johnlittletree
Well-Known Member
It shoots almost as flat and with more punch than a 22-250 with more bullets to chose from for all manner of varmint to medium size game like deer.
It has very low recoil making it great for kids and women both small stature and larger.
You can find all kinds of variety of ammo just about every place that sells ammo.
Components are common and never sold out. Not real picky about powder or primers almost anything can be made to work very well.
Can be had in bolt actions, pump's, and semi-auto's so you have a lot of choices.
In sports while it might not be ideal compared to newer and older specility cartridges it has been used by world class rifle men in silhouette and F-Open amount other's to win and for a long time. Mr. Tubb was using it before his XC and Creedmore came along.
On Varmints depending on the bullet being used it can easily be used 600m-1000m. On deer it is not at all hard to call it a 400m and under deer killer especially with 100gr. bullets. In a pinch with the really tough 100gr.-105gr. hunting bullets you could use it for Elk and if need be Mouse but you would need to be much closer than 400m to guarantee a clean kill so long as your shot placement was right on the money! No I would never recommend it as a first choice for anything bigger than deer but sometimes we do not have the choices we would like!
With some of the newer powders you can really push this cartridge to all new levels of performance. I have always in my mind thought of it as a 5.56 Magnum not because it is 5.56mm in diameter but because you can push bullets about 2X as heavy as the 5.56 NATO at higher velocities when talking about 5.56 NATO with 55gr. bullets! So things that might be "questionable" with the 5.56 NATO or .223 Remington are easily done with a huge margin with the .243 Win.
An AR-10 in 243 Win is a very light, handy coyote and deer rifle with a very fast follow up shot if you need it. Before the 260 Rem caught on it was a great compromise from an AR-10 in 7.62 NATO or 308 Win.
It has very low recoil making it great for kids and women both small stature and larger.
You can find all kinds of variety of ammo just about every place that sells ammo.
Components are common and never sold out. Not real picky about powder or primers almost anything can be made to work very well.
Can be had in bolt actions, pump's, and semi-auto's so you have a lot of choices.
In sports while it might not be ideal compared to newer and older specility cartridges it has been used by world class rifle men in silhouette and F-Open amount other's to win and for a long time. Mr. Tubb was using it before his XC and Creedmore came along.
On Varmints depending on the bullet being used it can easily be used 600m-1000m. On deer it is not at all hard to call it a 400m and under deer killer especially with 100gr. bullets. In a pinch with the really tough 100gr.-105gr. hunting bullets you could use it for Elk and if need be Mouse but you would need to be much closer than 400m to guarantee a clean kill so long as your shot placement was right on the money! No I would never recommend it as a first choice for anything bigger than deer but sometimes we do not have the choices we would like!
With some of the newer powders you can really push this cartridge to all new levels of performance. I have always in my mind thought of it as a 5.56 Magnum not because it is 5.56mm in diameter but because you can push bullets about 2X as heavy as the 5.56 NATO at higher velocities when talking about 5.56 NATO with 55gr. bullets! So things that might be "questionable" with the 5.56 NATO or .223 Remington are easily done with a huge margin with the .243 Win.
An AR-10 in 243 Win is a very light, handy coyote and deer rifle with a very fast follow up shot if you need it. Before the 260 Rem caught on it was a great compromise from an AR-10 in 7.62 NATO or 308 Win.
