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Old 03-08-2005, 04:35 AM
Brithunter Brithunter is offline
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Hi All,

Well actually the hot .22 cals are valid deer rifle/cartridges, In Ireland thay Baned and confiscated all sporting rifles then grudgingly let them have rifels no larger than .22"/5.6mm so all their hunting was done with these, the king was not the Swift as you may have thought but the 5.6x57mm which used a 70 grn bullet. Red and Sika stags were taken well with single shots in fact so good did it perform that some shooters retained their 5.6mm's when the estrictions were lifted slightly to all calibres up to and including the 0.270.
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