How is the 223 for deer hunting in AB doing?

hoobdydyadad said:
in theory a perfect heart shot might produce less bleeding than an arterial shot by destroying the pump while the heart would go for minutes being shot elsewhere.
a scoped 223 is very accurate and deer engagment distances are usually very short in the woods (<50y). just get better.
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In well over 55 years of hunting and competitive shooting I have met no one who shoots deer at 50 yards in the head on a regular basis .
I am quite proficient at killing animals with chest shots , bit if you think you can do better with a head shots fill your boots .
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AlbertaJohn said:
But yet you can't use a rifle larger than a .270
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Huh what you on aboot. Anything south of Toronto basically you can’t use a rifle for big game anyway and that’s where that caliber limit applies it’s bows only expect a few controlled hunt areas. Anywhere above that you can use basically what ya want the regulations say the areas right there in them.
 
AlbertaJohn said:
What I'm "aboot" is that it's a stupid law.
A 270 is a go but a little 7.62x39 or a 44 mag lever gun is verboten. :LOL:
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Take a look at say my county of Essex to me it makes perfect sense densely populated my county alone has 500,000 people. I forget sometimes that Alberta has like 5 people and that southern Ontario is the industrial back bone. We even have our own oil here.

The use of smaller calibers(Essex county for instance is limited to .243/6mm) that lose energy much faster or dissipate their energy very quickly makes perfect sense.
 
antiqueguy said:
Take a look at say my county of Essex to me it makes perfect sense densely populated my county alone has 500,000 people. I forget sometimes that Alberta has like 5 people and that southern Ontario is the industrial back bone. We even have our own oil here.

The use of smaller calibers(Essex county for instance is limited to .243/6mm) that lose energy much faster or dissipate their energy very quickly makes perfect sense.
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5 people???

OK Bud. :LOL:
 
Max Owner said:
Haven’t hunted in Ontario in a bazillion years.

But 243 was the minimum caliber allowed. Unless it was based on zones.
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Everything basically south of Toronto is stuck with bows and shotguns for big game .270 and under for small game a furbearer my county is .243 and under idk about other county’s. Theirs no big game seasons for rifles in the counties listed with a max caliber. North of that magic line theirs no limit could use a .700 nitro for coyotes if you wanted.
 
cath8r said:
This law was implemented expressly to stop farm boys returning from war with their .303s from using them to shoot fox's, jacks and coyotes and skipping fmj's across our flat terrain wheat fields. Essentially Toronto and north bigger than .275 is good to go.
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Sounds like another tyrannical law to oppress impoverished Caucasians and a host of other racially marginalized groups. Heard they did the same thing with 22 centerfires in other oil rich regions of the country
 
leveractionjunkie said:
Sounds like another tyrannical law to oppress impoverished Caucasians and a host of other racially marginalized groups. Heard they did the same thing with 22 centerfires in other oil rich regions of the country
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More like laws to stop rounds from entering houses and injuring people after they sailed through the intended target. I can see why most areas would not allow certain calibers from being used to hunt big game. Especially when laws were written when things like bullet construction was marginal. Sounds to me like they didn’t want game to suffer from misplaced shots or poorly constructed projectiles. I really don’t understand your ranting on about certain groups being pushed away from hunting atleast here in Ontario it’s pretty open to everyone.

Southern Ontario is pretty densely populated that’s why we have the laws we do can’t go a kilometre down any county road without seeing a house. A fast moving small caliber round will break up much faster then even a pistol round. Don’t believe me fill a bucket with sand or even dirt from the ground a pistol round will put penetrate even a FMJ from a modern rifle.
 
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cath8r said:
This law was implemented expressly to stop farm boys returning from war with their .303s from using them to shoot fox's, jacks and coyotes and skipping fmj's across our flat terrain wheat fields. Essentially Toronto and north bigger than .275 is good to go.
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Do you have a source to say expressly to prevent fmj's and not as a Roadblock to people using cheap guns?
 
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