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My first South Dakota kill involved a nice buck at 225 yards. I had been belly-crawling this guy all mid-morning for a clean, clear shot. He was courting three doe whitetail and was paying very little attention to the green and brown blob that was crawling toward him out on the open prairie. When I got set for my shot, he was clear of the does and now presented a solid left-to-right broadside vital area bullet contact point. At the shot, the deer, which I judged to be about three years old, dropped to his belly, never moving even a foot forward. The Accu Bond 110-grain bullet had done its job, and I was gaining more interest in this short, fat super-cartridge that had been thought up by Winchester. With two additional deer taken with the .25 WSSM, I was seriously wondering why anyone would even start to take up the .224 caliber bullet as a serious deer harvesting system. To me it was much like shooting waterfowl with a 28 gauge. It just didn’t fit the proper profile of a game harvesting gun system.