Make Daddy Proud

It's a beautifu deer. Maybe a tad young ideally, but sometimes ideal isn't whvt it's cracked up to be. I'd love to have him on my wall for sure. Two things bother me though. 1st you're not very sighted in from the sounds of it. I'm not a fan of that, but at close you're probably fine. It just does t sit well with me. I mean that's a big part of confidence, and if you don't have confidence in your equipment, you end up getting lacks about everything because in the back of your mind it doesn't matter since your equipment isn't right. 2nd shooting FMJ's on a deer is just not a great idea, especially from a .223. I'm all about a .223 being enough gun, but I like a Partition, Barnes X, Lapua soft point, 64gr Winchester power point...something that will mushroom, but stay together better than a varmint bullet. I'm saying an FMJ can't kill a deer, but you have enough going against you already. I think I have yet another problem...I can't tell but you might be switching ammo without rechecking your POI. Sometimes there is very little difference, but sometimes there is a lot. I have a little whitetail load and a big deer/hog load for my 30-06... The heavy load shoots about 5.5" low and 3.5" left of the whitetail load at 100yds. You can bet I re-zero when I switch!!! Of course I don't use a blind or feeder and want to be confident to 400yds. If you gotta go with what you got, and how you're setup, then get as close as you can and hammer that shoulder! I prefer a double lung, but with an FMJ he'd probably run for miles. Hammer that shoulder and he shouldn't get far. The nice thing about an FMJ is that even from a .223 bone shouldn't phase it, you'll just need to hit some bone to drop
him quickly. The same shot with most other bullets from a .223 would be a no no.

Uh....May wanna go back and start reading from the start amigo...Kinda morped 3 parts of the story into one...
A. he passed when VARMIT hunting and sighting in a new scope and the deer slipped in on him
B. Trust me hes tuned in there was a tad more to the incident..

Will let Matt take it from there
SMH

Im not going to until you buy a .308

Nice buck!

good luck!

majestic