I don.t want to start any problems with this forum about using 55 grain vmax bullets on deer. I have used a 222 rem. with 50 grain vmax to 10 deer. All deer didn't go 10 feet after shot. 7 spun arround a couple of times and drop. The other 3 finched and walk about 10 feet and dropped. All deer were from 50 yards to 2oo yards and I hit anywere from right hind the shoulder to middle of the rib cage. I know a 22-250 does go faster but I thinking at 250-400 yards that it should perform about the same. I read that you shouldn.t be using vmax on deer but I saw what I saw in performance and 10 deer is a good sample. Does anybody use this combo to that deer and hitting them in the ribs. When I skinned the deer I could see metal fragment just under the skin on the opposite side. Thanks