Moose with 243...?

i have a .30.06 i use on anything with 4 legs. it's a nice veratile cartriage not too big to destry everything and big enough to kill whatever you want. i'd reccomend a nice .30.06 or 270 or 300 or somehting in that range so that when you take a shot it's down. just cuz it's legal to use a 243 doesn't make it a great idea like others have said. just cuz you can doesn't mean you should
 
crazydave said:
A hard steel broadhead makes a 1 1/8'' or bigger cut through the vitals, the 243 bullet is light enough they usually come apart at high speed and wound poor bullwinkle.
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Oh really?

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I'd love to see a broadhead arrow do that. :D
 
I personally would'nt use a .243 to go moose hunting because I have quite a few better options (.308, .300winmag). However, if a .243 is all I had access to, I would'nt stay home because of it. I would for sure take it and go hunting.

I have heard that Inuit people use everything from a .270 to a 30-06 for hunting polar bears. They apparantly laugh at the Tourists that go way up North with there .338, and .375h&h calibre rifles. Don't know if its true, but I did read that once.
 
blueflash said:
I personally would'nt use a .243 to go moose hunting because I have quite a few better options (.308, .300winmag). However, if a .243 is all I had access to, I would'nt stay home because of it. I would for sure take it and go hunting.

I have heard that Inuit people use everything from a .270 to a 30-06 for hunting polar bears. They apparantly laugh at the Tourists that go way up North with there .338, and .375h&h calibre rifles. Don't know if its true, but I did read that once.
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It is true, but keep in mind there is no cover whatsoever for wounded or poorly hit animals to escape into in the Arctic. ;)
 
My buddys 15 yr old daughter took her first cow moose last year using a.243 win, and a 100 gr partition. 1 shot behind front leg, double lung and done! That being said this is the only rifle she's used and practised with it's her rifle and she's comfortable with it. Shes taken deer and yotes with same rifle and load so she is familar with it, her Dad was also ready to back her up with his 7mm if needed , but it was not. So yes the .243 is capable of taking a moose , is it the best caliber for the job, no but hey thats just an opinion.
 
Anyone who has killed a moose with a .243 will strongly disagree with those who say it can't be done, as will those who have killed moose with a .22 centerfire. But the .243 comes with so many provisos when a big animal is the target (short range only, broadside only, no rear quartering shots, stay out of the shoulder etc, etc, etc) it certainly doesn't meet my definition of an appropriate cartridge. IMHO, a big game cartridge should have a reasonable expectation of killing the game animal with a single shot, from any shot angle, within the range limitations of the rifle, cartridge, and marksman. With the possible exception of the .25/06, I believe the various 6.5s describe the lower end of practical big game cartridge spectrum when moose, elk, and bear are the intended targets. I personally think that a .243 performs optimally on game of about 100 pounds. Yes, this is arbitrary, and yes, if I was packing my .243 I wouldn't pass up a shot at a 300 pound seal, or a 350 pound caribou, but when you leave home with the intent of hunting a bigger game animal, I believe a larger bore is more appropriate.
 
A casual observer may consider that everything has been written on these postings about this subject, that could be written.
But I'll bet you two squirrel tails and a hatchet with a broken handle against your pair of shoes, that within three weeks some one will start another thread on the same subject and it will carry on as long as this one!
 
H4831 said:
A casual observer may consider that everything has been written on these postings about this subject, that could be written.
But I'll bet you two squirrel tails and a hatchet with a broken handle against your pair of shoes, that within three weeks some one will start another thread on the same subject and it will carry on as long as this one!
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I think BigRedd holds the all time record with his epic .270 Win. vs. .280 Rem. thread.
 
H4831 said:
A casual observer may consider that everything has been written on these postings about this subject, that could be written.
But I'll bet you two squirrel tails and a hatchet with a broken handle against your pair of shoes, that within three weeks some one will start another thread on the same subject and it will carry on as long as this one!
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No taker here!:rolleyes:
 
H4831 said:
A casual observer may consider that everything has been written on these postings about this subject, that could be written.
But I'll bet you two squirrel tails and a hatchet with a broken handle against your pair of shoes, that within three weeks some one will start another thread on the same subject and it will carry on as long as this one!
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Me neither. I will abstain from next week's thread.
 
I'd choose the .30-30 if you're limiting you're shots to 100 yards like you said. If you think the .30-30 is lacking compared to a .243 at those ranges you need to spend more time hunting and less time sitting in the basement reading balistics charts.
 
H4831 said:
A casual observer may consider that everything has been written on these postings about this subject, that could be written.
But I'll bet you two squirrel tails and a hatchet with a broken handle against your pair of shoes, that within three weeks some one will start another thread on the same subject and it will carry on as long as this one!
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Or one could also Google "moose gun" and see what has been mentioned over and over and over again in lots of other gun and hunting sites on the Internet. :D
 
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