Varminterror
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For 300 yard deer hunting, light and fast bullets are where I live. I’ve killed deer with cartridges between 223rem up to 458 Lott, lightning fast lasers to rainbow trajectory punkin’ chunkers, 800fps to 3400… For fast anchoring and swift death, the pinnacle for me is something in the realm of 6 ARC, 243win, 257bob, etc. 100-120grn bullets at 2700-3000fps. Let them punch through to midline and explode like a grenade, and deer crumple fast. Lose a half dollar sized circle of meat on the inbound side and the same on the outbound.
Lots of other rounds work, but almost everything else comes with more recoil and more powder burn, and many popular cartridges don’t do the job as effectively.
Lots of other rounds work, but almost everything else comes with more recoil and more powder burn, and many popular cartridges don’t do the job as effectively.