243-06 Wildcat or 6mm-06 Deer Rifle 95 gr. Hornady SST
 B.C., .355 S.D., .230 | 500 Yard Rifle Ballistics Plus Lead

Range
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
Velocity fps
3444MV
3294
3150
2005
2868
2733
2599
2474
2349
223
2116
Energy ft/lbs
  2528
2298
 2091
1906
1734
1574
1423
1290
1165
1050
945
flt./secs
frac/sec
.047
.095
.144
.195
.250
.304
.365
.428
.492
.558
7½mph/11fps
lead from
½'
1'
1.6'
2.2'
2¾'
3.4'
4'
x
x
x
15mph/22fps
hrt/lungs
1'
2'
3.2'
4.3'
5.5
6.7'
8'
x
x
x
25mph/36.6fps
hrt/lungs
1½'
3.5'
5¼'
7'
9'
11'
 13.4'
x
x
x
30mph/44fps
hrt/lungs
2'
4'
6.3'
8.6'
11'
13.4'
x
x
x
x
35mph/51.3fps
hrt/lungs
2.4'
5'
7½'
10'
13'
15.6'
x
x
x
x
drift@10mph
90°angle
 0.24"
0.7"
1½"
2.9"
4.7"
7"
9.7"
13"
16.9"
21.3"
drift@15mph
90°angle
0.2"
1.1"
2.4"
4.4"
7.1"
10.5"
14.5"
19.5"
25.3"
32"
drift@20mph
90°angle
0.3"
1.3"
2.9"
5.3"
8.4"
12.4"
17.1"
23"
29.7"
37.3"
250yd zero
Deer
 +0.5"
+1.7"
+2.2"
+1.6"
zero
-2.8"
-6.8"
-12.3"
-19.4"
-28.2"
Range
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
Leads are all 85 grain Sierra HPBT loads almost identical to the 95 grain SST's. Wind Drift 20 mph is also the 85 grain load. Remember, lead figures are always in feet and at 90 degrees in table, and you are always figuring your lead from the heart/lung area! It is better to over lead than to under lead, miss clean or drop them in their tracks. Shooting at running game is more dangerous, don't take the shot unless you know it is safe and you are confident of a killing hit onyour game! Your proven range shooting skills on moving silhouette targets will help determine the shots you may be able to take in the field. One hundred to 150 yards will usually be the limit, unless you are trying to drop a wounded animal.

Position your feet and body properly before you attempt the shot. If you shoot right handed the left side of your body should be towards the target, weight on the balls of your feet. Practice your stance and body pivot every chance you get with dry firing. Swing the horizontal cross hair through the center of the deer's body, squeeze off your shot when the lead looks right, and be sure to keep swinging, —follow through during and after the shot.

Always swing through from behind so you are following any vertical angle of ascent or descent of the moving target.

Keep this lead information in your head and practice visualization leads in your own mind and with your rifle, squeezing the trigger and following through! It works for me and it will for you, too! Visualizing in your mind the various combination of shots and angles—conditions your brain's reflex habits and will make a huge difference in your shooting abilities on running game. I no longer claim to be a sharpshooter as I have a lot of handicaps these days.
 

243/06 aka 6mm-06 Deer rifle or Elk Rifle loading Remington Core-Lokt Ultra Bullets

Remington Core-Lokt Ultra 100 grain 243 Wincester at 25 yds            Remington Core-Lokt Ultra 100 grain 243 Win at 25 yards

Side view - bullet base- left side   (25 yds  100 gr retained 84.8 gr new Core- Lokt Ultra 243 Win.)      nose view

Whisky Chamberlain of Idaho took 15 consecutive big bull elk, all one shot kills, with a regular .243 Winchester, therefore I believe with the right bullet and will placed and proper ranged shots the .243/06 Wildcat ought to be adequate on elk. I don't want to buy a new larger caliber rifle just to go elk hunting once or twice.

Today, 03/04/07, I saw on the Men's Channel "American Trophy Hunters,"  - Dish-TV CH 218, a massive old Elk shot at over 200-yards & dropped in his tracks with a .243-Winchester with open iron sights. They did not mention the  bullet weight or construction type, however, it proved to me that a Well Placed .243 bullet at 200-yards will deck the biggest Elk that walks.

Therefore, my 243/06 Wildcat ought to do the job on big Whitetails, big Mule Deer and on Elk with the Grand Slam bullet. I do not want to buy another larger caliber rifle to hunt elk, perhaps once in my lifetime.

In the 243 Winchester for big Mule deer & Elk, I would use the 100-grain Remington Core-Lokt Ultra factory cartidges, if reloading I would use the 100-grain Speer Grand Slam Bullets.

All those hunting programs should give all the fine point details about the rifle caliber & bullet weight and construction type! That would make those programs much more interesting to all of us. 

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Posted: November 2002; Updated: 03/04/07