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General Categories => Kids and Guns => Topic started by: ILoveCats on November 21, 2015, 02:05:24 PM

Title: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: ILoveCats on November 21, 2015, 02:05:24 PM

Yes it is! :D  Not bad for a first deer with the AR he built himself.

Title: Re: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: RobertH on November 21, 2015, 04:40:30 PM

nice!

Title: Re: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: Mntnman on November 21, 2015, 04:53:04 PM

Nice deer! .223 is good deer medicine.

Title: Re: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: on the fritz on November 21, 2015, 08:07:58 PM

Sweet! That's a pretty nice buck.  And with s rifle he assembled himself_...?  This is great on so many levels. 

Tell him congrats.

Title: Re: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: Wildgoose on November 21, 2015, 08:42:39 PM

Wow, those Muleys are awesome critters! Shot with a his own home built rifle to ice the cake. Excellent job all the way. 8)

Title: Re: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: GreyGeek on November 22, 2015, 08:59:14 AM

While I was in college at Abilene, TX, the news paper had a story about the largest deer harvested in Taylor county. It included a photo showing the hunter standing, with his rifle in his left hand and holding a deer up in the air with his right hand. I've seen dogs that were bigger.  This was back I the mid 1960's and the region was in a drought.

Title: Re: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: ILoveCats on November 22, 2015, 09:39:32 AM

Quote from: GreyGeek on November 22, 2015, 08:59:14 AM

While I was in college at Abilene, TX, the news paper had a story about the largest deer harvested in Taylor county. It included a photo showing the hunter standing, with his rifle in his left hand and holding a deer up in the air with his right hand. I've seen dogs that were bigger.  This was back I the mid 1960's and the region was in a drought.

That's funny.  It took two guys and a 12 year-old to get this one into the pickup bed.

Title: Re: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: Hardwood83 on November 25, 2015, 07:35:37 PM

Beautiful Deer, what a great experience. Well done all-around.

Title: Re: .223 enough for a big mule deer?
Post by: JimP on July 05, 2016, 11:08:49 PM

.223 enough for big  mule deer?   Maybe..... with good bullet placement and the right bullet and load, certainly.

If the shooter can handle them, there are better choices.