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Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5435082 11/21/14 03:12 PM
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oldest son shoots a .243 (when he's not bow hunting), younger son shoots a .223. I never worry about either dropping a deer. They know where to hit a deer and watch it drop, and they don't worry about flinching!! They worry more about letting the deer get to a place they can drive the buggy before shooting, in order to pick it up. They don't like to drag the deer around!!

did most of y'all talk about shot placement??????????????????? slinger

Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5436732 11/22/14 01:44 PM
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Hunt does with 243, but go to my 30-06 for bucks.

Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5436884 11/22/14 03:39 PM
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Between my nephew and I my 243 has killed 3 bucks and a doe this year one of which scored just under 140" . None of them made it over 30 yards . Two fell where they stood. 243 is plenty .

Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5437648 11/23/14 12:43 AM
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I love my Remington 243. Been using it for 16 years and have killed large pigs and big body bucks. I shoot everything in the shoulder and the animals have run up to 80 yards with lungs blown out and shoulder broken. Sometimes no blood trail but have found everything so far. My farthest shot was on a large hog at over 300 yards and he ran a long way across a hay field and dropped after running a couple of hundred yards. I never could find a entry hole in the vitals but the lower shoulder was broken.




Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5437666 11/23/14 01:00 AM
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My main rifle is a ..243 kimber Montana using fusion 95! Its cut down to 18" but i run a titanium suppressor on her! Always heard the ballistic tips are a nice fast killer in the .243, but have never tried them, as i have about a case of fusion for it.

Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5439170 11/24/14 12:52 AM
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Grandpa have me his a Sako 579 Deluxe .243 when I was younger. I never got to use it on an animal, and wen I was older my dad said a .243 was a woman's gun. I gave it to my wife and she dropped a nice little buck with it. Last year I got an opportunity to do some mule deer hunting and didn't have time to load ammo and sight in anything else, but I knew the .243 was battle ready. I wasn't too worried, but did have some concerns. After dropping a 300lb Muley at over 400yards, I'm not too worried anymore. He reared up on his hind legs and then face planted. It hit low in the chest, clipped a little leg meat, blew up the heart, and hit some more leg meat on the back side.

Re: .243 [Re: Navasot] #5439197 11/24/14 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted By: Navasot
Originally Posted By: ScottA
Originally Posted By: RUM Mann
If you like track jobs then a 243 is great


Many people love the .243, but I have talked to numerous hunters who have horror stories of well-shot deer who have covered a few hundred yards before expiring. A .260 or 7-08 doesn't recoil a whole lot more than a .243 so, unless one is especially recoil sensitive, I've never seen the advantage of a .243.



I watched a WT doe take a 180gr 30-06 strait to the heart and covered and easy couple hundred before she died... not the only mishap to... chit happens usually the shooters fault rather than the gun... Iv watched even .222 drop deer in their tracks.


Yup. I've double lunged small deer with a 30-06 and they ran. If all you hit is lung, you need some explosiveness to drop them quickly. A lighter bullet in the '06 probably would have done it. Then my wife hot her first deer with a .222 using a thick jacketed Lapua soft point. It blew both sides and the deer didn't go as far as the '06. She double lunged another with a .243 using a Nosler solid base and it dropped. I used the same gun an ammo on a big bodied mule deer and it dropped. I got a little leg meat and the heart.

There are two ways to go about it. 1. Blow up lungs and drop em, but a good explosive bullet doesn't always exit, or 2. Shoot a tough heavy bullet that will blow both sides and leave a good blood trail. #1 can be impressive and saves meat and tracking, but #2 is usually fatal even with poor shot placement or shooing at less than ideal angles, but often leaves a little tracking unless you hit bone(not including ribs).

Re: .243 [Re: QuitShootinYoungBucks] #5439220 11/24/14 01:19 AM
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Originally Posted By: QuitShootinYoungBucks
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If you like track jobs then a 243 is great


Many people love the .243, but I have talked to numerous hunters who have horror stories of well-shot deer who have covered a few hundred yards before expiring. A .260 or 7-08 doesn't recoil a whole lot more than a .243 so, unless one is especially recoil sensitive, I've never seen the advantage of a .243.



I'm willing to bet none of those guys ever made a bad shot in their life, either. I've been around hunting 35 years and I have NEVER seen a well-shot deer travel more than a 100-150 yards. Any deer we recovered that went further than that almost always required a coup de grace, and upon examination the original shot placement was never what one would term 'well-shot'.

If you put a lead pill in both lungs, the heart, the liver, or the spine, you'll have a dead deer nearby, be it a 100gr .243 or a 300gr .375, and everything in between.


I read an article from a guy that killed wounded animals for the state of Arizona. He used a 22-250 and was called out to whack a buck that had been hit by a car. After tracking it a considerable distance he found it still walking, but poorly. He killed it, and upon opening it up found to places where lungs were ground between ribs all the way out to the skin. He believed that at least twice in its life it had been shot through both lungs and healed fully. Now maybe those were arrows, who knows? A little expansion sure helps. Personally l still prefer a double lung shot. The point is simply that a well shot deer can disappear, if circumstances are right and he can lie still long enough for blood to clot before he looses too much.

Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5439294 11/24/14 01:51 AM
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243 is plenty


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Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5440289 11/24/14 03:17 PM
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Use the right bullet for the job, spend enough time at the range to know your rifle and your skills and the .243 is more than enough for Texas deer.



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Once i learned that i didn't "NEED" to kill something, and that if i did kill something all the fun stopped and work began, i was a much better hunter.
Re: .243 [Re: lonestar1995] #5440361 11/24/14 03:50 PM
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I've killed over 10 deer with my .243 including some decent bucks. Never had any deer travel more than 50 yards. I always used some type of ballistic tip in 95 grain.

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