A bolt gun would be the cheapest route. And then you pick any decent deer cartridge and call it a day. Of course, that isn't nearly as much fun sometimes. .223 didn't used to be good for anything but varmints. Yes, it worked on people, but being "humane" isn't all that high on the list when it comes to fighting people. For game, you typically had FMJs or soft-nosed bullets that were so thin-skinned that they would shatter when they hit anything fleshy, and leave nasty, shallow wounds on anything bigger than a coyote half the time. With the newer generation of bullets, that isn't the case. In the last decade or so, they have been making .223 bullets that are designed to take medium game humanely. The barnes TSX and similar bullets let the .223 punch above its weightclass. And while still not as good as a full-powered cartridhge, they seem to be racking up a steady stream of pigs and deer.
Of course, with all that, I am still partial to the 6.8. It works for me, and I can load it up to be a near ballistic twin to the .257 Roberts. See my picture in the 6.5/6.8 thread that is going right now for the 200 ound hog I took with it last year.
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