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I would say that depends on how big your local deer are and how good you are with your rifle. You also need to make sure that the bullets you are shooting are heavy enough for penetration and expanding not FMJ. I've killed a couple of bucks with an accurized mini 14 ranch rifle. Both of these bucks were black tails and I neck shot them at under 75 yards . Both were one shot kills and died instantly.
I wouldn't use that caliber on big white tails or on mule deer. I wouldn't use that round on anything over 75 yards either.
With a hunting rifle you should be able to hold a 4” group at 100 yards with open sights and a 1” group at the same distance with a scope. Moist people tend to hunt with a bigger caliber than they can accurately shoot. I call it the "magnum ego disease." A bigger cannon does not take the place of practice and/or accuracy.

It Ca the .223 is legal to hunt with. I have a model 7 in 223 that I customized. The rifle is cut down for youngsters and I have started many kids shooting centerfire rounds with this gun.
Why is it that the anti gun freaks call an AR15 that shoots the .223 Rem a high powered rifle and then turn right around and say it isn't powerful enough to hunt with? Isn't it obvious to any person with a functioning brain that they don't know anything about firearms and are just talking crap?

Well in general I agree with you, but here in Nevada you never know what kind of shot you are going to get. About five years aog my buddy was standing behind me while I was scoping down on a nice buck at about 400 yards. He glanced over and saw another one about 60 yards away come out of a aspen grove. He lined that one up and whispered me into a count down. We pulled the triggers at the same moment. His 30-06 and my 7mm mag. Both did the job and with a one shot kill. I shoot 7mm mag because it is so flat. We often shoot over big canyons and up and down very steep hills. I do not want to have to calculate drop in a quick one shot type situation where I have chased some buck all day. My daughter shoots a 243 with a 100 grain Nosler partition in it. She is called the deerslayer around here. I lasered ranged one of her OSOK at 475 yards. Second deer she had killed. Took two steps and dropped - right in the boiler room.

Now another time we were on a depredation hunt on a ranch with about 40 other hunters. Magnum ego was rampant. We left.