Can you bring down a large whitetail deer (buck) with a .22 rifle?
I have been told that it can happen, but considering most deer are shot from about 50 yards it seems unlikely.
The answer is yes, but I don't know where it is legal to shoot deer with a .22 rimfire bullet.
The .22 caliber list of cartridges is quite large. The 5.56 NATO (.223 Remington) is a .22, as is the .222 Remington, the .222 Remington Magnum, the .22-250 and so on. These, however, are centerfire cartridges and shoot further and hit harder than their .22 rimfire little brother.
Personally I consider any .22 too small for deer. I have killed deer with a .223, but will not do so again unless I have no other caliber to harvest venison with and have no other food source. The .223 kills deer too slowly.
I've also used a .243 Winchester and I consider this caliber the absolute minimum for deer hunting. A .25-06 Remington is so much better. A lot of hunters still use the old .30-30 Winchester with good results. Some hunters consider the .308 Winchester (the 7.62x51 NATO) to be the minimum deer cartridge. Even so, bullet placement is always critical.
Happy hunting.
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