Posted in uncategorized on February 1st, 2011 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

Shootin' Buddy Says:
February 1st, 2011 at 10:14 am
Deer? Isn’t that a collie? Grow them small down there.

That said, one of my first prosecutions was a farmer with a .22-250. IDNR found 80 deer skulls on his property but given the blood trails and way the deer died it was not a humane death.
SPQR Says:
February 1st, 2011 at 10:49 am
I’d never say it couldn’t. And the average hunter is not the shot that Robert is.
Lyle Says:
February 1st, 2011 at 6:36 pm
I had a conversation with a feral hog hunter in TX the other day. He uses .223 almost exclusively, and some of those hogs are heavier than that deer. Says it works great. He now has a dot sighted AK too.

But I don’t understand this;
“The dot sight at 125 yards was about at the functional limit…”

I dunno. I’ve used dot sights beyond 400 yards and though they were grand. Maybe he meant that 125 yds is his hunting limit without magnification. I could understand that.

.223 is illegal for big game in ID and WA, where I think the minimum is 25 cal. Still, I’ve seen a completely blown heart (all chambers wide open) from a 50 cal lead ball, and the deer ran 40-ish yards. Uphill. Something larger than a .223 right through both shoulders like that, with a good hunting bullet, and she’d likely not go anywhere.

Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.

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