Best .243 Bullet for deer

[JJD]

.243 bullets for Deer.  Reloading

I would think that 87 or 90 gr would be absolute minimum.

What brand, type and weight do you use for deer?

distance, less than 200 yds

Both muley and whitetail.

[jay.sharkbait]

105 Berger if you have the right twist.

[JLS]

I use 85 grain Barnes TSX.  I've used them on everything from whitetails, to mule deer, to elk.  They work great for what I want them to do. 

[jrebel]

Wife's savage shoots the 100 grain partitions extremely well and they are devestating on game.   

[carvermoe]

100 gr. partition

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

100 gr. partition

   That bullet will kill all North America game.

[JBar]

95g SST has been devastating on deer from my wife's gun. All one shot kills!

[jay.sharkbait]

I'm sure some genius will be along shortly to say how .243 is marginal on North American Game and how we all owe it to the Animals to use a Viperbatslayer magnum.

[BULLBLASTER]

I'm sure some genius will be along shortly to say how .243 is marginal on North American Game and how we all owe it to the Animals to use a Viperbatslayer magnum.

Or maybe they will call us liars when we share our experience with 243 on deer! 

Back on topic... 95 grain Berger classic hunters have been great from my 243. As have 95 ballistic tips. 

[Karl Blanchard]

I've taken and seen a lot of game taken with the .243 and my favorite is the 95gr ballistic tips.  100gr partitions have performed very well, and last year I bang flopped a big MT mule deer with a 105 gr Berger VLD.  It was fantastic and the only reason I don't say it's my favorite is because I haven't seen it work enough yet.  That 105 is all that I'll be loading from here on out though.

[jdb]

We have killed a pile of deer with a .243 most of them with 100 grain core lock, I know not very glamorous but out to 300 yard they flattened every deer we shot. We did shoot 1 little buck and 1 doe deer with the blue box federals. Again drt but it was the only bullets we ever recovered and they shed a lot of weight so I switched back to the Remington's.

[SWHUNTER]

We have killed a pile of deer with a .243 most of them with 100 grain core lock, I know not very glamorous but out to 300 yard they flattened every deer we shot. We did shoot 1 little buck and 1 doe deer with the blue box federals. Again drt but it was the only bullets we ever recovered and they shed a lot of weight so I switched back to the Remington's.

Good factory ammo there!

[mossback91]

85 grain partition out of my 243AI  performed very well on a muley this year still need to weigh those bullets and see how much they retained

[ELKBURGER]

I had 2, 1 shot kills on mule deer with the classic 100 gr Sierra Gamekings. 1 @ 75 yards and the other @ 395.

[AdnaHunter]

100 grn partitions