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Old 01-11-2010, 07:31 AM
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thndrchiken
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Originally Posted by okgobbler
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.
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