I’m seriously thinking of making a .243 AR10

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A .270, 06 would’ve made him mine.

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A good shot would have made him yours.

You can still get 224 Valkyrie ammo. Allows you to use an AR15 lower and 6.8 BCG. My 13 yr old son hunts with it and loves it. Shoots like a laser out to 300 yds. He can hit steel out to 600 with Match ammo.

Wilson Match Barrel in stock

LINK

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I lost a nice 8 pt once by of the .243. A .270, 06 would’ve made him mine.

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My 14 year old son dropped a 210lb 8pt dead in his tracks with a .243. Shot placement is your friend.

Ammo shortage and hunting rounds. Two things that shouldn't be in the same sentence.

I've had a box of 20 30—06 rounds last me multiple years. If I had even 60 rounds, I would feel like a king.

I can understand needing hundreds, even thousands of rounds for 9mm, 40 and 223/5.56 as those are used at a much higher range rate....but my hunting setups get used for two purposes, sighting in and killing shite.

To base a build off of ammo availability, in a hunting sense, is shorts sighted.

Maybe he likes shooting a lot of rounds of hunting rounds

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took what I had

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a bad shot is what you took.

trying to somehow prove you are superior to "box stand, sandbag" hunting, when you dont bring home the backstrap using "action shots", is laughable.

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bad shot is what you took

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A bad shot with a .243 might be perfectly fine with a good 180gr .30-06 bullet.

With an adequate caliber, you don't have to watch the buck of a lifetime walk away. You can reach his good stuff no matter what angle he's at and still get an exit.

You're entitled to your opinion. We harvested the deer btw.