Well...as mentioned earlier, I did shoot a number of deer with the 220 back in the 80's. PO Ackley even suggested that it was a great round for that purpose. But, fact is that it really isn't a great round for that purpose. It will do, if you use the right bullet and use it wisely, but that doesn't make it great. I'd use it again if I had to, or if I had the rifle at the right (or wrong) time during the season, but I have better deer caliber options. There are quite a number of folks, however, that don't have a better option. That would be the zillions of guys that bought an AR15 type rifle because it looked cool. That's probably the only rifle they have, and by golly they are going to hunt deer with it, since the zombies never showed up. And, like a guy I know, they have a sack of FMJ rounds and don't know diddly about other bullet options, so they'll hunt with what they have. And that, to me, is a shame. Worse, they most likely couldn't track a bleeding elephant through a snowdrift, so they'll wound and lose some deer. It's not you guys that I worry about, but the guys that don't get good advice on a forum like this. There's a lot of them out there. I know a few. I've invited a couple of them out to the ranch to shoot and talk and maybe they'll learn something. But in every case, they weren't here to learn. Thought they knew enough already. But they don't.