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Depends on where your hunting. A .243 is pretty good if you want to practice tracking deer. .257 Roberts or a .260 will work to perfection.
I call BS on this...The .243 made the .257 Roberts obsolete...Forget the .260, it's a dying cartridge...I have a buddy that bought one the first year, couldn't get it to group 140s...He ended up reloading, then switched to a .243 after he helped me clean a few dozen deer...
Posts: 36
Joined: 9/26/2007
Status: online Depends on where your hunting. A .243 is pretty good if you want to practice tracking deer. .257 Roberts or a .260 will work to perfection.
I call BS on this as well.....
I own one centerfire rifle...A 1980 model Ruger .243...I have killed over 150 whitetails with this gun, from 3 steps to 300 yards...Never lost a one...If you want to drop a deer, just put the bullet in the shoulder blade...I have killed them from sharp quartering away and quartering towards, no problem....
If you want a bullet that exits, use the 100 gr Remington CoreLokts, 100 gr Federal Nosler Partition or the 100gr Hornaday Custom InterBond...If shots will be over 200 yards I have had good luck with the Federal Premium 85gr HPBT Sierra GameKing...The 100gr Federal Premium Sierra SPBT GameKing is also a good bullet, but didn't give consistant exit holes for me inside 50 yards...