logo
 

Go Back   HuntingNet.com Forums > Firearms Forum > Reloading

Reloading Share techniques for reloading, where to get the hottest in reloading equipment and learn how to reload from fellow hunters.

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 01-11-2010, 06:46 AM   #1
Spike
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 92
Default Load for deer for 243

I just purchased a pre 64 mod 70 in 243 ca. Any tips on good loads will be appreciated. A friend shoot a 95 gr purple tip bullet but the guy that loaded it for him died and he doesn't know anything else about the load. Help please, Rusty
dead on is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-11-2010, 07:00 AM   #2
Nontypical Buck
 
driftrider's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Coralville, IA. USA
Posts: 3,805
Default

The purple tipped bullet is a Nosler Ballistic Tip. Good deer bullet if you try to avoid shots through a lot of bone and muscle (shoulder) or where deep penetration is required (Texas heart shot). Stick that BT through a deer's ribs with a 243 and it won't go far. I've never had any trouble getting very good to excellent accuracy from BT's. For load data, Nosler publishes a few loads on their website. The Nosler BT is a very popular bullet and load data can be had in a number of places, or you can buy the Nosler load manual, too. Check out Hodgdon's website for more load recipes. I've always had good luck with Hodgdon powders too.

Mike
driftrider is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-11-2010, 07:04 AM   #3
Typical Buck
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location:
Posts: 568
Default

Obviously not every load shoots good in every gun, but my go to deer load is h414 and 100 gr sierra gamekings. 95 gr tipped purple is probably nosler ballistic tips. I know the 80 nbts are purple and the 87 gr hornady v-max and 105 a-max are red tipped. H or imr4350 and imr4895 are also good powders out of the .243. I've had good accuracy and velocity out of imr4895 with 70-80 gr varmint bullets.
okgobbler is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-11-2010, 07:31 AM   #4
Nontypical Buck
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Garfield NJ USA
Posts: 3,067
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by okgobbler View Post
Obviously not every load shoots good in every gun, but my go to deer load is h414 and 100 gr sierra gamekings. 95 gr tipped purple is probably nosler ballistic tips. I know the 80 nbts are purple and the 87 gr hornady v-max and 105 a-max are red tipped. H or imr4350 and imr4895 are also good powders out of the .243. I've had good accuracy and velocity out of imr4895 with 70-80 gr varmint bullets.
All Nosler 6mm ballistic tips are purple. All Hornady SST's are red, for some reason they did not color code them like Nosler.
__________________
Obama=The Fourth Reich,
Just look at the parallels of the Nazi regime and the Obama Administration amazingly similar arent' they.
thndrchiken is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-13-2010, 04:53 PM   #5
Giant Nontypical
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 6,259
Default

When I had a .243 I shot 40.5 gr of IMR4350 and Hornady 100 gr Interlock bullets. This load killed everything from groundhogs, coyotes and deer.
__________________
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE RISING COST IN AMMO PRICES I WILL NO LONGER BE FIRING A WARNING SHOT.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.
I'm not as good as I'm gonna get - but I'm better than I used to be.
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."
bronko22000 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2010, 01:41 PM   #6
Nontypical Buck
 
DannyD's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 2,414
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by bronko22000 View Post
When I had a .243 I shot 40.5 gr of IMR4350 and Hornady 100 gr Interlock bullets. This load killed everything from groundhogs, coyotes and deer.
I'm using the same exact bullet and powder although i am running 41.0
DannyD is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2010, 03:04 PM   #7
DKA
Spike
 
DKA's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Lumberton, NC
Posts: 43
Default

My XS7 243 gets -.5" 3 shot groups @ 100 yds. with Nosler Ballistic Tips and IMR 4350.
__________________
Squeeze The Trigger
DKA is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-20-2010, 07:01 PM   #8
Typical Buck
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Wide open Nevada
Posts: 512
Default

I won't use the 100 gr gamekings again. I shot them in a savage 99 over about 40 grs of 4350. It was bad 6mm in dime out through about 24 " of mule deer. It took 3 shots and she ran about 80 yards up hill. All 3 passed through lungs and within 1-3" of the heart. My oldest boy quit hunting after that hunt too.
__________________
Ragedy red neck works to hunt
"I was powerfull confused for a month or two once but never lost " Brian Kieth in Mountain Men.
harter66 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-21-2010, 02:45 AM   #9
Nontypical Buck
 
Swampdog 's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Danville Va. U.S.A.
Posts: 2,324
Default

85 grain sierra bthp.With what ever powder does you best.That little bullet is instant death on a deer.Before I used these I always used the Hornady btsp in 100 grain .Never a problem.But back then I was using 4064 and a Lee hand loader.Bone stock Rem.model 788.
__________________
Danville Va.LAST CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY
Swampdog  is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-21-2010, 09:34 AM   #10
Typical Buck
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Wide open Nevada
Posts: 512
Default

I need to include that the shots were under 80 yards. The load and bullet were exceptional on paper and by the book but IMO didn't do the job as expected. I think that the 90 grain would preform better in the role I had it in. Perhaps if we were shoulder shooters rather than boiler housers the out come would have been "better"

I know "1 deer 1 time isn't an indicater of total bullet preformance".
__________________
Ragedy red neck works to hunt
"I was powerfull confused for a month or two once but never lost " Brian Kieth in Mountain Men.
harter66 is offline   Reply With Quote
 
 
Reply


Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off

 

All times are GMT -8. The time now is 04:25 PM.