Biggest caliber you would use on whitetail?

[LoonWulf]

Id shoot them with what ever i bloody well felt like shooting them with. .22lr to .300 only real difference is how far you can shoot and where you have to hit them.

 

[gkdir]

Been shootin deer for over 50 years--almost always with a 30.30, or a 30.06. This year took a Weatherby .300 mag. for no other reason than I liked the looks of the rifle, and I wanted to shoot something different . OMG! Then to compound the mess I took my sons advice and used 165gr BT's--might as well have taken a RPG. DRT has a whole new meaning. You fellows that like to eat "right up to the hole" would have had a lot of lee way--some of the exits were 10" across. One 200# doe--completely decapitated--gone! If I do that again I think I'll just use solids--more than likely just go back to my"06". whew!

 

[Hunt480]

Using mild loads with heavy hard cast bullets from a 500 S&W or a 480/475 blows a big hole and does minimal meat damage. They will always pass all the way through. Great deer hunting guns.

 

[pwillie]

I have been using my Model 70 Weatherby 300 for over 15 years,taking whitail deer....first I have never seen a whitetail doe that weighs 200#(in the South),and next,with a neck shot and a 150 gr.Nosler,never had any meat spoilage! I mostly shoot the doe's in the head.

 

[brandon_mcg]

i stick with the .308 as it always gives me a quick and humane kill. no reason to go any bigger.

 

[handgunner308]

i would use all the cartriges... even a 50bmg! well not a high powered 50bmg round that has a big exspansion, seen vids of deer hit with 50bmg rounds and eh they looked like a normal wounds... until i saw one shot with what must have been a high power expanding round wich hit a quartering twards small buck the entry was normal, the exit took out a entire wall of ribs on the left side everything was gone!
our DE .50ae leaves an entry and exit hole wich looks the same as my smoothbore shotgun with rifled slugs... nothing is over kill, the more over the less pain and suffering the animal has to go through right?
for the meat hunters all i have to say is, SHOT PLACEMENT, not much is lost if you can double lung a deer through the ribs theres not alot of meat there so you can see my point.

 

[clancy12]

30-378 weatherby magnum. At 300 yards it has more power than a 30-06 at the muzzle. Only downside is you have to walk a realllllllly long way to retrieve your deer. (Due to the long shots, not from a lack of killing power.)

 

[mordechaianiliewicz]

800mm (that's a 31.5") gun.... doubt there would be much meat... not to mention reproducing WWII-era artillery.