I use all copper like Barnes LRX or TTSX. They are accurate and don’t tear up too much meat.

anything in 6.5 creedmore......

It’s illegal to shoot.22 rimfire bullets at deer here!

Same here in Michigan.

How's this for "open to interpretation" regulations? Straight from the Wisconsin reg's:

It is illegal to hunt with any weapon or
ammunition that is of inherent design
or used in such a manner as to not be
reasonably capable of reducing a target
wild animal to possession

So a 17 is legal as long as it "reduces target to possession"

I use 150 grain Barnes TSX copper for the last 15 years for deer. For elk, I use the same brand of bullet only 165 grain in either my 30-06 or 300 WSM.

yup changed a couple years ago where they tried to suggest reasonable equipment and that confused all the ladies in the office read it as a 22 center fire was the minimum reasonable equipment but that wasn't actually the case

so then they went this current reasonably capable of reducing target to possession statement

if you noticed they also dropped minimum barrel length on handguns and do not specify any caliber so if you make it work , it is reasonable if you don't it could be considered unreasonable.

they had a no rimfire but I can't even find that any more so as long as it works it would not be illegal to shoot your deer with your carry pistol

now for the one that might get people this year , did you see this change
Hunting Near Roadways
It is illegal to:
ƒ Hunt within 50 feet of the roadway’s
center.
ƒ Discharge a firearm, shoot an arrow
from a bow or shoot a bolt from a
crossbow:
ƒ From or across a highway.
ƒ Within 50 feet of the roadway’s cen-
ter.
The above prohibitions apply to all public
roads

a gravel road was ok to shoot from in previous years as long as you had permission to hunt both sides of the road.

some people are the only people on their road and it is gravel , basically more of a drive way , now they will have to be 50 feet from the center of the road the road if the township technically owns it.

but at the same time though simplification they messed up again

say you have a 16 foot wide gravel road you would have to get 42 feet off the road to shoot
but if you have a 4 lane with a passing lane going up a hill and each lane is 12 feet you have 36 foot wide road with a gravel shoulder you would only need to be a few feet off the gavel to shoot.

that seems rather backwards doesn't it ?

they used to get really specific about roads explaining for each type of road and removed it to make the regs shorter

I shot a 222 for deer in NY used a 50 Gr Sierra Blitz, usually under 100 yards used 3031 not sure of the weight

I like a bonded lead core bullet for whitetails, with Rem. coreloks being my favorite when I could just buy the bullets.

I want something that leaves a blood trail. The SST’s have killed a pile of deer, but if they run you better have a clear view to hopefully watch them drop, cause you’re going to do a lot of walking to find that deer. I don’t mean distance wise walking, just grid walking. Those bullets leave NO blood trail on bucks and distance shots on either sex. What’s crazy is upclose shots out of CJ’s .243 leave a blood trail a blind man could follow whether buck or doe, it reminds me of a bow shot deer. Out of my .308 or my sons 7mm/08 you have an entrance and NO exit.
I switched to Barnes Vor-TX. IF they don’t drop, I have a steady stream of blood to follow no matter what distance…at least to 225yds. Haven’t shot any farther than that and that was a hog.

Heck I figured you just used a sharp pointed stick.. That close a good smooth creek gravel rock would work. Get a couple in the spring and carry them in your pocket all summer. Lay them on your bedroom window sill and opening day carry them in your left pocket. Use as needed... No damage. No blood trail.

slightly hardened PB bullets 310 gr 1460 fps in 44mag and 200 grain 1900 fps in 35 Whelen do the job with little wasted meat...both gas checked, and coming out of rifle bbll

I assume you don’t reload.
Deer are not particularly hard to kill. I’ve used everything from recurves, to handguns, muzzleloaders and rifles up to .338 Win Mag.
Any expanding lead bullet will work. As well as copper bullets like Barnes.
I prefer Nosler Partitions myself.I haven’t shot factory ammo in 35 years.
Most important thing is to use what is most accurate in a bullet designed for deer.
Good luck

What Cletus said. I cast all my own bullets, slugs, and buckshot.

180 grain Nosler Partitions in my 300 Win Mag and 270 grain Swift A Frames in my 375H&H. Most shots are inside 100 yards so I head shoot deer if possible. I use the magnums due to our density of brown bears in SE Alaska.

WOW!