.223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.

[grfox92]

Yes. It did ok at high impact velocities, gets variable below 2,500fps or so.

Ok so for my son's first year big game hunting out of a gas gun......use something else?

Sent from my SM-S931U using Tapatalk

 

[Antares]

Ok so for my son's first year big game hunting out of a gas gun......use something else?

Sent from my SM-S931U using Tapatalk

I've shot a lot of deer and feral goats with the 68 BTHP. It does fine, but if I was on a hunt that was important to me, I'd switch to the 73 ELDM (those are the only .223 loads I shoot).

 

[Formidilosus]

Ok so for my son's first year big game hunting out of a gas gun......use something else?

Sent from my SM-S931U using Tapatalk

It’ll probably be fine, but I would get 77gr TMK, 73gr ELD-M, or 62gr Federal Fusion.

 

[grfox92]

I've shot a lot of deer and feral goats with the 68 BTHP. It does fine, but if I was on a hunt that was important to me, I'd switch to the 73 ELDM (those are the only .223 loads I shoot).

It will be his first deer hunt, maybe Antelope too. I want to just buy a bunch of Frontier stuff in bulk and stick with the same ammo that he will shoot all summer. If I have to switch it's not the end of the world.

Sent from my SM-S931U using Tapatalk

 

[grfox92]

It’ll probably be fine, but I would get 77gr TMK, 73gr ELD-M, or 62gr Federal Fusion.

Thank you.

Sent from my SM-S931U using Tapatalk

 

[hunting1]

How about the 75 gr ELDM?

 

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

https://rokslide.com/forums/search/10947993/?q=75&t=post&c[thread]=130488&o=relevance

Or even more specifically

https://rokslide.com/forums/search/10947996/?q=75&t=post&c[thread]=130488&c[users]=Formidilosus&o=relevance

 

[Firth]

It’ll probably be fine, but I would get 77gr TMK, 73gr ELD-M, or 62gr Federal Fusion.

How about the 75 gr ELDM?

If your question is in response to the above list, the 75 ELD-M would likely perform similarly to the 73 ELD-M but was omitted since the subject was gas guns and the 75 ELD-M won't fit in a 223 AR-15 magazine.

 

[Amathanda]

It’ll probably be fine, but I would get 77gr TMK, 73gr ELD-M, or 62gr Federal Fusion.

Form,
Why do you recommend the 62 gr Federal fusion rather than the 75 gr speer gold dot?

 

[JackButler]

Many were quite some time ago, before the tmk, so probably 100 were with the 69gr smk(non-tipped). Probably 10 with miscellaneous hornady soft points. The remainder more recently with the 77 tmk. Doesn’t make them any more dead, but the 77 tmk is much more devastating. Haven’t went past 300 yards, mostly 200 and under.

 

[Formidilosus]

Form,
Why do you recommend the 62 gr Federal fusion rather than the 75 gr speer gold dot?

Availability

 

[Amathanda]

Makes sense, thank you.

 

[kkp005]

Availability

If a fella happened to have some 75gr gold dots laying around …. Do you have a favorite 223 or 22CM load ?

 

[Formidilosus]

If a fella happened to have some 75gr gold dots laying around …. Do you have a favorite 223 or 22CM load ?

Have never reloaded them.

 

[ihookem]

Or build a 22 Creedmoor, leave the barrel clean of markings, and use 6 Creedmoor headstamped brass….

I have yet to run into the bull that can shake off a good 224” bullet.

If you did that and ran a 22 cal. with a 6 creed, the game warden would never know. I put 224 cal and my .243 bullets side by side and there is so little difference that you can hardly tell.

 

[KHntr]

If you did that and ran a 22 cal. with a 6 creed, the game warden would never know. I put 224 cal and my .243 bullets side by side and there is so little difference that you can hardly tell.

Yep. I would have done that for Alberta hunting but they saw the light and legalized 22 centerfires.