What is YOUR Small Caliber on Big Game Experience?

[mt terry d]

Update from posts #65 & 66

Buck 440 yards 223 Ackley Improved
1 shot DRT

Bull 260 (?) yards. (Precise distance in the 223 kills everything thread)
2 or 3 shots just because I don't like hitting bone and ruining meat and shoot elk till down

Cow 305(?) yards
dead on first shot but see above)

 

[bpitcher]

6 animals this year since switching to the 6CM. All between 50 and 310 yards. 4 bang flops and the remaining 2 ran 25-30 yards before expiring.

I have zero doubt as to the terminal effectiveness of that cartridge and caliber. Hopefully my son can add a couple to the pile as well.

 

[Hardly_Hangin]

Im 9 for 9 on white tails with my 223 shooting either 75gr eldm, 77tmk, and 75gr gold dots.

One drt
Most ran/stumbled less than 20 yards
1 ran 75ish yards

All my autopsies and related posts in the 223 thread

 

[Te Hopo]

You hunting rouge cattle?! If so that’s awesome!

Not often, but I have occasionally come across them while culling goats and deer.
Just gotta find a solid rest, pick a good aim point on the head and have an escape route planned
I've only shot a few cows, I leave the bulls alone.

 

[mt terry d]

Rouge cattle.

You mean Red Angus?