Hi All,
I personally am not fond of the .243 and although I do not own one I have used one to shoot a deer with. Despite being a heart shot the deer ran and took us over 40 minutes to find in the long dead grass under the young conifer which it dived into after the dash it made. The gamekeepers rifle whose I had borrowed has shot hundreds of Deer and Fox with this rifle so I know it performs well. I am just much happier with the 6.5mm and upwards
Now the 6mm Remington I find interesting for some reason, I saw a nice heavy barreled Parker-Hale in this chambering and was considering it but at the moment I can't afford it plus it means getting a variation on the licence
Now as to Weatherby's
................... No thank you.......... no in any shaspe or form
I am not old enough to have been influenced ny the Hype of the 60's being a toddler during the early part of them
but to say I am not impresed by those Weatherby rifles I have seen and had the opertunity to shoot is some what of an understatement
For most of my shooting I do not have the need for a magnum, although I did have Ruger No1 in 300 WM and I do have a P-H 1100M in 458 WM jsut because i wanted a BIG Game rifle, I woud have prefered the 404 Jeffries but I snozed and lost that one, this was hte nearest I could get at the time to a British Big Game rifle
Just because I personally don't like a make, cartridge does not mean it's no good. It's just for some reason not always explainable
that I don't like it. For the same reason I do not like Instant Coffee of Beer.