Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Goodbye 243 I'm done

The Roberts is a neat round, Remington in their usual way screwed it just like they did the 244 and 280. There were other factors like the common use of 93, 95 and 96 Mausers to build them on. Winchester should have come out with the 257AI instead of the 243 but Warren Page and Charles Askins were singing the praises of the 6mm bore, the rest is history. There was a big interest in dual purpose rifles then, more so than now also.