Thread: 223 on deer

Do you switch projectiles during hunts?

Originally Posted by TeRei

Do you switch projectiles during hunts?

I went out on the quad so I had a 2nd .223 for the ride home.

Meat collecting for charity tonight. 178 yards. 60 grn Hammer.

https://youtu.be/wv7ChbAUsmE

Shot this too. It was in a QE2 covenant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw9DZOZhvhs

@stug that was where you and I went. There was one exactly where you shot your 2. I saw about 20.

I wondered if it looked a bit familiar.

A few yearling fallow with the 75gr eld-m 2920fps.
My daughters first deer hunt. She shot her first deer. A yearling hind @25m in the trees after waiting for 5min patiently for a clear shot. It was bloody neat listening to the group of fallow talking to each other unaware of us.
I neck shot the spiker @ 30m a few minutes after the first as they didn't know what was going on.


And a yearling spiker I headshot at 120m. It's skull turned to jelly but didn't break the skin.

Originally Posted by Roarless20

A few yearling fallow with the 75gr eld-m 2920fps.
My daughters first deer hunt. She shot her first deer. A yearling hind @25m in the trees after waiting for 5min patiently for a clear shot. It was bloody neat listening to the group of fallow talking to each other unaware of us.
I neck shot the spiker @ 30m a few minutes after the first as they didn't know what was going on.
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And a yearling spiker I headshot at 120m. It's skull turned to jelly but didn't break the skin.
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I here you I’m getting no exits with head shots just soup held by skin 80gn eldm

Using 69gr TMK's

Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag

Using 69gr TMK's

They are the business. So accurate and deadly.

Originally Posted by Nathan F

They are the business. So accurate and deadly.

They seem pretty good but I do have the 77gr shooting better, I was just out shooting rabbits and possums to use the last of my 69gr up and had just shot a possum when the 2 deer came running across the field heading for the cover of trees.

If I hadn't knocked the first one over on the run I wouldn't have got either animal.
Because I only ever had a part box of around 70 I never had a chance to put serious time into developing a tight accurate load hence why I was using them up so I could re-use my new Lapua brass.

The 69gr obviously do work well on deer going by Friday nights performance however I still like the 62gr Hornady SP's

thats quality Dad n Daughter time right there...awesome result.Love the makeup......thats must have photo for the 21st

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

thats quality Dad n Daughter time right there...awesome result.Love the makeup......thats must have photo for the 21st

Cheers MD. It was a great time and she is keen as to go back again. We were with my mate, his wife and their two boys.
Definitely a proud dad moment.
Nah no make up, just blacked out our faces on the photo for the open Internet.

Great stuff @Roarless20 what a great experience with your daughter, mine use to come out with me until she met boys

She was a bloody good shot too

75gr eldm on a young buck I shot @220m front of neck. Also a follow up base of head shot @220m as its body was still moving sporadically, which shouldn't happen with a high neck shot.

Gees Roarless20 whoever taught you to hunt must have been a mighty good hunter.