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Very nice rifles Bushmaster1313, you are obviously a man with much more control than I, mine go BOOM asap.

Nope not using the .300 H&H.

With lioness my priority taking the .375 RUM and .375 H&H.

WHEW, I was about to lower a window and start listening for the train. lol

The H&H and RUM won't let you down, 260 gr Partitions?

I'd hunt the fu ck out of that 243, buddy.

It's only waiting on legal buddy.

It's only waiting on legal buddy.

Be damned, projects, projects, projects.

Not so much so with this one, it's about ready to rip right away, settled a debt with a buddy, he unloaded a really nice 243 FWT rifle on me, it's all there and came with an old leather sling, a set of Weaver bases, and two ancient yellow boxes of 100 gr Partitions, the bullets have a turned ring around them about mid bullet length.

Called a buddy at the local fun store asking about a scope and rings, he had an older gloss 2-7x33 Leupold and a set of gloss weaver rings, perfect.

Went by today and mounted scope and rings and boresighted it there at the shop, came home and dumped 43 grs of IMR-4350 under those old Partitions, 2988 and 2976 fps, GREAT!!!!!, loaded 5 more for accuracy testing tomorrow.

What do you guys know about the pre-64 FWT 243's?

I'm going to use these old bullets and rifle to take a deer or two right quick this year, can't imagine why the 100 gr Partitions at near 3K wouldn't do the trick.