22-250 for deer?

[Pulpwood]

I had someone shoot 2 bucks in two hunts on my place with a .223 and we never found either one . It's was family but I told him to bring a bigger gun or stay home

 

[bigngreen]

Daughter has pile drove several good sized mule deer bucks with a 223, if you can't kill a deer quick with one a bigger gun won't fix your basic issue!! A 223 will take out both shoulder on a mule deer buck with a little partition, I've never seen one of her deer make it past 30 yards!!

 

[TX Badger]

See the recent 6.5 creed for moose thread. Everything said there also applies here.

 

[Pulpwood]

I understand but these were not partition loads and I think he shot the deer behind the shoulder like a normal deer rifle and the deer ran off without any blood trail at all . I have bow hunted for 40 yrs and I can blood trail deer fairly well but I fail to find these two . What happened this family member worked for a company that did not allow guns in Co trucks so he would leave a cheaper .223 at our deer camp so he could go hunting in the afternoon. But after these two instances I couldn't let him keep doing that . I was raised to cleanly put all game down like lightning hit them so no one suffers

 

[Pulpwood]

I taught my daughter to do the same and she started harvesting deer at 8 yrs old with a 243 that I set up for her . Being a smaller caliber I was concerned so I taught her to high shoulder shoot them and we never lost a deer , most never knew what hit them . When she out grew that rifle as I set it up , I moved her up to a 270

 

[keithcandler]

We do butcher our own deer.

Nothing in any caliber beats a well placed shot.

Impact distances are critical.

 

[Pulpwood]

Look I know 10 billion deer have been harvest in Texas with a 22-250 but most of that is 80-100 yds from a deer feeder shooting out of deer blind
Which makes for some well placed shots. But in other areas of the country where baiting isn't legal , we get bucks chasing does across a field ( they may stop and they may not) hunting in the woods where a small branch or twig can deflect a small caliber so easy

 

[KyCarl]

OK the Road Hunters kill hundreds with a .22LR So that makes it a deer rifle?
Hardly!

 

[Deleted member 48126]

I've killed 3 deer and a hog with a .223 remington. All shots within in 100 yards. For the deer I used federal deer thugs, the hog I was a moron and used FMJ. .223 had the deer not run maybe more than 30-50 yards max. Hog ran about a 100 and was still alive when I got to it. All 4 were shoulder shots.

like others have said their are better cartridges for deer, but the right bullet and the right distance it will get the job done for sure.

 

[Pulpwood]

The original post stayed a guy buying a .223 and was planning on shooting deer in the lungs with it , which i feel is inadequate

 

[Plinker147]

So a .243 shooting a 75 grain bullet is a good deer rifle, but a 22-250 shooting a 70 gr bullet isnt!!??? Hmmmm.??

 

[sturner]

Shot a pile of does and cull bucks with 22-250 over the last 10 years hadn't lost one yet
But I'm shooting a 75 gr AMax running 3348 fps
Neck or high lung shot

 

[KyCarl]

I'm trying a Barnes TTSX 100 Gr. right about 3400 FPS in my 25-06.
It should be nasty! But it's not a .22

 

[Pulpwood]

So a .243 shooting a 75 grain bullet is a good deer rifle, but a 22-250 shooting a 70 gr bullet isnt!!??? Hmmmm.??

No sir 100 grain Speer