Bullets for new .243 youth?

[bigbuck270]

I have just bought a .243 handi youth for my wife.  What bullets would you reccomend using?  Any other suggestion besides floating the bbl to get this accuate?

[J-Milner]

bigbuck270,

When I worked at a local sporting good store, we would always give a box of ammo to the customer when they purchased one of our Handi rifles. For the 243 Winchesters, they always got Remingtons 80 gr. Power-Lokt Hollow Point bullets. Most of the time, the store manager would allow us to take our customers rifles to a local shooting range and sight the guns in for them. After shooting well over 100 of those little rifles in a 4-year time span, all but one would shoot that 80 grain bullet inside an inch or less at 100 yards from a bench. That one "oddball" shot Federals Premium load with Sierra's 85 gr. B.T-H.P. Game King bullet. We have a ton of pictures of kids and women with their first deer that was shot with a N.E.F. single shot in 243 Winchester and Remingtons 80 grain bullet.

J-

[oktx]

My son's 243 likes the federal power shok in 80 grain.  Win. 80 grain it shoots about a 3in. group.  Rem 100 gr core lockt, don't bother.  oktx.

[Paul5388]

Bigbuck,

I don't know if you are a handloader or if your wife has been shooting much, but a load of 15.5 gr of Blue Dot certainly makes a nice easy load to get everyone used to shooting.  Not much recoil and not much big boom!  80-100 gr bullet uses the same 15.5 gr 40% load.

Using a 17.2 gr 40% load in a 6mm Rem, 3/4" groups at 100 yards isn't a problem out of a Mod 600 Rem.