Thread: Why the 243 is ideal for the elderly

He was hunting up near central north island early nineties with a mate together they spotted a big red in velvet,sounded like a monster the old buck fever must have kicked in they split up.Mate thought he was it and shot him,under 80 metres luckly they were both fit as his mate ran out and chopper came and got him think 8 hours later flew him to Palmerston North hospital.He said the whole time he lay in litres of blood he was freaking out a pig would smell it and come and get him .Myself would be thinking i would bleed to death,most people would have he was in training to run his first marathon,being that fit saved his life.He is a busy family man now but still gets out for a deer and duck.

Too much , now that's down to earth and yeah there is a lot of that `useless` talk these days , over the 40 years hunting with a few rifles and calibres , cant say I have owned anything useless and if I didn't get a clean kill it was fault of my own

Ain't that the fucking truth

Originally Posted by lloydcj

Too much , now that's down to earth and yeah there is a lot of that `useless` talk these days , over the 40 years hunting with a few rifles and calibres , cant say I have owned anything useless and if I didn't get a clean kill it was fault of my own

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I got all excited when I saw the title of this thread! 243 its almost as bad as 7mm08 (ducking for cover)

Just to change the subject slightly I had a 7mm08 when they started coming into the country it lasted about 3 weeks and I traded it in on another 270 they are S--T imo

Originally Posted by 260rem

Just to change the subject slightly I had a 7mm08 when they started coming into the country it lasted about 3 weeks and I traded it in on another 270 they are S--T imo

Haha . A good tradey never blames his tools

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Originally Posted by Tussock

And your name is .260rem.....…

The sako 270 was my go to rifle for many years but a back injury a couple of years ago made me change to a lighter rifle with little recoil I now use a 260
As for the 7mm08 statement about a workman blameing his tools it was a Remington

This thread cracks me up good job. Well i have a 243 i love it takes down samba a bit more shot placement and care needed but end result is the same frezzer full im happy with it

I like 243s first ever gun i shot past 200with smoked goats at 400 no worries. Biggest pig i ever shot was with a 223 and it died on the spot. Caliber debates are funny and like tits with no nipples.

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Yea i get it. Was just havin my 2c . You know me if theres something pointless going on i have to be invovled

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The 243 i have has been around longer then i can remember,.... Heavy and a semi,...but it would be the most accurate gun i have ever shot with, i havent had a problem with it dropping animals,...thats unless i suppose you like shooting things in the arse!!!!
Well placed shots can drop most animals,.....

Originally Posted by jakewire

Now let get one thing straight, I am deliberately trying to start an arguement here

The 22 250 is know as a barrel burner, but not much is said of the 243.
The 243 is an over bore cartridge that has a barrel life ,maybe 1500-2000 rds, same as the 22 250.
People who buy a 243 usually expect it to last forever, it won't.
The 243 , in my opinion, should have been strangled at birth, it should have never taken off.
The only reason it did was because Remington never pushed the 6mm enough.

It's fucken hopeless, A 100 gr bullet in the real world barely makes 2800.
To make it accurate out to 500yrds plus,you have rebarrel.
To make it accurate at 200 you have to use lighter bullets.
It doesn't do anything a decent Varmint rifle won't do and it doesn't do anything a decent Rifle will do.


I will add other things as I think about them.

Suggest you step away from 100gr and try 85gr or 87gr. Bet you if you try 85gr Barnes you will never have anything other than very dead deer.

1500-2000 sounds good , my new 243 has fired 12 rounds to sight in and if I do the maths in reverse and finish hunting at 74 years then I can shoot 100 bullets a year for the next 20 years, do the numbers decline with hornady superformance ?

I like how, despite it being noted repeatedly that this is a blatant half-assed troll thread from 2011, people continue to respond to it seriously

Its the perfect thread then .

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Im not losing any sleep over this thread cos it falls in between anything else I use and its only a .243......