Hunting Kuk...You sound like a couple of buddies of mine...We would get ready to sight in their 30-06s, I could tell they were flinching so I acted like I added one more shell, handed them back their gun and they flinched without the gun going off...Franky, one got pretty ticked...I told him that I loved him like a brother and just did him a favor...I then sat down and shot an inch and a quarter group with his own gun...

He now shoots a .243...I see guys post all the time about a .243 being marginal and how you must hit them just right...Guess what, if you are not flinching, it's no problem to hit them were they need to be hit...Heck, the vitals of a deer are at least the size of a volley ball and if you can't hit that every then you are flinching, maybe a .243 will be just what the doctor ordered...

As far as a .243 being lethal, I've killed at least 200 deer and 5 bears with mine, along with countless crows, coyotes, foxes, groundhogs, one feral hog and other critters...

When you can bust a crow at 300 yards, a deer is a cake walk...

You've heard the saying about a fellow with one rifle??? Since 1980 I've shot the same .243 for everything...Buy one, use it and your flinching will cease...