.243 Help

Post #99 reminded me, also, that I generally sight in a 3-9x on 3x... a 1.5-4.5x, I'll run toward the low end, too. I haven't noticed parallax, but I have noticed it's a lot easier to see vs being simultaneously impressed and hampered by cranking up the high magnification.

I bought airline tickets back to Upstate New York for me and the grandson. Sept 25th to Oct 5th. The leaves should be in full color and we will get a lot of squirrel hunting in every morning then do some day trips.

For Deer I use the 100 grain Nosler Partition and have had good performance. On an almost head on shot ( deer w/nose to ground) from slightly elevated position and encountering a lot of bone such as the neck/spine junction I've had it shed the forward portion of lead but the bullet continued on and was found embedded in the rib cage much farther back. Of course the animal dropped where it stood.

Latter today or tomorrow I will see what they have at Cabelas and Sportsmans Warehouse.
What your favorite powder for 243, 6mm.

The cartridge I am shooting is the .243 RCBS, an old wildcat with minimal body taper, steeper shoulder angle and longer neck. It is strictly a handloaders cartridge. The load I am using is 40 grains of IMR 4350 which is a mid range standard .243 Win. load. It was my starting load when I first received the rifle and felt no need for further exploration... Not a hot load by any means but very accurate in my rifle. In my younger days this load shot 1/4" five shot groups at 100 yds. Not sure if I could hold it still enough to do the same now. The barrel is a Hart, made in NY. I use std large rifle primers. Supposedly this caliber will out perform the regular .243 Win. but I've never tried. Works good on whitetail...

The 243 win that I had liked Max charges. I bought it used with some throat erosion so factory loads didn't shoot well in it. I used several powders, imr and h 4895 win 760 and imr 4350. The 4895 powders gave decent accuracy but velocity was a little low. Win 760 gave great accuracy and velocity but had to redo load work up with mag primers. I'm not sure why but felt recoil was higher with standard primers. I worked up to 42.0 gr imr 4350 and stuck with it. It performed better than the others in that rifle. Had to load coal long to get good groups, 2.700", because of the throat erosion.

Highland Lofts said:

Latter today or tomorrow I will see what they have at Cabelas and Sportsmans Warehouse.
What your favorite powder for 243, 6mm.

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.243 with 85-90 gr bullets gets i4451 or if it's casual, i4831, anything heavier runs h1000 period.

My deer poison......
https://www.hornady.com/bullets/rifle/6mm-.243-103-gr-eld-x#!/

I have several types of 243 bullets and just bought a hundred pack of 95 grain Hornady SST.
I also picked up a pound of Alliant Reloader 19 to try.
I have 4350, BL-C2, Varget and a couple of other powders to try.
I made a water trough out of old cedar fence boards that holds nine - one gallon milk jugs inline after I get my ladder runs done I will see what the bullets look like after they get shot in the jugs.
I bought a new phone and have a new camera card in this phone so not to many pictures yet.
I will get pictures of my bullet trap contraption & post it on here. i have a ton of clean milk jugs saved up for doing these test shots.