Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Rifles by Wayne van Zwoll

Author:Wayne van Zwoll [Zwoll, Wayne Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3076-9
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Some hunters say the .223 isn’t suitable for deer in cover. Actually, it’s as good there as in the open. The object, when you fire, is to shoot between the branches.

Short barrel or long? Direct impingement or piston gas tube? Fixed stock or adjustable? ARs have proliferated to offer many options. Iron sights matter mostly to match shooters.

A deer hunter steadies his S&W M&P-15 on a BogPod tripod. Precise bullet placement is especially important with cartridges like the .223.

The use of centerfire .22s on deer didn’t start with Stoner’s rifle. Hunters prowling Pennsylvania alfalfa with converted Mausers and Lyman Super Targetspots during my youth knew woodchuck loads for the .219 Donaldson Wasp would put the skids under whitetails. These marksmen handloaded the .220 Swift with wind-worthy bullets that carried death in chalk-line arcs. One shooter in the Southwest desert found the Swift upended wild burros. The .22-250 isn’t far behind. Jerry Gebby apparently named it the “Varminter,” in the 1930s, though Charles Newton, who developed the .250 Savage, in 1912, may have necked it early on to .228. Spitting 64-grain spitzers at 3,500 fps, the .22-250 brings more energy to 100 yards than 170-grain soft-points from the .32 Special! Other fast-stepping .22s, from the .225 Winchester to the .224 Weatherby and .223 WSM, deliver the same package. To leave the .223 Remington out of this club is to dismiss the most popular .22 centerfire ever, and the one that now accounts for more game, big and small, than any other!

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