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The .223 round is a military lightweight and not a proven big game cartridge at all.

The S&W M&P-15-T performs well as a coyote rifle, and the author also took deer with it.

Pushing the muzzle of the Savage Predator into the slightly angling high wind that was coming from my left, I reset my sights for added windage and touched off round number two. Again the doe seemed to shudder and shift her weight a bit. However, again she turned away and proceeded to move on down the field in the general direction of the blockers waiting at the other end.

With the doe out of sight and nothing going on in the direction of the blockers, Jerome and I both started to converge on the location at which I had made the second hit on the deer. We were lucky that we had fresh snow and short corn to deal with. In effect, if that deer was hit anywhere close to the vitals, we could stay on her track all day if necessary. With about 100 yards of a zig-zagging trail we located the deer. She was down and stone dead, laying directly between two rows of corn stubble. Two bullets had entered her left side vitals, but no exit wound or blood trail was visible. The small .224 bullets had entered the animal, leaving the hide to close over the entry wound, then causing all the blood given off by one bullet to the liver and a second hit to the lung to pool in the lower portion of the chest cavity.