L. Cooper -- I'm actually on your side, but have a more open view as the years roll by. Why do some countries and states, according to the law, allow use of the hornet on 300lb whitetails? I think that is expecting way too much from a 45 grain pill, yet it is legal. Evidently you haven't hunted places where you hang the field dressed animal YOU shot, weigh it hide, bones, head, hooves and all, and it is sold. If you had a marginal or bad shot, you buy it yourself. If you have a good clean shot w/o wasting a lot of 'meat', it is sold to restaurants, butchers, private citizens, etc. I don't have questions on the power of the 222 in the case for Roe deer, I have questions on using the proper bullet to do the job w/o, yes, you guessed it, wasting a lot of meat.
Fabs & Skyline are right -- I'm considering this combination for Roe deer, which dress out mostly between 30 to 50 pounds. Hardly those big Northern whitetails.
Like I said earlier, a cf 22 on deer is controversial, but not near so much when talking about smaller animals. On the other hand, I know for a fact a few US states that allow the use of any cf 22, and it was this crowd I was questioning on the performance or their experience with it on whitetails. Whether I condone it or not is not the reason of my post.
If the object of my search was to see how small I could go, well, we could be here all day discussing why I'm taking my hornet elephant hunting -- just exagerating before we start another controversy, Waidmannshiel, Dom.
