Originally Posted By: Fuzzy_Bunny
Originally Posted By: Red_Monkey
In the Alabama woods when ya hit'em in the right place with anything from a .223 and up and they are DEAD! If I'm wrong then prove it but you know I'm not. Deer are thin skinned, light boned game animals not 'dangerous' game with heavy muscle and heavy bones like a mature bull elk or the big bears.
But, if shooting a BIG magnum caliber makes you feel more macho then by all means load that heavy, hard kicking, muzzle blasting mother up and fire away!! That way you can tell your buddies you shoot a "fill in the blank" magnum when you deer hunt.
Dead is dead when ya hit'em in the right place, no horsechitt!!


What about GA or MS woods? Can I shoot one in MT? and since you are the expert, just how far am i shooting in these here AL woods? What kind of cover am I hunting in? What kind of exit wound am I getting with my .223 when I shoot one in the boiler room at 400 yards, and he runs 75 yards into a head high clear cut and dies? And why wouldn't I want to shoot a rifle that pushes the exact same bullet as a non-magnum, faster, flatter, with more energy, and lest wind drift?

If you hit any animal in the right place, and from a close enough distance, with anything from a .223 and up you will kill it. Elk and big bears even. No horeschit!!!

I shoot a magnum, and will continue to do so, but I have to admit that I am pretty macho, and make a distinct metal clinking sound as I walk.



I'm going to agree with monkey as I'm taking his post at face value.....in the "woods". In the woods to me means just that, a shot over 100yds would be very rare. Woods to me , does not mean what used to be woods and is now a pine clear cut in LA. A clear cut you can shoot 400 yards ain't woods. But if ya wanta tote a .50 cal in the "woods" have at it.


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