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A .223 wouldn't be my first choice to hunt deer, but if it's all that I had available, I'd use it without too much worry - after all, people have been using bows and arrows to hunt deer for thousands of years, and if what amounts to a pointy stick works, I see no reason why a .223 wouldn't.

As for the salesman . . . some know what they're doing, some clearly don't. I've run into both types at Wally Mart and, for that matter, other sporting goods stores and even local gun shops.