Best .243 Bullet for deer

[BULLBLASTER]

The 90 grain ab was pretty awesome on the couple deer I saw shot with them. One was my wife before we were married. 9 year old (aged by wdfw) whitetail buck, 270 yards and one shot straight through both shoulder ball sockets. Buck crumpled and fell instantly. There was also a average buck shot at 30 yards and straight down. I shot a doe at 170 and had good result also.
That is a pretty dang good bullet in the 243. 

[Shadrach71]

If shooting for the boiler room broadside the 95gr SST's have devastating performance. If shooting marginal/raking shots or  hunting where you could see deer or elk that are legal to shoot like it is over in MT then I would use 100gr Partitions.. Just my    from seeing the results many many times over..

[Damnimissed]

The 90 grain ab was pretty awesome on the couple deer I saw shot with them. One was my wife before we were married. 9 year old (aged by wdfw) whitetail buck, 270 yards and one shot straight through both shoulder ball sockets. Buck crumpled and fell instantly. There was also a average buck shot at 30 yards and straight down. I shot a doe at 170 and had good result also.
That is a pretty dang good bullet in the 243. 

That's pretty impressive on 270 yd shot. I've tried a few different powders with the 90gr AB in my daughters Ruger American and can only come up with about 1.5" groups with imr 4350. I'm bound and determined to make them work. Looks like we'll be doing a lot of shooting this summer.

[Karl Blanchard]

The 90 grain ab was pretty awesome on the couple deer I saw shot with them. One was my wife before we were married. 9 year old (aged by wdfw) whitetail buck, 270 yards and one shot straight through both shoulder ball sockets. Buck crumpled and fell instantly. There was also a average buck shot at 30 yards and straight down. I shot a doe at 170 and had good result also.
That is a pretty dang good bullet in the 243. 

That's pretty impressive on 270 yd shot. I've tried a few different powders with the 90gr AB in my daughters Ruger American and can only come up with about 1.5" groups with imr 4350. I'm bound and determined to make them work. Looks like we'll be doing a lot of shooting this summer.

have you tried 4831?  My .243's have all been a fan

[Damnimissed]

The 90 grain ab was pretty awesome on the couple deer I saw shot with them. One was my wife before we were married. 9 year old (aged by wdfw) whitetail buck, 270 yards and one shot straight through both shoulder ball sockets. Buck crumpled and fell instantly. There was also a average buck shot at 30 yards and straight down. I shot a doe at 170 and had good result also.
That is a pretty dang good bullet in the 243. 

I did and it didn't like it, neither did my 270, believe it or not. Sorry for the thread jack
That's pretty impressive on 270 yd shot. I've tried a few different powders with the 90gr AB in my daughters Ruger American and can only come up with about 1.5" groups with imr 4350. I'm bound and determined to make them work. Looks like we'll be doing a lot of shooting this summer.

have you tried 4831?  My .243's have all been a fan

[yorketransport]

Check out the Hammer Hunter bullets. I've played with a couple now and I'm going to move all of my hunting guns over to running these by next season. Think of them as a cross between a Berger and a Barnes.

https://hammerbullets.com/product-tag/243-6mm/

Steve Davis is very responsive to questions and he's easy to catch on their forum.

http://hammerbullets.boards.net/forum

[crowinghen]

I use the federal fusions.
Big bear, big buck and a bobcat yesterday 

[Boss .300 winmag]

I use the federal fusions.
Big bear, big buck and a bobcat yesterday 

I use those in .243, .308 & .300 wsm

[dscubame]

Barnes ttsx

[freezerfull]

100 gr Hornady Interlock BTSP over a healthy charge of IMR 4831 does the job on deer swimmingly. Atleast whitetails anyway. This load holds the longest kill in my book. 516 yards, didn't even tip over, died like a dog laying down. Shot was taken under pristine conditions.

[duckmen1]

I ordered 500 nosler  e tip bullets in 86gr. Hope to develop a good load and use these out of the 243. Should be able to get good speed and hunt solid to 300 yards without any issues. Anybody have any experience with these bullets and performance?

[jrebel]

I ordered 500 nosler  e tip bullets in 86gr. Hope to develop a good load and use these out of the 243. Should be able to get good speed and hunt solid to 300 yards without any issues. Anybody have any experience with these bullets and performance?

I couldn't get them to group well out of my Ruger American compact......So I sold the rifle!! . My other .243's like the 100 grain partitions so never tried them again.  If you're like them....I know a guy that has a few laying around for cheap.