Good point, I try to never shoot past @150 except antelope. Just for clean kills.
I’ve shot a lot of deer & hogs with my Merkel combo gun in 7x57R that I load to @2700 using 120 TTSX bullets. Everything drt with shoulder shots. May go 20 yards with heart shots.
The extreme penetration is what I like about them. As a gunsmith I couldn’t really recommend the 243 for deer hunting for many years. Until the tougher bullets came out, making it a very effective deer caliber.


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