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For quite some time, I've thought (and stated) that 22 caliber bullets were just not enough for deer sized game. Still, I've bought several bullets to try out on big pigs, and if the bullet will work on the pigs, it'll work on deer. One of the newer bullets is that 64 gr Nosler BSB. In getting ready to load some of em up, I dug way back to the front of my loading book (earliest pages were dated in 1984, though I did some pistol reloading prior to that) to find what load I used for the 63 gr Sierra SMP. While looking around for that, I found the loading data for the old Nosler 60 gr Solid Base Boattail (for my 220 Swift, in the first barrel the rifle had). It grouped quite well, and I had also made notations on how well it worked on deer. Hmmm....guess I'd forgotten that, but am remembering it again now.
Back then I wasn't exactly hunting deer, but was hosting hunts on a corporate ranch and doing what I guess you'd call 'guiding'. The guests shot deer, and I was along to help them find deer. In the process I'd find lots of pigs and coyotes, so I needed a rifle and I loved that old 220 Swift. And every now and then I'd need to take a doe for the dinner table so we could feed all the guests, and I'd use the 220. And as I now remember, my bullet research back then led me to two bullets that were good on deer - the 63 gr Sierra and the 60 gr Nosler Solid Base Boattail. And there was a list of bullets that didn't work too well. I also now remember how upset I was when Nosler quit making that 60 gr SBB.
I think that the 64 gr Nosler Bonded Solid Base is going to be a good bullet for pigs (and deer) in my 223. If the recoil-shy wife ever decides to pig hunt like she says she will, I'll put that 223 in her hands.
Back then I wasn't exactly hunting deer, but was hosting hunts on a corporate ranch and doing what I guess you'd call 'guiding'. The guests shot deer, and I was along to help them find deer. In the process I'd find lots of pigs and coyotes, so I needed a rifle and I loved that old 220 Swift. And every now and then I'd need to take a doe for the dinner table so we could feed all the guests, and I'd use the 220. And as I now remember, my bullet research back then led me to two bullets that were good on deer - the 63 gr Sierra and the 60 gr Nosler Solid Base Boattail. And there was a list of bullets that didn't work too well. I also now remember how upset I was when Nosler quit making that 60 gr SBB.
I think that the 64 gr Nosler Bonded Solid Base is going to be a good bullet for pigs (and deer) in my 223. If the recoil-shy wife ever decides to pig hunt like she says she will, I'll put that 223 in her hands.