Originally Posted by VaHillbilly
To answer the OP's question, I'm not worried one bit the .243 Win is much too versatile a cartridge to be replaced by one that's inferior in many ways..................Hb


I really doubt that that the 223 will ever entirely "replace" the 243. First of all there are tens of millions of 243 chambered rifles out there.

But I could be wrong. The 243 did drive the 250 Savage and 257 Roberts into obscurity. And the AR-15 is greatly popular

Last edited by idahoguy101; 09/05/12.