22-250 for Roe

[M ROBSON]

I've only owned my CZ550 22-250 since last summer and have used it for Roe and Foxes. I shot my first Buck with it last August and 5 this spring along with 3 foxes. I've only fired 9 shots at quarry with it that accounted for all of these, all dead on the spot with no misses or runners.

I'm no ballistics expert but the expansion of the bullet in the Bucks chest does quite a bit of damage and so far has killed them clean.

I was wondering why you can't use this calibre for Roe in England?? Is it judged to be underpowered for Roe or are your deer bigger than ours? :unsure: Does this rule also apply on the continent?

Or is it just another stupid law?

 

Mark.

[red_stag88]

The same reason the seasons are different. The people who run our country are incompetant.

[hill billy]

I do not belive the round lacks power in any manner but its just the caliber because i think if they made one .22 legal then people would ask about other .22s legal, although i was told that they were thinking about making it legal to take the smaller deer with .22 centre fires, if this is true or not i don't no.

[Frank]

Where I live in Ireland, the 22-250 is the minimum caliber you can use on all the

deer species that live here at present. Which includes: Red, Sika, Sika-red hybrids, and Fallow.

It has been the minimum caliber for years in southern Ireland, but that is about to change soon.

The wildlife department are fasing it out and the minimum is going to be .243,

with a 100 grain bullet.

[Ears]

Yes the people who run our country are incompetant. But .243 is the better for the the job and i believe the british law should remain unchanged. For deer i mean not fox

Edited May 26, 2005 by Ears

[dunganick]

the choice to make .240 the min calibre had nothing to do with balistics, but infact it was because someone in what ever bunch of wig wearing people made the law, happened to have a .240 calliber rifle, and wanted to use it to shoot deer, and thats how the law came about, nothing to do with the baslistic characteristics of the round

[Elma Fud]

There was an article in the deer magazine talking about this issue.

Yes, .22 centerfires will kill, but there is is less margin for error unlike .240 and above.

 

This information was backed up by the personnel records of one individual (the author) of the article, basically the amount of times a second shot was require to cull the animal.

For .22 centerfires a second shot was required was around 4%

For larger calibers it was about 1.5%

 

EF

[Frank]

It all depends on good bullet placement, as we all know.

I was talking to my brother in law the other day who lives in australia.

He knows a proffesional Kangaroo shooter who culls a lot of them and he told him that, in order

for him to cull roos, he has to pass a test. If he ever wounds or gut shoots a roo,

he is regarded as causing cruelty and is liable for prosecution by the goverment and have all his guns taken

off him along with a stiff fine. :*) . It is fairly strict over their when it comes to culling roos I can tell you, their is no margin for ERROR :thumbs:

The minimum caliber over their for culling roos is a .222, .223s are taking over

it seems though.

Edited May 26, 2005 by Frank