.243 Cast Boolits Load Data

[terryt]

Hi:

I am looking for some cast boolit load data for the .243 Whinchester? I want to shoot out to 300 yards with it.

Thakns,

Terry

[MT Gianni]

I get good results with the RCBS 95 gr and 12 gr 2400. . Bullet drop will be a lot @ 300 yards.

[uscra112]

I loaded cast in the 243 years ago using Linotype (hard) GC 90 grain boolits that I was given by a neighbor. He told me to use 22 grains of 4198. It worked for him, but I never got good accuracy in my Rem 700. I suppose it might have gotten better if I had worked with it some. I was pretty ignorant back then. Only reason I even remember it is that I still have the paper box they were kept in, and the load is written on it.

Quickload says that load should go about 2400 fps.

[1Shirt]

Suggest you get a couple of the older Lyman manuals off e-bay. They have cast loads. Finding accurate loads in 243 is tough. The only blt that I have had any luck with was the 85gr. Lyman, (Lovern style), any thing longer wont stablize in miy rifles.

1Shirt!

[Bad Water Bill]

Why go to EVIL BAY?

We have a nice family here that might have just what you are looking for.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/forumdisplay.php?18-Swappin-amp-Sellin

Just ask and you might have just the books you are looking for BEFORE Christmas.[smilie=s:

[terryt]

Thanks everyone for your help.

I think I will look to trade my .243 for a centerfire .22.

Terry

[madsenshooter]

They're even harder to load for! Some of the 243 molds currently available cast an undersized nose. Most 243/6mm rifles have a bore diameter of .237", but the Lyman mold I had, and one from General Ordnance aren't anywhere near that size! Those pictured, from NOE, cast with a .239" front band. Haven't got to shoot any yet, but I'm sure it'll work better than an Eagan mold I had which cast the nose at .235" (barely big enough for the bore of an Obermeyer, which is tighter than the norm at .233").