If you fellows would quit flinching and shooting them in the guts, you wouldn't have any problems... :)

I grew up shooting squirrels, in the head with an open sighted .22...Never had a problem killing deer...The hunters that show up at our camp with the big bores are the ones who can't shoot and we end up tracking their deer...

I've never shot a deer in the guts with my .243 or any other gun, I guess those that do, need a bigger gun.... :)

Like I said 2800FPS 85gr. HPBT bang flop from crows to deer and all those whistle pigs coyotes coons and possums. At one time many years ago My brother and a cousin used them on snow shoe hare across valleys in clear cut in march when the snow was melting. Only target was the shiny black eye.

:D Al

well then as many times as I've worn the badge "magnum eyebrow" then I'll never kill another deer!
heck I use to shoot a 25" barreled 10 ga with a scope off a bench that actualy rattled my teeth loose, reckon my shootin days are over, anybody wanna buy a couple junk rifles?
RR

Come on RR...

You know I'm not saying that happens to everyone or even most people, but becoming recoil shy is very real, and young kids can be affected easily. I know several guys that are adults that have had issues with it over the years, one took several years to get over it after being busted hard 2 times with a .300 wby.

I still stand by my choice of .243 as a great rifle for kids, (and also adults.) To say its not, well that just doesn't jive with reality. Certainly there are other great rifles too...but just because they are bigger, doesn't automatically mean they will do better.

And btw... I shoot a single shot full choke 36" barrel 10ga w 3.5's for turkey...I can relate to the teeth rattling. It comes straight back, right now. But boy does it put a hurting on the other end :D

you've never heard me complain about the 243, heck I own 2, though I prefer the 6mm.
RR

I agree the 6mm rem is a good choice. I own all 3, 243, 6mm, 7/08. I will and will also pick the 7/08 out of those 3. I know of a lot of deer killed with the 6mm in my part of wv. Those where manly in remington 742.

If only you were left handed....;)

I have 5 243's in the safe...2 of which are my 55# 9 year old daughters...she started shooting a 243 when she was a 45# 6 year old and has hunted with a Weatherby Vanguard in .243 for 3 seasons now. My niece also hunts with a Vanguard in 243 as well...and over the past 3 seasons I have watched these 2 girls take over half-a-dozen deer and 2 caribou with 243's pushing 100g Nosler Partitions...all of those animals have been DRT except for one, that ran all of 40 yards...shot placement, not horsepower kills deer in their tracks...If you hit a deer poorly with that 33-378 Weatherby...it's gonna run, and run a long ways!

Here is my daughter with this years buck...a nice 112" 8 point taken at 106 yards with a 243..."bang flop"...1 shot!

Great picture!

I AM!




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RR