Thread: Reloading .243, tricks, tips and advice

@JohnQT

Out of interest, do you already have a .223 Remington? If yes, what is the twist rate of the barrel?

Disregard the following if you aren’t gonna shoot a .223, but worth bearing in mind.

I use both .223 and .243 and shoot a lot of goats, several hundred a year.

I almost exclusively use the .223 Rem for the reasons above - when culling you need to get as many as you can in one fast-fire session, so as to not make them gun shy. And that kind of shooting kills a .243 barrel in no time at all. As in you will destroy your Superlite barrel in a few hundred shots if you regularly shoot multiple shot strings.

For me, an 8” twist .223, 10 shot mag and a frangible 70gr pill anywhere in the boiler room and it is instant death. Learn your windage, anything within 400m has a one-way ticket to becoming pig food.