Thread: 243 ammo advice

Originally Posted by chainsaw

the "cheap" 80 or 100 gn sp ammo like Federal powershock is hard to beat for hunting out to 200 yds

As most know i love the 243, its my go to rifle and honestly the Fed powershoks in 100gr are awesome for bush hunting, out to 250m. I havnt lost one animal yet with these and shot plenty of deer, pigs , goats.
They are as good as you going to get, cheap, work as good as anything, prob better as dead is dead. Work great on big stags, the 243 and 100 gr powershoks is y roar rifle even thou i have a 308 as well.
Of course your rifle has to like them otherwise take up the other advice but im never changing ammo in my 243. Anywhere in the shoulder, chest region and the powershok will drop it. Not sure how good the 80gr are, never tried them but the 100gr is the bomb

Originally Posted by deer243

As most know i love the 243, its my go to rifle and honestly the Fed powershoks in 100gr are awesome for bush hunting, out to 250m. I havnt lost one animal yet with these and shot plenty of deer, pigs , goats.
They are as good as you going to get, cheap, work as good as anything, prob better as dead is dead. Work great on big stags, the 243 and 100 gr powershoks is y roar rifle even thou i have a 308 as well.
Of course your rifle has to like them otherwise take up the other advice but im never changing ammo in my 243. Anywhere in the shoulder, chest region and the powershok will drop it. Not sure how good the 80gr are, never tried them but the 100gr is the bomb

Yuck. Poo-Four-Free. The three here with 1:9.25" twist seem to love the 100gn pills. From factory ammo they really like the Winchester Super-X 100gn. Handloads the Speer and Sierra boat tail spire points go extremely well and seem to perform identically ballistically.