You can take your .223 cannon and 22 Hornet on deer all you want, but why use a small cartridge on a big animal when you have so many other better choices?!!! Just so you and Fritz can say you did it is about all I can come up with. I have rifles in 22LR, 22 Mag, 22 Hornet and then on up into a .243, 25-06, and 3 30-06s. The .243 is as small as I will go on deer size game and it's not due to lack of "precision" as you stated in your post referring to using the 22 Hornet on that Texas buck!