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<blockquote data-quote="joseph" data-source="post: 755433" data-attributes="member: 19151"><p>BOO, BOO, BOO!!!! lightbulblightbulblightbulblightbulb</p><p></p><p>Please get the WSSMs out of your system it will be a big mistake. Every rifle made by the manufactures like Winchester & Browning chrome plate the inside of the barrels so they don't burn out by 500 rounds. ( if you don't believe me call them and ask like I did) Then even with the chrome plating you will lose accuracy by 1,500 rounds. Lots of negatives with these calibers. I have a Winchester Coyote .243 WSSM with a factory S/S varmint barrel. I did everything I could to get it to shoot more accurate. I glass bedded & pillar bedded the laminated wood stock and got it to shoot consistently 5/8" five shot groups with my best reloads. The 55 gr bullets shot the best. The factory 55 gr. ammo shot exactly the same. OH, you also have to bump the shoulders back (very critical to do with them) or they are very hard to close the bolt with your reloads. Not only that they are very hard to find ammo in stores at any price and before the "RUSH" they were at least $40.00 a box of 20. AND if you find a used one the barrel most likely will be burned out. You could get an after market S/S match barrel and if it is not chromed it will burn out in 500 rounds also. This is all IMHO.</p><p></p><p>joseph</p><p></p><p>PS: I forgot to say something good about them???? Oh the Winchester Coyote action has a threaded hole for a third action screw just in front of the trigger guard which is not used on factory guns which I even pillar bedded with no help.</p><p></p><p>The .243 is a good choice, but if you can consider the 6mm Norma BR. Reloading is easy. Buy Lapua brass and you don't have to turn the necks and they are extremely accurate. I reload them with a Dillon XL-650 which is a progressive press and my hunting rifle I had built for antelope hunting shoots less than 1/2" five inch groups at 200 yds. AND hardly kicks. OH, The .243 has very little gain in velocity over the 6mm Norma BR.</p><p></p><p>Here are two targets: one = 3/8" at 200 yds. and a 1,000 yd. target with 3 five shot groups with the group sizes in the lower right corner. All 15 shots would have hit the boiler room of an antelope at 1,000 yards. gun)- - - - - - - - - -</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joseph, post: 755433, member: 19151"] BOO, BOO, BOO!!!! lightbulblightbulblightbulblightbulb Please get the WSSMs out of your system it will be a big mistake. Every rifle made by the manufactures like Winchester & Browning chrome plate the inside of the barrels so they don't burn out by 500 rounds. ( if you don't believe me call them and ask like I did) Then even with the chrome plating you will lose accuracy by 1,500 rounds. Lots of negatives with these calibers. I have a Winchester Coyote .243 WSSM with a factory S/S varmint barrel. I did everything I could to get it to shoot more accurate. I glass bedded & pillar bedded the laminated wood stock and got it to shoot consistently 5/8" five shot groups with my best reloads. The 55 gr bullets shot the best. The factory 55 gr. ammo shot exactly the same. OH, you also have to bump the shoulders back (very critical to do with them) or they are very hard to close the bolt with your reloads. Not only that they are very hard to find ammo in stores at any price and before the "RUSH" they were at least $40.00 a box of 20. AND if you find a used one the barrel most likely will be burned out. You could get an after market S/S match barrel and if it is not chromed it will burn out in 500 rounds also. This is all IMHO. joseph PS: I forgot to say something good about them???? Oh the Winchester Coyote action has a threaded hole for a third action screw just in front of the trigger guard which is not used on factory guns which I even pillar bedded with no help. The .243 is a good choice, but if you can consider the 6mm Norma BR. Reloading is easy. Buy Lapua brass and you don't have to turn the necks and they are extremely accurate. I reload them with a Dillon XL-650 which is a progressive press and my hunting rifle I had built for antelope hunting shoots less than 1/2" five inch groups at 200 yds. AND hardly kicks. OH, The .243 has very little gain in velocity over the 6mm Norma BR. Here are two targets: one = 3/8" at 200 yds. and a 1,000 yd. target with 3 five shot groups with the group sizes in the lower right corner. All 15 shots would have hit the boiler room of an antelope at 1,000 yards. gun)- - - - - - - - - - [/QUOTE]
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