ORIGINAL: ipscshooter


I wasn't taking anything as a personal attack. I was sharing my opinion, just like you were. I tend to doubt that the original poster is a handloader, as he had never heard of the Roberts before, which is why I was restricting my comments to factory loadings. And, I found it very odd that folks were gushing praise over the Roberts, while denigrating the .243, which, in factory loads, has a solid edge in performance. I'm sorry, but 17 grains of bullet weightand 14 thousandths of an inch of diameterdo not make the Roberts a better deer cartridge, particularly when the .243 has 100 ft lbs more energy at 100 yards and 200+ more ft lbs at 200 yards, and that's with the +P loading in the .257. As I've said all along, the .257 is an excellent deer cartridge. But, it's notany better than the .243.