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xj-jake

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My 10 year old niece and nephew both pulled Arizona Javelina tags for this year. My brother has purchased a Mossberg Patriot Barton in 243 for them to use. We’ve been discussing a factory load for them that would have enough punch but not beat the kids up.

I suggested Hornady 75 grn V-Max Superperformance. He’s leaning toward the 58 grn. Handholding isn’t an option. Would need to be a factory load.

What’s your thoughts?
 
If you're worried about recoil maybe,
243 Win 87 gr SST® Custom Lite.
But i think you'll be surprised at what they can handle. When i had a 243 for my daugher (then 12) the superformance ammo was hotter than standard remington corlokt ammo.
 
Maybe your brother should have bought .223 rifles. If recoil is a problem, I would look at the "LITE" recoiling downloaded offerings. That excludes things that say "Superformance" in their description. That denotes increased velocity and recoil.
 
Midway has HSM low recoil hunting ammo for sale.

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Hornady makes a 243 Lite ammo


Good luck on your relatives hunt. I've hunted javelina up near Kingman, tough hunting in the mountains south of Kingman drought hd pushed them down to the river bottom out our permit zone.

Hunted with my nephew south of Superior, I didn't draw a tag so hunted preds while they hunted Javelina, they filled a tag.

I have a tag for Southern NM this year. I'll be using a 6mm ARC and 25-204.
 
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Just FYI, recoil doesn’t affect kids, it’s the noise. Put a quality pair of earmuffs on a kid and they’ll shoot a 300RUM until you run out of bullets.
 
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