Help me choose... 223 or 7mm RM

[Speaks]

What range are you comfortable shooting? I would be fine with 223 within its reasonable range limits. That said I spun a 6 creed barrel on to my 7rm and feel a lot better about that than either 223 or 7rm as an elk gun.

That said I never planned on my 223 being my main deer gun. But I shoot it 20x all my other rifles combined and that outweighs all other considerations for what I grab when walking out the door. Though I am just not going to get shots past 400 yards anyway (most being inside 250) so 223 is not any kind of limitation.

 

[KurtR]

This argument baffles me. I want the biggest caliber I can possibly handle to inflict the most trauma in the fastest amount of time possible. Damn the recoil, damn the cost of the round. I want that bastard dead NOW. I want his chest pushing out blood like a sump pump.

I’ve caused and seen the results of a 556 wound in real world applications. It absolutely would NOT be my first choice to bring down an animal that is damn near a thousand pounds. Can it be done? Sure, I suspect so. But it isn’t my idea of ethical hunting.

Thats why bullet choice matters. 55 grain green tip isnt a 77 tmk.