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We usually use 69gr tmk’s. I’ve found with good shot placement they enter, frag, deposit all their energy in the vitals and 90% of the ones I’ve shot all drop. Longest I’ve had one run was 50 yards. I keep shots with a 223 under 200 yards. Just for reference here’s a small doe my son shot through the neck with a 50 gr vmax at 100 yards. Straight through the spine. Heck of an exit wound.
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Sure they will work. There are a ton of variables involved.
I prefer to use a higher powered round to allow for a higher margin of error to ensure an ethical kill.
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I have a Buddy and all his friends use 22-250 or .223 for small Coues Deer in AZ. A 243 would be the smallest I would try, but many a folk have knocked down deer with the smaller pills. I thought our laws were greater than .22 cal, which can be interpreted differently.
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Have killed several smallish Texas Whitetails with the 5.56. We use the Winchester 64 grain Power Point. Cheap, readily available, does the work- have never lost an animal. We shoot them moderately close though- 100 yards or less typically and often out of blinds with good accuracy etc....