I shot a doe on our backyard corn pile the other morning. Corn pile is 80 yards from our back door and the kids saw her and wanted me to shoot her so she got shot. Cheap little Stevens model 200 223 using a 55 grain soft point bullet, this rifle was my crop depredation permit rifle for years and has killed ALOT.
I took 1 step out of the back door and 1 step right and hit her about an inch left of where I was aiming. She was quartered to me slightly so I sent it through her chest cavity. Lungs were a mess and her heart had a hole through it. She ran about 50 yards dumping blood everywhere, I put my mutt dog on her trail just for practice and he went straight to her. No exit, impact side shoulder was toast and offside shoulder I had to do some trimming on it. I'll continue to shoot deer with that little tiny bullet and never think twice about it. I opened a backstrap up and stuffed it with cream cheese and a roasted garlic spread last night and grilled it up. Delicious!
I took 1 step out of the back door and 1 step right and hit her about an inch left of where I was aiming. She was quartered to me slightly so I sent it through her chest cavity. Lungs were a mess and her heart had a hole through it. She ran about 50 yards dumping blood everywhere, I put my mutt dog on her trail just for practice and he went straight to her. No exit, impact side shoulder was toast and offside shoulder I had to do some trimming on it. I'll continue to shoot deer with that little tiny bullet and never think twice about it. I opened a backstrap up and stuffed it with cream cheese and a roasted garlic spread last night and grilled it up. Delicious!