243 Winchester | Hornady 95 grain SST (BC: .355) or Nosler 95 grain Ballistic Tip boat-tail -
Ballistic Coefficient .379 BC figured on chart below; SD: .230 - Deer, Antelope, and coyotes

Range

0

50yds

100yds

150yds

200yds

250yds

300yds

350yds

400yds

450yds

500yds

Vel / FPS

MV3170

3035

2907

2779

2654

2533

2412

2300

2192

2087

2040

Energy Ft/lbs

2120

1945

1781

1628

1485

1352

1228

1117

1013

918

830

Flight/Time

frac. /sec

.048

.099

.152

.207

.265

.327

.389

.456

.526

.60

10mph/14.66fps
 lead/lungs
 .7'
 1.5'
 2.2'
 3'
 3.8'


X
 X

15mph/22fps

hrt/lungs

1'

2'

3.4'

4.5'

6'






25mph/36.66 fps

hrt/lungs

1¾'

3.6'

5.6'

7.5'







30mph/44fps

hrt/lungs

2'

4.4'

6.7'

9'





in-feet

x

35mph51.33fps

hrt/lungs

2½'

5'

8'

10.6'







Wind@10mph

90°angle

0.2"

 0.7"

1.7"

3.1" 

5"

7.4"

10.2"

13.6"

17.6

22.6"

250yd zero

-1.6"

.8"

2.2"

2.6"

1.9"

Zero

-3.3"

-8"

-14.4"

-22.7"

-33"

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100yds

150yds

200yds

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500yd

In the above .243 Winchester chart, I rounded off the lead figures in feet; 150 yards is about the limit of most shooter's ability to make killing shots on running deer. Safety first, shooting at running game can be a lot more dangerous!


Example: 30mph/44fps, say at 100-yards say bullet flight-time is .099 of a second,  --means target moved 4.4' feet, or 4.4' foot lead for bullet's Point Of Impact (POI) from the heart/lung kill zone. That is about the distance limit for running shots.

In the .243 Winchester and 6mm Remington, a lot of hunters really like this 95 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip on deer and antelope. Broadside heart/lung shots, --are deadly. Lead fragmentation into the meat could be a serious problem, WI DNR recommends using bonded or all copper bullets!

http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/lead.htm

For the 2008 deer season, I'll hand-loading the 100 gr REM CORELOKT ULTA BONDED BULLET in the 243 Winchester & in the 243/06 I   95 gr. Hornady SST .355 B.C. in the 243-06 Wildcat loading 57.5 grains 4831sc - Federal 215 mag. primers for COYOTES.

Those Southeastern states include: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia. They post themselves at clearings where the hounds will push them through so they can get a quick shot at them in full flight! They use both rifles and shot guns with buckshot, quick shots in clearings at running deer are the rule. For clean kills the proper leads are required with both weapons. (This information is needed by a lot of deer hunters, so bear with me my hunting friends.)

I got one shot during the entire 2000 Wisconsin deer season and dropped a nice doe running broadside three-quarter throttle at 100 yards. I admit, I lead from her head instead of from the heart/lung area, so the 100 grain Sierra BT/SP bullet broke her neck, she fell in a pile and never moved. I felt very comfortable and confident taking the shot in an open field, --had I passed that running shot up my entire deer hunting season would have been a total wipe out. It is always better to over lead and miss than to under lead! Know what your skill level is, and don't take a shot you're not confident you can make and unless that the shot is absolutely safe!

We need running deer and coyote targets on most of our rifle ranges to foster some friendly competition. Back around the late 1950's and early 1960's they rigged up a pretty good running deer target near Glen Haven, WI.  I loved those competitive events, --we need more of them today! The winner of each group of 5 or 6 shooter's got (I believe) a frozen turkey or turkey breast.

In this age of technology advancements we need to have moving targets at every rifle range! Lets get it done, some commercial enterprise could make a ton of money designing and selling workable moving rifle target systems.

Rick Jamison writer for Petersen's Hunting Magazine, July 2002, p- 20, Guns & Loads Article Long Rangers,  - http://www.huntingmag.com  says in essence that for deer sized game you need a minimum of 1000 ft/lbs of energy and 2000 ft/sec velocity at the impact range for adequate bullet expansion. The bullet needs a sectional density between .215 to .265 and a high ballistic coefficient for long range shots.
This is a great Hunting Magazine, I subscribe through the local school magazine drives.

You can look at the various ballistic tables I have on the Net and determine the approximate outer range limit your cartridge and selected bullet will be capable of killing a deer with a well placed shot. If you can't put the bullet in the vital kill zone don't take the shot no matter how capable the cartridge you're using is at that range.

Whisky Chamberlain of Idaho took 15 consecutive big bull elk, all one shot kills, with a straight .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 just saw on the Men's Channel - 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.

In the 243 Winchester for 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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Hornady's New 6mm SST Bullet is on sale now, August 2002 | B.C., may be .355
I bought a box of 100 for around $18.45 with the tax at Cabela's today, 8/18/02. Will try them in my 243/06 Wildcat and 243 Win.! I'm going to start shooting more flat-based bullets in my 6MM's, the claim is that they are not as hard on barrel's and tend to be more accurate.

I filled an empty gallon plastic milk jug with water and shot it with the new 95 grain SST bullet. It appeared to be the most explosive bullet I have tested in my .243 Winchester. The hydraulic shock of this bullet ought to be devastating.

On 10/17/04, I filled 3 one gallon plastic milk jugs with water lined in a row at 15 yards and shot them using my Remington 722 with a 22" BBL, in 243 Winchester using the Hornady 95 grain SST bullet and 44 grains of RL 19.  It blew the first two up big time and went through the third one gallon jug of water. This should be a very good terminal performance bullet on deer in the 243 Winchester caliber cartridge.
Also, the Terminal Performance of the 100 grain Hornady Interlock bullets perform very well, even in my 6mm-06 or, 243/06 Wildcat.

  Click on SST - Super Shock Tipped Bullets 
They are flat-based bullets
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          Posted: 09/06/01 ; Updated: 12/08/08