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Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
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07/30/13 07:19 AM
07/30/13 07:19 AM
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Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 7,900 Huntsville AL
Rocket62
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Any of you guys have actual experience shooting a deer with a Nosler 243 Ballistic Tip? I snagged a box of 50 bullet heads today ... couldn't find anything else for reloading 243. These things look really, really, really small ... I expect 50-100 yard targets, would like to hear your experiences
I don't want to pass quietly into the night. I want to slide in sideways kickin and screamin Life really is awesome ... Soak it up while you can ...
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 07:28 AM
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Posts: 15,923 Elmore County
Frankie
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hornaday light mags , 100gr sp are the best i've seen so for in a 243 .
Last edited by Frankie; 07/30/13 07:28 AM.
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 07:29 AM
07/30/13 07:29 AM
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Bowhunter84
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I've got 2 buddies that shoot the 95gr nosler BT and they swear by them. I've never personally shot a deer with the nosler BT but I've seen plenty that they've killed and it does the job just fine. Very few do they have to track and if they do its not far.
"Just remember a gobbler has to win every time, you only have to win once" BC
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 08:26 AM
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TChunter
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Yes I have. It was just as devastating as my 30.06 in BT. I always shoot lungs out though to save meat. Not shoulder shots. Both were downright gruesome.
Last edited by TChunter; 07/30/13 08:27 AM.
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 08:27 AM
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blumsden
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Me personally, i wouldn't use a ballistic Tip. Sometimes they go in and blow up and the deer drops like you hit it in the head with a hammer. But other times it goes in, comes apart and doesn't go all the way thru, and i've been in on the blood trailing jobs, and sometimes they go along way with little blood. I love polymer tipped bullets, but not ballistic tip, completly different animal.
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 08:46 AM
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BigDalk
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have used the 55 grain in 243. 4000 fps and it's pretty nasty
"The aggies are going to destroy bama" Burbank
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 09:26 AM
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foldemup
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Don't know about the Noslers, but I shoot some Bergers in .243 and they are awesome!
If you want to always win, never play anyone better than you!
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 09:31 AM
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ridgestalker
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Neck and ribs only if I were going to hunt with them.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 09:41 AM
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Rocket62
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95g bullet I've been loading 165g 30-06 for my primary hunting. However, seeing how I am always the lucky one , I figure that after my first buck and two does I'll switch to 243 and give it a whirl if I can do it without maiming an animal Really though, I'd like to eventually migrate to the 243 at times because I plan on pack hunting some and my 243 only weighs 6 lbs
Last edited by PLeopard; 07/30/13 09:43 AM.
I don't want to pass quietly into the night. I want to slide in sideways kickin and screamin Life really is awesome ... Soak it up while you can ...
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 10:15 AM
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marshmud991
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That video I posted last week of the doe cuttin the backwards flip was shot with a 25 wssm 115 gr BT only because that is only ammo he can find. Will switch if we find something else. Of coarse he only takes shots he is 100% certain about. No marginal shots for him. He has killed every deer he hit with them no good BT bullets.
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 03:02 PM
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Turkey_neck
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I killed a pile of deer with a 100 grain nosler bt. I only shot one deer with a 243 that I didn't see fall they are some bad little mfrs. but you have to make your shots count.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: Anyone Shot a Deer with Nosler Ballistic Tip 243?
[Re: Rocket62]
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07/30/13 04:28 PM
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FurFlyin
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Not a Nosler, but my son killed his first deer with a Hornady Ballistic Tip in 243. The doe was standing broadside 150 yards away in the greenfield. He shot her dead in the shoulder blade. The deer dropped in it's tracks. When we got down the doe was raising her head, so he shot her again. The first shot that put her down instantly, hit directly on the shoulder blade, fragmented upward and exited on the same side as the entrance wound, directly beside the spinal cord. The shock to the spine is what dropped the deer.
It's hard to believe that the bullet didn't penetrate the shoulder blade of an 80 lb doe, but it didn't.
I'm not a fan....
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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