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I hunted with one for about 20 years. Worked great on young deer. usually dropped them on the spot. The last buck I killed with it was a big old one and it took a whole magazine to make him lie down. Never took it hunting again.
The year before one of my bucks took 3 shots and 1/4 mile of running to go down. I switched to a bigger rifle and don't have those problems anymore. That's my experience with the 243. I figure it would make a really good coyote rifle. What bullet, ranges and shot placement was involved in the big deer rodeo? No response yet. I am beginning to think this big deer rodeo stuff may just be a tall tale.
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I have used the .243 on antelope, mulies, and whitetails.. It killed super some times and only fair at other.. My last one I took the barrel off and put a .300 Sav. barrel on the action..
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From the tracking parties I've been in on, a deer mishit with a 30-06 goes about as far as one mishit with a 243.
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From the tracking parties I've been in on, a deer mishit with a 30-06 goes about as far as one mishit with a 243. Yep. Azz-shoot a dink and you end up with a rodeo and 'damaged meat'. Goes for about any cartridge...or animal.
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I've been on bunches of tracking rodeos started with 3006,300.and 338. Ain't about the headstamp.
The 243 works just as good up close, and better at distance than most.
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I had a 100 grain boat tail blow up on a shoulder blade 30-35 years ago. Got him anyway as a fragment made upward to the spine. (I butcher my own).
I switched to 100 grain Nosler partitions, and never had trouble with bullet performance afterwards.
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Use a good bullet, and the 243 works great.
The real question nowadays is: what does the 243 do better than a tight-twisted 223?
From what I can see so far, there is no discernible difference in wound channels between 223 and 243, with great bullets in each.
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It will do as well as your confidence in the caliber.
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A SAAMI 243Win with good bullets is a Giant Killer and I'd have zero qualm with it on Mooseses. Buck a 1/2" out of the case and it still crushes schit,with good bullets. 200yds+ and a single 105 A-Max. ![[Linked Image]](http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/661/lfvzfN.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/661/lGSydD.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/538/S12elb.jpg) An extry 1/2" of motor...ain't even fhuqking fair...............(grin) That bear has a cool fuukking hat
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Use a good bullet, and the 243 works great.
The real question nowadays is: what does the 243 do better than a tight-twisted 223?
From what I can see so far, there is no discernible difference in wound channels between 223 and 243, with great bullets in each. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This...... The edge the .243 would have for me is that If I had to shoot a deer at 400 yards Id rather have the .243 in my hands. At 300 it doesn't matter, cause Ive used both at that range, but after that I would prefer a bit more horsepower. JMHO And lets see...........Ive shot exactly.......one.....deer at 400 in my life, so the little guns do most of the work these days....
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I've lost count on the number of feral hogs & Whitetails I've killed at the ranch with my little 243 Remington 700 Classic over the last 35 or so years. And I took most of them with a Remington 100 gr Coreloct. Probably at least 85 % DRT. The others usually ran only 50 yards or so and died.
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All really great responses thanx!!!
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I fully concur with he vast majority of responses.
In the last 10 years in Canada, our "little" .243, a savage model 11, cheap as chips package, has accounted for 2-3 WT deer every season. Big bucks or does, it doesn't matter.
We've mostly used factory ammunition through it. Blue box 100gr, Fusion 95gr, superformance 95gr SST, 85gr TSX. Does not matter.
Don't recall any DRT, as we hunt for meat, so try to stay in the boiler room. Only 1 ran more than the typical 50 yard death run, & it was hit to far back (Liver), but even it only an 150 yards.
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When I grew up there was no internet or forums...around here there was the 30-30, the 30-06, and the do all 243....I got a 700 ADL 243 new for $124.95....we got whatever ammo we could source....used the iron sights for a couple years due to budget....killed more things with it than all my custom guns combined....something to be said for youth and being out there pulling the trigger on anything and everything about every day....it was supposed to be a do all and we followed that...Still have the action but it is a 6BR sporter....been thinking about getting another 243 for nostalgia....
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When I grew up there was no internet or forums...around here there was the 30-30, the 30-06, and the do all 243....I got a 700 ADL 243 new for $124.95....we got whatever ammo we could source....used the iron sights for a couple years due to budget....killed more things with it than all my custom guns combined....something to be said for youth and being out there pulling the trigger on anything and everything about every day....it was supposed to be a do all and we followed that...Still have the action but it is a 6BR sporter....been thinking about getting another 243 for nostalgia.... ....Said the man who calls himself 7_08fan..... Just kidding. The 243 is a great cartridge and many would do well to hunt with one.
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Always thought you needed a .30-06 to hunt deer growing up as that what was everyone had or they had a .270. As I get older, I enjoy shooting/hunting more with the lighter recoil of a .260 and a .243. I'm amazed at what the .243 has done for me at distance. They didn't leave a lot of a blood trail but then again didn't go far.
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After all the talk on the 'fire about how well the .223 kills deer I don't know why anyone would question the ability of the .243. Back in the '80s I used one to kill some antelope and mulies. Had a buddy back in the early days before he could afford a bigger rifle who killed a couple of moose with his .243. (Cheapest c&c bullets too.)
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