Thread: Down loading 243 win to 6x45 velocities

Originally Posted by GWH

Yeah im thinking it's all going to work well for him, he's done a little bit of shooting over the last couple of years, started on a youth 22lr, then 17 hmr and lighter loads in my 223 out to 200 yards. He's shot some rabbits with the 17 hmr laying prone using a bipod.

I will have him prone with a bipod and rear rest with the 243 as well, he's not big enough to hold it up properly as yet unsupported.

Dare I say it but that load would work just as well for the elder members of the household. My shooting is almost entirely at targets these days so more and more of my rifles have light loads for that purpose. The hunting ones still have full power loads (read book max or a little less) as their base zero as well but the old soldiers all have light loads.
Regards Grandpamac.