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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
243 or 25-06
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<blockquote data-quote="Jud96" data-source="post: 1319237" data-attributes="member: 69478"><p>It's still cheaper to load for.... cheaper brass, more available brass, uses less powder which means you buy it less, bullets are cheaper, many loads that are accurate and the .243 is not picky. I've spent a lot of time with mine and a couple others and it's easy to load for and isn't picky. There's also more rifles available in .243! So everything I originally said still stands. The .25-06 has nothing better going for it that the .243 can't match or out due. I presented ballistic charts proving that the .243 equals the .25-06 with the 100gr bullets like you mentioned earlier. </p><p></p><p>Speed doesn't mean anything if the other cartridge has a higher BC and matches the other down range. My .243 spits 75s at 3550fps but my .308 Norma pushes a 208gr at 2900fps. Which has more killing power and better ballistics the Norma. If you actually look at the charts I provided you would see the .243 is neck in neck with the .25-06 out to 1000 yards and even begins to have more energy the further you go out and past 500yds the .243 has more velocity than the .25-06. The .243 also has less wind drift. And wider range of application? You can shoot anything from a Nosler 55gr up to a 115gr Tubb bullet in a .243.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jud96, post: 1319237, member: 69478"] It's still cheaper to load for.... cheaper brass, more available brass, uses less powder which means you buy it less, bullets are cheaper, many loads that are accurate and the .243 is not picky. I've spent a lot of time with mine and a couple others and it's easy to load for and isn't picky. There's also more rifles available in .243! So everything I originally said still stands. The .25-06 has nothing better going for it that the .243 can't match or out due. I presented ballistic charts proving that the .243 equals the .25-06 with the 100gr bullets like you mentioned earlier. Speed doesn't mean anything if the other cartridge has a higher BC and matches the other down range. My .243 spits 75s at 3550fps but my .308 Norma pushes a 208gr at 2900fps. Which has more killing power and better ballistics the Norma. If you actually look at the charts I provided you would see the .243 is neck in neck with the .25-06 out to 1000 yards and even begins to have more energy the further you go out and past 500yds the .243 has more velocity than the .25-06. The .243 also has less wind drift. And wider range of application? You can shoot anything from a Nosler 55gr up to a 115gr Tubb bullet in a .243..... [/QUOTE]
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