Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by doinit

At what point in time was that Micky Duck? .222,308 and .270 were the main flavours and on the odd occasion certain guys were supplied .243. that list was a definite on the Thar blocks. Although the majority of hunters on the Thar including myself carried .222's. I'm talking mid 60's-late 70's.

Greetings All,
At one point NZFS adopted .270 Win as their standard animal control cartridge, mid 1970's I think. CAC made head stamped ammo for them. This was all written up in the hunting mags at the time. I found two discarded NZFS head stamped cases on the range, both expanded by egregious over loads. Whether these were factory or hand loads I don't know. Either is possible knowing CAC's later problems.
Regards Grandpamac.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
At one point NZFS adopted .270 Win as their standard animal control cartridge, mid 1970's I think. CAC made head stamped ammo for them. This was all written up in the hunting mags at the time. I found two discarded NZFS head stamped cases on the range, both expanded by egregious over loads. Whether these were factory or hand loads I don't know. Either is possible knowing CAC's later problems.
Regards Grandpamac.

Gidday there Grandpamac, Yeah the .270 was supplied along with .308 at that time but .222 was used rather than the bigger calibers although one of my bosses grabbed a .270 that was on offer at the time and he was not culling,rather an office type.
The Forest Service offered the Thar hunters in my area brand new CF2,s in .270. Those things were far too heavy and bloody noisey plus the weight of ammo, hence the .222's being far more popular. When I worked in the Marlborough district They offered new Sako vixens in .222. Cullers moved around a lot from one district to another and at the end of the day the .222 was still very popular regardless of animal size.
cheers

My apologies NewbieZAR for getting side tracked on certain subjects I find my bleating can sort of keep on keeping on eh.

Originally Posted by doinit

My apologies NewbieZAR for getting side tracked on certain subjects I find my bleating can sort of keep on keeping on eh.

you bleat away old chap...youve done the hard yards and shot more animals than most of us will ever get sights on....the years of REAL experience can not be discounted....you KNOW and us younger folk just think we know.
you will have forgotton more than a lot of us will ever learn.