Blacktails are small; a meat buck will weigh less than 100 pounds field dressed, and that's what I usually shoot. Unfortunately they also live in manzanita and other chaparral, and that stuff is made of iron.
Fortunately I'm old and well-fed and don't have to kill anything at all, so I can wait and take a decent shot. I've killed plenty of deer with your HiPower's daddy, the .25-35, so I think the .223 will serve at the modest ranges I can still see.... Just gotta load up some "green" ammo and get a decent accurate combination.
BTW, I've spent a lot of days in the "Condor Reserve" and the last condor I saw was in 1962.... Now Ravens, we got.
Last edited by Mike A.; 09/16/13 07:56 PM.
