PPHA Forums

Predator Hunting => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: uncle buck on April 19, 2011, 01:26:27 AM

Title: The 223 Rem and the deer bullet
Post by: uncle buck on April 19, 2011, 01:26:27 AM

http://www.winchester.com/Products/rifle-ammunition/super-x/power-point/Pages/X223R2.aspx



Check your other .224 caliber guns to see if you can get the 64 grain factory deer bullet for it.

Title: Re: The 223 Rem and the deer bullet
Post by: jeremybrua on April 23, 2011, 11:42:42 AM

64gr bullet is to heavy for most factory barrels.  most 223 have a 1-14 which limits you to 52gr.

Title: Re: The 223 Rem and the deer bullet
Post by: savage05 on April 23, 2011, 03:37:58 PM

Well to be honest you really need to try the heavy/longer bullets to find out if your particular rifle will stabilize them. I had a 1-9" that would do just find on 77 gr. bullets and going the books there is no way that should have been the case. I did shoot a 1-12" Weatherby that would send those Matchkings sideways on paper at 50yds and I have a 1-7" that blows up 35 gr Vmaxs a foot outside of the barrel.

Title: Re: The 223 Rem and the deer bullet
Post by: uncle buck on April 23, 2011, 06:58:27 PM

That's why I like Thompson Center .224 guns... Everyone has a 1 in 12 twist..  Grant you it's not the 1 : 9 but it sure is better then the 1:14 for heavier bullets..Just keep this in the back of your mind someday of why it might be better to own a T/C 22250 instead of a Remington. T/C  22250 1:12  Remington 22250 1:14.

Title: Re: The 223 Rem and the deer bullet
Post by: jeremybrua on April 23, 2011, 07:06:53 PM

my browning medalion 22-250 with 1-14 has killed 8 deer with 52gr hp.  never needed a second shot but if i did i could get it off before the game was out of sight.  i will take shot placement over weight anyday.

Title: Re: The 223 Rem and the deer bullet
Post by: uncle buck on April 23, 2011, 07:44:42 PM

Again a good thing about this site this is your opinion on this.... Me I remember hunting with a person in 1976..He killed a buck with a 6 MM and a varmint HP... The bullet went in and blew up inside but it did not exit... It killed the buck.  When I saw that there was not exit wound I swore I'd never hunt a deer with a varmint bullet... I to this day even use a Nosler 95 grain Partition bullet in my 243.  I have killed deer with it quite a few times...I'm not messing with varmint bullets for deer that all there is to it..

Title: Re: The 223 Rem and the deer bullet
Post by: prdtrkilr223 on April 29, 2011, 10:19:25 PM

I went out calling for yotes early one evening during deer season this year. It was about 45 minutes till dark an I started using a fawn distress. About 2 minutes into it a piebald doe I had been hunting all season came runnin down the mountain and stopped at the edge of the field. Range was 347 yards according to my rangefinder. Seeing as how I had a doe tag, I made the appropriate adjustments on my scope, settled into a nice prone position and set the crosshairs on her white neck patch and touched off the shot. She fell like she was hit with a truck. I was shooting a rem 700 in .223 with 55 gr soft point ammo. Its all in knowing your gun and how far that bullet has to go.