RE: For All you 223 Fans
Let's get rid of the range. That's throwing everyone off. Let's go to 40 yards. Still a 250lb buck who is quartering-to. It's thick cover and it's the only shot you're going to get.
Forget the bow hunting references. With a bow, you have to shoot broadside - rifle you don't. A 223's little bullet will blow up on the shoulder of that buck and not make the vitals. I promise you, with my 300 Wby and a 180gr Barnes X, it will make it through everything in its path and kiss a tree on the offside.
If you want to talk the bow hunting arguement, why are you out with a 223? Where's your bow?