Thread: loading for the 243

Originally Posted by kiwi39

What about the Vmax 87 ?? Anyone used them on deer ?

My bet is they'd do the job ....


Tim

I think the 87 vmax are a varmint round, the Hdy 87 hollowpoint boattail and sierra 85 hpbt gameking are more for deer. These two rounds are both boattail and my rem prefers flatbased bullets. Hence why I want to try the Hdy 87 softpoint flatbased on deer.

The V-max is pretty explosive up close.
The 95 Berger is great on deer!

Anyone using the 90grain speer hot cor on game. My m700 shoots well with these using 44g of 2209 but havnt tried them on game yet.

Originally Posted by foxhound

Anyone using the 90grain speer hot cor on game. My m700 shoots well with these using 44g of 2209 but havnt tried them on game yet.

They will be great. Their little 80 grn brothers are.

@Tahr where did you find the 80 grn Speer hot cor they don't list them on the Speer web site, google failed me.. is this the exact same pill they use in the Federal 80grn power-shok

Originally Posted by moonhunt

@Tahr where did you find the 80 grn Speer hot cor they don't list them on the Speer web site, google failed me.. is this the exact same pill they use in the Federal 80grn power-shok

Yeah, seems to be the same bullet. I will have a look at the serial # on the box. I got my last ones from Mainly Hunting about 6 months ago, but they have closed down.

I used a lot of 85 sierra HPBT shooting over long distances in the tussock during the culling, meat hunting era. I loved them but the deer didn't.
Very accurate and hard hitting projectile.

The Norma 205 powder we used is no longer available mores the pity.

Bugger, hopefully some can be found, it is by far the most accurate factory load I've ever tried , would love to load a few

Graeme, I have a wee stock of those pills

Are you "on the lands"?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Are you "on the lands"?

Final tuning test today ... 35th off the lands with the targex 95s produced an overlapping group incl the cold bore shot at 150yds


Tim

Cuppla thou off..but apparently Vlds don't necessarily like that ... How far off were you ??

My next tuning test is to try different jumps in increments of 30thou

On the lands as recommended, mine was a 595 tho which I think has a longer mag than the t3?
using 2208 which in theory is a bit fast for 95gr but accuracy was exceptional, I ran at max as accuracy was still under half moa and I would rather have the energy than 1/4 moa accuracy in a hunting rifle.

well went out today , had around 3to4 km breeze first load went .8+moa .030 off and the second whent .5984moa (4.7") .010 jam so a bit more tuning to do but if thats all it will do

i'm happy with it

edit this was at 750y

I don't have access to a chrony, but what sort of speed would I expect to get from my 243 running a 20.5 inch barrel, Load is 44.2grains ADI 2209, 90grain speer Hot- Cor, CCI primers. It has around 3.5- 4inch drop from 100 to 200m