I'm going to run my normal thing, look to Barnes or a mono bullet. Barnes does theirs really well.

I've shot lots with 243 over years of use. That was prior to Barnes mono bullets.

Why Barnes?

I did taxidermy as a living for 20 years or so.

Cup and core were found seperated in a LOT of heads that came in from neck shots.

Dead yes. But coming apart on the neck of our small whitetails? Would likely leave something on the table if you had to take a tough shot on one. I prefer the insurance. By far.

I've even had the partition 180 stop by the neck of a large S Texas buck from my 300.

Once I went to Barnes you didn't have to worry about that anymore.

Fast 85ish Barnes would trump anything out there plus give added insurance. Cheap enough too, how many deer tags do you get a year? 5 for us unless we buy extras... a 50 round box of barnes would last at least 5 years.

We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....