contendershooter
Well-Known Member
This is kind of a sidebar to the post I placed about allowing the single shot rifles, handguns and shotguns during muzzleloader season, as there is a lot of talk about tradition on there, so let me throw this out...
When the TWRA at the request of the varmint and coyote hunters changed the law to allow the use of any centerfire caliber for hunting deer, did any of you change or do any of you hunt with the .17, .20 or .22 caliber centerfire calibers?
I will say I took my 5.56/223 AR-15 out the year the change became legal and harvested a good 8 pointer at 65 yards using a Hornady TAP 60gr factory load, deer was quartering towards me, there was full penetration and the deer took two steps and fell. Upon field dress, there was no apparent difference if it would have been a .243 or one of the .25 caliber centerfires.
So fellow hunters, what do you think about that change allowing centerfire calibers below .24 caliber and have you hunted with something smaller than .24 since becoming legal?
When the TWRA at the request of the varmint and coyote hunters changed the law to allow the use of any centerfire caliber for hunting deer, did any of you change or do any of you hunt with the .17, .20 or .22 caliber centerfire calibers?
I will say I took my 5.56/223 AR-15 out the year the change became legal and harvested a good 8 pointer at 65 yards using a Hornady TAP 60gr factory load, deer was quartering towards me, there was full penetration and the deer took two steps and fell. Upon field dress, there was no apparent difference if it would have been a .243 or one of the .25 caliber centerfires.
So fellow hunters, what do you think about that change allowing centerfire calibers below .24 caliber and have you hunted with something smaller than .24 since becoming legal?