Thread: 223 on deer

My son and I went for a wander in a popular McKenzie Basin river valley last Friday evening and were pretty fortunate to shoot a Fallow yearling not long after leaving our vehicle. We continued on up the valley, and my son Peter spotted a Red hind lying under some bushes on the edge of a small clearing. He shot her as well with a .223 (Hornady Match 73gr ELD-M).

Imagine our disappointment to find she had been shot through both front legs just below her knees quite some time earlier (more than a week) and had just been left there to die.