No such thing as "Overkill"?

[prosper]

^ Agreed. More IS better, if only for the insurance factor.

A 223 might be CAPABLE of killing deer with a perfect shot, but what happens of there's a gust of wind, or the deer bolts at the last second, or your scope's zero has slipped a bit when you banged it against a tree earlier? A larger calibre can easily penetrate bone, shoulder/whatever, or make a texas heart shot.

 

[TimC]

Well what was a quiet bank holiday weekend fish for fun has paid off, I am actually with you guys on this, dead is dead, it cant be killed twice. The local police here who license firearms showed a huge lack of understanding when I asked to vary my FAC to buy a 762x39 for Roe, a small deer. 762, thats overkill and you have one already. I said completely different round for smaller deer and in no way could be considered overkill, in fact factory ammo fails to make the minimum muzzle energy llimit in the Deer Act! So I bought dies before the rifle! Everything has its place!