Actually, the .223 round is an excellent small-game round.
Actually, the .223 round is an excellent small-game round. In 1966 while teaching tank gunnery to rookie National Guard tank crews, we had four deer run across the target line at Steele's tank gunnery range at Fort Knox. We immediately got a cease fire from the safety officer in the range tower, who then began to designate fire missions....tank 66, take the one on the left, six-three, the one on the right...six niner, take the buck in the middle, seven-three, get the doe with him. On my command, one five round burst co-ax each....
Our .30 Browning coaxial machineguns were in the same .30-06 cartridge as the '03 Springfield or the M1 Garand rifle, and if full-jacketed ball ammo is likely less useful for the project at hand that day, we were firing two short bursts...and we had 10x telescopic gunner's sights....
We ate good in the messhall that night.