Thread: 223 on deer

Great photos @gimp.

Looks stable and a bit steadier than sitting on your arse and resting on your knees!

Was that also a heart shot? It looks like it would have been

Originally Posted by gimp

Was that also a heart shot? It looks like it would have been

Yes. As you have observed, they are runners.

Yes and I grew up around chap who spent a few years in a camp called Changi....had grandfather on Crete etc. But making comment like that was bad form,bad taste. War makes monsters of us all. We are now generations past that horror.we don't ever need to forget it but no need to pick scab of festering wound either. Struck like lightening would be much more appropriate,don't you think??

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Yes and I grew up around chap who spent a few years in a camp called Changi....had grandfather on Crete etc. But making comment like that was bad form,bad taste. War makes monsters of us all. We are now generations past that horror.we don't ever need to forget it but no need to pick scab of festering wound either. Struck like lightening would be much more appropriate,don't you think??

I got struck by lightening a few weeks back, it was an experience thats for sure!

I think lightning should consider itself fortunate to be compared to the effects of a .224" 80g ELDM, personally

Those 80ELDM have a very high opinion of themselves already without them hearing stuff about being compared to lightening.

Ill stress, this is observation, and not intended in a negative manor. I use a similar shot choice, and have done for 20+ years. I just dont get the running. Except for the last shot I fired which was an approx 300gr projectile at low velocity.

The wound channel looked remarkably similar however.

Originally Posted by whanahuia

Ill stress, this is observation, and not intended in a negative manor. I use a similar shot choice, and have done for 20+ years. I just dont get the running. Except for the last shot I fired which was an approx 300gr projectile at low velocity.

The wound channel looked remarkably similar however.

Nice try. But you are not part of the gang unless you use “lightning” and “.223” in the same sentence.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Nice try. But you are not part of the gang unless you use “lightning” and “.223” in the same sentence.

How about.... "when I finished lightening my 270 it was a 223."


(and no longer the worst caliber known to man)

Originally Posted by Tahr

Nice try. But you are not part of the gang unless you use “lightning” and “.223” in the same sentence.

This 223 thread has been en-lightening?

The 223 might hit like lightening, but the 270 hits like an earthquake?

Originally Posted by whanahuia

This 223 thread has been en-lightening?

The 223 might hit like lightening, but the 270 hits like an earthquake?

But don't mention the war.

Faarrkkk - finally I get in on this thread, My Dad was in "J Force" and visited both the A bombed cities. It made a big impression on him. AND I saw him get struck by lightning one time when I was a kid, it flowed down over his umbrella and through the steel d9g kennels (he was putting the dogs away). The only casualty was the umbrella!

My partners german. The only time I mention the war is when I ask her what she's sinking?