I am with T22, I have been hunting with a Rem 742 Woodsmaster .243 for alot of years, I have never lost a deer with it.
The ghetto dude is another big buck slaya.....
Ghetto,
How do you explain from the data you posted that the 25 caliber seems more deadly than any of the bigger calibers listed? Is that difference statistically significant?
I've killed deer with a 6mm out to 300 yards. I've had deer run off after being shot with 8mm from much closer. Every shot is different. A 243 is plenty adequate for deer. A howitzer won't kill them any deader.
you right. football bat. just tell him buy a few boxes of shell tune your rifle and give'er hell. dont tell everyone how you aint gonna get the job done with what you are working with. people need encouragement. i just dont get it.
I still fly that southern flag.
Whistling Dixie loud enough to brag.
Dook, that's exactly what my first one was. It was a flat out deer killing machine. I did however have some firing pin issues which I heard some others did to. I have since bought a Ruger M77 .243 in stainless to shoot to save the Woodsmaster for my son. I do have one of those fancy ass Browning Eclipse .270 thumbhole stock with a Luepold if any body is interested. If I can see it I will have 3 pansy ass women shooting .243.
I never had firing pin issues, but I did let is get filthy one year, and have the clip jamb up on me. totally operator error.
when I was 9, dad got me a 30-30 windchester, I go sit in a stand by myself and whack a doe at 25 yards - my first nanny goat ever, I go to get him out of the stand to help drag her, and he had 3 deer dead in the same road. 2 does that came out early, and an 8 pt that tried to get out of the cutover after I shot the doe.
Nary a one run for more than 20-30 steps.
Shot placement is what matters. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but i have killed over 20 deer with a .223 shots all behind the shoulder on depredation permit trying to keep noise down.
Last edited by BRR; 09-30-2010 at 03:27 PM.
i love my .243
These threads make me want to go shoot a button buck, knowing it was a button buck, in the head with a .243, post pictures, and make up an excuse as to why I did it, just to get y'all worked up.
My usual bass shooting gun is a .270, but I do need to put a scope on my .243 and shoot it, too. And wearing tube socks goes without saying, so no point in trying to insult me by saying that
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