Ep. 323 | .223 vs .300 AAC Blackout — Enough Knockdown for Deer?

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Varmints, to home defense and military applications, the .223 Remington and .300 AAC Blackout aren’t your typical deer cartridges. But in the right scenario, are they the perfect solution? And if so, which is better? Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn took a couple blasters to the range and shot gel to find out. Here’s the rest of the story.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. What is up everybody?
0:15.0	Welcome to cartridge talks fully loaded.
0:21.0	This is 223 versus 300 blackout.
0:27.0	Ryan, these are two really cool cartridges.
0:31.0	A lot of the cartridges we talk about and maybe it's because it's
0:34.8	you know all the rage these days. We're talking about you know long-range performance this
0:40.7	that the other. The context of these two we're going to talk I guess for you know are they adequate for deer
0:47.7	relatively short range yeah and actually I'd say not even relatively like they are short range for that application.
0:55.0	Yes, neither of these would be astute long-range cartridges.
0:59.0	I've never killed a deer with the 300 AAC. I've killed a deer with the 223. I was in a situation just the other
1:06.4	day. I was bow hunting. It was bow season. So I guess it wouldn't, you shouldn't rifle hunt
1:12.1	during bow season. So I'll bow season so I'll get that I'll get that
1:14.9	on the table probably goes without saying however we've got a rifle dough season
1:19.9	coming up and I was in a stand all the deer came out inside of 100 yards.
1:27.5	That is a perfect opportunity.
1:29.5	And I was like, it made me think I knew we had this talk upcoming and I was like it just was the perfect
1:36.4	situation for use of one of these cartridges.
1:40.1	Yes.
1:41.1	You have killed a deer with a 223.
1:43.0	Very dead.
1:44.2	Yeah.
1:45.2	You gotta, we've talked about it before,
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