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100%. There would be very few scenarios where a 223 outperforms a 243. Perhaps if you were using a hard bullet in the 243 and it was pencilling through with minimal damage. Otherwise, not a chance

I’m with @vietnamcam on this one: a fussy tikka 223? Is there such a thing? But sounds like your 6.5 is doing the business, keep up the good work

Yeah when I had a 223 I shot the odd deer at over 200. A mate also used my rifle to tip over a couple of small red yearlings at about 250; they both ran but expired pretty quickly with lung shots....

+1. The 223 is pretty effective when used sensibly, especially on fallow. But as soon as you run into a big red hind or spiker that’s spent most of its life gorging itself on good farm tucker, and...

Agree 100%. 6.5 is the sweet spot for great ballistics, low recoil, and moderate barrel wear. A 6.5x55, 260, Creedmoor, or 6.5x47 would all be very high on my list if I had to own just one rifle.
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I used a 1/8 twist 223 on deer pretty regularly for 9 years, generally with controlled expansion monolithics. I had a couple of heavier calibers at the time but I normally chose the 223, as I’m a...