RE: Smallest Caliber For Deer Hunting
regardless of caliber, a 100 grain bullet should be the lightest you go...this is the lightest. you are taking a big chance of wounding and losing a deer to suffer, if you don't make a near perfect shot with anything smaller..270 and larger calibers aren't that much more expensive to shoot, when it comes to humane hunting...
you can kill a deer by hitting in the head with a 22lr; but if you miss by a couple of inches, you hit the jaw...the deer starves to death over the next few weeks..