Let’s talk about the 243win
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Tang safety rifle I bet. mtmuley
millerkiller77
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Bunch of left over .243 ammo if anyone is interested, shoot me a pm. 4 full cases of the partitions not in the picture but available for sale. 
ismith
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Please tell me you still have that rack. What did he measure?
The Hedgehog
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I was dumb enough to sell a rifle at 19 years old but was never dumb enough to sell that rack, or his previous 2 years of sheds and others.
cahunter805
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A 8 twist is definitely what I’d recommend. It opens up a lot of great options for heavy bullets and copper options in .243.
Some new copper bullets that are light really perform. mtmuley
cahunter805
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Had great results so far from the 80gr hammer!
Me too. A box of 70 grain up next. mtmuley
np307
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Yeah, there's an xbolt for $610 I'm eyeing though. Already threaded vs the tikka I'd have to get threaded based on the models I'm finding in stock. I'm fine shooting 95gr noslers.
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Well let's see, is a 70gr 22 cal bullet any heavier than a 70gr 24 cal bullet? I don't think so but I do suspect the 243 will shoot it faster. What the 22 cal bullet has the 24 cal doesn't is probably a higher BC! Seem's to me that to reap anything out of the 22 cal bullet you have to be planning on shooting much longer ranges! Otherwise why not just use a 55gr 22 cal bullet? I think the plan with heavy 22 cal bullet's is to give people that like to shoot long range something to play with that must have a lot less recoil!
Wonder how far the 22 cal must fire the bullet to get advantage of the high BC? I suspect that a better idea would have been to make a bonded core 24 cal 70 gr bullet!
Wonder how far the 22 cal must fire the bullet to get advantage of the high BC? I suspect that a better idea would have been to make a bonded core 24 cal 70 gr bullet!
millerkiller77
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American Reloading has .243 100gr SP projectiles for 12.7 cents ea. (Qty 500)
grizzly63
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I bought what I thought was 307 Winchester loaded rounds that I was hoping to dump the powder and change the sizing to 356 win. Well that didn't work out so well. You can resize a 307W to 356W but not a 307W that has been resized to 243W. Too much stress even with annealing. Ok I thought, lets see what these are constructed with for components. 100gr flat based spitzers with 44 gr. H4350. Did not see any loads listed that hot in the manuals I have. The feller that had these was into creating falling block single shots which I believe can handle more pressure. Now I may be wrong but I think the 307W is a heavier(thicker) case and will handle a little more pressure. The thicker case would also limit the amount of powder and that would also increase pressure if I have this figured right. In the end I will dump the bullets, save the powder and reload them in a more sensible loading for a Rem 788.
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Congrats. Nice shot!
What bullet were you shooting?
Thanks! 100gr Remington Corelokts
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I wish I could find the article but about 15-20 years ago there was a newspaper article on an elderly lady in one of the Western states that had hunted elk with her .243 for a long time. Seems she had 20 or so elk in the freezer from it. Thank goodness it works for women.
BuzzH
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My friend Jerry packing a raghorn bull he shot with his .243 and 100 grain partitions.
I asked him one day how many elk he killed with his .243, he said " at least 40, but could be 50".
He shot at least 10-12 when I hunted with him. Don't recall him ever shooting one more than once.
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