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Originally Posted by 3blade
My current go to hunting rifle is the 243 and the 80 gr ttsx. Very effective combo and minimal meat loss when you clip a shoulder. Made the switch a few years ago and couldn’t be happier.
Highly recommend mono metal bullets and keeping shots on game to 300 yards or less.
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We took one Antelope and three deer last year with my sons cheap $350 savage 243 with 80 grain Barnes ttsx bullets running about 3120 FPS average all one shot no issues. As I worked out the math to retain expansion you defiantly don’t want to go over 400 yards, under 300 even better.
I was testing the load so we shot all our critters with it last season and it worked well.
Antelope dropped instantly.
One WT and one MD lung shots went under 50 yards.
One WT heart shot runner made it about 80 yards with an eight foot wide blood trail.
243’s have killed a lot of deer over the years.