I have killed most of my bear and deer with archery, Ive shot 4 blacktailed deer and 2 bears with a 30-06 and a 7mm rem mag. Both calibers were extreemely way way way way too much gun for black bear and blacktailed deer. Completly destroys bear with a six inch hole and almost blows deer in half. lol Im tired of cleaning up a mess and throwing out a quarter of a blood shot animal that looks like he got hit with a 120mm tank round. and thats with the little 140-150 gr. factory loads.
I recently purchased a remington model 700 VLS rifle in a .243, I have fallen in love with it. Most accurate rifle I have ever owned. I put a leoupold mark 4 scope on it and I get half a minute angle groups out to 500 yards. yes thats right 2.5 inch groups at 500 yards. awsome!!!!
I hand load my ammo, I use 42 grains of varget powder with 85gr. sierra match king bullets, I chronoed my rounds at 3430 fps average, Ive yet to shoot a bambie with it but ive killed four yotes, all of them over 400 yards. with the furthest being 750 yards. The 750 yard shot had a full pass through shot on the 38 pound yote. I want to know if I can use my loads to take say a 200-300 pound black bear with in very close range, say a baby shot like 300 yards. any one had a experience with .243s and yoggies.
Im going to use it for deer for sure, but limit my shots to 500 yards on deer for lack of energy at long range reasons.
I recently purchased a remington model 700 VLS rifle in a .243, I have fallen in love with it. Most accurate rifle I have ever owned. I put a leoupold mark 4 scope on it and I get half a minute angle groups out to 500 yards. yes thats right 2.5 inch groups at 500 yards. awsome!!!!
I hand load my ammo, I use 42 grains of varget powder with 85gr. sierra match king bullets, I chronoed my rounds at 3430 fps average, Ive yet to shoot a bambie with it but ive killed four yotes, all of them over 400 yards. with the furthest being 750 yards. The 750 yard shot had a full pass through shot on the 38 pound yote. I want to know if I can use my loads to take say a 200-300 pound black bear with in very close range, say a baby shot like 300 yards. any one had a experience with .243s and yoggies.
Im going to use it for deer for sure, but limit my shots to 500 yards on deer for lack of energy at long range reasons.