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Got a nice little deer rifle coming up.
Ricci.Wright
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A Remington model 7 with 18" barrel chambered in .243 Win. with a pretty decent looking walnut stock and a Leupold 3x9 VXII in Leupold base and rings.
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is .243 enough for little deer
.243 is enough for any sized deer☺️
It's probably overkill for really tiny deer. For those a .270 would be a better choice.
Kinda like shooting cottonwood leaves vs. maple leaves???
It might be o.k. for jackalope , well maybe an anemic runt of the litter one. Bob
got to shoot them in the eye with that small of a caliber
Sorry Ken, sometimes that second cup of coffee gets too me....😉
aim for the eye
if you just wound those maple leaves and make em cry, you may get some syrup for your pancakes...........
The .243 is like a .410 the bullets are like poison and they will kill anything that walks or crawls.
I agree the 270 would be my goto for really tiny deer.
Well lookey there, Mr. Disagree is out early this morning.....here's another chance for you to hit your "hide behind the keyboard" button....
I think that would be overkill on a leaf. For leaf shooting you need a pot metal plinker🤣
I figure it might be you Ken, but I couldn't pass up a chance to call someone out on it....
Well I disagree!! At least with the original premise of if a 243 is enough gun for deer. If using a Barnes 85 grain bullet, that bullet will kill deer graveyard dead 100% of the time if that bullet is well placed.
Now if you are not a good enough shot to place your 243 bullet where it counts, that is a whole different story!! 😊