Hi all,
In a recent post a certain member of this forum said that a .308 was way too much gun for roe deer stalking. So i thought about this for a while and decided to put forward soome pictures that show meat damage, the second most import thing about bullet choice when shooting to fill the freezer. The first set of pictures show a pair of roe does shot with a .22-250 with 55grn bullets, I belive that when he shot this load through a chronograph they travelled at over 3000fps.
The above picture shows the entry hole from a base of neck shot taken at 113m. The damage to the carcass is obvious (the jelly like blood has been boiled)
This is the exit wound from the above shot
The photos below are taken from http://www.snipershide.com as I personnaly couldnt find any. I wouldnt think they would touch 2750fps. The shot was a broad side chest shot at around 100m . The beast is much larger than a roe, but the meat damage would be the same.
The above picture shows the entry wound.
And the exit wound.
I admit that one wouldnt use a .22-250 on anything larger than roe in the UK, but many people do use a .308 for all six species in the UK. I dont think that its a particular argument between 308 and 22-250, more between small and fast bullets and larger slow ones. There is also the very well respected middle ground 6.5x55 SWED and so on
I hope this is interesting to some. And I leave you to draw your own conclusions
Sam
In a recent post a certain member of this forum said that a .308 was way too much gun for roe deer stalking. So i thought about this for a while and decided to put forward soome pictures that show meat damage, the second most import thing about bullet choice when shooting to fill the freezer. The first set of pictures show a pair of roe does shot with a .22-250 with 55grn bullets, I belive that when he shot this load through a chronograph they travelled at over 3000fps.
The above picture shows the entry hole from a base of neck shot taken at 113m. The damage to the carcass is obvious (the jelly like blood has been boiled)
This is the exit wound from the above shot
The photos below are taken from http://www.snipershide.com as I personnaly couldnt find any. I wouldnt think they would touch 2750fps. The shot was a broad side chest shot at around 100m . The beast is much larger than a roe, but the meat damage would be the same.
The above picture shows the entry wound.
And the exit wound.
I admit that one wouldnt use a .22-250 on anything larger than roe in the UK, but many people do use a .308 for all six species in the UK. I dont think that its a particular argument between 308 and 22-250, more between small and fast bullets and larger slow ones. There is also the very well respected middle ground 6.5x55 SWED and so on
I hope this is interesting to some. And I leave you to draw your own conclusions
Sam
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