1. 6.5 creedmoor
2. 6.5 creedmoor
3. 6.5 creedmoor
4. 6.5 creedmoor
5. 6.5 creedmoor

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

I find it interesting you "cullers" seem to think that actually hunting and riding around at night shooting deer are the same thing. I have found a lot you you 243 swilling "cullers" have little real life experience actually hunting in difficult conditions. I have used the 243 a lot and found it no better or worse than my 22-250 and 223 as long as I treated all three the same, as guns adequate with perfectly placed shots that don't require a lot of bone breaking or penetration to get what you need. If you use tough controlled expanding bullets you get narrow wound channels, if you use fast expanding bullets you get shallow penetration and if you use a compromise bullet you get compromise. I have never lost a deer shot with a 243 but have trailed a few that went much farther than the same hit with a 7-08 or 308 would have allowed. I have also had do trail many deer shot by others that left poor blood trails, made it into thick thorn brush and were hell to recover that were shot with 223,22-250 and 243 rifles. Some of which were not recovered. Sooner or later it will happen to you, your luck will run out.

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I find it interesting you "cullers" seem to think that actually hunting and riding around at night shooting deer are the same thing. I have found a lot you you 243 swilling "cullers" have little real life experience actually hunting in difficult conditions. I have used the 243 a lot and found it no better or worse than my 22-250 and 223 as long as I treated all three the same, as guns adequate with perfectly placed shots that don't require a lot of bone breaking or penetration to get what you need. If you use tough controlled expanding bullets you get narrow wound channels, if you use fast expanding bullets you get shallow penetration and if you use a compromise bullet you get compromise. I have never lost a deer shot with a 243 but have trailed a few that went much farther than the same hit with a 7-08 or 308 would have allowed. I have also had do trail many deer shot by others that left poor blood trails, made it into thick thorn brush and were hell to recover that were shot with 223,22-250 and 243 rifles. Some of which were not recovered. Sooner or later it will happen to you, your luck will run out.

I've culled well over 100 whitetail does, and almost that many aoudad sheep. NONE of them at night. Just because you haven't had the best luck with a 243, it hardly equates to labeling it an inadequate cartridge for medium game. You've either used the wrong bullets, made marginal shots, don't understand how certain bullets are designed to perform, or a combo of the three. If you had much experience at all actually killing deer sized game you'd also know that you could use the exact same cartridge, rifle, bullet combo on numerous animals and they could possible behave differently upon impact every time. You seem to believe that marginal shots with bigger calibers/cartidges make up for poor shooting, which is a farce.

I find it interesting you "cullers" seem to think that actually hunting and riding around at night shooting deer are the same thing. I have found a lot you you 243 swilling "cullers" have little real life experience actually hunting in difficult conditions.

I have found the lighter the weight of the rifle, the harder it is to steady.