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Does your chosen calibre fit the bill?

As we approach the summer solstice, I have started to feel the pain of waking up at unorthodox hours. My fiancée usually kicks me out to the spare room or has a go at me the next day. While driving to the ground on one foggy morning on the A1, I was thinking about a discussion I had with a friend. That discussion was about deer calibres and recent changes in lead-free bullets in the UK deer scene.

Before I even got to the field I was planning to stalk on, I spotted a six-point roebuck out of the corner of my eye. Although I had not planned to stalk this ground, I wasted no time in getting my kit on.

“Terminal ballistics depend on the bullet, not the rifle discharging it”

On this outing I was carrying brand-new Winchester 130-gr copper ammunition

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