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Shot a couple of meat antelope 2 weeks ago with 95 grain NBT'S they work fine almost as good as the old 100 gr 243 SP hornady which the dumb boot lips assh*les at Hornady discontued. Yeah I said that
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Will a .243 take a big deer reliably? I am in very wooded N. MN, hunt on foot and most all shots are <150 yards on moving deer. Taken a number of 225# dressed Whitetails with shoulder shots. I ask because I have a sweetheart of a Sako in .243 Win that I would like to use some. Thanks.


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95 Nosler Partition in my 240 worked for me for years until I hard to go lead-free. I shot countless coyotes and a few deer with that bullet. Always dropped in their tracks. Funny thing with this bullet is that in almost every case it was hard to find an exit hole. I found that the 100 grain Nosler Partition to be much more destructive. Just my experience.


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A bullet not yet mentioned that works well with a 1-9" twist is the Berger 95gr VLD, at it's best past a couple hundred yards on deer, several years ago shot an antelope past 1000yds with this bullet

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Originally Posted by Magnum_Bob
the dumb boot lips assh*les at Hornady discontued. Yeah I said that
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I know you said that...............but what are you saying ??????
Guessing you meant discontinued wink

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95g Hornady SST is awesome.

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100 gr. Nosler Partition for me thanks.

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There is almost always a possibility of something bigger then deer where I hunt so I like Barnes in our little guns. 85 TSX has been a consistent and reliable performer for my crew. If it will stabilize I have been loving what I have seen with the 95 LRX as well.

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Bought my first .243 Winchester quite a while ago, and have used various other 6mm rounds since, including the .240 Weatherby. Mostly used the 105 Speer Hot-Cor in that first .243, but also the 100-grain Remington Core-Lokt.

Since then Eileen abd have used 85 and 100-grain Partitions, 90 E-Tips, 95 Ballistic Tips, 105 Berger Hunting VLDs, and whatever 100-grain bullet Federal uses in their 100-grain blue box ammo. All have worked well from .243 Winchesters and similar rounds, but preferred the tougher ones in the .240. The deer have run in size from South Texas whitetail does to mature Montana bucks (both whitetail and mule) weighing 200+ pounds.

The only bullet that "failed" was a 105 Hot-Cor (now apparently discontinued by Speer) that left the core at the entrance hole on an average Montana eating whitetail at around 250 yards. But the core continued on and dropped the buck anyway.


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This one is easy.

The 85 grain Sierra boat tail hollow point Game King. It has a slightly thicker jacket than some of the other 6mms projectile offerings from Sierra (and other manufacturers) . It is very accurate, and quite devastating on everything that I have ever hit with it. My Tikka T3 6 Rem (rebarreled with a Lilja) pops them out there at over 3400 FPS and they smack the snot out of stuff.


I watched my oldest daughter schwack her first deer with it years back before switching her to a .308 and it was funny. The doe dropped so fast that my daughter thought she ran off. She was panicked for a second, asking where the deer was. The deer just flopped and had her legs in the air instantly. I had to tell the kiddo to stop looking through the scope and to look up, as the deer had her legs up for a couple seconds before she settled down and slid against some brush.

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Originally Posted by mauserfan
Will a .243 take a big deer reliably? I am in very wooded N. MN, hunt on foot and most all shots are <150 yards on moving deer. Taken a number of 225# dressed Whitetails with shoulder shots. I ask because I have a sweetheart of a Sako in .243 Win that I would like to use some. Thanks.

You say wooded?

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Kills em as good as a big gun if you put the bullet in the right spot.

I have used 80 grain Sierra SPBT, 85 grain Sierra SPT, 85 grain Sierra HPBT, 87 grain Hornady, 95 grain Partitons, 95 grain SST, 100 grain SP and BT from Hornady and Sierra as well as some 100 grain factory loads.

Put the bullet where it belongs and I have seen no difference between it and 270, 30-06 or 300 Winchester Mag.

I have killed more deer with the 85 grain Sierra Spitzer than I have of the others, despite the Varminter name they spit right through most mature deer.The 100 grain Sierras kill instantly.

I have used the 95 grain Partition for the last 4 or 5 seasons, only had 1 deer move after the shot and he only went 50sh yards pouring blood the whole way.

I have some 90 grain Ballistic Tips loaded for this season. I loaded some last winter and my 6mm shot the best groups it has ever shot with those and 45.5 grains of IMR-4350.

I figure they will work about like the rest of the bullets I have ever shot from a 243 or 6mm.

If forced to pick one from the above I would lean on the 95 grain Partition.

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95 grain Partition. Exit can be seen behind shoulder and high.

25 yard or so shot. I hit him about 6" farther back than I wanted, was trying for a high shoulder and he stepped forward as the trigger broke. Maybe a 50 yard dash.

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95 grain Partition.

Another exit where hair is clumped up. 50 yard shot, dead in his tracks.

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I have had only one failure on bullets in my 6mm, that was with 105 grain Speers. They didn't open up and left pencil holes through the lungs of a Pronghorn. They were however the most accurate bullet in that 6mm.
I think that heavy Partitions are always good in the smaller calibers such as 6mm. If I were to take a 6mm out for deer, I'd use 100 grain Nosler Partitons.


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I’ve made fun of little bitty 243’s for years but that is what I bought for my son/grandson to hunt our little 115-150 lb California Pacific Mule deer and almost any bullet will work well up close & out past 300 yards. Southern whitetail won’t be any more challenging. I think it’s hard to beat a Nosler Ballistic tip for DRT deer. I’ve always used a 7 mag but the 243 results are similar.

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Only "failure" I've had - hit a left rib and blew up on the inside of the right shoulder.


At ~ 7 yards.


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Howdy,

I've run .243's and 6mm Rem's over the years, all love the Nosler Ballistic tips- Styer mannlicher model L, Sako AII, Sako 591, Armalite AR-10T, 2- 788 6mm's. The 95 gr work well on antelope and WT deer. That said, I've used 100 gr Speer grand slams to good success as well. They've even taken a few cow elk. Bullet placement, always important, is key with these light calibers.


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For at least a decade I loaded nothing but 100 grain Hornady Interlock round nose for the 243 Win I used as my primary deer gun. It was a Browning BAR made in Belgium and it loved those loads. Worked really well on whitetails,

Hornady no longer makes this bullet but I've got 3 unopened boxes in the event I decide to reload again.

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Nosler partitions or maybe Hammer hunting bullets


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Easier to determine what doesn’t work after reading this thread.

Great collection of real on-game experience. I’ve still got 4-500 Sierra 85gr HPBT and several boxes of 85gr NP. Both have worked well for me over the years but I don’t have near the experience with the 6mm that others clearly do. Always surprised me how well the 6mm penetrates & kills.

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