"Local gun shop, 17 choices of brand or bullet weight". Hell in this country even in the best stocked gun shop in the land regardless of cartridge or calibre you would be lucky to have a choice of 3.DaveB wrote:Sometimes ammunition availability factors in the decision as well. Here, if you go to the local gun shop you can find 17 choices of brand and bullet weights in .243, while in 6.5 you have 8 to choose from. Generally speaking - .243 is easier to come by than 6.5mm.
.243 - is it actually any good ?
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Re: .243 - is it actually any good ?
Re: .243 - is it actually any good ?
You need to find a better gun shop.....
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
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Re: .243 - is it actually any good ?
.308 is available everywhere, and is legal for all UK species, with a mod fitted recoil is no different to any of the pre-mentioned calibres, and is cheap as chips for practise ammo.
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