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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Biased sampling. We aren’t hearing from the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of forum members who were eaten by bears attempting this.
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    223 Loads

    Thank you. They have always been helpful.
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    223 Loads

    Do you know what kind of reamer was used? The smith threading my barrel has a 0.125”throated .223 reamer on hand that he said was “good for 88 ELD-M”, but he didn’t specify at what COAL.
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    I was tempted to focus complaint on the cartridge assumption, but in the context of that shot placement it would have felt like correcting the grammar of someone in the middle of having a stroke.
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    aeammo dot com has 50 ct and larger boxes of Black Hills listed as in stock.
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    For all I know there could be an ongoing investigation and forthcoming report. If it reports that some .30 cal bullet was actually in there, the original poster might even update the thread with a correction. Kinda sucks though that any such correction's influence would amount to a rounding...
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Thanks for looking elsewhere. Shame to see it get secondary distribution
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    The pseudonymous OP and a Montana FWP biologist were cutting it up in the field and found an encysted polymer tip and bullet fragments that gave them the impression of being from a .224 caliber bullet. OP acknowledged that this was speculative and that a bigger gun wouldn't have helped this...
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Man, I really signaled my intent poorly. I meant that I had found a few highly negative comments referring to this thread as if it were somehow responsible for this wounded animal. Sounds stupid to me, but apparently not to anyone else offering comment. I was not seriously suspicious of someone...
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    I agree and don’t want a brigade over there. It’s wild to get used to the meticulous stuff posted here and contrast it with what the truth would be if everyone got to vote on it.
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Why you hef to be mad? I bought a tikka and now bully everyone I meet using anything bigger than a .243.
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Thanks. I wondered if that was a closer color/shape match.
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Oh, not at all. I was surprised to check back in with how important headstamps appear to be to people outside this bubble, even to people who have encountered this thread and then have it come to mind when they see an elk shot in the ass. My first thought was “why did he shoot it there?”, and...
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Yeah there’s a few of these. Though TBF it’s more calls to ban hunting generally or people arguing about whether green tipped .223 ammunition even exists
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Did any of you shoot a bull elk in the ass with a 77 TMK a few months ago and fail to recover it? Someone on tw*tter found a crippled elk with a little green plastic tip in what used to be its hip. Rokslide actually mentioned in the comments as being at fault.
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