Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by Tahr

30 wallaby and 2 upside Fallow. A good day for the .223.

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I shot these 2 with the 74 grn Targex at 3k. About 100 yards. They work pretty well - like the 73 ELDM I expect.
Have shot quite a few deer with them - loaded a few hundred for wallaby and once I had the gun sighted in for them Ive just kept plugging away. They seem just as good as the common cluster of 70-80 grn bullets people use on here.

An interesting side story is that the cocky told us to shoot the Fallow if we came across them. So I shot these first 2 and then around the next corner was another lot of about a 6 or so. I had to decide straight away what I was there for so left them and got back onto the wallaby. In the end I saw about 30 Fallow and was glad I made the decision to let them be. Meanwhile on another part of the place my mate had shot 2 Fallow as well and left the rest he saw so we were thinking the same.