.243 for Whitetail deer
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Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 39
.243 for Whitetail deer
I just purchased a Thompson Center Contender .243 and i was wondering what would be a good round for that. I will be hunting whitetail with it. I will be reloading my own shells. Any ideas will be helpful. I am new with the whole pistol thing. Thanks
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#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
Posts: 2,178
We use the Remington 100 grain Core Lokts in the Daughters single-shot Rossi Youth Gun in the .243...then I use the more expensive 100 grain Hornady Custom shells in my Browning A-Bolt Hunter .243 Rifle.I've taken 2 nice 8-Point Bucks and several nice size Doe's with it and about 6 Coyotes so far in the past 5 years!
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Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
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Posts: 585
X3 on the corelockts - for whatever reason, I purchase premium ammo for my .300WSM, but have always been happy with the inexpensive (relative term with today's ammo prices) Remington corelockts. 10 yards has been the farthest they've traveled after the shot.