Try and convince me the 243 is actually useful

[CBH Australia]

@CBH Australia
Give the 242 another chance, you have to be joking I never gave it a first chance
Yes he's still out there been flat out at the hospital and working at the pub. He comes home Wednesday.
Bob

What pub? I might call past or I can go to the range Sunday arvo if he is free. I have been away a few times between shiftwork.

 

[Flbt]

@CBH Australia
Give the 242 another chance, you have to be joking I never gave it a first chance
Yes he's still out there been flat out at the hospital and working at the pub. He comes home Wednesday.
Bob

Get you a 6mm Remington or the older version the 244.
Y’all have a bounty on feral cats do you not?
If nothing else a 55gr jsp should make a mess. With them lol

 

[CBH Australia]

@Bob Nelson 35Whelen
Well, I heard today that 2, yes 2 Sambar deer were taken on private land in NSW with a .243 this afternoon.
Does that make it useful?

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

@Bob Nelson 35Whelen
Well, I heard today that 2, yes 2 Sambar deer were taken on private land in NSW with a .243 this afternoon.
Does that make it useful?

@CBH Australia
Simple answer mate
NO.
Bob

 

[double rifle newbie]

too light for midwest whitetails. my humble 2 cents

 

[thriller]

As everyone knows is absolutely hate the 243 because if have seen to much game wounded with it by people using the wrong projectiles for the game hunted. Also seen a lot of game just wounded by good shots with projectiles that were supposed to be ideal for the game hunted. Eg a 100gn Remington core lockt factory round put into the ribcage of a fallow deer. One deer died quickly the other with the same shot placement and same factory load run off never to be seen again.
I have reloaded this cartridge for people and have never attained the book velocities.
80gn max load 2,900-3100 fps
95gn SST max load 2,800fps
100grainer max load 2,700-2,800 fps
To me this round fails to live up to all the hype. To big for small game and not really big enough for medium big game.
I know there are people out there that love the 243 but I'm not one of them.
There's also people that say they use it for culling and it works well with head shots for that. Well a baseball bat to the he'd will do the same job.
This could be quite interesting to see some of the reasons why I should stop bagging out the prissy little 243 and see if I can refute some of the so called claims.
Let's keep it respectful but still have some fun and good humoured bantering.
Bob

You know the truth Bob never surrender and lead the way! The 243 is for tomatoes and only tomatoes!!!