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I must be unlucky as I think I’m the only one who has had a bad experience with the 85 HPBT from Sierra. My daughter splashed one on the shoulder of a little buck at around 135 yards. Other daughter killed it about 5 weeks later. Wasn’t going too fast as it was coming out of a 20” 6x45.

I sold off the 6x45 barrel, but still have 2 or three boxes of them, and the 85 Sierra SP Varminter.

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Originally Posted by PintsofCraft
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I was about to ask if anyone was using the 85 grain Sierra BTHP. I've not used it but have heard good things about it.


The bullet is legit. It’s way tougher than the HP designation - punches hard and straight works. If you can find them I’d not hesitate. I mostly used them on hogs but most of the time they exited a multi-angle rib cage shot instead of blowing apart like many Sierra SP do. I still load them with confidence after about 20yrs of experience.

that's a pretty strong recommendation. Thank you.


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I've been very impressed with the 80 gr TTSX and have recommended it to several friends who have been equally pleased. Maybe it only works for women and children, but after watching my daughter shoot 13 deer in four seasons, I have no reservations with any deer, at any angle, at any sane distance.

Most dead in their tracks?

If not were there good blood trails?



If you shoot shoulders, they usually drop. She mostly shoots lungs and we have 30-50 yard easy blood trails. Always have 2 holes......

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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.


In the right spot, yes. Big calibers /bullets in not the right spot isn't going to help much.

My wife took a moose - probably -1,000 lbs - at 70-80 yards with a 100 grain Corelokt, years ago. Missed rib both sides, pencilled through, turned lungs to bloody mush. Bull walked maybe 50 feet to behind a screen of brush, stood there for 30 seconds or so and tipped over. An Iwo Jima vet of my acquaintance had recoil problems (after that mortar round) and could not handle anything much bigger. To my knowledge, he took over a dozen bull moose - some of them really big to 1500# - with his .243.

Fast bullets on game tend to knock them down quicker in my experience -especially the lighter stuff. 20 of 21 caribou (similar size to your deer) shot with my 25-06 (120 grain Speer handloads) were bang flops - the first one took two. The first bullet entered at the shoulder/neck juncture, and lodged against the bone in the opposite rear hip. It turned him broadside, the second through the lungs knocked him flat, as it did with successive animals. Range about 200 yards.

The 6mm, 6.5mm calibers are excellent deer cartridges.

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Originally Posted by las
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.


In the right spot, yes. Big calibers /bullets in not the right spot isn't going to help much.


This.

A 270 Win is more than enough for antelope, but when I was guiding a lot I saw a guy hit an antelope six+ times with a 270 and the animal didn't go down. It was literally dragging a leg and it's guts across the ground.

On the other hand, all of the antelope I've seen hit in the chest with a 243 went straight down.

Where you hit them is the most important thing. The design of the bullet is the next most important thing. Everything else is a very distant third. Few understand this.


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The only 243 kill that I would say had a bullet issue was with a factory remington loaded with sciroccos I watched an antelope take 3 to the chest and one to the liver at 300+ yards. He just stood there so the hunter kept shooting. After a couple minutes he just fell over, never taking a step. When we opened him up, it didn’t look like there was much damage but he drowned in his own blood. Had he run it might have been a long tracking job.

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Is the Sierra 85 gr HPBT discussed here the product number 1530?


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Thanks spud. Checked my shelf and I have five boxes. I use them for rock chucks. I'll give them a try on deer.


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Originally Posted by mcknight77
Is the Sierra 85 gr HPBT discussed here the product number 1530?


That's all I used when I was using and loading 243

I never had any problems with one shot kills or any
that needed a follow up shot. Through and through
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I MUCH prefer the 100g Hornady btsp over the Sierra bthp...in spades!

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Originally Posted by mathman
The 95 grain SST and Ballistic Tip have worked nicely in my circle.


I’ve used the 95 ballistic tip in my 240 weatherby with excellent results on antelope. Yes they are a bit smaller than deer, but I’d not hesitate to use them on deer.


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Doesn't matter. Making a CNS hit with any bullet does about what any 6mm is good for.


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With the .243's I like that Sierra 85gn HPBT and and original 85gn Solid Base and used them on lots of game including some large pigs in the 2-300lb size.
With the 240 Weatherby, I like the 100gn Hornady, Sierra Flat Base and Nosler Partition. Superb for most anything.


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I've always liked the 85 BTHP on game. And for most rifles, IME, That bullet over a max load of IMR 4895 could well serve as an accuracy check load. If it doesn't shoot well, you have a rifle issue.

It does great work with heart/lung shots, but I have had some serious blow-ups with hits on bone

And the .243 I've carried since the mid 90s prefers the 95 BT.


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I loaded up some 90 nosler accubonds last year and can't say how they do cause haven't seen anything I wanted to shoot.

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Only 2 deer for us with the .243 Win. A big doe my son shot was using a Speer 100 gr. boattail ( 1220) was the number . the bullet hit real high and forward but it went 40' and that was it. Mine was a smaller doe, 100 gr. Hornady interlock boattail ( 2443?) .


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