cernunnos said:
.22-250! surely not. Good calibre for shooting foxes but not enough lead for anything bigger than Michael Barrymore! .375 H&H is my bang of choice for anything bigger than a weasel!
I've quite happily taken Roe and Sika with that calibre, although admittedly I can get closer to them in woodland that I could to a Red in the open. I've always found it a good flat-shooting round over the kind of ranges I'm prepared to take a shot and so long as my shot placement is ok, they fall when hit.
Well, actually they jump 6 feet in the air and dash about 70-80 yards before realising they're dead and piling in nose first.