44hunter45
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Yup.Wearing red suspenders? I bet that's the guy I referenced as a poster here...
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Yup.Wearing red suspenders? I bet that's the guy I referenced as a poster here...
Wearing red suspenders? I bet that's the guy I referenced as a poster here...
IIRC he posted here as breaksrunner.Yup.
I think him and that Swift have been pretty hard on the bears too over the years.The guy in the red suspenders handed me a photo of that buck a while on a bear hunt a few years back, along with some other photos, and some rifle slings.
I have his slings on all my rifles. Can’t beat them.The guy in the red suspenders handed me a photo of that buck on a bear hunt a few years back, along with some other photos, and some rifle slings.
Same.I have his slings on all my rifles. Can’t beat them.
Nope. But it sure opens up my "reasonable shot" selections. mtmuleyYou don’t need a .300 rum to kill stuff....
Yes, before he moved to "the northeast corner" he used to hunt everything with his .220 Swift: deer, bears, sheep, and elk. A couple of his and my other friends also killed a few buffalo with their .22-250s. Like was posted earlier, bullet placement is the key.IIRC he posted here as breaksrunner.
I think him and that Swift have been pretty hard on the bears too over the years.
I agree. It's folks like him, and their results, drove that point home to me. Something I was alluding to in my responses on this thread.Yes, before he moved to "the northeast corner" he used to hunt everything with his .220 Swift: deer, bears, sheep, and elk. A couple of his and my other friends also killed a few buffalo with their .22-250s. Like was posted earlier, bullet placement is the key.
HeckI agree. It's folks like him, and their results, drove that point home to me. Something I was alluding to in my responses on this thread.
Heck, he used a 260 Rem with a 130gr bullet in AK on a grizzly!
I still say that success is because of the man holding the rifle in this case. Not a fair comparison to a lot of hunters that would choose to use a .22 centerfire to do what he has done. I wish things here wouldn't have driven him from posting. mtmuleyHeck, he used a 260 Rem with a 130gr bullet in AK on a grizzly!
Why is he gone?I wish things here wouldn't have driven him from posting.
I have personally never shot a deer with a 22-250, I have always relied on my .270 Savage. A 22-250 is barrel burner, that round comes out hot and fast. It's a proven varmint killer and pile drives coyotes, that being said; I would not ask if you could kill a Mule Deer or a Whitetail with a 22-250 but instead ask if you should. There are a lot of factors that come into play here such as kinetic energy, terminal ballistics, and as you stated shot placement. When I shoot an animal I want to make sure that the round I use is going to do the job, that it is backed by adequate energy at impact and that the terminal ballistics (the amount of disruption to tissues, organs, and other vitals) is adequate enough that it will kill that animal with out causing a lot of suffering. Now there are bigger caliber weapons out there that can cause unnecessary suffering with poor shot placement, I won't argue that; but taking a shot at 400 yards with a 22-250 on a 180 lb. deer.....I don't know if I would take that shot. Check out Vortex Long Range Ballistics Calculator and punch in the ballistics of a 22-250, might be interesting to see the kinetic energy at 400 yards. I would also look into what a 22-250 round does upon impact; does it fragment, what the expansion is like and so on and so forth. I think this will give you the information to make your call on using a 22-250 for deer. Good Luck!