Bullet Caliber – Whats best for Deer Hunting?

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 7/17/2018 | B Smith

[ManHunter]

The one that 1) you’re comfortable with; 2A) suits your hunting style; and 3) is adequate for the terrain in which you’re hunting.

I use a 7mm STW out West for Coues and mule deer, a .45-70 for still hunting here in PA or a .270 or .260 for hunting from a stand when I can see out to 200-300 yards.

[headstamp 2]

280 Remington, load it any way you like.

[buffaloguy]

In Texas, we are trying to get the legislature to make stingers legal for deer hunting. Don’t even have to butcher them, just bring a paper plate and a fork, it is already cooked up.

[redgolum]

For me. 7mm Rem Mag, followed by my trusty .308.

I recently bought a .45-70 for Iowa, and have great expectations for that

[Pollster1]

Who needs a caliber?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The author is also deficient in basic grammar skills.

That's SOP for w1n1 threads.

[vortec94]

Agree, .22 and a flashlight

[Flintlock]

.54 caliber (.535) patched cast round lead ball over about 90-95 grains of FF black powder.

.............works for me.

[clee1]

Never shot a .243

Have killed numerous deer with the rest AND a 16ga shotgun, both with slugs and 00 buckshot.

Personally prefer the .270 in the open and 00 buck 16 ga in the woods/marshes. I like the .270 best because I get the most accurate shot placement with that rifle/scope combo.

[bruoz]

What ever the blue helmets are using.

[JBW1949]

In eastern North Carolina you have to hunt from a stand at least 15 feet off the ground before you can use a rifle, I believe...

[JBW1949]

Got a nice buck in Middle Tennessee at 425 yards with my 7MM Mag. over a soybean field...

Got quite a few deer in East Tennessee with my .35 Marlin...Closest was about 7 yards...

[Red Badger]

That law sounds just plain goofy to me..................

[redgolum]

In Nebraska, I shoot a lot of bean field deer.

400+ yards means the 7mm gets the nod

[butlerweave]

Oh MY , we don’t have Deer

[JBW1949]

It’s so flat with many, many farm fields that a hunter on the ground firing a rifle can have the round travel a gret distance (toward a farm house etc)...Hunting with a shotgun slug limits the distance and hunting from above ground means you are aiming toward the ground in case you miss, which EVERY hunter has done before at one time or other...

[JBW1949]

Where are you located, Red Badger???

[JBW1949]

Oh MY , we don’t have Deer

Where are you???????????????

[OKSooner]

Yes... all of them at “American Shooting Journal”.

[Red Badger]

NW Florida Panhandle..............