I imagine you're trying to get a rise - but I doubt anyone would argue that roe were anything but small game!
Have you actually shot with a .243? Try it - you might like it...
243 fazination???
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I imagine you're trying to get a rise - but I doubt anyone would argue that roe were anything but small game!
Have you actually shot with a .243? Try it - you might like it...
Woodsmoke
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MARCBO
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My father once had a 243. As I recall, the follower was anodized pink. Only the follower so it was hidden from casual observation. He could not abide it so it was a short possession.
SS
Cool I'll use 500 grain solids in my 45-120, big hole going in n'all. Thanks for the heads up.
honestly, the .243 is a great little round. bucks the wind and has good reach for foxes and vermin, also excellent, truly excellent on small deer species, either with light highly fragmenting bullets for head/neck shots, or 85-100g for high shoulder or heart/lung shots. Easily handles red deer,, except for could be considered a touch on the small side for the big rutting stags. Also, puts light deer down quick and doesn't cause excessive meat damage, although I realise that lingers on bullet construction, speed and placement too, but ceteris paribus.
I think one of either 7x57, .257 or .243 would be my chosen 'go to' and 'do it all' UK calibre, if foxing/vermin/light deer focused in the majority, either the .243 or the quarterbore, but if light to medium deer was the majority of the work, 7x57
I think one of either 7x57, .257 or .243 would be my chosen 'go to' and 'do it all' UK calibre, if foxing/vermin/light deer focused in the majority, either the .243 or the quarterbore, but if light to medium deer was the majority of the work, 7x57
So, in fact, you have no idea what you're talking about?
MARCBO
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Seen plenty used to know better. Sort of like not needing to jump off a cliff myself to learn the lesson.
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palmer_mike
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I know, it's like a one man .243 hate fest. Got to admire his stamina though (even if he is wrong, lol)
MARCBO
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palmer_mike
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bunch of non-.243 using pansies
You go on a fishing expedition and cry bully when they bite??
MARCBO
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You don't see me cry, I know the 243 girls can't handle a real gun. I recall the operative word used here is "adequate", more like "minmal and all they can handle".
SS
You don't see me cry, I know the 243 girls can't handle a real gun. I recall the operative word used here is "adequate", more like "minmal and all they can handle".
I suppose that makes me .222 toddler...
MARCBO
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It is ok Mungo, your time will come. A curiousity though, you are not using a muzzle break on it are you?
SS
Ah - I see you too have encountered the fearsome treble.
palmer_mike
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Really?A bigger gun makes a deer more dead.............
i thought a deer was either dead or not dead......
i have a .243 and a .308 which I shoot deer with, can't say they are more dead shooting them with the .308.
