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19-05-2021, 11:20 #21
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19-05-2021, 13:00 #22
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Re: Species lawfully hunted with .233
I must just be a shitty shooter then, but it does make me wonder why there is even debate in regard to the caliber if its so simply capable - and laws restricting its use to a few animal sizes.
Springbuck are wounded with .270ties and what was thought to be a good chest shot, now we want to say a .223 will work fine MORE often than not? Mostly, well mostly if you a real good shot and you miss this and hit that but its not recommended, but actually good enough.
All I will say further, is that many a .223 wounding shot would have been a kill shot if it was almost any other bigger caliber.
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19-05-2021, 13:08 #23
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Re: Species lawfully hunted with .233
You are right Treeman, bigger guns make bigger holes.
But I myself have seen enough shots on springbok to tell you straight that won't help in this scenario, most shots missed on springbok cannot be saved by using a bigger cal, the shot simply ain't good enough.
You make a good shot with a 223, the animal goes down, same as any other cartridge.
I want every person here who's ever hunted a lot of springbok to think back and they will know, either the shot is complete miss, or the vitals completely missed.
If you hit the vitals of a springbok or blesbok with a 223 that animal is dead.
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19-05-2021, 13:10 #24
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Re: Species lawfully hunted with .233
Same as any other type of hunting, a lost animal will have 99.5% excuses, where in fact for 99.5% of lost animals the shot wasn't good enough.
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19-05-2021, 14:13 #25
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Re: Species lawfully hunted with .233
To get back to the original question. It is legal to hunt with a .223 provided you do not hunt red hartebeest, gemsbok, blue and black wildebeest, kudu, and buffalo. At least in the Western Cape.
All provinces have their own hunting ordinances which sets out these rules. It may be different in other provinces.
I do remember a number of years ago they tried to implement a countrywide "Norms and Standards" regulations that specified minimum weight and energy of hunting ammunition depending on game , but, as far as I am aware, it was never implemented as it was not realistic.
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19-05-2021, 21:49 #26
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Re: Species lawfully hunted with .233
The problem with the argument of the "shot was simply not good enough" is that it means the 223 was enough gun, but the idiot behind it should have known better. And that is Treeman's point: the 223 is often not enough gun, because - evidently- the idiot does not know better.
Of course the gun is enough for the right shot. However, wind being wind, the problem is that 223's will never be 50, or 30 cal, or a 7mm. And 50gr is never 150gr.
The 7mm and 30 cals bring enough more to the party to make the average hunter look better than what we are, whilst the .22 familycaliber loves to prove we are pretenders.
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19-05-2021, 22:22 #27
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