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Old 05-07-2003, 08:59 PM
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I used the 105 gr round nose extensively for over 10 years. They work great on whitetails. They still carry plenty of trajectory for shots to 300 yds. too. Personally I would use nothing less than a 95 gr. Nosler Ballistic tip as far as weight goes.

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Old 05-09-2003, 01:52 PM
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100 grain but I wouldn' t use a ballistic tip in a .243. I tried them and blowed an entrance hole about 8 inches round when the bullet impacted a rib. It would have been a great hole if it was on the exit side. The deer was hit right in the lung area but managed to go 1/4 mile before dying. I' m a firm believer in ballistic tip in the mid calibers, 7mm mag, 30-06, etc. but the .243 doesn' t seem to have enough punch to deliver the bullet to the deer' s vitals before exploding.
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Old 05-09-2003, 06:56 PM
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I' ve heard accounts from many of the local hunters around here that 105gr bullets don' t stabilize well for them, which is typical when you go putting " heavy for caliber" bullets in any cartridge, the rifling rate is designed to give optimum performance with a specific region of weights in mind, so when something new comes along, it performs poorly, I heard many accounts (or should I say got many complaints) of bullets completely key-holing, as perfect as they could be. One zealous hunter claimed that his bullets were impacting backwards, but I failed to discover how he was certain of that.

As much as I hate to say it, as I don' t feel comfortable sending anything less than 100grs after deer, 95gr bullets typically perform the best, in accuracy and penetration/expansion performance. (I' m a firm believer that you should send bullets 2/3 the average weight of the deer species in #, in grains, i.e. 150# deer=100gr bullet, 220# deer=145-150gr bullet, only problem is when you get up into thousand pound range Elk/moose, there aren' t many 600gr bullets available for 30cals , which are perfectly capable of taking this game. 45cals come close, but they' re usually reserved for 2000#animals.)
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Old 05-11-2003, 12:35 PM
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I use 100gr Nosler partitions. Never had a problem with them.
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Old 05-14-2003, 04:29 PM
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no brainer-- a 100 grainer
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Old 05-14-2003, 07:36 PM
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thats why they make 80;90;95;100;105.everyone has there preference.
I like Winchester 80 grain PSP. my wife uses 100 grain Winchester PSP.
I have never;yes I said NEVER had a problem taking deer with mine.
the only deer I ever shoot and didn' t get was with a 100 grain solid nose 243 bullett.???????
just my 2 cents,there are 98 more
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