Hey there shooters,
I realise the following is just IMHO, However IT WORKS!
If you reload, do yourself and your small/young/new shooter a favor by not setting them up with what could prove to be a marginal caliber.
Back off all you 243 shooters out there!
I have now, and have had, a 243 for many years and once I switched to Nosler Partitions I even have had good results on deer sized game.
However, there are better and more reliable calibers available and no reason not use them for an inexperienced shooter.
I regularly use "reduced loads" for practice in my 300 Win. Mag.
I have used this program with my wife and daughter's 270 and with a young teenage friend, who by the way took her first Idaho Elk this past fall. She took that elk with what had been her grandfather's 270.
By shooting reduced loads, the shooter is never hurt and is not likely to develope a flinch. The loads are cheap, cause less heat build up in barrels, and are fun to shoot all year around.
As per sight in, I think you will find that when using a scope, target size and distance are relational. Meaning, shooting at a quarter sized dot at 25yds. gives basicly the same sight picture as a 4" circle at 100yds.
By using the closer targets, you may not need to change any scope adjustment.
However, if scope adjustments are needed with the hunting level loads, I do those adjustments just before hunting season.
Ask a hunter if they felt the recoil when shooting at a game animal. The point is, the few shots made at game is not what causes a flinch, it is all those "practice" rounds during the rest of the year.
Some reloading manuals provide info for reduced loads and a copy of the Lyman Cast Bullet manual will give information to begin putting those LIGHT bullet reduced loads into your shooters range bag.
Keep em coming! :wink:
