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    243 load

    Hi all
    Could you please recommend the best choice of powder for a 243 1 in 10 using 58 grn bullets for fox please .
    If anyone has very good results with this could you please share your recipe this will be for longer shots upto 260 yards , many thanks .

    Regards
    Colin

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    Depends on what your rifle prefers. I'd start with Vihtavuori N135 or N140.

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    Quote Originally Posted by optima silk View Post
    Hi all
    Could you please recommend the best choice of powder for a 243 1 in 10 using 58 grn bullets for fox please .
    If anyone has very good results with this could you please share your recipe this will be for longer shots upto 260 yards , many thanks .

    Regards
    Colin
    People are rightly a mite leery of sharing reloading data with others on a forum - that's what loading data handbooks are for. What is good for one rifle might be a catastrophic disaster in another.

    I'm minded of a conversation a few years back on another forum where the .45-70 Govt was being discussed. One poster noted that it was nothing more than a giant revolver cartridge. Another poster took him at his word, and loaded up with 55g of 2400, one of the powders used for very high level .44 Magnum revolver loads. The only thing that saved him from dying was a sharp-eyed RCO who was overlooking his ammo box and saw the load data that had been written there.

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    Ive got "Craig's" Lyman reloading book still here on loan , if you want to have a look there is plenty to choose from.

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    70 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips or 75 grain V-Max are both excellent foxing rounds in 243
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    Quote Originally Posted by optima silk View Post
    Hi all
    Could you please recommend the best choice of powder for a 243 1 in 10 using 58 grn bullets for fox please .
    If anyone has very good results with this could you please share your recipe this will be for longer shots upto 260 yards , many thanks .

    Regards
    Colin
    Varget is a good powder for your choice.
    God has a hard on for green rifles

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    243

    Cheers lads
    I have varget already which I will work up a load I just wanted to know what you other guys preferred and were having good results with.
    Regards
    Colin

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    I use h380 in mine with 70 grn noslers and it single holes at 100. Remy small rifle primers
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    Quote Originally Posted by sidesy View Post
    I use h380 in mine with 70 grn noslers and it single holes at 100. Remy small rifle primers
    Small rifle primers in a .243?
    I don't think so.

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    243 loading

    Just a quick question, is it worth doing your own reloading? Will it save a lot of money?

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