I've owned a couple ADL's in the past and one of them was a 243 that i purchased for my daughter. It's a good gun for the money. I handload so i never really shot that much factory ammo from the gun maybe 20rds just to break it in and as i remember they grouped well. The load that shot best that my daughter hunted with was the Sierra 120gr PH with RL19. She killed her first deer and several others with that load with no problems.