Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by Ground Control

Thanks for that .
At the moment I want to keep the internal magazine, but it’s good to know that there is that option available.
I just don’t like Magazines that protrude down out of the Stock .
They always annoy me when carrying the rifle and I never shoot more than a couple or three rounds when hunting so extra capacity isn’t a requirement.
The 73 gn eldm’s should do everything I’m after and the reduced BC compared to the 75 gn eldm doesn’t worry me any because I won’t be shooting further tham 300 anyway.
I’m just chasing a heavier projectile for Game shooting, not long range target shooting.

For 300m and in, I'd just run standard 55 grain SP rounds.

If you want to do further research, hit up Google and put in ' scenarshooter 220 swift 24hourcampfire ' and ' Formidilosus 77 tmk '

The former has killed a ton of black bears with 55 grain SP's and the later loves 77 TMK's for elk out of a Tikka.

Personally would always choose a single stack AICS style mag if feeding longer than SAMMI spec rounds. Much harder to fuck up feeding them vs a double stacked floorplate.