.243 Win.

I used one regularly for years on Vancouver Island for blacktails and black bear and had success with mule deer too once I moved to the mainland, but I had several friends that took pity on me and gave me a 300 WM and a 270.

I like those now because now I find I'm often hunting in areas with spike-fork moose openings too so I want to be able to take a shot at a moose with confidence.

It's a Remington Model 700 ADL and still the lightest, sweetest shooting big game rifle I own, but it is basically retired now.
 
It's the perfect comprimise cartridge,

a little too big for little stuff and a little too small for big stuff, though had I tried the 85 tsx I might have a different opinion.

My little stuff is high volume gophers and called coyotes, I imagin it would make a dandy goundhog gun but it not like you shoot hundereds per day, and at calling distances way too much fur damage for me as a coyote gun.
 
The .243 falls right smack in the middle of "no man's land". Too big for varmint, too small for big game. I've had one and swore to never have another...and yes, it is ###, but not a ### as the .243 WSSM. :D
 
Republic of Alberta said:
The simple fact of the matter is that if you cannot consistantly take deer with a 243 it's your hunting skills that need improvement, not the rifle.
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Which is why it's place as the "perfect first gun for young shooters" is so stupid.

It was said here before the biggest problem with the 243 is it shoots further than it kills.
 
pilot24 said:
The only gheyness for the 243 comes from the person holding it... eh ###tehouse... ;)
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That may be true..

I always assumed that when a person caught ghey, it was via infection from another person..

It is possible that a 243 owner catches ghey from using theinherently ghey cartridge, though..:evil:
 
Scanner_66 said:
I push 75 gr HP's over 3031 out of mine for yotes and foxes, almost no fur damage (no exit holes so far), the wifes BDL likes 87 gr vmax over varget the best of anything she has tried.
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My parker hale loves the varget loads too. Very accurate for a nice day of shooting.

This thread is turning stupid. If someone's not's bashing wssm's, it's bashing how ineffective the 30-06 is, and if isn't that, someone's spouting off how blued and wood stocked rifles are not good for hunting.
f**king keyboard warriors.:bangHead:
Get out and shoot.
 
owned many 6mm's however just started shooting a 243 a few months ago!
Very impressed with this little guy. So far i have found the 70 gr not as good as the 75 grainers, and have bought some 100 grain Sierras to try.

Seems to group at worst 1 1/2! and have shot some 3/4 inch 5 inch groups with the 700 sps, looking forward to adjusting th etrigger, and handloading some 100g for that 1:9 twist!

And the wife will look forward to taking her first whitetail with it this year, a well placed shot at about 50 yards or in the boiler with a 100 Sierra pro hunter should do nicely.

I figured she deserved her own, rifle for her first deer! and was a hell of an excuse for a new stick in the gun room!
 
IMHO the .243 is a superb coyote/antelope caliber, a marginal deer caliber and it's a fine "starter" caliber for teaching girls/kids to shoot.

I don't own one and can't see it ever happening... :)





FWIW, Bentley Coben has shot more record book deer then the rest of us have seen and uses a .243 Browning BLR he calls "Bertha".
 
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