.243
.243 Winchester ammunition is very common among North American hunters. The round itself is a centerfire, rimless, bottle-necked, .243 caliber rifle cartridge that was introduced by Winchester in 1955 for use in their model 70 bolt action rifle.
Starting with a .308 Winchester case, Winchester's design team reduced the size of the case's neck to accept a .243 caliber bullet in order to create a varmint cartridge with an extremely flat trajectory that was capable of instantly killing larger varmint species (such as Coyotes) than could be humanely taken with the various .22 caliber cartridges. Consequently, this cartridge found immediate success with avid varmint hunters when loaded with lightweight, hollow point or ballistic tip bullets.
It didn’t take long for Eastern deer hunters and Western Antelope hunters to quickly discover that 243 ammo also makes an excellent long range deer and goat cartridge when loaded with 100 grain, soft point, spitzer bullets and it can even be used successfully on Mule Deer at closer ranges when loaded with tough, heavy, bullets.
In fact, with a range of available bullet weights and designs from 58 grain hollow point spitzer bullets to 100 grain soft point spitzer bullets as well as a 105 grain match grade boat tail hollow point bullet and even a 90 grain Full Metal Jacket design to choose from, .243 Win ammo is a very versatile cartridge.
Consequently, due to the 243’s versatility, many hunters choose rifles chambered for this cartridge as their sole hunting rifle and thus, nearly all American firearms manufacturers have chambered one or models of their rifles for this cartridge.
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20rds – 243 Win Sellier & Bellot 100gr SP Ammo
$16.95$0.85/ppr
3 In Stock
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20rds – 243 Win Prvi Partizan 90gr. SP Ammo
$21.95$1.1/ppr
144 In Stock
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20rds – 243 Win Prvi Partizan 100gr. SP Ammo
$21.95$1.1/ppr
169 In Stock
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200rds – 243 Win Hornady American Whitetail 100gr. InterLock SP Ammo
$239.95$1.2/ppr
3 In Stock
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20rds - .243 Win Hornady American Whitetail 100gr. InterLock BTSP Ammo
$25.95$1.3/ppr
39 In Stock
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200rds – 243 Win Browning BXR 97gr. Rapid Expansion Matrix Tip Ammo
$259.95$1.3/ppr
7 In Stock
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20rds - 243 Winchester Super-X 80gr. Pointed Soft Point Ammo
$26.45$1.32/ppr
39 In Stock
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200rds – 243 Win Remington Coke-Lokt 100gr. PSP Ammo
$264.95$1.32/ppr
6 In Stock
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20rds - 243 Win. Fiocchi 95gr. SST Polymer Tip Ammo
$28.95$1.45/ppr
46 In Stock
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200rds – 243 Win Winchester Deer Season XP 95gr. Extreme Point Ammo
$289.95$1.45/ppr
8 In Stock
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20rds - 243 Winchester Super-X 100gr. Power Point Soft Point Ammo
$29.95$1.5/ppr
102 In Stock
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20rds – 243 Fiocchi Rifle Shooting Dynamics 100gr. PSP Ammo
$29.95$1.50/ppr
6 In Stock
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20rds - 243 Win Remington 80gr Core-Lokt PSP Ammo
$29.95$1.5/ppr
142 In Stock
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20rds - 243 Win Hornady Superformance Varmint 75gr. V-Max Ammo
$30.95$1.55/ppr
5 In Stock
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20rds - 243 Winchester Deer Season XP 95gr Polymer Tipped Ammo
$30.95$1.55/ppr
62 In Stock
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20rds – 243 Win Browning BXR 97gr. Rapid Expansion Matrix Tip Ammo
$30.95$1.55/ppr
163 In Stock
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20rds – 243 Win Hornady Superformance 58gr. V-MAX Ammo
$32.95$1.65/ppr
24 In Stock
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20rds – 243 Win Winchester Varmint X 58gr. Polymer Tip Ammo
$34.95$1.75/ppr
52 In Stock
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200rds – 243 Win Hornady Superformance 95gr. SST Ammo
$354.95$1.77/ppr
8 In Stock
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20rds - 243 Win. Hornady Superformance 95gr. SST Ammo
$36.95$1.85/ppr
39 In Stock