My first deer with the 243 WCF

I am SO happy! My little 110 243 did its part a half hour ago. Spotted movement, which I thought was a leaf, but turned out to be the ear of a medium size doe bedded in some raspberry canes. I could make out her flank, so I put the crosshairs to her and BANG!
She rolled over , kicked twice and checked out.
The 95 grain SST, driven by 44 grains of H4831sc, went in just under the spine, pulverized 2 ribs, thrashed both lungs and the heart and exited. My range finder said 96 yards.
Now 1 deer does not make a pattern, but I have hit deer with bigger ordnance and got runners with similar hits. I was rather worried what the little 243 would do.
Not worried anymore...

kilt my share with a 243...in fact thinking of getting another one real soon..

Its not that I waited so long, I just had 2 that were better tomato stakes... One more expensive than my Savage, one about the same. It is funny how Savages always seem to come out on top...

Congrats...Good shooting.

I have loaded 243 ammo for a dozen or so 243 for different family members and seen a lot of kills over 50 or so years of loading for this cal. at ranges of 50 to a couple of hundred yards. The favorite has always been the 85 grain Sierra gameking hollow point. One year we took 3 kills to the guy who does our butchering since we don't do our own anymore, all from the 243 and he said what did you hit these with a 300 W. and he could not believe it was a 243.

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The favorite has always been the 85 grain Sierra gameking hollow point.

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Oh yeah! Have used that one for three decades and always with H4831. Have seen a lot of comments about that bullet from 243 shooters over the years that have found how deadly that little bullet is.

Where is the Grip and Grin? Pics or it didn't happen! Congrats on Harvest! :eagerness:

Nicely Done Congrats

243's all you need for whitetail!