Hunting elk with a 243 whos done it?

spinningchain1 · #1 08-12-2018, 04:20 AM

Just interested in knowing what round did you use?

If i want to knock the dark off brown of them i have a 375h&h and im not interested in hearing "a 243 is too small" many people out there couldnt kill a deer even if they were using a air strike

ram crazy · #2 08-12-2018, 04:45 AM

100 Speer boattail

fatboyz · #3 08-12-2018, 07:12 AM

I used a 90 grain partition, but with the new copper bullets like Etip, Barnes ttsx etc, those would be a good choice.

58thecat · #4 08-12-2018, 07:41 AM

100 gr hornady's worked great on all game for 10 years then I got the 243 made into a 6-284 which too has filled the freezer with one shot kills.

58thecat · #5 08-12-2018, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by fatboyz

I used a 90 grain partition, but with the new copper bullets like Etip, Barnes ttsx etc, those would be a good choice.

I will go to the Barnes next if I can whip up a recipe my rifle likes just a better constructed bullet for moose.
Yup said moose, luv slipping a small calibre bullet through the boiler room, they just stand there then tip over, a mosquito bit can kill

Xbolt7mm · #6 08-12-2018, 02:02 PM

You started the fight in your opening statement lol you should have known better, or looked at the other 20 threads about it, good luck

GMX · #7 08-12-2018, 04:20 PM

Killed plenty of moose and elk with my 243 using an 80 grain gmx all one shot kills. And only recovered 3 bullets on the far side resting against the hide all others were complete pass throughs. I have a hard time taking my .270 out now days because of it. I clean my rifle more often because of the mono bullets but the devastation they leave is worth it to me. I shoot the gmx out of my .243 .270 and 300wsm

fordtruckin · #8 08-21-2018, 09:19 PM

Not a .243 but did shoot an elk once with a .223. Granted it had been hit by a snow plow first and just needed to be dispatched poor bugger!

KBF · #9 09-03-2018, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by fordtruckin

Not a .243 but did shoot an elk once with a .223. Granted it had been hit by a snow plow first and just needed to be dispatched poor bugger!

What caliber was the snow plow?

fordtruckin · #10 09-03-2018, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by KBF

What caliber was the snow plow?

About 14’ and 40000# lol

Tpindy · #11 09-01-2018, 08:36 AM

100gr nosler partition did my moose in just fine- granted I was lucky enough to get him in just over 100yds

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Bowser · #12 09-02-2018, 10:08 AM

Why ?

Desert Eagle · #13 09-03-2018, 08:09 AM

I just returned from the arctic where the 243 is used by most as their large rifle. There are numerous people who used it to take polar bears. And yes that was their intended quarry.

fatboyz · #14 09-03-2018, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Desert Eagle

I just returned from the arctic where the 243 is used by most as their large rifle. There are numerous people who used it to take polar bears. And yes that was their intended quarry.

When I was in Inuvic last summer chatting with a FN fellow there he said the same. His "big" gun was a 243. He shot moose, caribou and Walrus with it.