Thread: What's your pet Sika load?

Originally Posted by Scribe

I would recommend the Sako .222 softpoint 50 gr factory load. This combination has a history and a track record that prove its effectiveness.

Out of a sako vixen that the New Zealand Forest Service supplied at cost... $66... per unit.... they were deadly against sika.

Many thousands fell to this combination wielded by the cullers in the Kaweka Kaimanawa blocks.

When it comes to putting a bullet through the head of a sika at 50 metres looking at you over the top of a Mingimini bush ready to jump, nothing is quicker at getting that accurate shot away from the shoulder except maybe the 12g with buckshot.

I have used buckshot on sika but you end up shooting at movement and one day you will end up rolling up some armed tramper or another hunter.

Couldn't what you have just described be achieved just as effectively with any medium calibre? From 223 up to, say, 30.06? The fact that the NZFS used or supplied 222/223 really means nothing in todays context. To me, its just nostalgia.