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Is the 243 the best whitetail deer cartridge?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Matteson" data-source="post: 2856235" data-attributes="member: 101791"><p>I didn't realize that. I recall something about hitting somebody in the liver, but that about all. I have over the years seen a lot of animals hit in the liver and they all did the same thing. Go a very short distance and drop their nose to the ground and start backing up and shacking until they drop. </p><p>2nd part. I load a bunch of loads all one type and all the same bullets powder, primers. We check his zero. Out the first morning his got his buck. 5 shots. When I got up to him. He said those reloads didn't work. 1 hit in the front hoof. 1 hit a little higher on the same leg, another hit, this the front leg below the brisket, 1 hit the brisket, it only grazed it. Findly he shot it in the neck. Gee it went down. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> He never was a very steady shot with a rifle. Give him a shotgun and sure takes down the birds. Buck fever I guess. I can't say I never missed either. He has gotten better over the years.</p><p>I have lost one. Learn to stay and watch the animal down until I am danm sure it's down. Spent an afternoon tacking one, but finally lost it. That dam deer even across four lanes of a freeway. Dam I hate loosing an animal. I will try and track anybody animal if possible to do so. </p><p>3rd part: The 243 I feel is just find for deer. Other than that I feel it's a little light. If the bullet place properly it doesn't matter. Longer ranges it loose it hitting power. </p><p>The first thing I look at in a rifle is what size or grain of a bullet and the velocity it's doing. I use most rifles the pushest a bullet over 3000fps. Then what weight is the bullet is being pushed down the tube. </p><p>I kind of marvel at people that are using really heavy of super mag, with 300+ grain bullets shoot all types of animals. Not my shoulder. I am waiting for the 50 cal case neck down to 6.5 cal. or a 300gr bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Matteson, post: 2856235, member: 101791"] I didn't realize that. I recall something about hitting somebody in the liver, but that about all. I have over the years seen a lot of animals hit in the liver and they all did the same thing. Go a very short distance and drop their nose to the ground and start backing up and shacking until they drop. 2nd part. I load a bunch of loads all one type and all the same bullets powder, primers. We check his zero. Out the first morning his got his buck. 5 shots. When I got up to him. He said those reloads didn't work. 1 hit in the front hoof. 1 hit a little higher on the same leg, another hit, this the front leg below the brisket, 1 hit the brisket, it only grazed it. Findly he shot it in the neck. Gee it went down. 🤣 He never was a very steady shot with a rifle. Give him a shotgun and sure takes down the birds. Buck fever I guess. I can't say I never missed either. He has gotten better over the years. I have lost one. Learn to stay and watch the animal down until I am danm sure it's down. Spent an afternoon tacking one, but finally lost it. That dam deer even across four lanes of a freeway. Dam I hate loosing an animal. I will try and track anybody animal if possible to do so. 3rd part: The 243 I feel is just find for deer. Other than that I feel it's a little light. If the bullet place properly it doesn't matter. Longer ranges it loose it hitting power. The first thing I look at in a rifle is what size or grain of a bullet and the velocity it's doing. I use most rifles the pushest a bullet over 3000fps. Then what weight is the bullet is being pushed down the tube. I kind of marvel at people that are using really heavy of super mag, with 300+ grain bullets shoot all types of animals. Not my shoulder. I am waiting for the 50 cal case neck down to 6.5 cal. or a 300gr bullet. [/QUOTE]
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