All I would say to that is that I have seen nearly into the hundreads, if not more deer killed with a 22 mag and never one lost to it. I will not say when where or how but I am a believer in it. I hunted most my life with a .222 without any problem, I live in Kansas at the present time and had to go out and buy a .243 just so I can hunt due to caliber restrictions. I worked in a processing plant in Texas for a while and constantly saw deer killed by big city hunters with 7mm mags and bigger because they thought they needed a big caliber to kill deer. The results were always a large amount of meat lost to the wound and a mangled deer. Just my $0.02