I had a friend that used an SKS for deer, but here you are limited to 6 rounds in magazine and chamber, so we had to make a plug for the fixed magazine. There are several companies that are making hunting ammo, Federal, Remington, and Winchester that I know for sure. The milspec stuff won't expand on impact, and won't be very efficient killing game. I haven't personally seen any problems with the bullets tumbling durring flight (some military ammo is made to tumble on impact to increase wound channel). I don't know if you can get a scope mount or not, so that may limit your range more than anything else, but from what I've heard they are'n all that accurate, and that may be a limiting factor also. If you really want to use it to hunt, I'm sure that you can make it work.