Thread: .223 go-to guns?

I use a 223 exclusively during spring and summer.
Mainly fringe, creek or alluvial river bed hunting.
Change to a slightly heavier cal in fall winter.
I use a 62 gr scirocco now but have shot a fair few with the cheap as chips hornady 55gr sp.
Each to their own. Went to a light cal meat shooting where neck and head shots paid more money. Haven't changed since.
I have easily taken more animals with a 22 cal than anything else.
I have a 22 K Hornet that I use a lot nowadays. Starting to talley a few with that as well using a 45gr bullet at similar speeds to that I run a 223.

I have missed shitloads but I know for a fact I have only ever wounded one animal and lost it with a 223 in 25 yrs of using one.
I jaw shot it at around 10m thru some toi toi. Still bothers me to this day that I never caught up with that animal.
But I have had way more mishaps with other calibers.


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