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Where does the .243 win fit in?
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<blockquote data-quote="Derek M." data-source="post: 596012" data-attributes="member: 2693"><p>I know the 243 works on deer. I just nag on it because of one bad experience that was about as bad as it gets. </p><p></p><p>What I should say in a joking manner is that it doesn't kill quickly enough for my liking based on what I've seen. </p><p></p><p>I was sitting next to a hunting buddy on a piece of property and we were about 100 or so yards from the property line and I had been hunting this honey hole for about 9 years with excellent luck. My buddy brought a 243 which I had never had any experience. </p><p></p><p>Along comes at big toad of a whitetail buck at 50 yards and he drills it through the lungs and off it goes, running top speed, down the mountain, "dead on its feet."</p><p></p><p>Well as bad luck would have it, the buck made it quite a distance, jumped on to the neighboring hunting club and BOOM BOOM, our neighbors put it down and that was that. </p><p></p><p>We saw the buck was hit well by the tiny little inadequate bullet leaving a tiny little inadequate hole right behind the shoulder. Our good neighbor reminded us that since they put the deer down, it was there's and I didn't disagree. They dropped it, not my buddy. </p><p></p><p>That buck would have been my buddy's biggest whitetail buck. It fell to 2 shots by a 30 cal. with a well placed shoulder shot that made a very adequate hole</p><p></p><p>So, to that, it's not so much that the 243 won't drop a deer. It will. It just doesn't do it fast enough for me based on that and a few hunts I've seen and videoed in Wyoming and Colorado and Nebraska. </p><p></p><p>Every big game animal I saw shot with that little yote gun ran a good distance with well placed kill shots. And honestly, it's not many. Maybe about 7 total animals. </p><p></p><p>I'm used to bang-flop with a rifle. That's my experience. </p><p></p><p>I continue to give my bud a bunch of crap for using a coyote gun on a deer. He tells me to go to hell and I then talk about how good that buck must look on someone else's wall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derek M., post: 596012, member: 2693"] I know the 243 works on deer. I just nag on it because of one bad experience that was about as bad as it gets. What I should say in a joking manner is that it doesn't kill quickly enough for my liking based on what I've seen. I was sitting next to a hunting buddy on a piece of property and we were about 100 or so yards from the property line and I had been hunting this honey hole for about 9 years with excellent luck. My buddy brought a 243 which I had never had any experience. Along comes at big toad of a whitetail buck at 50 yards and he drills it through the lungs and off it goes, running top speed, down the mountain, "dead on its feet." Well as bad luck would have it, the buck made it quite a distance, jumped on to the neighboring hunting club and BOOM BOOM, our neighbors put it down and that was that. We saw the buck was hit well by the tiny little inadequate bullet leaving a tiny little inadequate hole right behind the shoulder. Our good neighbor reminded us that since they put the deer down, it was there's and I didn't disagree. They dropped it, not my buddy. That buck would have been my buddy's biggest whitetail buck. It fell to 2 shots by a 30 cal. with a well placed shoulder shot that made a very adequate hole So, to that, it's not so much that the 243 won't drop a deer. It will. It just doesn't do it fast enough for me based on that and a few hunts I've seen and videoed in Wyoming and Colorado and Nebraska. Every big game animal I saw shot with that little yote gun ran a good distance with well placed kill shots. And honestly, it's not many. Maybe about 7 total animals. I'm used to bang-flop with a rifle. That's my experience. I continue to give my bud a bunch of crap for using a coyote gun on a deer. He tells me to go to hell and I then talk about how good that buck must look on someone else's wall. [/QUOTE]
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