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@300wsm for life - Waters is what you're looking for:
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@Steelisreal thanks.
Hey Gimp are you still using the 80g ELDMs
The diminutive culler in the NW Ruahines called Garry Sutton used to use a trebly but was forced to use a 270 because he said he lost too many deer and they got paid for by tails. Cullers in thne Ruahines were not given the choice of the 243. Either the 222, 270 or 308. Jim Warrren bought his own ammo to use a 243. Chris Satherley used a 222 and his sad tale of shooting himself in the foot is detailed in Holdens book. The distance Satherley had to crawl is hard to imagine if you have never been over the track. As Holden said it was a testament to his fitness.
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@TeRei do you remember which book that’s in ?
https://www.trademe.co.nz/sports/hun...3349454424.htm
Good little 223 package for someone
223 at 30 yards tonight. 69 grn targex.
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In neck and out shoulder. There was a bit of bullet in the back leg too. Don’t know what that was about.
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229 yds 69 grn Targex. Lung shot. Wobbled around for 20 seconds and then came bowling down the slip.
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Hornady 55 SP on a fallow at around 100 yards found under the skin on the opposite side.
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Sika shot yesterday at 100m with a 64gr Speer gold dot, animal quartering towards, plenty of damage taking out the heart, some lung and liver coming to rest in the gut and expanded very well.
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@Tahr, just a box of factory ammo Giles had left. Grouped just under an inch in the howa. Have some 60gr TMK and 68gr bthp to try next.
I've had a really good run with the Buffalo River 55gr Sierra Game Kings. The Federal 223 Power-Shok 64gr shoot exactly 1" lower than the buffalo at 100m which is handy!
This is one from the opposite shoulder of a fallow yearling at 346m (used a rangefinder). it held together really well Usually I wouldn't shoot that far with the 223 but had a perfect rest (used a red deer spiker on the front of the bike as a rest !). it was at the same elevation as I was shooting, no wind and a yearling.
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Shot this tonight with a 55 grn Sierra Game King. 230 yards.
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This is the entry side. Found the mushroomed projectile in the off shoulder under the skin.
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55 Sierra from above Fallow.
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All about shot placement and choosing when to take the shot or let them go... just like any cartridge really...
My tikka .223 is a 1/2moa shooter
I've shot a couple of deer with the .223 77gr lapua scenars hpbt and a heap of goats.
I only head/neck shoot fallow to not waste meat, I carry them out whole and it also makes skinning clean as.
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Different story when public land hunting though. Higher chance body shots and boning out. Below is chest shot sika @ 60m. Not a drop of blood at entry and no exit . Luckily he died in 14meters and i didn't have to look far. Will definitely go back to carrying the 6.5 in the bush to guarantee exits and blood...
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Dad has shot a heap of deer (fallow, sika, reds, sambar) with the .222 vixen and hornady 55gr sp @3180fps over the years.
90% neck or headshots as we were selling the deer (higher price for neck/head shot animals) and also because the 55gr SP bruise the whole front end with crease shots!
Just a tiny sample of some more recently shot.
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The below was shot the other day with the new .222 barrel and 50gr vmax (fiocchi factory- just getting more cases to load in the new barrel).
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Shot placement with the 80s is more or less whack it anywhere in the shoulder, anywhere out to 300m+
One of 4 the other weekend 200-300m
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This evening. 52 grn ELDM work too. Neck shot @ 177 yards.
3,300fps so it would have stung a bit.
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well here is as good of place as any to ask....
I have some hornady 60grn spire points and some 63grn semi point sierras...both will work in 22-250 this Im aware of...
is there any real world gain over a 55grn pill in the .223 if I used them in that instead....Im more than happy with how the few 50grn ttsx I have left are working on bigger stuff...but you know,would these be good too??? I assume they will stabilise well in 1;12 at 223 speeds.
69grn Targex last week. 150 yds.
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65gr Gameking after punching through a red spiker. In through ribs, liver, lungs, recovered under the offside. 300m bang on.
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Wasn't emphatic. Should have hit further forward but wind carried it back. No exit so very little blood. Lifted its head up as I got to within 50m and took another to the back of the head.
55gn PMC gold. $20 for 20. Go alright in a short 16inch barrel. Have some sierra 1365s load developed, just using the last of my box ammo
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