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22 Creedmoor on whitetail...in a pinch.
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<blockquote data-quote="GunsnFitness" data-source="post: 1822532" data-attributes="member: 104411"><p>I'm personally a fan of the higher velo monos on deer out of the .22 calibers with distance of the shot as the deciding factor of if I'm going to shoot or not.</p><p></p><p>I had the pleasure of having two doe tags this past fall and I had just finished a 24" .224 Valkyrie... so I had to try it out. I didn't have time to do a hand load work up so I just purchased a box of the 78g TSX load by federal, dialed in the rifle and chronoed it... I was receiving 2873 fps. The girlfriend and I set out and finished the same day.</p><p></p><p>Her shot 180 yards, Between the ribs behind the front shoulder on entry and dead centered a rib on exit. 20 yards and tipped over.</p><p>[ATTACH]172973[/ATTACH]</p><p>minimal blood shot on the entry, but the exit was worse, I assume due to the bone impact.</p><p></p><p>My shot was 200 yards. I was trying to recover a bullet because I wanted to see what it looked like and to test the Valkyries penetration. Quartering away, behind the front shoulder hoping it would lodge in the offside shoulder.</p><p>[ATTACH]172972[/ATTACH]</p><p>Unfortunately for me, it didn't hit any bones and was still an easy pass through. Stoned her. She didn't take a step.</p><p></p><p>So tying back to the thread and OP in my experience and personal opinion, the .22 Creed loaded with monos would be a an adequate deer gun in a pinch. The velo difference between it and the Valkyrie would bump it up and make it effective on bigger bodied deer/bucks and extend the effective killing range over the Valkyrie which I learned had no problem out to 200.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GunsnFitness, post: 1822532, member: 104411"] I’m personally a fan of the higher velo monos on deer out of the .22 calibers with distance of the shot as the deciding factor of if I’m going to shoot or not. I had the pleasure of having two doe tags this past fall and I had just finished a 24” .224 Valkyrie... so I had to try it out. I didn’t have time to do a hand load work up so I just purchased a box of the 78g TSX load by federal, dialed in the rifle and chronoed it... I was receiving 2873 fps. The girlfriend and I set out and finished the same day. Her shot 180 yards, Between the ribs behind the front shoulder on entry and dead centered a rib on exit. 20 yards and tipped over. [ATTACH]172973[/ATTACH] minimal blood shot on the entry, but the exit was worse, I assume due to the bone impact. My shot was 200 yards. I was trying to recover a bullet because I wanted to see what it looked like and to test the Valkyries penetration. Quartering away, behind the front shoulder hoping it would lodge in the offside shoulder. [ATTACH]172972[/ATTACH] Unfortunately for me, it didn’t hit any bones and was still an easy pass through. Stoned her. She didn’t take a step. So tying back to the thread and OP in my experience and personal opinion, the .22 Creed loaded with monos would be a an adequate deer gun in a pinch. The velo difference between it and the Valkyrie would bump it up and make it effective on bigger bodied deer/bucks and extend the effective killing range over the Valkyrie which I learned had no problem out to 200. [/QUOTE]
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